BILOXI and MERIDIAN — The Air Force’s latest budget proposal would eliminate the 917th Fighter Group, a unit of 409 part-time reservists and 171 full-time technicians, at Barksdale Air Force Base. The cuts would take effect by the end of next year on the unit’s 50th anniversary. The Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse is [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 5,2012
Tags: agriculture, businesses, disaster, disaster prepredness, engineers, flood control, flooding, floods, homes, houses, levees, military, natural disaster, repairs, residences
VICKSBURG — The Vicksburg District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently received an additional $140 million in funding from the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act. These funds will be used toward 81 Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries (MR&T) projects affected by the historic 2011 flood. The District developed a list of projects that will benefit from [...] [...]
FORREST COUNTY — Camp Shelby, the nation’s largest state-owned and operated military training site, has been chosen from 19 sites around the country as a center to train national guard troops to operate the unmanned aircraft called drones. The center at Camp Shelby will train soldiers from all over the country and will operate during [...] [...]
COLUMBUS — EADS North America has delivered the 200th UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopter (LUH) to the U.S. Army. EADS North America commemorated the event yesterday at a ceremony at the company’s American Eurocopter production facility in Columbus. “Today marks another significant milestone for the Lakota program — the only DoD program of this size [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 2,2012
Tags: acquisitions, computers, cybe crime, defense, hardware, Homeland Security, information technology, intelligence, investing, investments, investors, mergers, military, security, shares, software, stock exchange, stocks, trechnology
VICKSBURG — Fusion-Q of Dallas, Texas, has made a tender offer to acquire the shares of Seventh Knight Inc. Under the terms, Fusion-Q has tendered an offer to acquire Seventh Knight with Fusion-Q preferred stock in exchange for the 9,674,403 shares of common stock outstanding stock of Seventh Knight. Thereafter, each Fusion-Q preferred share would [...] [...]
FOREST — The Raytheon Co. plant in Forest will get a significant amount of work on radar systems for Navy fighter jets under two contract modifications — one for $77.3 million and the other for $45.2 million. The Navy says the Mississippi plant is to do 34 percent of the work on 89 radar warning [...] [...]
VICKSBURG — A new National Park Service report shows that 581,459 visitors in 2010 spent $28.9 million in the Vicksburg National Military Park and in communities near the park. The NPS says that spending supported 449 jobs in the local area. Park Superintendent Michael Madell says the NPS report found 52 percent of the spending/jobs [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 27,2012
Tags: budget, budget cuts, cutters, defense, federal budget, federal govertnment, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, shipbuilders, shipbuilding, ships
PASCAGOULA — The U.S. Coast Guard will not get the last two of eight planned national security cutters, under President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request. The two cutters were not included in the Coast Guard’s five-year capital investment plan, The Mississippi Press reported. The capital investment plan outlines acquisition priorities under the limits set by [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 27,2012
Tags: contract, defense, federal government, manufacturing, military, modification, shipbuilders, shipbuilding, ships, shipyards
PASCAGOULA — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $70 million cost-plus-fixed-fee advance procurement contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead materials for LPD 27, the 11th amphibious transport dock of the USS San Antonio (LPD 17) class. The funds awarded to Ingalls will be used to purchase long-lead-time materials and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 23,2012
Tags: accident, barge, grounding, investigation, military, river, shipping, ships, towboatsd, traffic
U.S. Coast Guard investigators are trying to determine how a barge ran aground yesterday on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Coast Guard officials tell WTVA-TV the incident happened around 5 a.m. at mile marker 445 near the Yellow Creek Port. The barge was one of five being pushed by the motor vessel Crimson White when the lead [...] [...]
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