July 2018 Vol. 39 Issue 3 Huntsville Center Bulletin
July 2018Vol. 39 Issue 3Huntsville Center BulletinU.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville
Table of ContentsEmployeee Spotlight: Cordelle-Meikle inspires STEM students.4Commentary: Too much information, too many documents.5ERCIP partners meet, revamp validation process.6Resource managers network, learn at workshop.72018 Engineer Day team award winners.82018 Engineer Day individual award winners.9Huntsville Center helps move multi-ton targets onto West Point indirect-fire range.10Task order awarded for ESPC project.12Emergency exercises important for employees.14First stage of new safety program complete.15Ethics Corner: Government provides virtual currency guidance.16Hail and farewellHail:Angelina Offei-Dua, Resource Management; Burlin Emery, Braxton Hardin, Cheyenne Christian,Colin Adendorff, Dan McFarland, Kelsey Seiter, Robert Starkey, Tirso McCoy, InstallationSupport and Programs Management Directorate; Ketrich Kennedy, Michael Wilson, SharlaAndrew, Sabrina Booker, Channel Pederson, Oscar Dothard, Samuel Cornelius, CenterContracting; Amanda Baxter, Christin Moss, Business Management Office; Ashley Greenwood,Ellen Haapoja, Donna Davis, Engineering Directorate; Michelle Nguyen, Public Affairs Office;Stephanie Ancira, Office of Counsel.Farewell:Donnie Butler, Safety Office; Debra Valine, PAO; Sonja Rice, Equal Employment Opportunity,Carl King, ISPM.*Editor’s note: Cover illustration by Michael May.2 BUILDING STRONGJuly 2018
Commander’s thoughtsTeam,The Engineer Day awardsceremony and organization day at PointMallard June 29 was a wonderful event.Congratulations to the award winnersand a big thank you to the ActivitiesAssociation and employee volunteerswho helped make the day agreat success.We are still encountering manychallenges with the buildingrenovation for our facility at 4820University Square. Senior leadershipat Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers is aware of the situationand USACE Real Estate is helping usmove forward with remediation andrenovation.I know there is concern from theworkforce, and rest assured we aredoing all we can to make this projectmove forward.In my last column, I asked you to beflexible. Today, I’m asking you to bepatient. I am confident as our situationis elevated, and as all parties sort outthe issues, we will soon have this projectunderway.The 2018 Federal EmployeeViewpoint Survey ran through June 19and more than 65 percent ofyou responded.The FEVS measures yoursatisfaction with respect to theorganization’s leadership, our workprocesses and policies and other areas.Your survey responses let me andthe other leaders in the Center knowwhat is going well and what isn’t.By understanding what is mostimportant to you, and finding areaswhere we have opportunities toimprove, we can focus our efforts andresources.Speaking of leadership, we have anew interim deputy commander takingover for the current deputy commander,Gina Elliott, in August.Lt. Col. Juan Pace will fill thatposition. Many of you already knowJuan and recognize his professionalismand dedication as a Soldier. He hascommand experience and I’m confidentin his ability to lead.I also want to thank Gina forserving as the deputy commander.She is yet another dedicated memberof the Center “family” and has beenoutstanding in her support of theorganization.She has been hard at work takingcare of our people, our facilities andour mission. She will be missed.In April, our safety office completedthe Stage 1 Corps of Engineers Safetyand Occupational Health ManagementSystem.This was the first milestone forimplementing the new Armywidesystem that enables the Corps ofEngineers to meet the Army’s goal ofmodernizing safety and occupationalhealth programs.Safety is a top priority for the Armyand the Corps of Engineers and wewill strive to meet these requirements.Remember that the safety office canwrite procedures and regulations,but it cannot effectively implementthe Center’s safety program withoutemployee involvement. I urge you to getinvolved in the Center’s safety program.Speaking of safety, we are oneThe Huntsville Center Bulletin is printed by digital copier as an officialpublication authorized under the provisions of AR 360-1. Opinions expressedare not necessarily those of the U.S. Army. Inquiries can be addressed toPublic Affairs Office, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville,Attn: CEHNC-PA, 5021 Bradford Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805. Phone: DSN760-1692 or commercial 256-895-1692. The Bulletin is also available onlineat www.hnc.usace.army.mil. The Huntsville Center Facebook page is locatedat www.facebook.com/HuntsvilleCenter. Follow Huntsville Center newsand announcements on Twitter using hashtag #CEHNC. Circulation: 350.July 2018 Col. John S. Hurleymonth into the 101 Critical Daysof Summer.The summer months are statistically thetime of year