THE ROCKETEER July 27, 1995 Year-End Discount Pricing... Today! re! s o Hz Pentium 120MHz Pentium Motherboard PCI 1MB Video Card On-Board IDE I/O 1GB IDE Hard Drive 8MB RAM DOS 6.22 Windows 3.11 Serial Mouse 3.5' 1.44MB FDD Mid Tower 17" Monitor NI SVGA 101 Enhanced Keyboard ,.-::---.,...-----.,()~ $2499 SONY 2011 GDM20SE11P Yes it's a SONYI A20' Trinitron Screen .30mm, 1280xl024, 60Hz Flat Screen. ()ttbf $2299 PRINTER DEAL! Apple LaserWriter 16/600 16 pages per minute, 600dpi, 8MB RAM Simply the best printer deal in townl $2199 & Com PowerMac 7100/S0 SnOOCD FOR A LIlVlITED TIME ONLY Fedcom has located a limited amount of TRUE 7100/80 PowerMac's at a greatly reduced price. Hurry and get one today! OFFER INCLUDES: • 8MB RAM • 700MB Hard Disk Drive ·'""'M';:R;~ $2499 Apple COMPLETE SYSTEM! PowerMac 7100/66 81500 CD 'JHd«de4 PowerMac 7100/66 14" Monitor Keyboard I)~ $2499 The /atest alldfastest Quad Speed CDfrom Apple. $349 Apple 600e CD ROM 619/384-2000 SiIit:tJnIJnIpI VISA/Master Card!Discover Prices and avalla~ are subject to change without notice. Items may vary In appearance from pletures shown. - THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, JUlY 27, 1995 NAVAl AIR WW'ONS STATlON, CHINA lAKE FAT MAN-Historical photo shows workers at the Chino lake Pilot Plant preporing a Fat Man style atomic bomb (without the nuclear core) for shipment. August 6 marks the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, the first ever deployed in wartime. Please see the story on Page 16, which recounts Chino lake's involvement in the early development of nuclear weapons. China Lakers complete successful test and integration of HAWK and TACTS at Yuma D uring the last phase of HAWK air defense system and TACTS testing and integration, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., by China Lakers Eid Khatib and Jim McMechan, the Cactus Comet, the Marine Corps Air Station newspaper ran an arti- cle praising the effort. The paper said the testing pro- _ vided an accurate training scenario to Marine Avia- tion and Weapons Tactics Squadron-I (MAWTS-I) as well as to the Light Anti-Aircraft Missile (LAAM) Battalion. It explained the big advantage between the old way of training and the new way of having HAWK, or the Home-AII-the-Way Killer, integrated with TACTS, the Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System. Khatib and McMechan are employees of the Combat Environment Software Branch in the Threat/Target Systems Department. "In the past, during weapons and tactics instructor training, we would be at the pilots' debriefing and the TACTS people would ask if we saw an aircraft at a certain time while in the field," explained SSgt. Jan Lautner, 1st LAAM Battery platoon commander. "We would check out lists to see if we actually tracked an aircraft arid if we shot it down, but the pilot could always dispute OUT time because we didn't have any re;l evidence ofthe action. P lease see HAWK, Page 17 Vo... 51, No. 14 Dialog started on work force 'skills mix adjustment' By Capt. Roger K. Hull NAwcwPNS Voce Commonde< (Editor's Note: This article contains the text of an all hands message released by Capt. Hull on July 17. Two ques- tions thai were subsequently sent to him, with his answers, are also included. Selected Qs & As on this topic will appear infillure issues ofThe Rocketeer.) T hose of you at China Lake have probably seen the Fri- day (July 14) edition of the Ridgecrest Daily Indepen- dent with its front page article on our need to look at adjusting our work force "skills mix" as a means of overcom- ing a budget deficit. For those of you at Point Mugu, Albuquerque or White Sands, or anyone at China Lake who didn't see the paper, the article discussed the fact that we are looking at the possibility of an unspecified number of involuntary separations sometime late next year. Unfortunately, a memo with numerous factual errors was given to the media, and was used as the basis for the story. Thanks to a willingness on the part of the media to conduct an interview, the story itself is generally accurate, with a few exceptions. It is important for all of you to understand three salient points regarding this issue: • This is by no means the first time we have looked at the possibility of using the entire spectrum of tools we have avail- able to us for correcting an operating loss. We have managed to avoid involuntary separations in the past, and we will do everything possible to avoid it this time. The fact that the process takes nearly a year to complete means that we need to do the necessary data collection and planning now, and then vigorously pursue all other means of adjusting our skills mix, while sticking to the 4% a year down- sizing that all of you are accustomed to by now. • Requesting approval for an action of this type does NOT necessarily mean that we will execute it, or that it will be as large as initially envisioned. At any point prior to actual execu- tion, we can reduce the scope or cancel the action entirely. • There is absolutely no desire on the part of management to keep any secrets from any of you. We are prohibited from making any general announcements on the subject in order to avoid circumventing the request and approval process, and to avoid politicizing the issue unnecessarily. Please see DIAlOG, Page 20 CW04 Mich..11 G. Edmiston .... 30 year carelrlad..., 'Over the Horizon' by VAdm, Lockard Gordon Fawkes recagnizecl with RanneAward SllOllP Anna Reduction TreatY. team conducts inspection Hangar 3 is !he sile of !he rp'.m. farewell oeremony lor muhi-lour China Laker 3 NAVAIR oommander IOlks about work processes in his monthly column 8 long-time ordnance ~nt learn member honored lor ellicient, innovotiw leadership 9 Ten inspectors from lormer Soviet Union visit live sites Oller post weekend 16 , OCR Text: THE ROCKETEER July 27, 1995 Year-End Discount Pricing... Today! re! s o Hz Pentium 120MHz Pentium Motherboard PCI 1MB Video Card On-Board IDE I/O 1GB IDE Hard Drive 8MB RAM DOS 6.22 Windows 3.11 Serial Mouse 3.5' 1.44MB FDD Mid Tower 17" Monitor NI SVGA 101 Enhanced Keyboard ,.