Privacy and Security / Media / News Stories
image - construction at Folsom Dam
Results:
Tag: U.S. Army
Clear

  • April

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division commander, Brig. Gen. Mark Toy and Sacramento District staff gather under the Solar Array at Tooele Army Depot for a group photo during a three-day tour March 29-31, 2016, of project sites throughout the states of Utah. Toy saw the Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization program up close at the depot’s $9.6 million solar array that will bring the installation to net-zero energy consumption. (U.S. Army photos / Released)

    Division Commander tours Sacramento District projects in Utah

    Brigadier General Mark Toy, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division, visited military construction projects at three installations and met with Regulatory staff during a three-day trip to Utah on March 29-31, 2016.
  • “I couldn’t justify buying a snowboard when I lived in Chicago – it was too far from good mountains,” says Kaitlyn Pascus, a regulatory project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District. “Now, everyone at home is so jealous when I’m on Snapchat and they say: ‘Hey, weren’t you at that resort last weekend?’

    Chicago native making tracks in Sacramento after college

    Kaitlyn Pascus wasn’t feeling a lot of love from her hometown of Chicago two years after graduating college. Looking for a fresh start and new adventures, she turned to the interwebs for potential landing spots. Sacramento and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seemed like an ideal destination.

  • March

    The Pathways Program has three sections: Internship Program for current students; the Recent Graduates Program for people who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs (2 years from the date the graduate completed an academic course of study); and the reinvigorated Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program for people who obtained an advanced degree (e.g., graduate or professional degree) within the preceding two years. These programs, collectively the Pathways Programs, are streamlined developmental programs tailored to promote employment opportunities for students and recent graduates in the Federal workforce.

    The Workforce Awakens -- Millennials find their “Pathway” to success

    There is a tremor in the workforce. With a swell of retirement-eligible baby boomers leading the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a new band of heroes face a stiff challenge to quickly transform into future leaders of our nation’s premier public engineering agency. A collection of young professionals born from 1981-1996, millennials hold a cosmic cloud of information at their fingertips and are finding a new “Pathway” to success, designed to make them the most well-trained decision makers the Corps has ever seen.

  • January

    Col. Michael J. Farrell, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.

    Safety award – Col. Mike Farrell ‘Gets It’

    In recognition of his emphasis on workplace safety, Col. Mike Farrell, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, has been named among the CEOs who ‘Get It’ by the National Safety Council.

  • The Corps feasibility study – finding a balanced solution

    How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, right? That one-liner serves as a metaphor for how an incredibly complex task can be accomplished by stating a goal, gathering facts, initiating action and formulating an overall plan from a series of achievable objectives using available resources. That also describes how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts a feasibility study for prospective projects, though we’d work hard to avoid harming an actual elephant.