Allied Container Systems: News
For Immediate Release - October 20, 2011
ACS Joins the US Women's Chamber of Commerce
Walnut Creek, CA. October 20, 2011. - Allied Containers Systems, Inc., (ACS) is pleased to announce its membership in the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce in support of their mission to provide greater economic opportunity for women.
Members of the ACS senior leadership team were welcomed at the 10th Anniversary Woman Owned Small Business (WSOB) National Fall Council Meeting and Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. where they facilitated discussions related to the opportunities for women in federal contracting.
Susan Horsfall, CEO, and Jennifer Lamar, were welcomed into the chambers of Congressman John Garamendi where they discussed the opportunities and challenges for women owned small business to access and compete for US Government contracts.
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Allied Container Systems, Inc. (ACS) is a Woman Owned Small Business with expertise in the design, fabrication, modification, and installation of turnkey military training and modular habitable shelter solutions. Whether building realistic training facilities for soldiers, creating shelter or medical facilities for disaster victims or populating live training environments with indigenous role players and realism effects, our mission is to provide sustainable infrastructure resources that enable our customers to accomplish their mission. ACS’ military, law enforcement, disaster relief organization, educational and business facility solutions are rapidly deployable, cost effective and efficiently operated.
ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based urban operations training sites. ACS provides world-wide, full-service training environments and role players for the military, law enforcement agencies, and other first responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live- and non-live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training (including role players and realism effects), and mobile training and range support facilities.
ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere.”
For more information, contact Susan Horsfall at (925) 9447600 or susan.horsfall@alliedcontainer.com
or visit www.alliedcontainer.com.
For Immediate Release - October 20, 2011
ACS Exceeds Customer Expectations for Third Consecutive Year
Walnut Creek, California - Allied Container Systems, Inc. (ACS) is pleased to announce a 98% customer satisfaction rating from its customers for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011. This is the third consecutive year ACS has received a customer satisfaction rating in excess of 95%. In addition, ACS has logged 337 consecutive days without a recordable injury.
“I am extremely pleased with the feedback we are getting from our customers and commend the ACS team for their commitment to customer satisfaction”, said John D. Horner, President of ACS. “Our reputation is paramount to our success. Communication, quality, excellence, teamwork, and innovation are constantly encouraged at ACS with all team members focused on exceeding customer expectations”.
ACS improved on the 96% rating achieved in 2009 and 2010 with a 98% customer satisfaction rating in 2011 covering more than 40 task orders in this time period. Some of the comments received by ACS customers include:
“The contractor repeatedly delivers quality products tailored to the training needs of installations worldwide.”
“All completed customer feedback surveys submitted by range officers have been positive.”
“Nearly 700 structures have been delivered under this contract and none have been rejected during any inspection.”
“The contractor makes every effort to meet installation specific requirements while operating within contract specifications.”
“The contractor has exhibited great logistical control and oversight of both materials and crew to ensure all established delivery dates were met.”
“Given what I know today about the contractor’s ability to execute what they promised in their proposal, I definitely would award to them today given that I had a choice.”
ACS continues to exceed customer expectations with exceptionally high marks in the areas of quality, safety, schedule, cleanliness, communication, responsiveness, problem resolution, interest in working with ACS in the future and willingness to recommend ACS to another customer. Following the completion of every task order performed by ACS, the ACS customer is asked to complete a Customer Feedback and Customer Satisfaction Survey form. These survey results are monitored and tracked to ensure that customer expectations are being met and lessons learned are shared to improve processes and procedures for future projects.
ACS works diligently to ensure customer needs are met on time, on budget, and safely. ACS’ goal for 2012 and beyond is to continue providing unparalleled customer service and the highest quality products and services.
About Allied Container Systems, Inc., an ISO 9001 : 2008 Certified Manufacturer
Allied Container Systems, Inc. (ACS) is a Woman Owned Small Business providing turnkey modular and intermodal military training, habitable shelter, and specialized use solutions. Whether building realistic training facilities for Soldiers and Marines, creating shelter or medical facilities for disaster victims, or populating live training environments with indigenous role players and realism effects, our mission is to provide sustainable resources that enable our customers to accomplish their mission. ACS facility solutions for military, law enforcement, disaster relief organization, educational and commercial business are rapidly deployable, sustainable, and cost effective.
ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based urban operations training sites. ACS provides world-wide, full-service training environments and role players for the military, law enforcement agencies, and other first responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live- and non-live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training (including role players and realism effects), and mobile training and range support facilities.
ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere.”
For more information, contact Steven Lamar at (925) 9447600 or steven.lamar@alliedcontainer.com
or visit www.alliedcontainer.com.
Apr 1, 2011
...on the Road with Every Mother Counts - San Francisco to Salt Lake City
We stayed on in San Francisco for an additional day and even though the rain seemed to stay with us, our spirits were anything BUT dampened.
We started out Friday morning driving out to Antioch, CA to meet up with some friends at Containers to Clinics (C2C) and their partners atAllied Container Systems. Their collaboration is all about innovation and it was exciting to see the containers in person after learning about C2C’s founder Elizabeth Sheehan’s mission. The whole idea behind C2C is to utilize shipping containers not just as a vessel to send life-saving medical equipment and supplies overseas, but to make the shipping container itself a fully functional clinic. These two organizations are already partnering to send container clinics to Haiti, where C2C is already providing medical care on the grounds of what used to be a Children's hospital in Port au Prince. Now they're working on improving the prototype and taking the project to scale. This is a unique model and one that can revolutionize access and treatment for families especially those who are far from a facility.
More at http://everymothercounts.org/news/2011/03/road-every-mother-counts-san-francisco-salt-lake-city
CONTACTS:
Allied Container Systems
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
Mar 21, 2011
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
Allied Container Systems Joins Forces with Containers to Clinics, Provides Containerized Medical Facilities to Haiti
Pleasant Hill, CA and Dover, MA - Allied Container Systems, Inc (ACS), one of the largest providers of containerized structures to the United States Government, is proud to announce the partnership with Containers to Clinics a non-profit, charitable initiative that seeks to improve the health of women and children by providing access to primary health facilities.
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“This is a very special partnership for ACS,” said Susan Horsfall, one of the founders of Allied Container Systems, Inc. “The opportunity to work with Elizabeth and her dedicated team at C2C is very consistent with our company’s vision of enhancing the health, safety and welfare of the global community.”
The containerized clinics, which are dedicated to improving pediatric and maternal health, will consist of two 8'x20' shipping containers, converted into a rural medical clinic with two patient consultation rooms, a diagnostic laboratory and a patient pharmacy. The clinics will also include ventilation systems, waste water systems, and a grid power plug-in with emergency generator backup.
"We are very excited about our teaming with ACS," stated Elizabeth Sheehan, founder of Containers to Clinics. "Our mission and cultures align perfectly and ACS brings best of breed manufacturing capabilities and quality, as well as leading edge containerized solutions and vision. We look forward to working with Susan and ACS to positively impact women's and children's healthcare in underserved areas around the world."
Allied Container Systems will fabricate the clinics at its Antioch, CA facility and will transport the boxes to Holly Ridge, North Carolina. They will then leave for Port-au-Prince, Haiti where they will meet the C2C team.
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Since 1992, ACS has provided end-to-end services, including design, engineering, sourcing, fabrication, delivery, and installation of turnkey solutions for clients that include the United States Department of Defense and the Department of State.
ACS provides fully customizable, fabricated, easily deployable habitable shelters to be used for domestic and international disaster relief, high-density housing, office space, and secondary containment for hazardous materials suitable for deployment in any terrain. ACS’ space-efficient design enables families, volunteers and emergency responders to live and work in a comfortable, safe, and productive environment.
www.alliedcontainer.com
About Containers to Clinics
Driven by the belief that basic health interventions can save the lives of millions in the developing world, Containers to Clinics (C2C, www.containers2clinics.org) has developed a new clinical model for health service delivery. C2C retrofits portable shipping containers into health clinics designed with diagnostic, lighting and climate-control technologies appropriate for low resource settings. The clinics are transported to underserved areas of the developing world to administer primary healthcare to women and children. Its pilot clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti was successfully opened in November 2010.
