HII Awarded as One of 2025’s Best Employers by Business Group on Health
and that they and their families can live their best lives, enjoying physical, financial, and emotional well-being. We can’t succeed without them—and we must continue to put their safety and well-being first.”The award, now in its 20th year, was announced April 21, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee, at Business Group on Health’s 2025 Annual Conference.HII was one of three defense contractors on the list. The 2025 winners represented a broad and diverse group of industries, geographies, and strategic approaches to employee health and well-being
NUWC Employee Shares Family Legacy with USS Fort Lauderdale
for electronic warfare, imaging and radar for PMS 435, visited the USS Fort Lauderdale to share his family’s legacy. The ship is named after the city in Florida, which is named after Lauderdale’s great-great-great-granduncle William, who served as a lieutenant under Andrew Jackson when the Tennessee volunteers were dispatched to New Orleans in 1812 and as a major during the Second Seminole War in 1838. William was the younger brother of Lt. Col. James Lauderdale who was John’s great-great-great-grandfather.The city of Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the
$100 Million Boost for NOAA’s High-Performance Computing: Introducing Rhea
enhancing NOAA’s HPC capabilities for both federal and private sector partners.Once operational, Rhea will join NOAA’s existing Research and Development High-Performance Computing System, which includes four other HPC centers located in Boulder, Colorado; Princeton, New Jersey; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Starkville, Mississippi. The addition of Rhea will increase NOAA’s R&D HPC capacity to approximately 43 petaflops, with another system at NESCC pushing the total to around 48 petaflops. A petaflop represents one thousand trillion operations per second, reflecting the immense computing
Mark's Epic Journey: 268 Days 1643 Hours, 6,800 Miles in a Kayak
his epic “Reverse the Bad” charity expedition across Canada and the United States.In doing so, he becomes the first person to solo kayak the ‘Greater Loop’ circuit, beginning (and ending) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and traversing the Great Lakes, the Illinois, the Mississippi, the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers, before hitting the Gulf of Mexico and heading up the Atlantic Coast.A smiling, but understandably exhausted Fuhrmann, stepped out of his kayak – possibly for the last time – greeting well-wishers with the memorable line “can I get a beer please?”
USACE Mobile District Adds New Survey Vessel
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority held a ceremony to officially welcome a new survey vessel to its fleet in Columbus, Miss., April 28, 2023.The Miss Agnes, built by Theodore, Ala. based Silver Ships, is a custom 26-foot multibeam and single beam capable marine survey vessel that features an enclosed center console, a three-monitor survey station, and an air conditioner unit that is paired with a generator. Powered by twin 200-horsepower Mercury SeaPro outboards and includes a double jack plate which simultaneously controls both
MacArtney Sponsors UK MATE ROV Team
thinking, collaboration, entrepreneurial and innovation skills.This year’s MATE ROV competition is in collaboration with the Eastman Foundation and the ‘Good for Good’ initiative who are hoping to find an ROV and crew that can operate in the freshwater environments of Boone Lake, Tennessee. Specific tasks will include ensuring public safety with regard to the Boone Hydroelectric Dam, maintaining healthy waterways through the monitoring of water quality and preserving history through the recovery of Civil War-era UXO. Before the launch and operations, each team must complete Explorer
Surprising Enzymes Found in Giant Ocean Viruses
(WHOI) and Alec Follmer (University of California Irvine) are co-lead authors with Lamb. Additional coauthors include: Andrew Warrilow, Claire Price, and Steven Kelly (Swansea University Medical School); Marie True and Tom Poulos (University of California Irvine); and David Nelson (University of Tennessee).The research was supported by a USA-UK Fulbright Scholarship, grants from the Royal Society, the Boston University Superfund Research Program, European Regional Development Fund and Welsh Government Project and by National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation grants to the Woods
MATE ROV Competition Planned in Tennessee
The world unites in Tennessee for the international underwater robotics competitionEnsuring public safety, maintaining healthy waterways and preserving historical artifacts are all on task for students participating in the 18th annual MATE International ROV Competition. The underwater robotics competition is set for June 20-22, at the Kingsport Aquatic Center and MeadowView Conference Resort and Convention Center in Kingsport, Tenn.Known for its Great Smoky Mountain range, Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail, lazy winding rivers and landmarks for historic Civil War battles, Kingsport, Tennessee
Voices: Jill Zande, MATE II
. It’s hard to believe that the MATE international competition was first held in 2002 with just 22 teams from 2 countries – those being the United States and Canada. Now there are 31 regional events that take place each year. And that number will only grow with the addition of a regional in Tennessee (and possibly elsewhere!) in 2019.For the 2018 competition season…starting in April, nearly 8,000 students representing 715 teams from across the country and around the world competed in regional events or submitted video demonstrations.Nearly 800 students and 100 mentors qualified and participat
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