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Thursday, 01 February 2018 11:12

County economy touted

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Jackson County’s economy is doing well and will only get better. That was the message from newly appointed Jackson County Board of Supervisors President Randy Bosarge at his State of the County address Wednesday. Among the highlights: the approval of funds...

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:35

Boost in workers will have impact

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Scheduled maintenance at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery will bring thousands of contract workers to Jackson County, boosting the local economy. Maintenance is an ongoing process, said Alan Sudduth, manager of policy, government and public affairs at the...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:16

Contract: Scientific Research, $86.7M

Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta, is being awarded an estimated value $86,721,758 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of the Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) engineering,...

Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:55

Contract: HII, $30.2M

Huntington Ingalls Inc. - Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded $30,169,626 for a cost-plus-fixed fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-4444) for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration. This effort...

Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:48

Contract: HII, $125.1M

Huntington Ingalls Inc. - Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $125,136,069 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-4444) for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration. This effort shall...

Friday, 19 January 2018 07:26

Fitzerald arriving for repairs

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The USS Fitzgerald is scheduled to arrive in South Mississippi on Friday morning. The guided missile destroyer arrives at about 10 a.m. Ingalls was selected by the U.S. Navy to repair the Fitzgerald, which was built at Bath Iron Works in Maine and launched...

Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:36

Contract: Multiple, $8.5M

Talon Electrical Mechanical Group of Ocean Springs, Miss., is among the companies awarded a not-to-exceed $8.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract for a one year requirement to provide worldwide shipboard engineering and electrical services to...

Friday, 05 January 2018 16:39

Marine center nears opening

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – After two years of construction, the new Marine Education Center is almost ready to welcome students. The Gulf Coast Research Lab facility replaces the J.L. Scott Marine Education Center at Biloxi Point, which was wiped out during Hurricane Katrina. The...

Wednesday, 03 January 2018 05:02

New terminal eyed for Pascagoula

BETHESDA, Md. -- A company that makes wood pellets and sells them to power plants overseas says it’s forming a new joint venture with an insurance company to buy a plant in South Carolina and build a port in Mississippi. Enviva Holdings of Bethesda on Tuesday announced the deal...

Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:56

Contract: Northrop, $255.3M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $255,309,325 for fixed-price-incentive modification P00003 to a previously awarded advanced acquisition contract (N00019-17-C-0018) for the Lot 3 low-rate initial production of three MQ-4C Triton unmanned...