CONTACTS:
Allied Container Systems
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
Containers to Clinics (C2C)
Kathleen Fleming 631.553.3707 kathleen@containers2clinics.org
Jan 26, 2011
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
Allied Container Systems, Inc., Completes Largest Urban Training Facility
PLEASANT HILL, CA - Allied Container Systems, Inc (ACS) a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and one of the largest providers of containerized structures to the United States Government, is proud to announce the completion of the largest Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training facility in the United States located at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twenty-nine Palms, California.
“Container-based construction saves taxpayers millions of dollars while delivering highly realistic and necessary training to our Marines and Soldiers,” explains Roger Jacobs, President of Allied Container Systems.
Using standard ISO containers as building blocks, ACS delivered sustainable, value-based, realistic training “villages” with a corrugated exterior which is faced with faux concrete to better reflect the area of operation. These realistic and comprehensive structures require the warfighter to respond to the new and varied challenges while improving their techniques and procedures before deployment.
“The MCAGCC at Twenty-nine Palms, California pioneered the combined use of concrete building construction and container-based construction to design and install the largest, sustainable and most realistic Urban Operations training site in the world- faster and more affordable than ever before. This site will be a national training asset for decades to come” said Jacobs.
“Combined Arms MOUT” (CAMOUT) enables training in a live and non-live fire environment resembling the theatre of operations. This provides a challenging and complex urban training environment that replicates the difficulties units will face as they communicate, coordinate, navigate, maintain situational awareness, and track urban operations. A mixture of over 1500 training facility buildings, CAMOUT supports large scale exercises. Equipped with streets, courtyard walls, religious structures, and village shanties, the MOUT environment provides a realistic depiction of the urban combat zone, setting the stage for vital and realistic mission rehearsals.
“Being deployed twice, I wish we would have had training like this. Maybe more of the guys would have come back alive...” said Matt Brooks, a two tour veteran of combat in Iraq and a Project Manager with ACS.
By the numbers:
· $170 million cost
· 1,560 structures used in the training
· 274 acres of city-based training space
· 15,000 Marines, soldiers and sailors who can train at one time
· 1,866 feet of tunnels
· 38 basement hideouts
· 81 spider holes concealed throughout the complex
· 9,150 feet of courtyard walls
· 5,325 feet of chain-link fence
· 10,705 feet of simulated power lines
· 7 districts or neighborhoods throughout the city
Source: Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Since 1992, ACS has developed expertise in the design, fabrication, modification and installation of turnkey solutions. In addition to live training environments, ACS provides habitable shelters (offices, housing, etc), safe storage buildings and standard containers. ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based Urban Operations training sites.
ACS provides world-wide, full service live urban training environments and role players to military, Law Enforcement Agencies and other First Responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live and non live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training including role-players and realism effects, as well as mobile training and range support facilities. ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere”.
For more information, visit www.alliedcontainer.com
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
Troops get urban combat training in massive mock city
PLEASANT HILL, CA
Via MyDesert.com
Jan. 25, 2011
The convoy of amphibious assault vehicles and tanks grinds to a halt in a neighborhood that needed to be secured.
The 1st Battalion, 5th Marines have barely jumped onto the sand when the sounds of machine gun fire fill the air and simulated devices start exploding.
“Incoming!” someone yells out as fellow Marines duck along a sand dune.
The scene played out Tuesday as part of an extensive urban terrain training program at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.
The $170 million program, unveiled Tuesday, is conducted in a mock city made from shipping containers and other material. It spans 274 acres and includes 1,560 buildings — making it roughly the size of downtown San Diego.
The training is an extension of Mojave Viper, a smaller but similar training that's been at the Twentynine Palms base since 2005.
Its sheer size allows as many as 15,000 Marines and sailors to simultaneously engage in combat and humanitarian training efforts.
“Everything you see out here is absolutely deliberate,” said Brig. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III, the base's commanding general.
“It's to provide for the most flexible and realistic training we can provide to our Marines, to help us accomplish our mission wherever we go and certainly to protect the lives of those Marines.”
Officials say the program, formally called Combined Arms Military Operations in Urban Terrain, provides troops with the most true-to-life training possible.
The city's layout is modeled after typical communities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That includes a circular town center, a hospital district and a full-scale soccer stadium where troops can land helicopters. Base officials have also applied what they call an immersive training technique to bring the city to life:
About 1,000 role players interact with training Marines, even shifting allegiances or their level of support for the U.S. to reflect possible real-world scenarios.
