Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.
Jun 23, 2008 If Boeing loses its protest of the Air Force's decision to award a tanker contract to Northrop Grumman, it may end plans to sell its version of the tanker internationally, according to media reports. The DOD contract would have required enough volume to create...

Company Watch - General Dynamics.
Jun 23, 2008 BAE Systems and General Dynamics hope lawmakers award full funding for their XM-1203 Non Line-of-Sight Cannon. The cannon is one of eight proposed Manned Ground Vehicles under the Army's Future Combat Systems program. General Dynamics executive Robert Sorge says the company is optimistic about...

Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War.
Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War. By Eric J. Graham. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn Limited, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 238. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-84158-424-9.) Numerous historical studies have been conducted on Confederate blockade-running and shipbuilding operations during the American Civil War. This book...

Hanjin to build $ 2-B shipyard in Misamis Oriental.
Byline: Mike U. Crismundo CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co. Ltd. (HHICC) will build its second shipyard facility in the Philippines at the Phividec industrial site in Misamis Oriental. Hanjin's first shipbuilding facility in the country is now...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense.
Mar 3, 2008 Navy shipbuilding programs raise lawmakers' concerns. Two recent hearings suggest that lawmakers will continue to scrutinize Navy shipbuilding programs. House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha, D-Pa., on Wednesday asked about the effects of delaying the 2009 Zumwalt class DDG 1000 destroyer in favor...

Initial shipyard project finished.
Byline: Jonas Reyes SUBIC BAY FREEPORT -- Vice President Noli de Castro lauded Wednesday the technological expertise being passed on to Filipinos by Koreans in the field of shipbuilding. The Vice President was guest of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corp. (HHIC) at the opening...

Construction work at $ 2-B Misamis Or shipyard faces snag.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Construction of the US$ 2-billion shipyard complex in Misamis Oriental may be delayed as acquisition of the 500-hectare lot in Villanueva may face delay as heirs of the Jacinto Group of Companies are not on terms. "It (shipyard construction) may be realized...

Gordon defends condominium project in Subic.
Byline: HANNAH L. TORREGOZA Sen. Richard Gordon yesterday said he does not find fault in the construction of the 22-story condominium project of South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries Corp. in Subic, thus, there is no need to stop the project. In a press conference, Gordon...

Modern hospital to rise in Subic.
Byline: RANDY V. DATU IBA, Zambales -- A world-class hospital will soon rise at Redondo Peninsula in Subic, this province. This was revealed last Thursday by Zambales Gov. Amor D. Deloso, who, along with top officials of Korean Eximbank, People and Nature, Medipark Corp., and...

The seafaring life; Mystic Seaport opens window to another time.
Byline: Laura Porter You might see the ghost in captain's garb that is rumored to prowl the quarterdeck of the proud old whaler, the Charles W. Morgan. Or hear a chapter or two of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," read by a Melville impersonator after midnight on July...