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Cole Completes Live-Fire Exercise (The United States Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016
(Source ... As part of the exercise, Cole fired approximately 1300 rounds from its MK 15 Phalanx close-in weapons system (CIWS) at a remote-controlled small vessel off Cole's port side. 'CIWS is one of our countermeasures for a hostile threat,' said Ensign Travis Greenaway, Cole's gunnery officer ... According to Fire Controlman 2nd Class Amber Henderson aboard Cole, CIWS requires more than seven hours of maintenance before it can be fired....

BFP Exclusive Report- A Distillation of DOD Funding Priorities for June 2016

Edit Boiling Frogs Post 06 Jul 2016
DOD spent $25,448,646,000+ on 292 individual contracts during June 2016. The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5.00PM local time ... The U.S ... AMTEC Corp ... One bid solicited, one received ... FMS ... received $9,902,408 for Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) waterfront installation support in Norfolk, VA (36%); San Diego, CA (30%); Pearl Harbor, HI (5%); Everett, WA (6%); Mayport, FL (6%), and overseas ports (17%) ... F....

UWTSD to host a day of debate and discussion on the environment on July 7 30.06.2016 (Swansea Metropolitan University)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. Swansea Metropolitan University). 30.06.2016. The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is proud to host a day of debate and discussion on the environment, and how we can better live in harmony with the Earth. Entitled, 'Living on Earth ... She holds honorary fellowships from CIW (Chartered Institute of Waste), CIWEM (Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management) and is a member of WWF's UK Council of Ambassadors ... Dr....

UWTSD to host a day of debate and discussion on the environment on July 7 (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Wales Trinity Saint David). 30.06.2016. The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is proud to host a day of debate and discussion on the environment, and how we can better live in harmony with the Earth ... Harmony ... David Cadman ... She holds honorary fellowships from CIW (Chartered Institute of Waste), CIWEM (Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management) and is a member of WWF's UK Council of Ambassadors....

Contracts For June 30, 2016 (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
Serco Inc.., Reston, Virginia, is being awarded a $9,902,408 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity modification to previously awarded contract (N00174-14-D-0028) for Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) waterfront installation support ... ship change documents and ordnance alterations as related to the CIWS on U.S....

Beauprez Group ‘Colorado Pioneer Action’ Faces Possible $1M Fines

Edit The Examiner 27 Jun 2016
CIW’s Complaint alleges that Colorado Pioneer Action’s failure to register the entity with the Secretary of State as a “political committee” violates state law requiring federal entities (CPA is registered as a 501c4 “social welfare organization” enjoying tax-exempt status) actively participating in “supporting or opposing” candidates for state elective office to register and disclose their campaign activity....

LISTEN UP, SWEETHEART! America's Drill Instructor Returns for Season Two of “GunnyTime With R. Lee Ermey” on Outdoor Channel (Outdoor Channel Holdings Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. Outdoor Channel Holdings Inc). LISTEN UP, SWEETHEART!. America's Drill Instructor Returns for Season Two of 'GunnyTime With R. Lee Ermey' on Outdoor Channel. LOS ANGELES & DENVER (June 23, 2016) - He's an 11-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He's starred in more than 60 feature films. And he's a weapons enthusiast. He's R. Lee Ermey - a.k.a ... Lee Ermey on Outdoor Channel ... ET ... Navy ship where he got to play with a Phalanx CIWS ... (noodl....

Independence Variant LCS Completes IOT&E; (The United States Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jun 2016
(Source. The United States Navy). PORT HUENEME, Calif. (NNS) -- The U.S ... This was the second of two successful SeaRAM firings from Coronado ... The SeaRAM system combines the close-in weapons system (CIWS) self-defense system's radars and fire control system with the RAM ... Together, the CIWS/RAM combination provides a capable, reduced manning anti-cruise missile and aircraft self-defense capability for Navy ships ... (noodl. 34112876) ....

Independence Variant LCS Completes IOT&E; (NAVSEA - Naval Sea Systems Command)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jun 2016
(Source. NAVSEA - Naval Sea Systems Command). By NAVSEA Office of Corporate Communication . June 14, 2016 PORT HUENEME, Calif. - The U.S ... The SeaRAM system combines the Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) self-defense system's radars and fire control system with the RAM missile ... Together, the CIWS/RAM combination provides a capable, reduced manning anti-cruise missile and aircraft self-defense capability for Navy ships ... - NAVSEA - ... (noodl....

USA: Wendy’s Boycott National Day of Prayer (Pax Christi International)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
Pax Christi USA endorses the farmworker-led Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) national day of prayer and ... CIW has provided a script that can be downloaded and inserted into bulletins, during the week leading up to the boycott....

‘Jeffco United for Action’ committee found guilty, fined for campaign violations

Edit The Examiner 12 May 2016
Minimum penalties are often imposed for first-time violators without a history of previous infractions by the same organization ... CIW's officer, Matt Arnold, stated that, "Although the full extent of Jeffco United for Action’s violations could not be prosecuted due to the intervening(withdrawn) complaint, it is important that the group be held accountable to the law – even if the accountability was delayed, it was not denied.” ... ....

'The system failed her': behind a suicide spike at a California women's prison

Edit The Guardian 10 May 2016
At 35, the day before her first parole hearing and just after being released from yet another stay in suicide watch – solitary confinement in a suicide-resistant room – she hanged herself in her cell at the California Institution for Women (CIW) ... Rocha’s suicide is just the latest in a spike at CIW, in San Bernardino County ... In comparison, there had been just three suicides at CIW in the previous 14 years....

Demand Justice for Erika Rocha: Attention to Abuses and Escalating Suicide Epidemic in CA Women’s Prison (Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016
Erika was incarcerated at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Corona. The suicide rate at CIW is more than eight times the national rate for people in women's prisons and more than five times the rate for all California prisons ... The suicide watch unit is overcrowded and CIW is placing people on 'overflow' in the SHU ('Security Housing Unit') ... 'Multiple institutions, including CIW and CDCR, are responsible for this tragedy....
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