Many buildings are furnished. One block of hotels had curtains in the windows, signs, and vintage computers on the desks.
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
MCAGCC's new $170 million urban warfare training facility nearly complete
By Kelly O'Sullivan
The Desert Trail (click here for original article)
MCAGCC — Forgive Bryan Robertson if he sounds a little like a proud father when he talks about the sprawling city rising from the desert floor at the foot of Mount Hidalgo aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.
“At first there were people saying, ‘you’ll never be able to do this,’” Robertson said during a tour of the site in October, shortly before leaving his post at the end of a five-year contract.
“I’m happy with what we accomplished ... the big thing about training is you have to define the training objective. We’ve really done it and done it well.”
For nearly four years, the project development officer spent five days a week at CAMOUT, a $170 million, 280-acre urban warfare facility 30 minutes from MCAGCC’s Mainside area, growing the city literally from the ground up.
For perhaps the next two decades, countless Marines and sailors heading to combat zones around the world will traverse its streets, training in and around its 1,250 buildings, gaining the real-world experience they need to successfully carry out their missions in hostile environments and return home safely.
“My philosophy has always been that if you can make the training as tough as possible, the real operation won’t be that tough, except for the danger quotient,” Robertson said.
It was his job to monitor every detail and to work with contractors on everything from the size and scope of the buildings to how they were decorated.
The three main contractors on the job were Soltec Pacific, which handled site preparation and built the concrete buildings and warehouses; Allied Containers, which assembled the modulars and buildings made out of cargo containers; and Superior Access Solutions, which decked out all the buildings.
“It’s so big that multiple units can train at one time,” Robertson said of the facility in the base’s Quackenbush live-fire training area. “With half of it complete, we had three ops going on at the same time. That’s real life.”
CAMOUT focuses on what Robertson describes as the “arc of instability,” which runs from Latin America to the Middle East, but it’s designed to simulate any city in the world if necessary.
Roughly the size of downtown San Diego, it was built in three phases. Phase 1 was completed in October 2008, the second phase in June 2010 and the third phase is set for completion in January.
Eighty-eight of the buildings are concrete; the rest are modulars or were built using containers. Ninety percent of the atmospherics — the buildings’ furnishings — came from local thrift stores or agencies, Dr. Bill Swearengin of S-A Solutions said.
Marine Corps units heading to Afghanistan have been training in half of the facility for months and will begin using the entire site once the industrial district and stadium area turned over to the Range Management section.
The site is equipped with a remote-controlled camera system so unit commanders both onsite and at other locations can watch the action as it unfolds and record it for analysis after a given training operation has ended.
Lay of the land
The city is divided into seven districts, each designed to simulate conditions troops will encounter during urban combat — wide or narrow streets, bombed-out neighborhoods, mosques, busy market places, hospitals, stores, gas stations, schools, apartment buildings, hotels, you name it.
There’s an 80-foot-wide dry river-bed, a prison, a jail, graveyards and an underground tunnel system. With the exception of skyscrapers, anything you’d find in a city can be found here. An Olympic-sized soccer stadium patterned after the stadium in Mogadishu can seat 1,600 people and accommodate four helicopters at one time during evacuation operations.
Troops who train here will learn to navigate both wide-open areas and narrow alleyways, learn to spot entrances to underground tunnels, conduct mass evacuations, and clear buildings ranging from simple structures to those with complicated blueprints like huge hotels and apartments above retail shops.
They will learn that in some areas, they are close-range targets and in others, like an eerie, bombed-out section where there aren’t many other buildings close by they could find themselves in the scope of a rifle that is three miles away.
And while CAMOUT will never have a single permanent resident, during training its streets and buildings will be teeming with people be-sides the Marines, roll-players who take on the personas of those who live where the Marines will be deploying.
Real-life impact
But will the facility — which easily can accommodate a regiment-sized 7,000 troops at a time — really prepare troops training for combat in cities across the globe?
Yes, said Capt. Nicholas Mannweiler, the base’s public information officer, who toured the facility for the first time in October.
With two tours in Iraq behind him, Mannweiler knows what will help prepare Marines to succeed on hostile foreign streets.
