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Recap: SAME University
SAME hosted the first-ever installment of SAME University, the newest addition to the society’s roster of educational workshops, from June 9-11 in Frankfurt, Germany. The event featured three days of technical panels and training opportunities presented by SAME and strategic partners the International Facility Management Association and the Construction Management Association of America.
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Video: USACE Preps for Hurricane Season
With what is expected to be an average hurricane season officially getting underway earlier this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making final preparations to protect the nation’s coastal and low-lying areas. In this video , the Pentagon Channel highlights a USACE exercise conducted in late May to test the revamped hurricane protection system [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Army Embraces Social Media
Bricks and Clicks is probably a bit late to this story, but the U.S. Army has recently made strides towards embracing online social media tools. Guidon, the newspaper of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., reported in late May that Army personnel are now permitted access to several social media sites previously inaccessible from within the Army.mil domain, including [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Items of Interest: 5.27.09
USA Today rounds up Memorial Day observations in Washington, D.C., and across the country. (”Nation Salutes its War Dead on Memorial Day,” USA Today, 5/25/09) Also see the Department of Defense’s own photo essay on the day’s events by clicking here.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert penned this eloquent argument for the need to repair [...]
Nine Photos from JETC 2009
The 2009 SAME Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo will continue through the end of the week at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. As always, our intrepid photographer Heather Alexander, SAME Advertising Coordinator, is on the scene. Here’s a small sampling of photos from JETC 2009; more will soon be [...]
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