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USACE Headquarters directs mandatory implementation of the National DQM Program for all in-house and contracted dredging — every dredge and scow type, including mechanical, agitation and water-injection, and small dredges, with no exceptions.

Makes DQM monitoring mandatory, effective immediately, on all future unrestricted (Full and Open Competition) pipeline dredging contracts. All contractors, including small businesses, must meet the DQM pipeline specifications when bidding on unrestricted contracts; restricted contracts remain exempt.

After several years of DQM on hoppers and scows, HQUSACE directs a phased expansion to pipeline dredges — beginning in July 2014 with government-owned plant and extending to industry contracts in 2015.

Implementation guidance issued under the April 2006 directive: it stands up the national support team at the Mobile District and sets out system capabilities, dredge certification, district points of contact, training, and the always-on monitoring model for hopper and scow dredges.

The original directive. The USACE Director of Civil Works mandates Corps-wide automated dredging quality assurance monitoring using the Silent Inspector system, the program DQM grew out of, effective immediately on all hopper and scow dredging contracts.

Establishes DQM as the automated monitoring technology for dredging under Department of the Army permits, rescinding and replacing RGL 08-01. If a permitted project is constructed with a dredge, DQM is generally required unless the District Engineer documents a justified exemption.