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  • September

    USACE Dive Safety Experts Support Overseas Construction Projects

    That ability to reach out and utilize expertise from another district is known as reach back and it’s a resource USACE’s Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) used when it was in need of dive safety support. While many USACE districts maintain dams, levees and other water related infrastructure with a need for dive safety expertise, TAM’s primary mission is supporting USCENTCOM and allied partners in the Middle East. Recently however, the district found itself working a pier refurbishment project for the U.S. Navy in Bahrain that included the need for safety dive plans and observation support for several dives by the contractor.
  • August

    USACE Employee Awarded Top Honors for Three Separate Assignments

    Tambour Eller, currently serving as the project executive on the Mosul Dam Task Force during its final close out, was recently named the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civilian of the Year. Eller received the award for her combined work in three jobs over the course of the awards period.
  • July

    District Architect Receives Important Certification

    Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) architect and value engineering program manager, Amanda Bianchini, recently achieved a major career milestone when she was recognized as a certified value specialist. The professional credential, granted by the Society of American Value Engineers or SAVE International, is the highest level of certification available in value methodology. The process is extensive and includes classes, testing and demonstrating expert knowledge and career experience. The process can take months to years to complete.
  • District Provides Utilities Expertise for Contingency Planning

    The Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) is known for providing engineering, construction and support services throughout the CENTCOM area of responsibility. For most of its nearly 70 year history, the district has focused on large scale foreign military sales and U.S. military construction projects in the Middle East. Over the past several years however, TAM has developed several specialized capabilities designed to provide more flexibility and better respond to contingency construction environments. One of the most recent developments was TAM’s standing up its own Army Facilities Component Systems (AFCS) branch.
  • June

    High School Intern program at Middle East District

    The Middle East District’s high school intern program is dedicated to sparking an interest in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers positions for future generations.
  • District mentors future STEM leaders

    Two local high school students wrapped up internships with the Transatlantic Middle East District with presentations on their semester long efforts for their district mentors, TAM’s commander and other district personnel.
  • May

    TAM Interior Designer Expands Project Management Skills

    Most of the people who work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are specialists. Beyond engineering, USACE employs a variety of experts in their field: lawyers, contracting specialists, safety managers and even divers in some cases. Project managers however, require generalization rather than specialization. Keeping projects that run into the hundreds of millions on schedule, within budget and meeting customer expectations means having oversight of budgets, schedules and hundreds of other moving parts. Deanna Hardy, an interior designer with the Transatlantic Middle East District, was recently given the opportunity to experience both sides of that dynamic when she was offered the opportunity to be the lead project manager on a building renovation in the district’s headquarters.
  • March

    District Office of Counsel develops unique expertise in contract law

    The amount and complexity of the Transatlantic Middle East District’s legal work gives its attorneys a unique opportunity to represent the Government on a number of intricate issues, an experience that they likely would not get in other USACE districts, or in the private sector, and one that allows them to become true subject matter experts on the issues they litigate.
  • January

    District Leverages Contracting Expertise throughout the Middle East

    Through its over 60 years of existence, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East
  • December

    PMP Boot Camp prepares project managers for certification

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from the Transatlantic Division and Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) recently took part in an intensive four-day course to prepare them to take the Project Management Professionals certification exam. Bringing the course to the Division and District Headquarters in Winchester, Virginia, enabled them to maximize participation and resulted in a substantial cost savings to the government.
  • Carrying on legacy of USACE Support in the Middle East

    For more than 60 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District has
  • November

    USACE Contingency Deployment Center Provides Start to Finish Support

    With a district in Afghanistan as well as projects in Iraq and other contingency locations around
  • October

    Middle East District paves way to improved process

    In their marketing materials, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District often refers to their ability to accomplish projects in “some of the toughest construction environments in the world.” This saying was recently put to the test at an undisclosed location in the Middle East as they made repairs to one of the installation’s runways.
  • USACE Provides Water Resources Expertise to Pakistan

    As recent media articles have highlighted the potential for major cities around the world to run out of water, it’s become apparent the good stewardship of water resources is more than an environmental issue, it’s a humanitarian one and can have an impact on regional stability. It’s also an area where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has the ability to make an impact. For decades, USACE has managed many of the water resources with the United States through its operation of levees, dams, dredging operations and flood control management. More recently USACE has been given the opportunity to share USACE’s water resource expertise with the Government of Pakistan through an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
  • August

    Middle East District earns Project Delivery Team of the Year Award

    A team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Middle East District (MED) was recently named the “USACE Project Delivery Team (PDT) Of The Year for Merit” for their work in planning the execution of almost 1 billion dollars in foreign military sales construction for the nation of Qatar.
  • June

    Captain experiences new perspective on Middle East through USACE

    Capt. Scott Pancotto spent the last year stationed in Bahrain as a project engineer and program manager forward with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East DIstrict.
  • May

    Old slogan, new mindset: Safety IS everyone’s responsibility

    USACE’s new safety management system, the Corps of Engineers Safety & Occupational Health Management System (CE-SOHMS), will enable USACE to meet the Army’s goal of modernizing safety and occupational health programs.
  • Iraq F-16 program construction hits major milestone

    A 24 April ribbon cutting ceremony celebrated a major milestone in the construction of facilities supporting Iraq’s F-16 purchase from the United States and marked the Iraqi Air Force's 87th birthday.
  • April

    Master Planning Brings Order to Contingency Base Planning

    USACE’s Middle East District (MED) reached out to the Fort Worth District for master planning support. An agreement was formalized in 2016 and the first planning conference focused on CENTCOM recently took place at the Middle East District in Winchester, Virginia. In attendance were representatives from MED, the Fort Worth District and U.S. Army Central.
  • February

    Middle East District promotes STEM ahead of National Engineers Week

    During the month of February, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Middle East DISTRICT (TAM) supported three Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) events in the city of Winchester, Va., continuing a strong tradition of STEM outreach to the local community.