Visitors entering Fort Carson, Colo., may notice the access
control points have been upgraded with new barriers, guard booths and
support structures.
What they won’t notice is the upgrade to the infrastructure that will support an Automated Installation Entry
system that will provide enhanced electronic security for the installation.
This is one of the biggest projects so far for the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center’s Access Control Point Program. Projects to upgrade ACPs at Fort Campbell, Ky., and Military
Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, in Southport, N.C., are also complete. The upgrades are necessary to install security components that will improve the
process of vetting credentials for all who enter military installations.
Huntsville Center project managers are working with 49 continental U.S. (CONUS) and 36 European garrisons to provide designs to upgrade the physical security at 191 ACPs affecting 425 lanes.
Forty-eight CONUS garrisons will have designs that will allow installation of the AIE system and at least 30 will have equipment installation.