02/23/2021
We are celebrating the 2021 National Engineers Week February 21 - 27. Over this past year, the dedication and resilience you have shown in delivering solutions for our Nation's toughest challenges have been nothing short of amazing! Fittingly, this year's theme is Imagining Tomorrow. The work we do today is with the vision of the needs of tomorrow.
National Engineers Week is a time to celebrate how engineers make a difference in our world, increase public dialogue about the need for engineers, bring engineering to life for kids, educators, and parents, and to ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce.
To the Engineer Family – Thank you for the outstanding accomplishments you have achieved in service to the American people and our warfighters this past year. Among our ranks, we have some of the world's most talented engineers, scientists, physicists, and mathematicians, all using ingenuity and innovation to make life safer and more prosperous for everyone. You push the limits to solve this Nation's toughest challenges today while imagining tomorrow's needs.
I am proud and humbled to lead the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an organization of professionals who consistently demonstrate selfless service and technical competence second to none. I am also in awe of the job that our Regimental Engineers do every day to enable and protect our Army forces. Our collective work supports military readiness, warfighters, and their Families. Our work also improves the natural environment, increases energy security, water conservation, and waste reduction goals… all while safeguarding lives and livelihoods in communities throughout the United States and the world!
To our partners and stakeholders – thank you for your support and trust through this past year. We do not deliver vital engineering solutions alone. You all are critical to our success. We work with concrete and steel, but the most important thing we build is relationships. For without you, we could not be the premier engineering organization we are today.
The Corps exists to deliver vital public and military engineering services to strengthen our Nation's Security, Energize the Economy, and Reduce Disaster Risks. Our commitment to this charge is manifest in significant programs and projects, which include building more than 450 miles of state-of-the-art barrier along the southwest border; responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by building 38 alternate care facilities to care for more than 15,000 people; assisting in the production of COVID-19 vaccine to stop the pandemic; designing and building mass vaccination sites across the country to administer that life-saving vaccine; and completing the $21 Billion Disaster Supplemental portfolio after record damaging storms.
This year alone, USACE has been called on to deliver a massive portfolio of $68 Billion. Our strategy is to use this as an opportunity to support our national readiness in pursuit of our Nation's vital interests; to Modernize USACE by anticipating meaningful innovations that embrace change and new technologies; to strengthen relationships because we don't do anything alone; and to revolutionize program and project delivery ensuring that we remain trusted and respected as the Nation's Engineer.
As we look to the future, I ask that you keep pushing the limits of your ingenuity by Imagining Tomorrow in everything you do. We need our engineering family to continue to solve our Nation's toughest challenges, and we need our stakeholders and partners to continue to support our efforts now and into the future.
Happy Engineers Week! ESSAYONS! BUILDING STRONG! ARMY STRONG!
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