d f --. i~ ~ ~4 THE ROCKETEER c~ !!s:; t,., 486dx-4011hz , 4mb I'Iam(Max 32Mb Ram) . , 12()nb haiti clive , Dual ~ (1.4Mb &12 Mb) , 14"VGA'(:29inm) 1024x768 , Keyboard , Towercase , 2serial and 1parallel port , MSDOS5.0 486dx2-6tJrTttz , 4mb Ram(Max 32Mb Ram) , mnb haiti clive , DuaI~(I .4Mb&12Mb) , SVGA morita' , CD-Rom , Keyboard, Mouse , Towercase , 2serial and 1Dalailel JlO!1 , MS DOS 5.0, WindowS 3.1 $1349 $2499 February 25, 1m Citizen PN-48 Notebook Printer $445 , 11.7" x3.5" x2.OIbs w/o battery , Prints 1~ per mirUe , 360 x360 .char. resolution , Citizen G , Epson La and IBM X24 emualions FEDCOMCOMPUTER CENTER In the Tivoli Centre 1400 N. Nonna 446-5665 VISAJMastercardlDHover Prioes and availability on all products subject to change without notice Macintosh PowerBook RAM 80mb Hard Drive · Built in support for external Apple 13' or 14' displays · Internal 1.44mb Super Drive · Built-in sound ports · System 7 and built-in .Appletalk · 1S-Ievel gray-scale display HP LaserJet 4M Laser Writer II G · HP's fast laser printer for Mac users · 8 pages per minute · 600 dpi Resolution Enhancement technology · 250 sheet multi-purpose tray · Bmb RAM · Fineprint · Photograde · Built~n Ethernet '" ••• Apple Macintosh LC III 4mb RAM 80mb Hard Drive Complete System Includes: ·25MHz 68030 processor · 14' 640x480 Apple display · NEWI Apple adjustable keyboard I • • • ~ ~ Laser Writer Pro 630 .8mb RAM ·8 pages per minute · 600 dpi · Includes 64 True Type fonts · Fineprint and Photograde · Postscript Level II Call Don Braem at 446-4269 Prices and availability on all products subject to change without notice Next Commander will be headquartered at CL T he Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, commanded by RAdm. William E. Newman, USN, consists of large sites at Point Mugu and China Lake, California, as well as small detachments ill Albuquerque and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The Weapons Division was established in Jan- uary 1992, integrating four commands into a single large command providing research, development, test, evalua- tion and life cycle support for U.S. Navy, Joint Service and foreign naval weapon systems. During the initial phase of censolidation, the new command has been headquartered at Point Mugu. The Vice Commander resides at China Lake as a matter of command policy. The next Weapons Division commander, when assigned, will command the Division from headquarters at China Lake. The next Vice Commander will correspondingly reside at Point Mugu to provide command oversight and coordination for the Commander at the site. The Navy does not anticipate significant changes to Point Mugu's role as a premier DoD Test and Evaluation facility. The world's largest fully instrumented Sea Test Range and RDT&E capabilities will continue to provide Fleet and acquisition community customers with comprehensive products and services. (Editor's Note: This notice appears exactly as it was released 10 external news outlets by the commander 's office.) THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 NAVAl AIR WEAPONS STAnON, CHINA lAis, employees cnodiled for suec.... 14 China Lake W _" GoIfT__-.t lady prof.....onob coming fOf open 54-hole . ...-entMarch 15-17 20 Haaland: By Steve Boster foAonoging Edibf , w e are living in a world of change," said Ster- ling Haaland, in his first interview since becoming the new Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS) Deputy Commander for Research and Development. ''Change is just part of our life and change is going to·happen faster than ever. I've accepted it as reality," he added. The NAWCWPNS leadership is working through this never ending Change will happen faster than ever process of change, looking toward a positive future. Stressing that his role as Deputy Commander for R&D covers all NAWCWPNS sites, Haaland said, "I recognize that we're in a larger orga- ni zation and when 1 talk about NAWCWPNS 1 mean all the sites and all work going on at those sites. 