“You guys are brilliant,” he said as he walked into the city market’s butcher shop, outfitted with things you’d expect to see — a display case filled with realistic-looking cuts of meat, carcasses hanging near a table on which rests part of a freshly butchered goat, some trays and several knives. “You guys did such a good job.”
In the diplomatic district’s three-story, 22,000-square-foot Grand Hotel, Mannweiler demonstrated how troops will navigate a wide spiral staircase — ascending the stairs backward, his hands up as if he were holding a rifle in case of attack from above.
To the layperson, the staircase simply looks like a cool way to get from the huge lobby to the rooms above.
To a Marine, “It’s a nightmare,” Mannweiler said.
“That’s why this is so important,” he said of the detail that’s gone into every inch of CAMOUT.
Practicing indoor operations in a place where hundreds of enemies could easily be hiding will prepare Marines to make the split-second decisions they need to make to stay safe in unsafe places.
Descending an outdoor staircase leading from the third floor of the hotel several minutes later, Mannweiler stopped abruptly and pointed to a building about a quarter of a mile away.
“A sniper could be in there, 12 feet back and pick you off,” he said, providing a chilling reminder that while most Americans don’t have to worry about things like that, those who serve in its armed forces must.
“You can’t learn this in a textbook. You can’t learn this playing a video game. Weather and pain, and mental and physical exhaustion, those are guaranteed,” Mannweiler said. “A Marine needs to be able to master his own body and mind to focus on the operation. You can only do this by repetition — your eyes learn to scan, you learn to shift around.”
Many who worked on the project are combat veterans, including Robertson, who spent time in Panama, Africa, Asia, South America and Somalia before retiring from the Marine Corps in 1994.
CAMOUT is required to meet the Corps’ needs through 2015 as operations in urban centers becomes more and more prevalent, but troops will likely be training there for much longer.
“People think of Twentynine Palms as the place where people train for Afghanistan,” Mannweiler said. “The training value of our ranges is timeless. The mission of this base is way past Afghanistan. This is just a piece of the puzzle.”
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
Allied Container Systems Builds Entire Cities From Shipping Containers
Via Treehugger.com
TreeHugger has shown quite a few shipping container houses and even a few shipping container buildings, but never anything on the scale of the work of Allied Container Systems; they buildentire cities out of shipping containers. But they are not inhabited; they are giant sets, training facilities for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) There are lots of them all over the world, and they are spectacular.
The company does also manufacture habitable structures, but their main gig is training facilities for the US Marine Corps.
They can simulate almost anything that the Marines might face in the course of their work.
ACS is a member of USGBC and is presenting at Greenbuild, but how is this green? Certainly by using shipping containers as building blocks, they are creating a training environment out of a surplus resource, one that can be used and reused and reassembled to simulate whatever urban terrain is needed. More at Allied Container Systems.
The Gentlemen of ACS at Greenbuild.
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
July 15, 2010
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
Allied Container Systems, Inc. Expands Offices to Orlando, Florida
PLEASANT HILL, CA – Allied Container Systems, Inc (ACS), a leading provider of containerized structures for the United States Government, announced today that it has opened an office in Orlando, Florida.
The strategic decision to open this location will allow the company to better serve its government client-base including the United States Army contracting office, PEOSTRI and the United States Marine Corps contracting office, PMTRASYS.
"As a part of our ongoing expansion, ACS is pleased to open its newest office in Orlando,” said Jim Odom, President of ACS. “With the growing demand for ACS container based training systems, scenario based live training and support services and now--emergency shelters, we feel that it is time to plant a flag near the customers that we serve.”
Additionally, with personnel already in the Gulf Coast region offering container based habitable structures to help the cleanup efforts surrounding the BP oil spill and as the 2010 hurricane season begins, this new location will better align ACS to create and maintain relationships with the gulf coast emergency management teams as well as respond quickly in an emergency.
The Managing Director of the new Orlando Office will be Roger Jacobs, who joined ACS in 2010. Prior to joining ACS, Roger held the position of Deputy Director, Marine Corps Range Programs where he was charged with overseeing the largest investment in Marine Corps training infrastructure since World War II. Jacobs’s role is to facilitate the development of the ACS programs by solidifying current relationships and identifying new markets, products, customers and partners.
