Huntsville Center closes fiscal 2026 with $2.49 billion obligated across military, federal missions
The total demonstrates the breadth of work Huntsville Center can deliver. During the year, project teams modernized facilities, strengthened energy resilience, advanced munitions cleanup and environmental restoration, outfitted medical spaces, and supported infrastructure and cybersecurity requirements across the United States and overseas.
Final year-end data shows Utility Monitoring and Control Systems with $426 million in obligations, Fuels with $151.8 million, Furnishings with $261.3 million, and Energy Savings Performance Contracting with $181.2 million. The Ordnance and Explosives Directorate obligated $122.3 million, the Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise obligated $62.9 million, and the Engineering Directorate obligated $49.4 million.
Arthur Martin III, Huntsville Center programs director, said the financial total matters because of what those resources allow the Center to deliver for its stakeholders.
“The $2.49 billion we have obligated this fiscal year is significant, but the true measure of our success is the value those resources provide to the stakeholders we serve. Across Huntsville Center, our project delivery teams continue to take on complex requirements, apply specialized expertise and deliver solutions that directly support the missions of the Army and Department of Defense. As those requirements evolve, we have to evolve with them. Going forward, our focus must remain on understanding what our stakeholders need, being disciplined in how we manage our programs and delivering on the commitments we make. If we continue to do those things well, Huntsville Center will remain the organization our partners turn to when the requirement is difficult, specialized and critical to the mission.”
That work reached well beyond a single service or mission set. Huntsville Center’s fiscal 2026 stakeholders included the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force, as well as NASA and other partners. The portfolio shows how the Center’s specialized programs can be applied to requirements ranging from facility design and modernization to energy, environmental, medical and infrastructure needs.
For the Space Force, Huntsville Center’s Architect-Engineer Contracts and Criteria Branch administered the design task order for a consolidated air traffic control tower, fire station and air operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. During fiscal 2026, the team helped advance the project from a 35% design through reviews and value engineering toward a final design planned to support construction beginning in fiscal 2028.
At Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, the Center’s Medical Outfitting and Transition program completed a yearlong modernization of patient waiting areas at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center. The effort replaced decades-old furniture in a hospital serving about 48,000 beneficiaries while allowing the facility to remain fully operational throughout installation.
At Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., Huntsville Center’s Facilities Repair and Renewal program provided oversight for an $18 million renovation of a 33,000-square-foot dormitory damaged by a burst water pipe. The top-to-bottom modernization will provide 30 suites for about 60 Air Force and mission-partner junior enlisted personnel and includes replacement of major mechanical, electrical and building systems.
For the Army, Huntsville Center completed a $58 million Utility Energy Services Contract project at Fort Bliss, Texas, installing microgrids and energy storage to provide backup power to more than 140 critical buildings. The 24-year agreement is projected to save the installation more than $136 million and improve energy and water resilience.
At the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, the Center’s Furnishings Program is scheduled to complete phased delivery and installation for the Cyber and Engineering Academic Center in October.
Closer to home, Huntsville Center will continue providing technical support for Redstone Arsenal’s Prototype Recovered Ordnance Destruction System through systemization, testing, and operations. The arsenal's first permanent recovered-ordnance destruction system is designed to increase disposal capacity and sustain long-term munitions cleanup.
For NASA, Huntsville Center’s Facilities Reduction Program awarded a $585,658 contract in July for pre-demolition surveys at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The work will identify asbestos and other regulated materials in excess facilities slated for removal and provide the environmental data needed to plan their safe demolition.
The year also included less visible work with far-reaching effects. Huntsville Center completed a major operational technology inventory to help military leaders identify and prioritize cybersecurity risks in the systems that control facilities and infrastructure.
Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program has 18 projects in various stages of planning and development, including work intended to strengthen installation power and water resilience in the United States and overseas.
In March, the Center became the first U.S. Army Corps of Engineers organization to successfully complete the Army Safety and Occupational Health STAR recertification evaluation.
Delivering work across that range of mission areas and customer organizations depends on more than program management alone. Contracting professionals, engineers, project managers, legal advisers and industry partners turn requirements and funding into field work, giving Huntsville Center the capacity to move specialized needs toward execution.
“When you look at the scale of our workload for the 2026 fiscal year, it is easy to get lost in the numbers,” remarked Ronnell Booker, Huntsville Center’s Director of Contracting. “But the reality is simpler: it represents a profound trust placed in the Center, particularly in our contracting professionals – they serve as the strategic core of our delivery teams.”
“They do not just process transactions,” the Director continued. “They build the practical bridge between a Soldier’s need and the market's capability. The HNC Contracting professionals experience a normal operations tempo what other organizations may consider ‘surge’ operations: HNC manages a $2 - $3 Billion annual execution while simultaneously designing/developing $20+ Billion in acquisition architecture made up of our multiple-award IDIQs – and FY26 was no different. But we don’t do this important work in a vacuum. We rely on industry – and specifically our small-business partners within the 8(a) Program – to stand with us. Cultivating these relationships is not a regulatory chore; it is the only way we deliver the capability that the Army and the Department of War actually need.”
Taken together, the year’s work demonstrates a model built to serve organizations with difficult, specialized and mission-critical requirements. The same combination of program expertise, engineering, acquisition and contracting support that delivered fiscal 2026 work across military and federal missions positions Huntsville Center to take on the requirements its partners bring next.
Col. Robert Hilliard, Huntsville Center commander, said the year’s accomplishments lay a foundation for the work still ahead.
“Huntsville Center is such a unique and essential organization,” the commander noted. “We take on our Nation’s toughest and most complex engineering challenges, delivering results time and again that strengthen our posture, improve our infrastructure, and keep our service members ready and responsive. As we close out Fiscal Year 2026, I am so incredibly proud of the Huntsville team, whether serving from Huntsville, Omaha, Alexandria or so many other locations around the world. I’m also excited about what the future holds for HNC; we are taking our tried-and-true blueprint for success to the next level in the coming year as we clear obstacles and bring the right expertise to every mission. Our focus remains on our people to serve our partners and our nation. Together, we will continue Delivering excellence around the globe.”
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