Picatinny Arsenal News

Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on Dec. 22, 2009, a $258,364,288 firm-fixed-price contract for the purchase of 728 new M1075 palletized load system trucks on the existing contract.

The Army wants to decrease the weight Soldiers carry on missions, and Fort Benning's Maneuver Battle Lab is part of the effort.

Letterkenny Army Depot will be the focus for two cutting-edge projects: - Improve communications between federal agencies and civilian first responders.

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Officials on Thursday will begin searching land next to a New Jersey arsenal for unexploded shells from a 1926 disaster.

Today, the federal agency is scheduled to begin a project to find and remove any of those explosives, working on the western border of the Tilcon stone quarry, near Mount Hope Road in Rockaway Township.

ROCKAWAY TWP. - Picatinny Arsenal officials will host an industry day conference Dec.

ROCKAWAY TWP. -- Picatinny Arsenal officials will host an industry day conference Dec.

General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, Va., was awarded on Nov. 23, 2009 a $322,111,129 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide initial outfitting and transition services to support one new military medical facility, and the new additions and newly renovated spaces at one military facility in the National Capitol Region.

KELLY COYLE AND NICK GUERRA AGES:   Both 28 HOMETOWNS:   Pequannock and Rockaway OCCUPATIONS:   Kelly: administrative assistant for the Department of the Army at Picatinny Arsenal; Nick: explosive operator for the Department of the Army at Picatinny Arsenal ENGAGED SINCE:   April 16 How and when did you meet? Nick ...

APS Contracting in Patterson, NJ won a $10.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to complete construction of a new guns and weapons laboratory at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ.

Maj. Kenneth O. Preston, the senior enlisted advisor to the chief of staff of the Army.

Dominic Ciardi retired from his job and had some time on his hands last year, which is how a project began to remember three Dover High School classmates killed in the Korean War.

Jan Bathurst's one-hour commute between his home in Fonda and his job at Watervliet Arsenal costs him virtually nothing.

ROCKAWAY TWP. -- Picatinny Arsenal will begin construction Monday on a new building that will house Naval operations being transferred to the Army base as a result of the Defense Department's Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations.

Former Picatinny Arsenal Commander Brig. Gen. William N. Phillips was promoted to the rank of major general during a ceremony in Baghdad on Tuesday.

American Auto Logistics, LP, of Park Ridge, N.J., is being awarded a $207,382,618 firm, fixed-price modification for an earned award term under a previously awarded contract to provide continuing services for the transportation and storage of privately owned vehicles.

Cadet Capt. Ned Caffarra took command of the historic Picatinny Arsenal Civil Air Patrol Squadron in a formal change-of-command ceremony at the Army base's Homeland Defense compound.

ROCKAWAY TWP. - Picatinny Arsenal is inviting motorcycle riders to participate in a ride honoring past and present veterans this Sunday.

CLARK a ' Gina and Anthony Bruno of Clark and Robert Vicci of Rahway announce the engagement of their daughter, Christie Vicci to Donald Capriglione, son of Gina Littell-Hall of Brick and Donald Capriglione of Lake Hopatcong.