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Volume 2, No. 1
Spring 2006
- NAVSEA Looks to Composite Technology to Improve Warship Components
One of the most widespread and costly maintenance challenges on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers involves corrosion of the brass boxes that house electrical equipment, interior lights, and connectors. Gretchen Jacobson reports on an effort now underway to replace the metallic boxes with composite models—a change that is expected to save millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours per year on shipboard repairs and replacement.
- Coast Guard Responds to Hurricane Katrina: A Photo Essay
When Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, it created an area of devastation the size of Great Britain—about 90,000 square miles. Five thousand Coast Guard personnel joined the national rescue effort, and they used one-third of the agency's aviation fleet to conduct their operations. In this photo essay, Lt. Commander Charles Hatfield presents highlights of what the Coast Guard's search-and-rescue operations involved after the hurricane hit.
- Tri-Service Corrosion Conference Broadens Program and Audience
For the first time, the bi-annual conference that brings together corrosion scientists and engineers working for the Department of Defense broadened its program to include
experts involved in operating and sustaining DoD assets, as well as presenters in Research and Development. Here are highlights of the November 2005 Tri-Service Corrosion Conference, held in Orlando, Florida.
- Rich Hays Leads Communications and Outreach Team for DoD Corrosion Office
Rich Hays, a veteran project manager and corrosion engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division, was chosen to lead the Communications and Outreach team for the DoD Corrosion Office in 2003. The team, known as a WIPT—or "working integrated product team"—spearheads the Corrosion Office's communication-related policy goals. Here, CorrDefense profiles a hard-working member of the team that supports the DoD Corrosion Policy and Oversight initiative.
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