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11-11 Dreams into reality |
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PLAN AIMS TO TURN DREAMS INTO REALITY Camden News 11-11-09 By DONNA COLLINS Staff Writer The community has everything it needs to build the community it wants. That’s according to community development planning facilitators Dianne Williams and Freeman McKindra. The pair Tuesday completed a two-night planning session sponsored by Ouachita Partnership for Economic Development and Southern Arkansas University Tech.
The goal of the meetings, held at the Ross Center and attended by about 50 people each night, with about 30 attending both sessions, was to produce a list of community "dreams." Both Ouachita and Calhoun county residents were encouraged to attend and participate.
Participants were asked to write down their dreams, then the dreams - wants or wishes for community programs or projects - were grouped based on similarity and displayed on a wall. Participants were given six votes each to distribute anywhere among the listings.
The list, that now includes seven identified areas of need, will be made into a community development plan by volunteer steering committees shortly after the beginning of 2010.
The six identified areas, listed in descending order of importance as determined by participants, are: |
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11-9 Lockheed GMLRS flawless |
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| Lockheed GMLRS ‘flawless’ in recent test Camden News 11-09-2009 DALLAS – Lockheed Martin successfully fired a U.S. Army Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rocket 92 kilometers in a recent test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to a news release from the company.
"The flawless test highlighted recent product improvements of this battle-proven system to give it a longer reach, maintaining its accuracy and effectiveness while minimizing potential collateral damage," the news release stated.
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Camden Plant is located in Highland Industrial Park. "Lockheed Martin is constantly improving its products to give our customers more value and enhanced capabilities," Scott Arnold, vice president for Precision Fires and Combat Maneuver Systems at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, said in the news release. "Operational feed back from deployed forces is providing us valuable insight so we can enhance our systems’ capabilities to better support the service members we rely on to defend our nations’ frontiers." According to the company, GMLRS is a combat-proven evolutionary family of rockets that also scored numerous successes again in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, where more than 1,200 have been fired by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, and British Army artillery in Afghanistan and Iraq. The GMLRS system in combat has maintained a reliability rating of over 98 percent. GMLRS is the world’s premier long-range rocket artillery round designed specifically for destroying high-priority targets at ranges of 70 km and beyond, according to the news release. Employed in both urban and non-urban environments, it is able to operate in all climate and light conditions while remaining beyond the range of most conventional weapons.
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Ark-of-the-Ouachita to help chart course for economic development Camden News 11-2-09 By DONNA COLLINS Staff Writer In an effort to set a course for the city’s future, Ouachita Partnership for Economic Development is sponsoring a two-night event with the goal of identifying what industry representatives, business owners and residents want in community and economic development.
OPED board members discussed the event during their regular monthly meeting Wednesday. "We want to begin the process that invites evaluation of our own way of doing things," OPED executive director Norm MacNeill said Wednesday.
The community assessment meetings are set for 6:30 p.m., Nov. 9 and 10, at the Ross Center. MacNeill said participants should plan to attend both sessions. Advertising for the event asks residents to "get on board the Ark-of-the-Ouachita before it sets sail."
Facilitators for the event are Freeman McKindra, president of McKindra Development Institute, Inc., in Little Rock, and Dianne Williams, of Dianne Williams Consulting in Greenbriar. |
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11/01 German Company to Open Facility in Camden |
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German Company Plans to Open Facility in Camden Camden News 11/01/09 EAST CAMDEN – Rheinmetall Defense, whose headquarters is in Dusseldorf, Germany, is announcing the groundbreaking of American Rheinmetall Munition’s new production facility in Camden, according to a news release from ARM and Walt Galvin, the company’s supply-chain manager.
Galvin told the Sunday News that ARM is Germany’s largest defense contractor.
He told the Sunday News that the company is going through final qualifications with the U.S. government and expects to have all permits required within the next few weeks. ARM has been running some operations in Highland Industrial Park, he said, but the production part of the company is expected to be up and running by mid-November.
"We are currently building product at Spectra Technologies," Galvin said. "We will be starting production of our product there within the next few weeks. We are at Highland Industrial Park at the 9 AT location.
"We are definitely looking to hire two people right now, and probably right after the beginning of the year, a third and possibly a fourth person." He said, according to plans for the facility, there will be around 50-100 people employed at ARM during 2010 and 2011. |
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10/29 Aerojet sets rocket milestone |
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AEROJET SETS ROCKET MILESTONE Camden News 10/29/2009
Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced the milestone shipment of its 5,000th MK 104 Dual Thrust Rocket Motor to Raytheon Missile Systems and the U.S. Navy. The event was commemorated Wednesday at a ceremony in Camden. Aerojet’s Camden facility is located in Highland Industrial Park.
About 400 employees and guests gathered at the Ross Center Wednesday afternoon for the announcement. Guests included representatives from the offices of U.S. Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Rep. Mike Ross. State Rep. Willie Hardy and Camden Mayor Chris Claybaker were also at the event.
According to a news release from Aerojet, the MK 104 DTRM provides propulsion for Raytheon’s Standard Missile 2, the Navy’s primary surface-to-air air defense weapon. SM-2 is an integral part of the AEGIS Weapon System aboard Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The MK 104 DTRM also is used as second stage propulsion for the Navy’s newest defense weapon, the Extended Range Active Missile which will provide extended range anti-air warfare capability over both sea and land. The MK 104 also is utilized on the Standard Missile-3 for ballistic missile defense missions. |
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