Norco), home of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Coro-na Division, released the latest Economic Impact Assessment for the Inland Empire’s Navy base July 23.The assessment, based on financial data from fiscal year 2015, reported Det. Each speaker will provide special ‘take away tips’ or Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Detachment Norco (Det. Never Giving up on your Dreams, Breaking through Barriers, Applying Innovation to Bring Teams Together – these are some of the topics to be cov-ered at the 7th Annual Wom-en’s Leadership Conference on September 13. The Wom-en’s Leader-ship Commit-tee’s mission is to deliver an UPLIFT: Unify, Prosper, Learn, Inspire, Ful-fill and Thrive conference to those in the community who wish to at-tend this interactive and inspirational event. These women have dominated in their fields and broken through ceil-ings to achieve the great suc-cesses they have. Michelle Skoorka, Director of Labo-ratory Research and Intern-ships and Division Head for Prototyping & Development at Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Vest, Assistant City Manager Lea Deesing and Dr. Les-lie Wickman, will share the stage with Entrepreneur C.C. Continued on page 4 Astronaut Among Speakers Former Astronaut Dr. Realizing that America won World War II, Jon Arm-strong shares, “if it wasn’t for manufacturing from aircraft to ammo, America would have lost the war!” Jon con-tinues. Funny that when forming the company and creating the name, experts advised them not to use a slogan, to create a name that was not a theme type. Initially started in one of the VOL 4 | # 5 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 Millions Contributed to Regional Economy partners’ garage, the two founding partners Moe Vasquez and Jon Arm-strong truly mirrored their ‘slogan named company’. PERSONNEL: 2,200, including 1,400 at the Norco base, plus 100 civilians and 700 support contractors at field sites and training ranges throughout the nation.Corona Business News Sept/Oct 2018: ĬORONA BUSINESS NEWS Milestone For Manufacturing Firm Last month, Do It Ameri-can Manufacturing Compa-ny, LLC celebrated its 10th anniversary of existence. WHAT THEY DO: Evaluate weapons and combat systems, set systems and equipment measurement standards used on ships and aircraft, design systems to evaluate how well pilots and ship commanders perform at training ranges. NAME: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division HOW: Call Troy Clarke, 95, or NAVY IN NORCO WHAT: Phone calls, emails, letters, photos, videos and oral histories will be taken via interviews WHAT: Retirees and former employees Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, are asked to help document its history and join a ceremony this year, with a date to be announced. About 900 are civilians employed by the Department of the Navy and about 500 are defense contractors, Clarke said.Ĭontact Suzanne Hurt at 95 or NAVY INVITE More than 90 percent of those on the base are warfare center personnel. At least 24 military officers and enlisted personnel are stationed in Norco. The base is one of Riverside County’s largest employers, with more than 1,400 employees. Thousands have worked on the mission over the years. The division also designs and installs systems on Navy and Marine Corps air and sea training ranges to help pilots and ship commanders gauge how well they perform in training, he said. The division also serves as the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ center for measurements science and calibration, which means they set measurement standards for systems and equipment used on ships and aircraft around the world, Clarke said. 7, 1941, plunging the United States into World War II.Ī decade later, the base got its first science and engineering mission when a secret Washington, D.C., lab developing guided missiles and bombs was expanded to the Corona base. The base itself has operated more than 70 years since being established as Corona Naval Hospital shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. “We want to try to collect the full spectrum of the division’s history.” “We would like to chronicle that,” said command public affairs officer Troy Clarke. Officials and staff there are searching for former personnel who can help document the command’s history and attend a ceremony later this year at the base, now known as Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Detachment Norco. With its base surviving a threatened closure nine years ago, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division – known in military parlance as a command – has turned 50. Navy base in Norco will quietly mark half a century of top-secret work Monday, Feb. The mission to evaluate naval weapons at the U.S.
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