![]() ![]() It’s great to be able to come here, continue our discussions and see that great work we’re doing with them,” said Spellmon. ![]() ![]() “USACE recently hosted Qatari Engineers in DC and we talked about strides they’ve made in expanding the capacity of their own engineering corps to include things like disaster response. In Qatar, Spellmon met with members of the Qatari Emirati Air Defense Forces, Qatari Emirati Air Force and Qatari Emirati Engineering Corps. That’s a testament to both our reputation for providing high quality design and construction services and the trust that the Middle East District has built with our allied partners year after year,” said Spellmon. “It’s important to note that our Middle East District mission partners are the ones paying for these projects, so they’ve got a choice on who they want to design and build them. allies in the region on engineering, design and construction projects ranging from early road systems and airports to modern day state-of-the-art defense infrastructure.Ĭurrently most of this work is done through foreign military financing, where partner nations like Qatar and Jordan fund the oversight of construction on some of their defense infrastructure. Through TAM, the Army Corps of Engineers has had a permanent presence in the Middle East for more than 70 years, partnering with U.S. Spellmon said that although the visits to the project sites were eye-opening, it was the relationships District personnel had cultivated with their partners overseas that were most impressive. Spellmon visited missile defense and aircraft infrastructure projects in Qatar as well as projects USACE is undertaking for the Jordanian Air Force. allies currently working with USACE’s Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) on defense infrastructure projects. Scott Spellmon recently had a hand in building those bridges while visiting the Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Qatar – two long-standing U.S. ![]() allies to improve their defense and engineering capabilities. This is true in local communities when helping people recover from natural disasters and it’s true around the world when partnering with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the figurative bridges you build are often just as important at the literal ones. ![]()
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