accidents involvingautomobiles, motorcycles and personalwatercraft pose the greatest risk; and wemust all remain vigilant for ourselvesand each other.I want to take this opportunity toencourage each of you to be safetyconscious in all your activities. Alwaysmaintain situational awareness andmanage your risks.The end of the fiscal year is quicklyapproaching and I know many of youare already deep in preparation.However, before the busiest time ofyear arrives, take some time to rechargethe batteries and relax with friendsand families.Taking time for yourself isimportant for your body and mind, andit can make a difference in how healthyyou are in general.Taking good care of yourself mayrequire a little extra time and effort, butit’s worth it.BULLETINCommander. Col. John S. HurleyChief, Public Affairs. VacantEditor. William S. FarrowPrinted on recycled paper30 percent post-consumerHuntsville Center Bulletin3
Employee Spotlight : Cordell-Meikle inspires STEM studentsBy Stephen BaackPublic Affairs OfficeLori Cordell-Meikle, chief ofInternal Review, spent themorning of May 11 at theUniversity of Alabama in Hunstvillewith visiting high school students aspart of the university’s InnovativeSystem Project for the IncreasedRecruitment of Emerging STEMStudents, or InSPIRESS.InSPIRESS, which the universityhosts twice a year, connects itsengineering undergraduates with highschool students who have interest inand an aptitude for the subjects ofscience, technology, engineering andmathematics, or STEM. Each semester,student teams collaborate on a projectto design a scientific payload for a spacemission to a different body in the solarsystem. This semester’s target was themoon.Though the program is designed forall students to benefit academically,the winning team – from SparkmanHigh School – is slated to visit NASAHeadquarters in Washington this Julyto present their project to NASAexecutives and compete against anationwide pool of teams.This semester, more than 270students from 15 high schools inAlabama, Texas, North Dakota andSouth Carolina participated and havebeen working on their projects sinceJanuary.The students presented theirprojects in two settings: a 25-minuteformal oral presentation to a board ofjudges and a less formal “open house”setting where judges could see thestudents’ pictorial displays.Photo by Stephen BaackStudents from Sparkman High School explain their scientific payload project May11, to Lori Cordell-Meikle, chief of Internal Review for Huntsville Center, as part ofthe Innovative System Project for the Increased Recruitment of Emerging STEMStudents at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.Cordell-Meikle served as an openhouse judge for Division B, whichincluded students from Sparkman andScottsboro high schools in Alabama,as well as two schools from El Paso,Texas: Clint High School and Da VinciSchool for Science and The Arts.“We are looking at their ability tocommunicate and to showcollaboration with their team,” CordellMeikle said about the open houseportion.“They should be able to pictoriallyhave their demonstration or theirdisplay explained to the judges justby looking at it – what their scienceobjective was – but then they have tocome back and explain that very clearlyverbally.”Each student has a distinct role onthe team, such as design engineer,project manager and communityengagement activity leader, whichCordell-Meikle likened to HuntsvilleCenter’s product delivery teams,or PDTs.“I think that if the individuals wouldcome into the Corps to do internships,they would be very comfortable withthat model because they’ve practiced ithere,” she said.Cordell-Meikle, who has abackground in engineering andexperience working for NASA, saidshe learns something every time sheparticipates in the program and hopesmore of her colleagues participate inInSPIRESS events.“I would like to see more of ourCorps of Engineers personnel getinvolved, because the focus of this isengineering and physics,” Cordell-Meiklesaid.“So, I think a lot of folks at ourcommand would have quite a lot ofvaluable input and feedback to give tothe children, and I think it would alsoserve for opportunities for the studentsto do summer internships.”The Employee Spotlight is intended to highlight Center employees who shine by positively impacting the organization through missionachievements. Employees are featured quarterly in the Huntsville Center Bulletin. If you’d like to nominate someone for this recognition,please contact William S. Farrow, Public Affairs Office, at 256-895-1694, or email: william.farrow@usace.army.mil.4 BUILDING STRONGJuly 2018
