Picatinny Arsenal News

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.

ROCKAWAY -- White Meadow Lake residents Kelly Coyle and Nicholas Guerra are engaged.

ROCKAWAY TWP. -- Picatinny Arsenal's senior military commander has been promoted from colonel to brigadier general, the Army announced today.

Young adults are adding original art to public spaces in Newark through City Murals, a new program that puts teens and twentysomethings to work on public art projects with professional artists.

Smaller than tanks, larger than Humvees, they look like leftovers from the "Mad Max" set plastered with U.S. Army stickers.

In a demonstration of bipartisan commitment to national security, Ohio 16th District Democrat Congressman John Boccieri of Alliance paid tribute today to his Republican predecessor, Ralph Regula of Navarre, at a dedication ceremony of the Defense Metals Technology Center at Stark State College.

The U.S. Army has tested a new, low-cost guided mortar, General Dynamics says. The test took place under a cooperative research and development agreement between Florida-based General Dynamics and the U.S. Army's TACOM-ARDEC Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey.

It seemed like a typical day at the Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp in Stokes State Forest.