Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, commander, Army Corps of Engineers, holds a press briefing in the Pentagon Briefing Room, April 17, 2020, on the Corps’s support of the COVID-19 response. After nine years focusing on building a payroll system that works, SIGAR says the two main electronic systems used for payroll data are not fully functional and cannot even communicate with each other. “OK, I like that. She was the first female brigadier general in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Semonite graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and was commissioned into the Army Corps of Engineers in 1979. The civil works staff oversee construction, operation, and maintenance of dams, canals and flood protection in the U.S., as well as a wide range of public works throughout the world. SIGAR also inspected a $3 million food-storage facility that has never been used, along with a faltering $34 million initiative to develop a market for soybeans, which are not traditionally farmed or eaten by Afghans. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, the district, which is part of the North Atlantic Division, covers a widely dispersed geographic area from Western Europe across Eastern Europe, including Russia, down to Israel and throughout most of the African continent. In the 20th and 21st centuries, military engineering also includes other engineering disciplines such as mechanical and electrical engineering techniques. Please let us know if you think data we have about Todd T. Semonite's height is not correct. From the White House to the Defense Department, the Corps is getting overwhelming support from leadership, Semonite said. Using the resources of the federal government and the U.S. private sector, Operation Warp Speed will accelerate the testing, supply, development, and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to counter COVID-19 by January 2021. [3], During a September 2019 visit to a new section of border wall near San Diego, President Donald Trump said the wall was "wired so that we will know if somebody’s trying to break through." As of September 2020, there were over 6,700,000 cases of COVID-19 and 199,000 COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, "PN1400 — Maj. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon — Army", "General Tells Donald Trump To Keep Quiet About 'Wired' Border Wall And Tweeters Go Loud", House Select Coronavirus Crisis Subcommittee, Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups, Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery, COVID-19 Congressional Oversight Commission, Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Celebration, U.S. Excludes committee-approved amendments.] The Army Corps of Engineers is on Day 35 of building 28 alternate-care facilities with about 15,800 beds, Army Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, said today. “There is no doubt that we still have more to accomplish, but in the last 90 days we have applied significant rigor. Connie Semonite currently lives in Fort McNair, DC; in the past Connie has also lived in Fredericksburg VA, Bellows Falls VT and Alpharetta GA. Connie Hartley Semonite and Connie H Semonite are some of the alias or nicknames that Connie has used.