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This research formed the basis of the predecessor of USS, the Federated Superannuation System for Universities, which was approved by the Board of Education and membership became compulsory for new appointees post 1 October 1913. The basic plan criteria were: The benefit was an annuity or cash payment through an insurance policy maturing at age 60.
USS Robert Kerrey (DDG-146) is a planned Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 96th overall of the class. She is named for former U.S. Senator Joseph Robert Kerrey , who was awarded the Medal of Honor .
The Movement Report System (MOVREP) is a system established to collect and make available to certain commands vital information on the status, location, and movement of flag commands, commissioned fleet units, and ships under the operational control of the United States Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Such reports help in identifying ships that are ...
Shortly after the entry of the United States into the war the Army arranged for the construction of fifty C-4 freighters modelled on the Seatrain concept. [22] The five ships were requisitioned with title passing to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for two vessels in July 1941, another in February 1942 and the remaining two in May 1942. [23]
ACDS Block 0 was deployed in nine aircraft carriers, five Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, and all five Tarawa-class amphibious assault ships. [1] [2] The first installation of ACDS Block 1 began in FY 1996 with the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, followed by the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in 1999 and the amphibious assault ship ...
Poster requesting clothing for occupied France and Belgium 1917 poster for Belgian relief. The commission's task was to obtain foodstuffs from abroad and ship them into Belgium, where CRB monitors supervised distribution by members of the Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation (CNSA), the Belgian organization headed by Émile Francqui.
USS Robert E. Peary (FF-1073) was a Knox-class frigate with the United States Navy from 1972 until 1992. In 1992, the ship was decommissioned and loaned to the Republic of China . The ship was renamed Chi Yang ( Chinese : 濟陽 ) and was part of the Republic of China Navy until 2015.
Inforex Inc. corporation manufactured and sold key-to-disk data entry systems in the 1970s and mid-1980s. The company was founded by ex-IBM engineers to develop direct data entry systems that allowed information to be entered on terminals and stored directly on disk drives, replacing keypunch machines using punched cards or paper tape, which had been the dominant tools for data entry since the ...