Adrian Sainz - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri March 01, 2013
Army Corps: $2.8B Damage From Mississippi River Floods
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Mississippi River flooding of 2011 caused $2.8 billion in damage and tested the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ system of levees, reservoirs and floodways like never before, exposing vulnerabilities that need attention, a report released Monday said....
Mon November 12, 2012
U.S. Army Extends Multi-Million Dollar Contract With JLG
JLG Industries Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company and a manufacturer of aerial work platforms and telescopic material handlers, announced the extension of a contract with the U.S. Army that increases the value of the existing contract by $10.2 million for the reset of theater-provided equipment deployed in Afghanistan....
Wed September 05, 2012
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Drafts Hydrema 922s for Duty
When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needed to restore the site of an abandoned copper mine in eastern Vermont, it called on Northwoods Excavating to handle the remediation. The job entailed capping the mine and laying a bed of vegetation atop the former environmentally unsafe area to restore the land to its original beauty....
Fri December 16, 2011
Army Corps of Engineers Deploys Portadam to Keep the Missouri at Bay
Portadam Inc., based in Williamstown, N.J., has been manufacturing temporary cofferdam systems since 1981. While contractors along the Eastern seaboard appreciate the portable system’s functionality, company CEO Bob Gatta said the versatile structure wasn’t well known elsewhere....
Mon October 17, 2011
Mack Granite Called to Duty in Support of U.S. Army Contract
Mack Defense, a division of Mack Trucks Inc., will supply West-Mark with its MACK Granite model truck following an award from the U.S. Army Contracting Command out of Warren, Mich. Under the contract, West-Mark, a manufacturer of tank transportation equipment, will produce water and fuel tanker trucks to serve Security Forces of Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries during the continued rebuilding and infrastructure efforts....
Lori Lovely - Tue March 01, 2011
Army Corps Works to Avert Catastrophe
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is midway through a 20-year, $300 million construction project to fully stabilize Bluestone Dam, located on the scenic New River near the town of Hinton in southern West Virginia....
Brenda Ruggiero - Mon January 10, 2011
Army Corps Enlarges Levee in Mississippi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently directing a project to enlarge a levee in Issaquena County, Mississippi. The contract was awarded to Kenneth R. Thompson Builders Inc., Greenwood, Miss., with funding coming from the corps’ Mississippi River and Tributaries Project....
Fri October 01, 2010
Army Corps of Engineers to Begin New Bay St. Louis Seawall Soon
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is going ahead with plans to build a new seawall in Bay St. Louis after a federal agency rejected a contractor’s protest over the handling of bids for the project....
Fri September 17, 2010
Army Corps: New Orleans Levee Upgrades Nearly Ready
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Five years after Hurricane Katrina flooded more than 80 percent of this city, the Army Corps of Engineers said billions of dollars of work has made the city much safer and many of its defenses could withstand a storm as strong as the deadly 2005 hurricane....
Fri June 11, 2010
JLG Receives Order Valued at $85.7M From U.S. Army
JLG Industries has received an order to build 492 All Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS II) telescopic forklifts for the U.S. Army. The order has a value of $85.7 million, with units scheduled for delivery beginning in the fall of 2010....
