Vermont company gets $5 million for extreme cold system
May 15, 2021 GMT
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) A Vermont company is getting more than $5 million for a New Hampshire-based project examining the effects of extreme cold on different kinds of roadways and airstrips.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory is providing the funding to Applied Research Associates of Randolph, Vermont. It’s part of a $9 million contract to develop and install a transportation loading system at the Frost Effects Research Facility in Hanover, New Hampshire.
The system, which won’t be fully operational until 2023, will be designed to simulate the passage of tens of thousands of vehicles in a 24-hour period to demonstrate how different pavements stand up to heavy usage at freezing temperatures.
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Vermont Business Magazine US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced Friday that Applied Research Associates (ARA) of Randolph, Vermont, has received an award totaling $5,237,915 from the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), through the System of Systems Consortium.
This initial award gets work under way on a total contract worth more than $9 million to develop and install a transportation loading system inside the Army’s Frost Effects Research Facility (FERF) in Hanover, NH, the country’s largest refrigerated warehouse designed to investigate, test, and evaluate the effects of extremely cold ambient and ground temperatures on different kinds of roadways and airstrips.
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FSU Panama City names 2020 Notable Noles
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PANAMA CITY Florida State University Panama City announced this week its 2020 Notable Noles. The honorees include minister and nonprofit officer Albert Jesse A.J. Bacon, communication professional Kevin Elliott and non-profit director Janice Lucas.
The award is given to FSU Panama City alumni who demonstrated excellence as students and have made outstanding contributions to the community and within their careers. Since the award’s inception in 1996, the college has recognized 80 Notable ’Noles, accounting for less than 1 percent of the campus’s alumni.
A.J. BACON
Five years after retiring from the U.S. Air Force, Albert Jesse “A.J.” Bacon (2012 and ’14) enrolled in the social work program at FSU Panama City to fulfill a calling to serve others. Guided by faith, he wanted to help the less fortunate.