- BRASS TRACKS.
Government The President has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes for assignment as deputy chief of staff for programs for the Army. Currently, Byrnes is serving as assistant vice chief of staff. Army National Guard Col. Kerry G. Denson has been nominated for promotion to brigadier general. Denson presently ......
- Alaska businesses construct long-term relationship
with military.
Defense is Alaska's only enduring statewide industry impacting villages, boroughs and cities for centuries. Department of Defense funding cycles sustain businesses through booms and busts, providing experience and capital that Alaska businesses need for intermittent commercial projects. Construction, engineering, technical, service and maintenance contracting are expected to increase to accommodate ......
- Fort Wainwright hospital again goes out to bid
A major construction project in Alaska - a replacement hospital at Fort Wainwright - once scheduled for construction to begin this summer is instead starting the bid process over again. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District will issue a request for proposals in mid-October seeking a general contractor ......
- Construction (military).
The next three fiscal years will be even bigger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, than the recently completed record-breaking fiscal year. In its biggest program ever, the district awarded $792.7 million in contracts in FY05. Of that total, 93.8 percent was awarded to Alaska businesses with ......
- Corps Team Wins Award for Project Delivery
Anchorage— A team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, has won the Project Delivery Team Excellence Award for fast-tracking military housing in the Southern Cross community of Fort Wainwright. The award-winning team included personnel from U.S. Army Garrison, Alaska; Installation Management Command; Alaska District, Pacific Ocean Division ......
- Construction under way on new military hospital
Joint venture general contractors Dick Pacific Corp. and Ghemm Co, have started construction on the new Bassett Army Hospital at Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks. In early May, workers began pouring concrete for the 32-bed, 269,000 -square-foot hospital, said Bert Bell, president of Fairbanks-based Ghemm Co. Work on the $178 million ......
- ANC's 8(a) status under fire
Chugach Industries Inc. this month was awarded a five-year $25.6 million contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration help the agency build a scientific and technical information program. The work will be done in Hanover, Md., and in Hampton, Va. Last December, the Anchorage-based company received a $35.8 million ......