-::---.,...-----.,()~ $2499 SONY 2011 GDM20SE11P Yes it's a SONYI A20' Trinitron Screen .30mm, 1280xl024, 60Hz Flat Screen. ()ttbf $2299 PRINTER DEAL! Apple LaserWriter 16/600 16 pages per minute, 600dpi, 8MB RAM Simply the best printer deal in townl $2199 & Com PowerMac 7100/S0 SnOOCD FOR A LIlVlITED TIME ONLY Fedcom has located a limited amount of TRUE 7100/80 PowerMac's at a greatly reduced price. Hurry and get one today! OFFER INCLUDES: • 8MB RAM • 700MB Hard Disk Drive ·'""'M';:R;~ $2499 Apple COMPLETE SYSTEM! PowerMac 7100/66 81500 CD 'JHd«de4 PowerMac 7100/66 14" Monitor Keyboard I)~ $2499 The /atest alldfastest Quad Speed CDfrom Apple. $349 Apple 600e CD ROM 619/384-2000 SiIit:tJnIJnIpI VISA/Master Card!Discover Prices and avalla~ are subject to change without notice. Items may vary In appearance from pletures shown. - THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, JUlY 27, 1995 NAVAl AIR WW'ONS STATlON, CHINA lAKE FAT MAN-Historical photo shows workers at the Chino lake Pilot Plant preporing a Fat Man style atomic bomb (without the nuclear core) for shipment. August 6 marks the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, the first ever deployed in wartime. Please see the story on Page 16, which recounts Chino lake's involvement in the early development of nuclear weapons. China Lakers complete successful test and integration of HAWK and TACTS at Yuma D uring the last phase of HAWK air defense system and TACTS testing and integration, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., by China Lakers Eid Khatib and Jim McMechan, the Cactus Comet, the Marine Corps Air Station newspaper ran an arti- cle praising the effort. The paper said the testing pro- _ vided an accurate training scenario to Marine Avia- tion and Weapons Tactics Squadron-I (MAWTS-I) as well as to the Light Anti-Aircraft Missile (LAAM) Battalion. It explained the big advantage between the old way of training and the new way of having HAWK, or the Home-AII-the-Way Killer, integrated with TACTS, the Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System. Khatib and McMechan are employees of the Combat Environment Software Branch in the Threat/Target Systems Department. "In the past, during weapons and tactics instructor training, we would be at the pilots' debriefing and the TACTS people would ask if we saw an aircraft at a certain time while in the field," explained SSgt. Jan Lautner, 1st LAAM Battery platoon commander. "We would check out lists to see if we actually tracked an aircraft arid if we shot it down, but the pilot could always dispute OUT time because we didn't have any re;l evidence ofthe action. P lease see HAWK, Page 17 Vo... 51, No. 14 Dialog started on work force 'skills mix adjustment' By Capt. Roger K. Hull NAwcwPNS Voce Commonde< (Editor's Note: This article contains the text of an all hands message released by Capt. Hull on July 17. Two ques- tions thai were subsequently sent to him, with his answers, are also included. Selected Qs & As on this topic will appear infillure issues ofThe Rocketeer.) T hose of you at China Lake have probably seen the Fri- day (July 14) edition of the Ridgecrest Daily Indepen- dent with its front page article on our need to look at adjusting our work force "skills mix" as a means of overcom- ing a budget deficit. For those of you at Point Mugu, Albuquerque or White Sands, or anyone at China Lake who didn't see the paper, the article discussed the fact that we are looking at the possibility of an unspecified number of involuntary separations sometime late next year. Unfortunately, a memo with numerous factual errors was given to the media, and was used as the basis for the story. Thanks to a willingness on the part of the media to conduct an interview, the story itself is generally accurate, with a few exceptions. It is important for all of you to understand three salient points regarding this issue: • This is by no means the first time we have looked at the possibility of using the entire spectrum of tools we have avail- able to us for correcting an operating loss. We have managed to avoid involuntary separations in the past, and we will do everything possible to avoid it this time. The fact that the process takes nearly a year to complete means that we need to do the necessary data collection and planning now, and then vigorously pursue all other means of adjusting our skills mix, while sticking to the 4% a year down- sizing that all of you are accustomed to by now. • Requesting approval for an action of this type does NOT necessarily mean that we will execute it, or that it will be as large as initially envisioned. At any point prior to actual execu- tion, we can reduce the scope or cancel the action entirely. • There is absolutely no desire on the part of management to keep any secrets from any of you. We are prohibited from making any general announcements on the subject in order to avoid circumventing the request and approval process, and to avoid politicizing the issue unnecessarily. Please see DIAlOG, Page 20 CW04 Mich..11 G. Edmiston .... 30 year carelrlad..., 'Over the Horizon' by VAdm, Lockard Gordon Fawkes recagnizecl with RanneAward SllOllP Anna Reduction TreatY. team conducts inspection Hangar 3 is !he sile of !he rp'.m. farewell oeremony lor muhi-lour China Laker 3 NAVAIR oommander IOlks about work processes in his monthly column 8 long-time ordnance ~nt learn member honored lor ellicient, innovotiw leadership 9 Ten inspectors from lormer Soviet Union visit live sites Oller post weekend 16 , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1990s,Rocketeer 1995,Rktr7.27.1995.pdf,Rktr7.27.1995.pdf Page 1, Rktr7.27.1995.pdf Page 1