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Students join leaders in event marking 10,000th Lockheed rocket By DONNA COLLINS Staff Writer Camden News April 28, 2010 Community leaders and local math and science students joined hundreds of Lockheed Martin workers and officials attending Tuesday’s celebration marking the production of the 10,000th rocket for the Guided Multi Launch Rocket System at the company’s Highland Industrial Park location.
Site director Glenn David Woods welcomed the crowd and introduced guestspeakers who all praised Lockheed’s local workforce for the dedication and hard work needed "to deliver on time, every time" the product U.S. military forces and their allies have come to expect and depend on. "This production mile stone was made possible through the commitment of our hardworking employees here in Camden who are proud to provide this combat proven capability to the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marine Corps, and our allied forces," said Scott Arnold, vice president for Precision Fires at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The delivery of the 10,000th GMLRS marks a significant milestone in the program," Col. David J. Rice, U.S. Army program manager for Precision Fires, Rocket and Missile Systems, told the large crowd that included local Lockheed GMLRS team members. "This is a superior system that provides responsive precision fires enabled by unsurpassed system reliability and maintainability." Rice, who attended high school in Arkadelphia, said his journey to Camden was worth the effort, even though it included being "impeded by an Arkansas state trooper, twice."
Rice told local elected officials and other community leaders that it is their vision and leadership that gains the attention of national leaders needed to sustain and support programs including Lockheed’s GMLRS.
"Thank you, thank you and thank you again," he said to the local workforce "You make a difference." Rice said the GMLRS "does its job," of finding and destroying high value and high risk targets with the least amount of collateral damage to the cultural centers the enemy is known to purposely hide.
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Lockheed to mark milestone Camden News April 26, 2010 Lockeed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Camden Operations will mark the delivery of the 10,000th Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rock to the U.S. Army at the company’s Highland Industrial Park location at 10 a.m. Tuesday. According to a news release from Lockheed, Col. David J. Rice, U.S. Army program manager for Precision Fires, Rocket and Missile Systems and Col. Tony Daskevich, Army capability manager for Field Artillery Rocket and Missiles will join Scott Arnold, Lockheed Martin vice president for Precision Fires programs and local site director Glenn David Woods at the event.
GMLRS is an all-weather, precision strike, artillery rocket system that achieves greater range and precision accuracy requiring fewer rockets to defeat targets and limiting collateral damage, according the news release.
GMLRS can be used against counter-fire, air defense, light materiel and personnel targets. The system incorporates a GPS aided inertial guidance package integrated on a product improved rocket body, the release stated. Lockheed Martin’s Camden Operations, which employs approximately 450 people at its Highland Industrial Park facilities, is the final assembly site for the Multiple Launch Rocket System line of launchers and precision-strike rockets, the transformational High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or HIMARS launcher and the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3 Missile. |
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Project would bring 3 new businesses Camden News 2/18/10 By DONNA COLLINS Staff Writer If a local developer can bring to fruition a proposal that includes a hotel, restaurant and an assisted living center, Ouachita Partnership for Economic Development will cover the cost of extending needed city sewer and water service infrastructure.
The decision to cover the cost through OPED’s retail development incentive fund was made by OPED board members Wednesday during the board’s regular monthly meeting.
The board also approved spending $5,000 to $8,000 to have an engineering team assess the cost to raise the roof of the former General Dynamics building near Camden Regional Airport.
James Lee Silliman, local land owner, told board members Wednesday that he is working to develop a restaurant and an assisted living on land he owns near the Comfort Inn off the Arkansas 278/79 Bypass.
Charles Shinn, who owns Camden’s Comfort Inn and Holiday Inn Express, told the board he wants to build a 63-room Roadway Hotel on land he owns near the Comfort Inn.
Silliman, who is also executive director of the Camden Area IndustrialDevelopment Corporation, and Shinn want the $154,000 to cover the cost of a 20-inch boring under U.S. 278, installation of a 10-inch sewer line and manholes, and a 6-inch water line.
The incentive funds for the project would come from a $450,000 retail development incentive pool the Camden City Council established and contracted with OPED to appropriate.
OPED executive director Norm MacNeill said the development project is projected to generate $187,350 in sales taxes during a three-year period.
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Ceremony opens East Camden site for Rheinmetall Camden News 2/18/10 By TAMMY FRAZIER Staff Writer Highland Industrial Park in East Camden welcomed another business to the area Wednesday afternoon when American Rheinmetall Munitions held its official opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony. Sen. Mark Pryor was the guest speaker at the event.
Dirk Ruettgerodt of A.R.M. introduced Camden Mayor Chris Claybaker and East Camden Mayor Dan Keithley, along with American Rheinmetall’s chief operating officer Helmut Binder; Joe Bailey of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, Armin Papperger, member of the executive board of Rheinmetall Defense; and chief executive officer of American Rheinmetall Munitions Kevin Sullivent along with representatives of industries in Highland Park.
The facility location was planned through the Ouachita Partnership for Economic Development and the Arkansas Department of Economic Development to benefit surrounding communities.
A.R.M. is a division of Rheinmetall Defense, whose headquarters is in Dusseldorf, Germany, according to information provided by the company. A.R.M. is Germany’s largest defense contractor.
Papperger told the group that A.R.M. produces medium-caliber automatic cannons, weapon systems and pyrotechnics. "We invested in the U.S.A. and we are proud to create value for your country," he said, adding that to date, the U.S. Marine Corps has placed an order with A.R.M. for more than $130 million in products.
"We were fortunate enough to find this location in Camden, Arkansas, through the Arkansas Economic Commission," he said. "We are pleased to have this multi-million dollar project and to play a small part in stimulating this struggling, global economy."
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