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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 28. Mars 2007 / Time Line March 28, 2007
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CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being
awarded a $20,507,000 unpriced letter contract, to procure TRIDENT
II (D5) long lead time materials.Work will be performed at various
locations and is yet to be determined for this undefinitized
effort, and work is expected to be completed by September 2011.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. This contract is a sole source procurement.Strategic Systems
Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity
(N00030-07-C-0100).
03/28/2007
Shells found at WWII chemical weapons camp in northeast
Alabama
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2007_3_29.html#DED83AD8
STEELE, Ala. (AP) — Workers scouring the site of a World War
II chemical weapons training camp in northeast Alabama have found
13 mortars filled with liquid, but they have yet to determine if
any of them contained hazardous agents, the military said
Wednesday...
The camp trained about 5,000 troops from 1942 to 1945 with chemical
agents, including mustard gas and lewisite, which cause blistering
and can be fatal if inhaled. Nearly 50,000 people live on or near
the old base property today.
The state ordered the Pentagon to clean up the land last year after
a study ranked the area as worst in the nation among old military
sites for the hazard of unexploded weapons. The corps said the 13
shells were found over the last year, along with thousands of items
including horse shoes and barbed wire.
Robbins said the Camp Sibert cleanup will cost about $6
million annually and is scheduled to last about two more years.
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