Army Bloggers Roundtable with Navy CDR John Szatkowski

Last week the Gulf Region Division completed operational and assurance testing and turned over the $176 million al-Qudas Power Plant expansion project to Iraq's Ministry of Electricity. The onsite project manager, Navy CDR John Szatkowski worked side by side with Iraqi engineer Hussein Ali Aiyah, one of the Gulf Region Division's Iraqi Associates. Both will be on the line to discuss this collaborative effort between the Army Corps of Engineers and local Iraqi construction companies. The U.S. team helped develop the Iraqis' abilities to design and construct their own power plant as the project was Iraqi designed and Iraqi constructed by a joint venture of two Iraqi companies.