1 may he located at China Lake, but 1 repre- sent the whole R&D community." To that end, he said he plans to visit the various sites whenever possi- ble. Maintaining his connections to the working R&D world at Please see HAAlAND Page 8 Contractor vacuums desert to remove depleted uranium By Janice Kaspenon Technro ~ormohan Dep:lftmenr V acuuming up a mess is noth- ing new to anyone who's ever tried to keep a house or apart- ment in shape. But instead of an area the size of your living room, imagine vacuuming six acres of dirt. A cleanup program on the north range of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is doing just that to elimi- nate contamination from testing that took place over the last decade. Beginning in the late 197050 120- millimeter tank ammunition was fired in the Tower II area of China Lake's north range in support of the M-1 tank program. Honeywell Inc. (now AIliant Techsystems), under contract to the Army, conducted the tests. The projectiles were made of depleted uranium (DU), a by-product from the nuclear-power industry. Naturally occurring uranium has two primary isotopes, the readily fis- sionable uranium-235, which makes up about 0.7 percent of the uranium, and uranium-238, which makes up more than 99 percent. Because a higher concentration of uranium-235 is required to power nuclear reactors, natural uranium ore is refined and concentrated to produce "enriched uranium." The material left over from the ore after the uranium-235 is removed, depleted uranium, has a very low level of radioactivity and is inexpen- sive, hard and twice as dense as lead-ideal for tank-penetration ammunition, counterweights in air- craft, gyroscope assemblies, heli- copter blade assemblies and oth~r applications. Although DU poses.no radiation hazard to humans during limited exposure, it is a heavy metal and, like lead or mercury, toxic if ingested. Because it 'remains technically a radioactive material, however, DU is regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). As such, China Lake had tl? obtain NRC permits before testing the DU projectiles. Please see VACUUM, Page 6 , OCR Text: , d f --. i~ ~ ~4 THE ROCKETEER c~ !!s:; t,., 486dx-4011hz , 4mb I'Iam(Max 32Mb Ram) . , 12()nb haiti clive , Dual ~ (1.4Mb &12 Mb) , 14"VGA'(:29inm) 1024x768 , Keyboard , Towercase , 2serial and 1parallel port , MSDOS5.0 486dx2-6tJrTttz , 4mb Ram(Max 32Mb Ram) , mnb haiti clive , DuaI~(I .4Mb&12Mb) , SVGA morita' , CD-Rom , Keyboard, Mouse , Towercase , 2serial and 1Dalailel JlO!1 , MS DOS 5.0, WindowS 3.1 $1349 $2499 February 25, 1m Citizen PN-48 Notebook Printer $445 , 11.7" x3.5" x2.OIbs w/o battery , Prints 1~ per mirUe , 360 x360 .char. resolution , Citizen G , Epson La and IBM X24 emualions FEDCOMCOMPUTER CENTER In the Tivoli Centre 1400 N. Nonna 446-5665 VISAJMastercardlDHover Prioes and availability on all products subject to change without notice Macintosh PowerBook RAM 80mb Hard Drive · Built in support for external Apple 13' or 14' displays · Internal 1.44mb Super Drive · Built-in sound ports · System 7 and built-in .Appletalk · 1S-Ievel gray-scale display HP LaserJet 4M Laser Writer II G · HP's fast laser printer for Mac users · 8 pages per minute · 600 dpi Resolution Enhancement technology · 250 sheet multi-purpose tray · Bmb RAM · Fineprint · Photograde · Built~n Ethernet '" ••• Apple Macintosh LC III 4mb RAM 80mb Hard Drive Complete System Includes: ·25MHz 68030 processor · 14' 640x480 Apple display · NEWI Apple adjustable keyboard I • • • ~ ~ Laser Writer Pro 630 .8mb RAM ·8 pages per minute · 600 dpi · Includes 64 True Type fonts · Fineprint and Photograde · Postscript Level II Call Don Braem at 446-4269 Prices and availability on all products subject to change without notice Next Commander will be headquartered at CL T he Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, commanded by RAdm. William E. Newman, USN, consists of large sites at Point Mugu and China Lake, California, as well as small detachments ill Albuquerque and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The Weapons Division was established in Jan- uary 1992, integrating four commands into a single large command providing research, development, test, evalua- tion and life cycle support for U.S. Navy, Joint