The new office is located at:
1802 North Alafaya Trail
Suite 140
Orlando, FL 92826
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Since 1992, ACS has developed expertise in the design, fabrication, modification and installation of turnkey solutions. In addition to live training environments, ACS provides habitable shelters (offices, housing, etc), safe storage buildings and standard containers. ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based Urban Operations training sites.
ACS provides world-wide, full service live urban training environments and role players to military, Law Enforcement Agencies and other First Responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live and non live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training including role-players and realism effects, as well as mobile training and range support facilities. ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere”.
For more information, visit www.alliedcontainer.com
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
June 21, 2010
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
ISO 9001:2008 Certification Awarded to Allied Container Systems, Inc.
PLEASANT HILL, CA - Allied Container Systems, Inc (ACS) a “Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training” and a leading provider of containerized structures to the United States Government, has completed its ISO registration requirements awarding the company its certification for ISO 9001:2008.
“We are very proud to have completed all requirements for ACS ISO 9001:2008 certification.” said Jim Odom, President of Allied Container Systems, Inc. “We pride ourselves in offering world-class, quality products to our customers and now we have implemented the framework to guide ACS towards continuous improvement.”
ISO 9001:2008 is the global benchmark for providing assurance about the ability to satisfy quality requirements and to enhance customer satisfaction in supplier-customer relationships. Some of the standards included in the ACS QMS include:
- a set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business;
- monitoring processes to ensure they are effective;
- keeping adequate records;
- checking output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary;
- regularly reviewing individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness;
- facilitating continual improvement
The Allied Container Systems, Inc QMS was audited by 3rd party registrar: ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc., on April 21, 2010
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Since 1992, ACS has developed expertise in the design, fabrication, modification and installation of turnkey solutions. In addition to live training environments, ACS provides habitable shelters (offices, housing, etc), secondary containment for hazardous materials, storage and standard containers.ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based Urban Operations training sites. ACS provides world-wide, full service live urban training environments and role players to military, Law Enforcement Agencies and other First Responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live and non live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training including role-players and realism effects, as well as mobile training and range support facilities. ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere”.
About the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 161 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ISO is a non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors and many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society.
For more information, visit www.alliedcontainer.com
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
March 10, 2010
Exclusive Look at Marines' Training in CA
FOX News took an exclusive look at Marine training in action, click here to watch video.
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February 24, 2010
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
ACS, Inc., Completes 35 Urban Operations Sites in Less than a Year
PLEASANT HILL, CA - Allied Container Systems, Inc (ACS) a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training has announced the successful completion of 35 Urban Operation Sites in less than one year.Armed with the largest MOUT (Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain) Design Library in the industry, as well as the most experienced MOUT site installation team, ACS, using standard ISO containers as building blocks, delivers sustainable, value-based and realistic training complexes to the US Army. ACS is now able to transform the corrugated exterior to better reflect the area of operation by adding “In Theater Facades: Architectural Stone Finish”. These realistic and comprehensive structures require the warfighter to respond to the new and varied challenges while improving their techniques and procedures before deployment.
In 2008, ACS was awarded the Urban Operation Site (UOS) contract with TACOM. As of August 2009, ACS has delivered over 570 structures consisting of approximately 1,000 containers. Each of the 35 sites populated with ACS Urban Operation Structures were completed and ready for the training audience in less than ninety days. All UOS structures are designed to support Non-Live-Fire (NLF), SESAMS, UTM and other training munitions and include standard features that minimize maintenance while maximizing sustainability and safety. UOS installations have performed in a variety of weather conditions at locations all across the continental United States (CONUS), Hawaii, and in Germany. A key performance factor in the success of the UOS program has been ACS’ ability to run multiple installations in parallel with fast response to inevitable rescheduling requests by the government.
“Home station training better prepares soldiers for the culminating training at the National Training Centers at Ft. Irwin and Ft. Polk.,” said Jennifer Lamar, Senior Vice President at Allied Container System, Inc. “Live training has been found to not only improve mission success but also reduce casualties.”
