Newport News Authenticates Keel of Virginia-class Attack Submarine Oklahoma
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division authenticated the keel today for Virginia-class attack submarine Oklahoma (SSN 802).“We enjoy participating in Navy traditions like this one because they remind us of the important role we play in our nation’s defense,” NNS President Jennifer Boykin said. “The nuclear submarines we build help ensure our peace and freedoms, and we take great pride in being a nuclear shipyard.”The ship’s sponsor is Mary “Molly” Slavonic, an Oklahoma native. Slavonic has long supported both the state of Oklahoma and the
Divers Find Deepest Known Shipwreck USS Johnston
Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in the two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar,” wrote Rear Admiral Samuel E. Morison in his History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II. Upon the commissioning of the ship, the destroyer’s ¾ Native American Captain from Oklahoma, Commander Ernest Evans, told his crew that he would “never run from a fight,” and that “anyone who did not want to go in harm’s way, had better get off now.” None of his crew did so.(Photo: Caladan Oceanic)The recent discovery brings clarity to the loss the USS Johnston
NOAA Scientists Honored for Innovative Research
Science Center, in Seattle, for research of climate-mediated shifts in North Pacific Ocean fisheries, which has led to significant improvements in the ability to reliably forecast fisheries population dynamics.Jeffrey Snyder, a meteorologist at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, for leading cutting-edge research using weather radar to improve the detection and short-term forecasts of severe thunderstorms, large hail and tornadoes.Melissa Soldevilla, a fisheries scientist at NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami, for applying cutting-edge acoustic techniques
Buoy Data Helps Mariners to Weather Storms
months underway on Coast Guard cutters every year to maintain the weather buoys.“Most of those days are underway between April and October but some are building, testing and staging needed NDBC equipment at pre-determined locations,” said Pool, a retired Coast Guard officer from Shawnee, Oklahoma. Chad Pool is from a Coast Guard family. His wife Kelly Pool is a Coast Guard civilian and Coast Guard reservist and his son Zachary Pool is a Coast Guardsman at Station Sabine Pass, Texas.NDBC is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service.The Coast
JW Fishers’ Pulse 8X Continues to Outperform
and law enforcement dive teams using the Pulse 8X are the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Connecticut State Police, Swedish Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Naval Surface Warfare Center, Texas Highway Patrol, New Jersey State Police, Policia de Puerto Rico, Ottawa Police Service in Canada, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Olmstead Sheriffs Dive Team in Minnesota, Maine State Police, and the U.S. Navy Expeditionary Combat Command and their Facilities Engineering Service Center in California
Wind Surpasses Hydro as Largest US Renewable Energy Source
. Just three turbine makers - General Electric Co, Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Siemens AG -- accounted for up to 95 percent of the U.S. turbine market in 2016. Texas has more than 20 MW of installed wind capacity, or nearly a quarter of the market. Iowa is the second-biggest wind state, and Oklahoma overtook California for third place at the end of 2016. The first offshore wind project in the United States also came online in the fourth quarter, the 30 MW Block Island wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. More than 10,000 MW of wind is under construction in the United States, about
Underwater Metal Detectors Help Police, Military
military and law enforcement dive teams using the Pulse 8X are the US Border Patrol, Connecticut State Police, Swedish Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Naval Surface Warfare Center, Texas Highway Patrol, New Jersey State Police, Policia de Puerto Rico, Ottawa Police Service in Canada, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Olmstead Sheriffs Dive Team in Minnesota, Maine State Police, and US Navy Expeditionary Combat Command and their Facilities Engineering Service Center in California
Williams Names New Chair, Stands by CEO after Board Upheaval
said, adding that it will evaluate the appropriate size and composition of the board. Williams' stock was down 4.7 percent at $20.62 on Friday. Meister is the founder of hedge fund Corvex Management and Mandelblatt runs Soroban Capital Partners, which collectively own 8.4 percent of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams. The two showed no signs of exiting their Williams positions amid the turmoil. Meister, Williams' third-largest shareholder, explained his resignation in a regulatory filing on Friday, saying that remaining a director would send the wrong signal that he supported
Homeland Security Selects Top Underwater Metal Detector
is employing in their program is the Pulse 8X. A few of the many other teams using Fishers detectors are the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) dive teams, the U.S. Navy’s Mobile Diving & Salvage Units, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Border Patrol, Massachusetts and New York State Police, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Placer County Sheriff’s Office and Los Angeles Port Police in Calif., North Carolina Justice Academy, Jackson County Dive Unit in Wisc., Miramar Police in Fla., Colorado Springs Fire Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Laredo Fire Department and Wichita Falls Police
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