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Army Approves Billion-Dollar Deal to Improve Housing Conditions at 6 Bases
A member of the Fort Drum Residential Communities Initiative/Housing Division inspection team checks out a house on Sept. 17, 2019. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)
27 Jan 2021
The U.S. Army announced a $1.1 billion deal with a private management firm to provide private funds to improve housing conditions for thousands of soldiers and their families at six of the service s installations.
The service approved the Jan. 5 deal with Lendlease, a company that has partnered with it to own and operate housing on multiple bases, according to an Army news release. The private-sector funding will allow Lendlease to accelerate its previously planned sustainment program at Army installations by more than 10 years.
The Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center has welcomed back a familiar face to lead its workforce of more than 11,000 engineers, scientists, researchers and support staff in delivering advanced technologies as required by the Armyâs strategic priorities and support to its Cross-Functional Teams.
Jeffrey Langhout assumed the duties of Aviation & Missile Center director Jan. 17. No stranger to the organization, Langout served in a variety of leadership roles at AvMC from April 2013 to October 2018, when he became the director of the Ground Vehicle Systems Center in Warren, Michigan.
Juanita Christensen, who precedes Langhout as AvMC director, has been selected as the new deputy chief of staff for logistics, facilities and environmental, G-4, at the Army Materiel Command, also effective Jan. 17.
The American glider-building program more often resembled a comedy of errors than a serious wartime manufacturing effort.
Here s What You Need to Know: A postwar report on the glider program spelled out the many problems: “Poor workmanship, improper methods of manufacture, and general inefficiency at the plants of contractors were all unfortunate aspects of the glider program.”
To bring soldiers swiftly and silently onto a battlefield, the U.S. Army decided to follow the German and British examples and build tactical gliders. But troubles galore plagued America’s glider manufacturing program from the very beginning.
Sixteen companies were eventually contracted to produce the CG-4A glider an American record for an aircraft having the most individual manufacturers. But, with almost the entire American manufacturing industry being awarded contracts to build an incredibly wide variety of military goods, finding enough companies with aircraft manufacturing experience was next to
FORT LEE, Va. – When the initial spread of COVID 19 prompted personal protection and shelter-at-home measures last spring, it also compelled the Army to implement stop-movement orders to mitigate