In addition to the design, fabrication and installation of the UOS “villages” contracted through the TACOM contract; ACS offers Live Immersive Training (LIT) through GSA and other contract vehicles. LIT provides culturally accurate role players, set dressing and battle effects to realistically portray the environment that will be found in the area of operation. This realism reflects accurate conditions found in high interest environments world-wide. In ACS’s continued dedication to doing its part to help improve mission success, scenario based live training has been found to save lives of US troops as well as the lives of innocent civilians, who live in the area of operation.
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Since 1992, ACS has developed expertise in the design, fabrication, modification and installation of turnkey solutions. In addition to live training environments, ACS provides habitable shelters (offices, housing, etc), secondary containment for hazardous materials, storage and standard containers.
ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based Urban Operations training sites. ACS provides world-wide, full service live urban training environments and role players to military, Law Enforcement Agencies and other First Responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live and non live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training including role-players and realism effects, as well as mobile training and range support facilities. ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere”.
For more information, visit www.alliedcontainer.com
CONTACTS:
Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
February 17, 2010
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
Allied Container Systems, Inc., Recruits New VP of Strategic Initiatives
PLEASANT HILL, CA - Allied Container Systems, Inc (ACS), a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training has announced the addition of Roger Jacobs as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. As a member of the ACS leadership team, Jacobs will facilitate the development of future programs by identifying new markets, products, customers and partners. He will be key in focusing attention on sophisticated program management processes to assure that company resources are being utilized in an effective and efficient manner and that programs and projects are executed and delivered on time, on budget, and in accordance with contract specifications.“ACS has assembled perhaps the most knowledgeable and experienced team of range training and management professionals in the industry,” Said Jim Odom, President of Allied Container Systems, Inc. “They will focus solely on creating and continually improving and providing an Urban Operations Center of Excellence - offering a cradle to grave Training System to support US Soldiers, Marines.”
Prior to joining ACS, Roger held the position of Deputy Director, Marine Corps Range Programs where he was charged with overseeing the largest investment in Marine Corps training infrastructure since World War II. Additional duties include modernizing the management and infrastructure of ranges and training areas for the USMC. Jacobs has a strong industry reputation for providing countless Marines with the opportunity to train in modern, realistic, and safe conditions.
Following his retirement as a Lt Colonel from active duty in 1992, Jacobs served as Deputy Clerk of the Court for the US District Court of Oregon. In this capacity he managed federal court operations in southern and central Oregon and was the court’s principal liaison to law enforcement, state and municipal agencies, and tribal courts.
Jacobs was commissioned a 2d Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps in December, 1968 following his graduation from the University of Washington. Lt. Jacobs served a combat tour in Vietnam as a Forward Observer and Fire Support Coordinator with the 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Subsequent assignments during his twenty-four year career on active duty included command of an artillery battery in contingency deployments to the Caribbean, command of the Marine Detachment on the aircraft carrier Midway deployed to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, and command of Weapons Training Battalion, Camp Pendleton.
The recipient of a number of military awards including those from his combat service in Vietnam, Jacobs has authored several articles in professional publications, and has lectured on leadership and management in both the Department of Defense and the Federal Judiciary.
Jacobs is a graduate of every level of formal education offered in the US Military including Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the US Army War College. He also holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. A native of Seattle, Jacobs currently resides in Virginia.
About Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Since 1992, ACS has developed expertise in the design, fabrication, modification and installation of turnkey solutions. In addition to live training environments, ACS provides habitable shelters (offices, housing, etc), secondary containment for hazardous materials, storage and standard containers.
ACS is a Center of Excellence for Urban Operations Training and is the leading provider of container-based Urban Operations training sites. ACS provides world-wide, full service live urban training environments and role players to military, Law Enforcement Agencies and other First Responders. Products and services include container-based and modular construction of urban training complexes (both live and non live fire), specialized tactical training facilities, live immersive training including role-players and realism effects, as well as mobile training and range support facilities. ACS is committed to providing the “Best Training and Support Anywhere”.
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Robbin Kilgore 925.944.2672 robbin.kilgore@alliedcontainer.com
October 2008
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate releaseAllied Container Systems, Inc Awarded US Army TACOM Contract For Urban Operation Sites (UOS)
PLEASANT HILL, CA - Allied Container Systems, the leading provider of modular and relocateable training systems and MOUTs, was awarded a contract for Urban Operation Sites (UOS) by the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. The contract award is an IDIQ with a maximum contract value of $42.5M.
