The University of Guam received the first year of funding for a Sea Grant Extension Program grant amounting to $70K for 2009 and a total of $370K over the three-year grant period ending in 2011.
“One …

Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unveiled a new ground station in Guam that will track spacecraft from JAXA’s upcoming Quasi-Zenith Satellite System.
The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, …

The Navy has awarded a contract worth nearly $14 million to a company to upgrade the wastewater collection system at Naval Base Guam.
The Naval Facilities Engineer Command Pacific at Pearl Harbor said Tuesday that antiquated …

Ahh…the ferry topic again.  I’m glad someone brought it up.  While this would be great I can see the concern the feds have with it.  Also, I’d like to see if it’s possible to have …

Ships sailing in waters near Guam have a new connection to shore. The island’s NAVTEX coastal telex broadcast system has been upgraded by replacing three conventional 300’ vertical towers with one small aperture SAMWAS antenna
The …

Recovery Act funding to expand weatherization assistance programs, create jobs and weatherize approximately 29,200 homes
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy is providing more than …

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, in Hawai’i on his first Pacific tour, yesterday said a jobs requirement added to a defense bill by U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie would jeopardize the planned $15 billion move …

When a massive earthquake jolted the floor of the Indian Ocean in late 2004, the U.S. military, along with much of the world, rushed to help.
But in those first few days, that response to the …

The University of Guam has completed the establishment of a conservation planting of Guam’s endangered fadang tree on the island of Tinian. Guam Navy has funded the entire project and provided access to their lands …

Chinese and Russian tourists are being excluded from a visa waiver program being instituted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the Western Pacific.
The program covering the U.S. territory of Guam and the U.S. …