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CMSI Town Hall Recap: Creative Outlets Help Ease Pandemic Anxiety, Form Bonds

CMSI Town Hall Recap: Creative Outlets Help Ease Pandemic Anxiety, Form Bonds

by ADC | Jul 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base

Embracing one’s creative side can help cope with outside stress, a panel of professional actors said Thursday at a COVID-19 Military Support Initiative town hall. “During the pandemic where there’s so much time that goes by – and I imagine people on the USS Vinson,...
Purdue University Launches Cybersecurity Program at NSWC Crane

Purdue University Launches Cybersecurity Program at NSWC Crane

by ADC | Jul 16, 2020 | Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base

Purdue University’s Cyber Apprenticeship Program (P-CAP) recently announced an educational partnership at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane). The program is supported by the Department of Labor and primarily will provide training in advanced...
Senate NDAA Includes OEA Name Change, Codification of Law

Senate NDAA Includes OEA Name Change, Codification of Law

by ADC | Jun 29, 2020 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act last week stipulates that the Office of Economic Adjustment will be redesignated as the ‘‘Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation.’’ Like the Office of Economic Adjustment...
Partnership Provides Free COVID-19 Mass Testing near Fort Leonard Wood

Partnership Provides Free COVID-19 Mass Testing near Fort Leonard Wood

by ADC | May 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base

About 700 residents of Pulaski County, Mo., received free COVID-19 tests last weekend. The two-day mass testing was coordinated among the county, the state, Phelps Health and the Army at nearby Fort Leonard Wood, according to a press release from the Sustainable...
Joint Base San Antonio Makes Community Plea for Blood Donations

Joint Base San Antonio Makes Community Plea for Blood Donations

by ADC | May 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base

The bases in “Military City USA” are asking San Antonio civilians to help with an anticipated need for more blood, News 4 San Antonio reported. The blood centers at Joint Base San Antonio expect their supply will begin to deplete as local citizens become more active...
Soldiers Work with Volunteers at Aberdeen Proving Ground to 3D Print Face Shields

Soldiers Work with Volunteers at Aberdeen Proving Ground to 3D Print Face Shields

by ADC | May 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base

Servicemembers from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) are using their 3D printing capabilities to create face shields for donation to hospitals and workers around the nation. “It just seemed like such a simple piece of plastic to...

Innovation Lab: Saving Land Critical to Mission and Wildlife

by ADC | Feb 3, 2020 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC

When an 11,000-acre piece of land on the Georgia coast went on the market for commercial development, an alliance formed to protect the property, the mission of nearby Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Ga., the habitat of the state’s official reptile and the tidal land...
Innovation Lab: Saving Land Critical to Mission and Wildlife

Innovation Lab: Saving Land Critical to Mission and Wildlife

by ADC | Feb 2, 2020 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC

When an 11,000-acre piece of land on the Georgia coast went on the market for commercial development, an alliance formed to protect the property, the mission of nearby Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Ga., the habitat of the state’s official reptile and the tidal land...
Innovation Lab: A Historic Agreement with Joint Base San Antonio

Innovation Lab: A Historic Agreement with Joint Base San Antonio

by ADC | Jan 30, 2020 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC

The first formal intergovernmental service agreement in the San Antonio region was a paving project in 2017. If Joint Base San Antonio had done the work itself, it would’ve taken eight months. The Alamo Area Council of Governments stepped in. The partnership meant it...
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