Commentary Too much information, too much dataBy Russ DunfordBusiness Management OfficeIndividuals dropping files into drive folders usually adoptstheir own unique file naming convention that only they mayunderstand.This can certainly cause confusion and oversight.The problem grows exponentially with the ease in whichevery level of an organization and every person can createdocuments and data files, and subsequently store them.Although we’re talking in terms of today’s technology, thisis a centuries old problem and there are solutions.The advent of the printing press in the 1400’s, and theability to publish the written word faster than ever beforecompounded the problem of data management.In 1876, Melvil Dewey, an American librarian working atthe Amherst College library in Amherst, Massachusetts,developed the idea of organizing the volumes of books inwhat became known as the Dewey Decimal System, a systembased on an alpha-numeric system that allows humans, andcomputers, to best organize data.In recent history, a little startup company named Googlerecognized the value in being able to retrieve data and nowdominates the Internet “search” market. However, Googlecannot search internal Department of Defense or otherfederal government systems.This in turn illustrates even a higher need to adopt astandardized file naming convention.My recommended course of action is that organizationsJuly 2018adopt the following digital file naming convention of“YYYY-MM-DD (Free Text File Name) for all digital datafiles. Where YYYY year; MM month; DD Day and“Free text” is your unique data file name.With this system, there is a return on investment and valueadded. Savings are guaranteed if you adopt this file namingconvention of your data files. We save money in the lostlabor hours expended trying to search and locate historicaldata files and the time spent recreating files.Digital files should be named with the following filenaming convention: YYYY-MM-DD (Free Text File Name)for all digital data files. An example would be a file named:2018-04-30 Command Policy Memo.Version control is always a concern with any data file,considering the collaborative nature in which we work. Therecommended solution parallels the Dewey Decimal systemin that a sequential number is added.Therefore the next version, on the same date: 2018-0429.1 Command Policy Memo. Then edits are made on thesame day and it now becomes 2018-04-29.2 Command PolicyMemo. The next version, but on a new date would be: 201804-30 Command Policy Memo.Adopting this digital file naming convention will also allowfor data files to be instantly “organized” in numerical order aseach data file is named in the year-month-day in which the filewas created.If you would like a copy of a draft policy memoestablishing your digital file naming convention, send me anemail at Russell.L.Dunford.Civ@Mail.Mil.Huntsville Center Bulletin5
HNC NewsERCIP partners meet, revampproject validation process By Stephen BaackPublic Affairs OfficeHuntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and ConservationInvestment Program validation team members metwith their ERCIP partners from throughout the Armyfor a workshop at Idaho National Laboratory June 12-14 toupdate the program’s guidance and requirements.The purpose of ERCIP is to enable stakeholders to securefunding for military construction designed to increase energyefficiency, make use of renewable energy sources, reduceenergy costs, and increase energy resilience and security.Workshop participants represented the Army’slandholding commands: Installation Management Command,Army Materiel Command, the Army National Guard, theArmy Reserve and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Alsopresent was a representative from the Office of the AssistantChief of Staff for Installation Management, or OACSIM.Before a stakeholder submits a project to the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense to compete for funding, it is thejob of Huntsville Center’s ERCIP validation team to lendtechnical support and planning guidance by validating theproject.Dominic Ragucci, who serves as the ERCIP programmanager and workshop lead, said he wanted to use theopportunity to revise and finalize the Army’s supplementalguidance for ERCIP and to revamp the process.He said reconstructing the ERCIP process has becomeespecially important in light of the Army’s new pushfor installations to become more energy-resilient andenergysecure.Army Directive 2017-07 requires that every installation’scritical mission capabilities are protected from disruption ordegradation. This includes each installation developing thecapability of providing its own energy and water needs for atleast 14 days.“We were trying to make the ERCIP within the Army awhole lot better, and to meet those changes that haveoccurred,” Ragucci said.“We are also trying to make sure we’re better planners –from the installation level and upward – planning andprogramming the ERCIP projects, validating the ERCIPprojects and executing ERCIP projects.”Because Army Directive 2017-07 necessitates backuppower systems that may not save an installation money inthe same way as an always-connected, continuously runningpower system, Ragucci said another major change in theERCIP process was revising lifecycle-cost analysis.