Northwestern Division Military Missions

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Military Missions

Real estate: 1,843,870 acres

Installations by state are:

  • Colorado
    • Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station
    • NorthCom
    • Fort Carson, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Fitzsimmons Medical Center, Pueblo Depot
    • Air Force Academy 
    • Buckley, Peterson, and Schriever Space Force Base 
  • Idaho
    • Mountain Home Air Force Base
  • Iowa
    • Iowa Army Ammunition Plant
  • Kansas
    • Fort Leavenworth
    • Fort Riley
    • McConnell Air Force Base
  • Minnesota
    • Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant
    • Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (Reserves)
  • Missouri
    • Fort Leonard Wood
    • Whiteman Air Force Base
  • Montana
    • Malmstrom Air Force Base
  • Nebraska
    • Offutt Air Force Base
    • Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant
  • North Dakota
    • Minot and Grand Forks Air Force Bases
  • South Dakota
    • Ellsworth Air Force Base
    • Black Hills Army Depot
  • Washington
    • Joint Base Lewis-McChord
    • Fairchild Air Force Base
  • Wisconsin
    • Fort McCoy and Badger Army Ammunition Plant
    • Gen. Billy Mitchell Field (Reserves)

Military Missions

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' current military construction mission, one of the largest since World War II, consists of an average annual program of $25 billion (FY10-19) to meet the demand created by growth in the Army, global restationing, and base realignment and closure.

The Northwestern Division’s Military Construction program, including carry-in projects from prior years, is $1.9 billion for Fiscal Year 2019. The Military Construction program includes several mega projects including the National Geospatial Agency next NGA-West Phases 1 and 2 at $836 Million at St. Louis, Missouri, and the Fort Leonard Wood Replacement Hospital at $381 Million. 

The Division's Military Missions program projections for FY19 also includes the following:

  • Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization - $509 Million
  • Environmental Programs for - $354 Million
  • Interagency & International Services - $128 Million

The Northwestern Division offers a wide range of services to its military customers. It is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a regional office in Omaha, Nebraska, and five subordinate district offices located in Seattle and Walla Walla, Washington; Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha; and Portland. Northwestern Division headquarters coordinates technical policy and budgetary issues that cross district boundaries, as well as provide regional interface with other Federal and state agencies, congressional leaders, interest groups and international commissions. Expertise ranges from master planning to engineering plans and specifications, to construction management and installation support. Typical projects include new construction or renovation of military housing, barracks, operations centers, office/classroom buildings and child care facilities

Northwestern Division and its districts are experienced in partnering agreements with customers, in-house or contracted design of projects, advertisement and award of the construction contract (bid projects, negotiated projects, best value, request for proposals), financial administration of the contract, and field supervision and quality assurance inspections of the construction work underway. Kansas City, Seattle and Omaha districts collaborate to execute the Division's annual military workload.

Military Projects News

Innovating for the future: USACE uses sustainable building materials for JBLM barracks, enhances Army’s climate resiliency goals
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District
8/8/2024
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), U.S. Army I Corps, and Assistant Secretary of the Army leadership joined Washington State congressional representatives for an Aug. 7...
Corps of Engineers, JBLM, break ground on first-of-its kind sustainable materials barracks project
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District
8/8/2024
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), U.S. Army I Corps, and Assistant Secretary of the Army leadership joined Washington State congressional representatives for an Aug. 7...
‘Someplace they can feel at home and happy’: Kansas City District completes design for new Fort Leavenworth child development center
Kansas City District
7/23/2024
One of the biggest challenges our nation’s servicemembers and their families face is moving from installation to installation across the country, sometimes across the world, every couple of years. To...
USACE, U.S. Marine Corps finish new fuel station in Georgia
USACE Omaha District
7/19/2024
ALBANY, Ga. -- Marines, civilians and distinguished guests from the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Georgia gathered to celebrate the official opening of a new ground fuel station during a...
Contracts awarded to replace failing creek culverts at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, ensure uninterrupted McChord Field access
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District
6/27/2024
Efforts to maintain the transportation routes of one of the Nation’s busiest military bases reached a significant milestone this spring, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Seattle District,...
Ground broken on Offutt’s final flood recovery campuses
USACE OMAHA DISTRICT
5/23/2024
Two groundbreaking ceremonies took place at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, May 3, 2024, signifying the final stages of seven U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District flood recovery projects on...
USACE, Air Force break ground on B-21 weapons generation facility
Omaha District
5/14/2024
ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D.— Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District’s Rapid City, South Dakota resident team, along with airmen from Ellsworth Air Force Base recently broke...
USACE Omaha District, Air Force, Wisconsin celebrate groundbreaking for new fuel facility at General Mitchell Airfield
USACE Omaha District
4/24/2024
Ground has been broken and a significant milestone reached as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, 128th Air Refueling Wing and the state of Wisconsin...
Improving quality of life at Whiteman Air Force Base
Kansas City District
4/16/2024
Everyone knows home is where the heart is. The Whiteman Air Force Base Resident Office with the Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers understands this. That’s why they put their heart...
Enabling the warfighter: Fort Riley barracks renovations help to improve quality of life for soldiers
Kansas City District
4/11/2024
Fort Riley, a U.S. Army installation located in north central Kansas, is known for many things: storied home of “The Big Red One,” early duty station of the infamous Gen. Custer, former home to two...