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MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has received a $19 million contract to modify the Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) to link it with the Air Force's Enhanced Polar Satellite (EPS). The link will allow U.S. Navy and Air Force warfighters to overcome communications gaps in the remote polar region. EPS will provide continuous coverage for secure, jam-resistant, strategic and tactical communications to support peacetime, contingency, homeland...
PRINCETON, N.J., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mikros Systems Corporation (OTCBB: MKRS) today announced that the Company plans to exhibit at the upcoming Navy Opportunity Forum from June 4-6 at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia. Mikros will be showcasing an Energy Harvesting MicroBuoy, which was developed under the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and incorporates the wave energy conversion technology of Ocean Power Technologies. Chuck Bristow, Vice...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy conducted successful test flights April 14 and 16 of four Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). The Navy launched two unarmed missiles each day from the submerged submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738) in the Atlantic Ocean. These tests marked the 139th, 140th, 141st and 142nd successful test flights of the Trident II D5 missile since design completion in 1989 - a reliability...
SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Navy's 'Great Green Fleet' initiative sets the bar high for the biofuels industry in May's issue of Energy Digital This month, Energy Digital checks in on the US Navy's ambitious initiative to deploy a fleet of warships powered by alternative fuels by 2016. Touted as one of the most effective moves to jumpstart the use of renewable energy in the US military and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the Navy's "Great Green...
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Navy's Energy and Environmental Readiness Division (OPNAV N45), together with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) invites civic and military collaboration in energyMMOWGLI (Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet). The game will build on efforts to improve the U.S. Navy's combat capability and energy security, particularly by promoting energy efficiency and diversifying its energy supply (use of alternative energy), which...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas "TC" Bennett, ATAC Hawker Hunter pilot and retired Naval Aviator, was killed in a plane crash on the afternoon of May 18th, 2012 when his Mk-58 Hawker Hunter crashed near Naval Base Ventura County, California while attempting to land; he was 57. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the US Navy (USN) are currently investigating the cause of...
Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new “smart machine” installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories’ Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced “amaze”) is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators. Components are now being used to train Navy personnel to fly H-60 helicopters and a complete system will soon be...
Military patrol dogs with your keen sense of smell, step aside. The U.S. Navy has enlisted the biological sonar and other abilities of bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to protect harbors from enemy swimmers, detect explosives on the seafloor and perform other tasks. An article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) focuses on the Navy's health program for marine mammals and how it may also help keep people healthy. C&EN Associate Editor Lauren...
ATLANTA, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Industry, Inc. (NYSE: SI) today announced it has been awarded a contract to equip two U.S. Navy Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) vessels with its unique diesel electric propulsion solution at Dakota Creek Industries Inc. (DCI), located in Anacortes, Wash. Seattle-based Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) will design the ships. The total order value is more than $10 million....
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Max Sound Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: MAXD), an innovative audio technology company that is changing how we listen to music, watch movies, play video games, experience television and communicate on our mobile devices, announced further progress today in its "Strategic Partnership" to introduce MAXD technology to the U.S. Federal Government. Government sales partner Intelesis Technologies Corporation...
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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...