Under the UOS contract, TACOM will provide US Army ranges with a pre-designed library of quickly installable and highly sustainable urban training systems. The library consists of twenty seven different structures, each with a specific training value, that can be configured by individual US Army installations into more complex training sites.
"ACS is looking forward to working with TACOM to increase the urban operations training capacity at Army installations.", said Susan Horsfall, ACS CEO and co-founder. "We plan to build on the success we've had with other military agencies in applying ACS modular design and implementation technologies to urban training. We expect a very quick roll-out of the UOS program. Army installations will have the ability to customize their site layout and design before the actual fabrication and installation begins.", added Horsfall.
For inquiries regarding eligibility for UOS, please contact Gregg Johnson, U.S. Army TACOM at (309) 782-5851. For further inquiries about ACS, please contact ACS at (800) 943-6510.
Allied Container Systems, Inc. (ACS) has GSA Contracting capability, based in Pleasant Hill, CA. ACS offers a wide product line of modular systems and structures for government and commercial applications. ACS also offers Training Support Solutions (TSS) that provide culturally and linguistically accurate role players, props, site dressing, and battlefield effects to military training exercises. This combined offering of training structures and support services greatly enhances training realism and helps reflect conditions found in high interest environments worldwide. Since 1992, ACS has specialized in configuring and adapting solutions to meet the ever-growing needs of large agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Military Units, Law Enforcement and Fire Departments.
January 30, 2008
PRESS RELEASE -- For immediate release
Allied Container Systems Launches New Engineering Internship Program
(Pleasant Hill, CA) – Allied Container Systems (ACS) is planning to launch a new engineering internship program in February 2008. Phase I of the program will focus on civil/structural and mechanical engineering specialties and Phase II on electrical and software development engineering.
Since 1992, ACS has developed expertise in the design, fabrication, modification, and installation of container-based turnkey solutions. This turnkey approach to mobile container/shelter design has resulted in a rapidly growing customer base to meet the needs of the Department of Homeland Security, the US Army/Navy/Marine Corps, Canadian Army, as well as numerous law enforcement and fire departments throughout the country. Over the last few years, the company has been awarded major new contracts in support of US Marine Corps requirements. One such requirement was the construction of a container-based Iraqi village at Marine Corps Base, 29 Palms, CA. This contract called for the installation of a 26-square-block city, built from 900 containers (326 buildings), replicating with impressive realism the urban environments encountered by our deployed troops. Significant numbers of Marines deployed to Iraq are now sent to 29 Palms for urban warfare training in this realistic training environment. Similar urban training facilities are under construction at Marine Corps Bases at Camp Pendleton, CA and Camp Lejeune, NC.
The company is competing for many new contracts similar to the US Marine Corps requirement. As a result, ACS anticipates considerable growth over the next few years. An infusion of new engineers, representing a variety of engineering disciplines, will be essential to meet company goals. The company believes that collaborating with engineering schools, through the implementation of engineering internship programs, is a win-win opportunity for new engineers, engineering schools, and ACS.
Interns will work directly with ACS engineers as members of the engineering team responsible for the design, fabrication, installation, and field testing of the company’s modular, mobile facilities. Qualified internship candidates will be hired as engineering interns (full-time paid position) with the opportunity to compete for permanent staff engineering positions following the successful completion of the three-month internship. ACS believes in establishing a close mentor-protégé relationship between staff engineers and interns. Internship positions will be available at any time of the calendar year based on student schedules and the company’s needs.
Internship participants will have a first-hand opportunity to contribute to the mission of a growing company directly supporting the security and national defense of the United States. Interns will also have hiring preferences for full-time permanent engineering positions with a company that envisions significant growth and ever-increasing success. Such an environment offers new engineers the satisfaction of experiencing significant professional challenges and promotion opportunities, a very competitive compensation and bonus plan, and an opportunity to truly make a difference in the performance of engineering tasks closely linked to homeland security, public safety, and national defense objectives.
Engineering students interested in more information about this unique opportunity should contact Steven R. Lamar, Ph.D. at stevensrl@alliedcontainer.com.
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