“Before, we had to meet a certain minimum savings-to-6Photo by Stephen BaackDominic Ragucci, Program Manager, Energy Resilience andConservation Investment Program’s, leads a group duringthe ERCIP workshop at Idaho National LaboratoryJune 12-14.investment ratio, but because of the focus of energyresilience and security, it is difficult trying to achieve that typeof savings,” Ragucci said.Essentially, he added, energy resiliency and security meansinstallations are backing up back-up systems, and trying tojustify the savings in that context can be challenging.Ragucci said Idaho National Laboratory was this year’schoice as the site of the workshop because INL is a keycomponent of the ERCIP team and has on-site examples ofemerging energy technologies.Three Department of Energy representatives at INLhosted and participated in the workshop.Sarah Mandes, the Army program manager for ERCIPwith OACSIM, provided guidance to energy managersin attendance and to gather information to improve theprogram with these changes in mind.“They all support the ERCIP program as a lead for theArmy, trying to improve the program and improve theprocess for how we plan, program and validate the projectsso that we’re developing good projects for the Army and,on the execution side, that we’re reducing changes duringexecution,” said Mandes.“I’m trying to impart to them the emphasis on energyresilience and the need to have better defined costs and BUILDING STRONGContinued on page 7July 2018
HNC NewsResource managers network, learn at workshopBy William S. FarrowPublic Affairs OfficeMore than 40 resource efficiencymanagers converged atRedstone Arsenal, Alabama,to talk shop during Huntsville Center’sfourth Resource Efficiency ManagerWorkshop June 19-20.Workshop facilitators providedprogram updates, and encouragedattendees to engage in intensivediscussion on how to save theircustomers’ resources and subsequentlysave taxpayers’ dollars.Workshop topics focused on thirdparty financing, utility cost reductionand energy audit programs, costengineering, energy security,sustainability and measurement andverification.“We want the REMs to gain a betterunderstanding of the wide varietyof tools available to assist them inachieving their goals,” said John Trudell,Huntsville Center REM programmanager and host of the event.“There was a lot accomplished in avery short period of time.”Huntsville Center’s REM programincreases military installation’s energyefficiency by identifying projects andpractices to reduce energy and watercosts through a contracted subjectmatter expert. The REMs develop siteenergy projects to secure resources forsustainability and renewable energyassets.One of the event coordinators,Teresa Whalen, Huntsville CenterCourtesy photoAttendees at Huntsville Center’s Resource Efficiency Manager workshop connectwith industry representatives at the technology exposition June 20. Industryrepresentatives provided information applicable to REM-specific projects such asmicro-grids, smart building innovations and new HVAC technologies.REM project manager, said she felt theREMs in attendance gained somethingfrom the workshop to take back andimplement.“We provided them with briefingson specific Huntsville Center’s EnergyDivision programs that can help themconserve resources. Attendees alsoshared their own experiences, tappingother sources available within the ArmyCorps of Engineers, Department ofDefense and the Department of Energythat can help their installations achievefederal energy reduction mandates,” shesaid.Representatives from each of theEnergy Division’s seven programsbriefed on how they could assist REMs.Personnel from Huntsville Center’sSafety Office, Engineering Directorate,and Electronic Technology Divisionbriefed REMs on ways they can assistand reach-back capabilities that theyoffer too.Dave Hampton, a REM employedby Redhorse Corp., serving U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers Omaha Districtsaid the event was a great opportunityto network and learn from otherattendees.He said the workshop allowed theREMs to make new contacts and shareinformation and lessons learned.“Just knowing you have a supportsystem of other REMs to call isextremely beneficial,” Hampton said.ERCIPgood collaboration.”“Everyone is now more accountable for their particularscopes so that we have less volatility in the program,project, and we’ve developed a good, solid process and goodand better collaboration among the Corps of Engineersstarting point to meet the
2018-04-30 Command Policy Memo. Version control is always a concern with any data file, considering the collaborative nature in which we work. The recommended solution parallels the Dewey Decimal system in that a sequential number is added. Therefore the next version, on the same date: 2018-04-29.1 Command Policy Memo. Then edits are made on the
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