OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- The newly-founded Science Center for Marine Fisheries held its first-ever meeting at the Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center in Ocean Springs Friday morning. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the University Cooperative Research...
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Contract: Lockheed, $9.9M
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $9,931,106 modification to previously awarded contract for DDG Modernization testing efforts associated with the Aegis Combat System and MK 59 Decoy Launcher System shipcheck studies...
Ingalls gets NSC contract
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division today received a $76.8 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to purchase long-lead materials for Kimball (WMSL 756), the company's seventh National Security Cutter...
Pipeline to resume service to plant
Destin Pipeline Co. LLC on Monday said it expected to complete operational readiness testing early Tuesday and would resume services from all offshore Gulf of Mexico receipt points to the Pascagoula gas processing plant in Mississippi later Tuesday. Transport services...
Air-cleaning stack going up
ESCATAWPA, Miss. -- A new scrubber stack at Plant Victor Daniel will soon be visible from Interstate 10. The Mississippi Power plant is working on a $660 million project that includes the tall stack known as a scrubber. It will reduce sulfur-dioxide...
Gas plant work finished
Destin Pipeline Co. LLC said it received notice from the operator of the Pascagoula, Miss., natural gas processing plant that planned maintenance had been completed. Destin said it would conduct operational readiness tests and anticipates it will resume normal...
Contract: Ingalls, $3.3B
Huntington Ingalls of Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $3,331,476,001 fixed-price incentive, multiyear contract for construction of five DDG 51 class ships, one in each of fiscal 2013-2017. This contract includes options for engineering change proposals, design...
Study: Expansions created 4K jobs
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Investments over the last five years have created nearly 4,000 new jobs worth about $231 million in yearly salaries, according to a study done for the Jackson County Economic Development Foundation. The results of the University of Southern...
GCRL opens building
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – The first new building at the Gulf Coast Research Lab since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 opened today. State, local and educational leaders were on hand to celebrate the opening of the new $1.2 million Field Studies Building. Field Studies is one...
IED research set for beach
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The University of Mississippi will use the beach to conduct research on equipment that detects buried explosive devices. Researchers from the University's National Center for Physical Acoustics will use a section at the east end of the beach for...
Triton completes first flight
PALMDALE, Calif. -- The Navy's MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance aircraft today completed its first flight from Palmdale, Calif., marking the start of tests that will validate the Northrop Grumman-built system for fleet operations. During the 80-minute flight,...
Maritime Academy nearly completed
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Classes should be underway at Ingalls Shipbuilding's Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy by the end of summer. The academy, funded through a Hurricane Katrina community development block grant, is meant to provide a skilled workforce...