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Sen. Mike Gabbard introduced a non-binding resolution to the Hawaii Senate on Thursday requesting that the Marine Corps complete an Environmental Impact Study on a proposed underground sea wall at its Puuloa Range Training Facility in Ewa Beach. The “shoreline stabilization project” is intended to protect the rifle range from coastal erosion, but local residents and state officials have warned that it would protect the range while hastening the erosion of the beach itself. The proposal would involve driving a “sheet pile” retaining wall 20 feet into the bedrock beneath. In 2019, Hawai...

Local Navy Contract Awards; January 22-February 5, 2021 Search The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $10,953,284 firm-fixed-price order (N00019-21-F-0207) against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-16-G-0001. This order procures 16 refurbished harpoon capsules and four All-Up Round encapsulated harpoon missiles for the Navy. Work will be performed in Burnley, United Kingdom (70.84%); St. Charles, Missouri (27.9%); Seattle, Washington (1.16%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (0.1%), and is expected to be completed in December 2022. Fiscal 2021 oper...

Garrett L. Ressing is the acting general counsel for the Department of the Navy (DON). As the DON’s senior career lawyer, he is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all Office of the General Counsel (OGC) legal practice areas and serving as the OGC community leader of more than 1,100 attorneys and professional support staff in 140 offices worldwide. Ressing began his legal career with the DON when he joined OGC in 1990, as a trial attorney representing the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. In 1992, he was selected for a...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Granite Joint Venture Team Named to $750 Million Multiple Award Construction Contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest January 19, 2021 GMT WATSONVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 19, 2021-- The joint venture team comprised of Granite (NYSE: GVA) and Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc. is one of five contractors selected to participate in a $750 million Waterfront Multiple Award Construction Contract (MACC) by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest (NAVFAC SW). The inde...

Navy Plans to Double Line Pearl Harbor Fuel Tanks Capt. Ken Epps leads a tour during a visit to one of the fuel tanks at the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (Laurie Dexter/U.S. Navy) 10 Jan 2021 HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy has announced plans to reinforce large fuel tanks near Pearl Harbor with an extra layer of lining following a fuel spill in 2014 that threatened Oahu's drinking water. The Navy could begin the upgrades at Red Hill as early as 2022 if all testing is approved, said Capt. Gordie Meyer, the commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering ...