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Huntsville Center’s PREP serves as the Department of War’s premier authority on continuous, high-availability power infrastructure, ensuring that the electrical systems backing America's critical national security sites achieve maximum uptime and fault tolerance.
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, closed fiscal 2026 on Sept. 30 with $2.49 billion obligated across programs supporting military readiness, installation resilience and specialized engineering requirements for military services and federal partners worldwide.
Redstone Arsenal is receiving its first permanent system for destroying recovered ordnance, a prototype facility designed to process munitions safely and at a rate that could keep long-term cleanup moving forward, minimize potential delays, and speed the clearing of munitions on the installation, thanks to the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville transformed a historic World War II-era aircraft hangar on Fort Wainwright into a more energy-efficient facility, while preserving its historic character and finishing under budget 50 days ahead of schedule.
A series of site visits gave Army security leaders and U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville project teams a firsthand look at major improvements to installation access control systems across the island.
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville plays a central role in advancing the Army’s energy resilience efforts through the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, ERCIP, a Department of Defense initiative designed to ensure reliable power and water for mission-critical operations.
The project should enhance the quality of life for junior enlisted personnel assigned to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), a high-profile joint military installation in Southwest Washington, D.C.
The workshop provides training for currently contracted REMs, their company representatives, and REM program customers.
Leaders from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville gathered with industry partners for the Utility Monitoring and Control Systems, UMCS, Program Industry Day March 3. The event focused on strengthening partnerships, sharing program updates and discussing the future of installation utility management across the Army.
The program’s contracting vehicle provided for the long-term purchases of energy from renewable alternative energy production facilities that are on or near dozens of Department of War installations.
The workshop is open to all interested parties with focus on the support and energy sav-ings REMs provide their customers as well as the energy technical and project support the Center’s Energy Division provides.
Army leaders and environmental experts met at Redstone Arsenal for the Feb. 25 inaugural meeting of a working group focused on strengthening coordination and advancing environmental restoration across the installation.
After sitting dormant for more than a decade, the fuel storage and distribution system at an Air National Guard base at Fort Smith Arkansas, has been restored to full operational status by repairs completed by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. The restoration ensured the installation would have the ability to become a key training site under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.
The project’s goal is to provide resilience through the microgrid and energy storage systems to power 40 percent of its critical facilities. The contract also addresses water infrastructure and security needs while decreasing energy and water consumption.
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville completed repairs of emergency fuel infrastructure at U.S. Naval Support Facility, NSF, Diego Garcia. The $1.5 million Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants, POL, Pier Pipeline was repaired and operational 17 days ahead of schedule, reinforcing the installation’s ability to sustain uninterrupted operations in the Indo-Pacific region.
Contractor working under the management of Huntsville Center’s REM program, is the technical link powering the Army Reserve’s unified energy control system.