Service and foreign naval weapon systems. During the initial phase of censolidation, the new command has been headquartered at Point Mugu. The Vice Commander resides at China Lake as a matter of command policy. The next Weapons Division commander, when assigned, will command the Division from headquarters at China Lake. The next Vice Commander will correspondingly reside at Point Mugu to provide command oversight and coordination for the Commander at the site. The Navy does not anticipate significant changes to Point Mugu's role as a premier DoD Test and Evaluation facility. The world's largest fully instrumented Sea Test Range and RDT&E capabilities will continue to provide Fleet and acquisition community customers with comprehensive products and services. (Editor's Note: This notice appears exactly as it was released 10 external news outlets by the commander 's office.) THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1993 NAVAl AIR WEAPONS STAnON, CHINA lAis, employees cnodiled for suec.... 14 China Lake W _" GoIfT__-.t lady prof.....onob coming fOf open 54-hole . ...-entMarch 15-17 20 Haaland: By Steve Boster foAonoging Edibf , w e are living in a world of change," said Ster- ling Haaland, in his first interview since becoming the new Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS) Deputy Commander for Research and Development. ''Change is just part of our life and change is going to·happen faster than ever. I've accepted it as reality," he added. The NAWCWPNS leadership is working through this never ending Change will happen faster than ever process of change, looking toward a positive future. Stressing that his role as Deputy Commander for R&D covers all NAWCWPNS sites, Haaland said, "I recognize that we're in a larger orga- ni zation and when 1 talk about NAWCWPNS 1 mean all the sites and all work going on at those sites. 1 may he located at China Lake, but 1 repre- sent the whole R&D community." To that end, he said he plans to visit the various sites whenever possi- ble. Maintaining his connections to the working R&D world at Please see HAAlAND Page 8 Contractor vacuums desert to remove depleted uranium By Janice Kaspenon Technro ~ormohan Dep:lftmenr V acuuming up a mess is noth- ing new to anyone who's ever tried to keep a house or apart- ment in shape. But instead of an area the size of your living room, imagine vacuuming six acres of dirt. A cleanup program on the north range of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is doing just that to elimi- nate contamination from testing that took place over the last decade. Beginning in the late 197050 120- millimeter tank ammunition was fired in the Tower II area of China Lake's north range in support of the M-1 tank program. Honeywell Inc. (now AIliant Techsystems), under contract to the Army, conducted the tests. The projectiles were made of depleted uranium (DU), a by-product from the nuclear-power industry. Naturally occurring uranium has two primary isotopes, the readily fis- sionable uranium-235, which makes up about 0.7 percent of the uranium, and uranium-238, which makes up more than 99 percent. Because a higher concentration of uranium-235 is required to power nuclear reactors, natural uranium ore is refined and concentrated to produce "enriched uranium." The material left over from the ore after the uranium-235 is removed, depleted uranium, has a very low level of radioactivity and is inexpen- sive, hard and twice as dense as lead-ideal for tank-penetration ammunition, counterweights in air- craft, gyroscope assemblies, heli- copter blade assemblies and oth~r applications. Although DU poses.no radiation hazard to humans during limited exposure, it is a heavy metal and, like lead or mercury, toxic if ingested. Because it 'remains technically a radioactive material, however, DU is regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). As such, China Lake had tl? obtain NRC permits before testing the DU projectiles. Please see VACUUM, Page 6 , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1990s,Rocketeer 1993,Rktr2.25.1993.pdf,Rktr2.25.1993.pdf Page 1, Rktr2.25.1993.pdf Page 1