CONTRACT COULD BRING JOBS TO POINT MUGU.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer More than 100 new jobs could be headed to Point Mugu as a result of a $32 million contract awarded to Boeing Information Services See Information Systems. for computer and technological support. The five-year contract for the 50-year-old Naval command center covers everything from designing new software to computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer systems. It is part of a $91.1 million order for equipment installation at the Naval Warfare naval warfare Military operations conducted on, under, or over the sea and waged against other seagoing vessels or targets on land or in the air. The earliest naval attacks were raids by the armed men of a tribe or town using fishing boats or merchant ships. Center Weapons Division in China Lake and its three principle sites, including Point Mugu. ``It's a significant chunk of money,'' said Point Mugu spokesman Alan Alpers. ``Those dollars all add up to a better economic future for the base.'' U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly Elton W. Gallegly (born March 7 1944), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, currently representing the 24th District of California (map). , R-Calif., said the project will be good for the base and for the entire area. ``This will be a tremendous infusion into Ventura's economy,'' Gallegly, a former Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. mayor, said in a statement. ``It reinforces the significance and viability of the base.'' Boeing officials expect to hire 114 people to create and install the information systems, a project scheduled for completion in 2002. Included in the contract are virtual reality programs, on-line services and data storage systems. Among the systems are those to help design computer hardware and test weapons such as the Tomahawk tomahawk [from an Algonquian dialect of Virginia], hatchet generally used by Native North Americans as a hand weapon and as a missile. The earliest tomahawks were made of stone, with one edge or two edges sharpened (sometimes the stone was globe shaped). missile, which can follow the contours of the earth to targets more than 200 miles away. Contract work is one of the primary economic engines at the base, Alpers said. The Navy awarded about $134 million last year to outside contractors working at Point Mugu. The base was threatened with closure two years ago when the Base Realignment and Closure Base Realignment and Closure (or BRAC) is a process of the United States federal government directed at the administration and operation of the Armed Forces, used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Congress to close excess military installations and realign Commission included Point Mugu on a short list of facilities under review. But since their removal from the list, base officials have pinned their hopes on the E-2 squadron, a fleet of radar aircraft currently based at Miramar Air Force Base near San Diego. The squadron is scheduled to leave the base in October, and Navy brass in Washington have announced that Point Mugu is on a short list as the next assignment. The reassignment would mean 990 new military assignments at Point Mugu and a possible status reclassification Reclassification The process of changing the class of mutual funds once certain requirements have been met. These requirements are generally placed on load mutual funds. Reclassification is not considered to be a taxable event. leading to renewed funding, Alpers said. Established by President Harry Truman in 1946, the base is currently home to 2,100 military personnel, 3,500 civilians and 2,500 contractors. The base includes 668 homes, a public school, a golf course, a bowling alley, a theater and a McDonald's restaurant. |
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