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MARINETTE, Wis., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-led industry team completed a key milestone in constructing the nation's third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) with the landing of the vessel's two main propulsion diesel engines. LCS 3, named Fort Worth, is on track for delivery to the U.S. Navy in 2012. More than 85 percent of the ship's modules are under construction at the Marinette Marine shipyard. Lockheed Martin has reduced labor costs on LCS 3 by 30 percent by...
MCLEAN, Va. and SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been awarded a prime contract by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific to provide training and care for marine mammals that are part of the Navy's Marine Mammal Systems (MMS) based at Naval Submarine Bases in Kings Bay, Ga., and Point Loma and San Diego, Calif. The follow-on contract has a one year base period of...
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mikros Systems Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: MKRS) announced today the award of a new U.S. Navy contract to develop Network Vulnerability to Electronic Attack (NVEA) analysis and simulation software for the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWD). The new contract extends support for Mikros network analysis work started under previous contracts, and is valued at $750,000 over two years. The NVEA development will support...
BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will present a number of program briefings for members of the media prior to and during the Surface Navy Association (SNA) 22nd National Symposium in Crystal City, Va. The SNA show takes place Tuesday, Jan. 12, through Thursday, Jan. 14, themed "Surface Navy: A Balanced Force for The Hybrid War." The company will highlight accomplishments, product developments and new capabilities to meet the needs of the U.S. Navy and its...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Navy conducted a successful test flight Dec. 19 of a Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). The Navy launched the unarmed missile from the submerged submarine USS ALASKA (SSBN 732) in the Atlantic Ocean. This test marked the 130th consecutive successful test flight of the Trident II D5 missile since 1989 - continuing a 20-year record of reliability that is unmatched by any other large...
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- After a four-day trial, a federal judge ruled on Friday in favor of the family of Freddie Porter, Jr., a 19-year-old U.S. Navy enlisted seaman from New Jersey who in 2007 was killed when the small craft carrying him was overrun by a tugboat pushing a large flotilla on Virginia's James River. The tug, owned and operated by Vulcan Materials Company, collided with the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat ("RHIB") carrying Mr. Porter as he engaged in nighttime military...
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus toured Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) F-35 facility Dec. 18 for a preview of the Department of the Navy's first-ever stealth strike fighter. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091218/DA28957) Secretary Mabus got a firsthand look at BF-2, the second short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B test aircraft, as it conducted its 15th flight in final preparation for its ferry flight to Naval Air Station...
MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The General Dynamics Littoral Combat Ship Team today delivered Independence (LCS 2), its innovative high-speed trimaran combatant ship, to the United States Navy. The ship was constructed by team member Austal USA in Mobile. The delivery of Independence was preceded by the keel laying of its sister ship, Coronado (LCS 4), on Thursday, December 17. Captain Dean Krestos, USN, Commanding Officer Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair,...
Dean of Stevens' Schaefer School of Engineering & Science will serve two-year term HOBOKEN, N.J., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Michael S. Bruno, Dean of Stevens Institute of Technology's Schaefer School of Engineering & Science, has been appointed to the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) by the Secretary of the Navy, with the concurrence of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, effective January 2010. The NRAC is a body of 15 civilians pre-eminent in the fields...
McLEAN, Va. and SAN DIEGO, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Acquisition Center - Natick Contracting Division to support the U.S. Navy's Chief Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) for Medical Research and Development, and their subordinate research and development commands. The multiple-award,...
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Ronald Ellwin Evans, Jr. was an astronaut that worked with NASA on the Apollo missions and served as a Captain in the United States Navy. Evans is one of the twenty-four astronauts to fly to the moon. . Evans was born on November 10, 1933 in St. Francis, Kansas. He graduated from Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas. Boy Scouts of America played a huge role in Evans youth as he attained the highest level of Life Scout. Evans then went on to study at the University of Kansas...
Frederick Hauck is a retired Captain and pilot in the United States Navy, and a NASA astronaut. He was born Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck on April 11, 1941 in Long Beach, California. He was raised in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., and he graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1958. He then went on to attend Tufts University as a Navy ROTC student, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from in 1962. He was commissioned upon graduation and reported...
Pete Conrad was an American naval officer, astronaut and engineer, and he was the third person to walk on the Moon. He was born Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. on June 2, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While his legal name was Charles, his mother gave him what would be his lifetime nickname, Pete. The Great Depression had a tough impact on the Conrad family, but they pulled through it. Conrad has always been bright and intelligent; however, he suffered from dyslexia, a condition that was not...
Jim Lovell is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the US Navy. He was born as James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr. on March 25, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. During his childhood, Lovell was interested in rocketry, and built flying models. His father died in a car accident when he was young. Lovell graduated from Juneau High School in Wisconsin. Later he attended the University of Wisconsin"“Madison for two years. He then transferred to the United States Naval Academy, and entered in the...
