Major General Don Riley became the Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC, on July 1, 2004. As such, he manages the Army’s $5 billion annual Civil Works Program, the Nation’s primary planner, designer, builder, and operator of flood control, navigation, environmental restoration, and multiple-purpose water resource projects. Civil Works projects also provide hydroelectric power, water supply, recreation, and natural and cultural resource management on 12 million acres of land and water. Additionally, the Civil Works Program regulates construction in navigable waters and dredging and filling in waters of the United States, including wetlands. Civil Works responsibilities also include emergency flood fighting, recovery operations, and providing emergency engineering and public works support in the event of natural or manmade disasters. As Director, General Riley is also the President of the U.S. Section of the International Navigation Association (PIANC), President of the Corps’ Coastal Engineering Research Board, and Executive Director of the Inland Waterways User Board. General Riley came to Corps of Engineers Headquarters following command of the Corps’ Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he received a Presidential appointment as President of the Mississippi River Commission. There he oversaw the work of six Engineer Districts that maintained the Mississippi River the Nation’s busiest inland waterway and port complex - and its tributaries for navigation, flood control and other purposes from the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to commanding MVD, General Riley was the Deputy Chief of Staff (Engineer) of U.S. Army Europe, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. A native of Hayward, California, General Riley is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in 1973. He earned a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in California. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the United States Army War College and holds a Masters of Military Arts and Sciences from the School of Advanced Military Studies. In his early military career General Riley was a platoon leader, assistant operations officer, company executive officer, and company commander in the 14th Engineer Battalion, Fort Ord, California. He had staff assignments with the 23rd Engineer Battalion; 3rd Armored Division, and 5th Infantry Division and, as a lieutenant colonel, commanded the 7th Engineer Battalion at Fort Polk, Louisiana and later the 17th Engineer Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas. As a colonel he commanded the 555th Engineer Group, Fort Lewis, Washington; directed the Maneuver Support Battle Lab at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.; and served as Executive Officer to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia.