SEATTLE -- The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) was commissioned April 1 in Seattle. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft presided over the ceremony, accepting the sixth National Security Cutter into the fleet. NSCs are the flagships of the Coast Guard...
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Contract: Lockheed, $8.4M
Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded an $8,443,815 fixed-price incentive modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-5104) to exercise an option for ship integration and test of the Aegis Weapon System...
$10M investment for Ocean Springs
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – The Board of Alderman Tuesday got a look at a new, $10 million development planned along U.S. 90. Tracy Ross, with the Thrash Group, showed the mayor and aldermen plans for The Inlet. It’s planned for eight acres of woods on the north side of...
Contract: Boeing, $13.7M
The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $13,731,493 cost-plus-incentive-fee option to a previously awarded contract (N00178-15-C-2016) to continue to provide design agent and technical engineering services in support of the AN/USQ-82(V) Gigabit...
ConRo ship launched
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Crowley Maritime Corp.’s newest combination container/Roll on-Roll off (ConRo) ship has been launched at the VT Bollinger shipyard in Pascagoula, for the Crowley’s service between Jacksonville, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Named El Coquí after...
Museum center christened
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The Mississippi Maritime Museum activity center was christened at an event last week at the back of what once was a high school. “This is not Pascagoula’s Maritime Museum, this is not Jackson County’s Maritime Museum, this is not Mississippi’s...
Neighbors get voice in B&Bs
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- The city of Ocean Springs has a new bed-and-breakfast ordinance that requires neighbor approval. The city Planning Department had recommended 50 percent of a property’s neighbors be fine with the commercial business in their neighborhood before...
Bidding open on Swingster property
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – Bidding is open for the old Swingster property in Ocean Springs. Developers can now pitch their ideas for the 2.1 acres of property in downtown. The county says the minimum bid is $1 million, and the higest bidder wins it all. Ocean Springs...
Germany opts for Triton
Germany's defense ministry has decided to buy high-altitude MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance planes built by Northrop Grumman for deliveries after 2025, ministry sources said on Tuesday. The new drones will replace the Euro Hawk program, which Berlin canceled in May...
Aquaculture students release fish
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Twenty five hundred speckled trout are now back in the wild thanks to a class of Ocean Springs High School students, the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab and the Department of Marine Resources. For the last three...
WMSL 756 christened
PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Ingalls Shipbuilding on Saturday christened the seventh Legend-class National Security Cutter, Kimball (WMSL 756). Ingalls is the sole builder of Legend-class National Security Cutters, and has delivered six to the Coast Guard. Kimball is scheduled...
The budget and ships
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran has released a list of 10 ships included in the Pentagon appropriations bill. Cochran (R-Miss.) chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate appropriates bill would include $1.8B for the 13th San Antonio-class LPD amphibious warship...