Mississippi Business Journal » Pentagon http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Meridian, Columbus resume efforts to keep bases open http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/03/meridian-columbus-resume-efforts-to-keep-bases-open/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meridian-columbus-resume-efforts-to-keep-bases-open http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/03/meridian-columbus-resume-efforts-to-keep-bases-open/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 19:57:51 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=74211 Meridian put its military installation team together in 1991 and helped Naval Air Station Meridian avoid getting shut down after landing on closing lists in 1991, 1993 and 1995. Larmar McDonald, a Meridian insurance businessman and current chair of the Meridian Military Team, says he thinks the local air station is the only Navy installation [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/03/meridian-columbus-resume-efforts-to-keep-bases-open/feed/ 0 Navistar Defense in West Point saves lives by making safer military vehicles http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/navistar-defense-in-west-point-saves-lives-by-making-safer-military-vehicles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=navistar-defense-in-west-point-saves-lives-by-making-safer-military-vehicles http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/navistar-defense-in-west-point-saves-lives-by-making-safer-military-vehicles/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:28:05 +0000 Becky Gillette http://msbusiness.com/?p=71048 In mid-February Navistar Defense, LLC received a $23-million contract for an urgent delivery order from the U.S. Army to retrofit armored cabs onto Navistar medium tactical vehicles (MTVs) currently in use by the Afghan National Security Forces. “Delivery of these orders are scheduled for completion this summer,” said Lauren McFarland, spokesperson for Navistar Defense. Navistar [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/navistar-defense-in-west-point-saves-lives-by-making-safer-military-vehicles/feed/ 0 Ingalls marks 75th anniversary of shipbuilding http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/ingalls-marks-75th-anniversary-of-shipbuilding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ingalls-marks-75th-anniversary-of-shipbuilding http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/ingalls-marks-75th-anniversary-of-shipbuilding/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:39:54 +0000 Lisa Monti http://msbusiness.com/?p=70603 Ingalls Shipbuilding marks its 75th anniversary of building ships in Jackson County this year. Over the years workers have produced and made repairs to countless ships and the company remains a pioneer in the production of warships for the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps. Starting in 1938 as Ingalls Iron Works, the yard [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/ingalls-marks-75th-anniversary-of-shipbuilding/feed/ 0 Hinds Eagles take to the skies with UAV training http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/15/hinds-eagles-take-to-the-skies-with-uav-training/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hinds-eagles-take-to-the-skies-with-uav-training http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/15/hinds-eagles-take-to-the-skies-with-uav-training/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:07:39 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=69897 It may be an overcast morning with lurking thunderstorms but that doesn’t stop a handful of young Hinds Community College aviators from crowding outside an aircraft hangar at the John Bell Williams Airport in Bolton. They are student pilots but today their feet will never leave the ground. The small airfield has been literally buzzing [...]

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