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VALOUR-IT Fundraiser, 2010 Edition Underway!
And we’re off…! The 2010 edition of the Project Valour-IT fundraiser is underway and once again, Team Navy is one of the participating teams. But what, you may ask, is Valour-IT? What is it all about? The short story is Valour-IT, an IRS-certified non-profit, non-political, volunteer organization provides technology aids to wounded Soldiers, Marines, Sailors…
Postcards: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) – 1996
One of the “experiences” sampled during time in the yard is the replacement of the ship’s screws. Here, IKE’s have just been remounted prior to her being refloated and moved out of drydock (yes, YHS is in the pic). Prior to flooding the drydock, the hull board walks the length and breadth of the visible…
Beginning of the End for ‘Big E’
Announced today: Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Va., was awarded a $20,669,181 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on June 25, 2007, for core team and continuous maintenance planning, Extended Dry-docking Selected Restricted Availability planning, hull planning yard services, execution of continuous maintenance, and inactivation planning for USS Enterprise (CVN 65).This contract allows for the necessary planning,…
Forty-Six Years Ago — A New Age Took Wing…
The W2F-1 Hawkeye (later re-designated YE-2) first took flight on 21 October 1960. We’ve come a long way to this (E-2C Hawkeye 2000) And the future looks bright: Northrop Grumman has completed assembly of the first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and battle management test aircraft fuselage. System components are now being added into…
USNI: Taking Back Our Institution – Mission Change “Delayed”
From the official announcement: In a special meeting on March 17, the Institute’s Board of Directors agreed unanimously to delay any change in the Institute’s mission statement whatever the outcome of the balloting. The Directors agreed that a wide-ranging and fully open debate led by the membership will provide the guidance needed to shape any…
JROC* Explained
(*Joint Requirements Oversight Council) So Scribe — another productive VTC, eh? Yeah … I suppose one could say so: Just make sure your side of the VTC is muted: