We have successfully completed a proof-of-concept, one-year grant on a three-year proposal from the former NABIR program. Using a state-of-the-art 300-kV, atomic resolution, Field Emission Gun Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), we have successfully identified three categories of mineral hosts for uranium in contaminated soils from the Oak Ridge FRC: (1) iron oxides: (2) mixed manganese-iron oxides; and (3) uranium phosphates.

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Frederick MD

Base Visit Trip Report - National Geospatial Intelligence Agency - May 26, 2005

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Robert L. Johnson to Commissioner Coyle dtd 10 August 2005 regarding the movement of the Ordnance Museum from Aberdeen, MD to Ft. Lee, VA.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Sen. Sarbanes, Sen. Mikulski, and Rep. Ruppersberger to Chairman Principi dtd 4 Aug 2005 reiterating they're support for the Maryland Air National Guard and urging the BRAC to set aside the Air Force recommendation to remove all eight C-130J aircraft currently based at Martin State Air Base (MSA).

Memorandum of meeting regarding the relocation of National Geospatial-Intelligence Activities to Fort Meade in lieu of Fort Belvoir.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/11/05 to all Commissioners from Catherine Barrett of the Department of Business & Development Maryland, presenting the future home of the Odenton Town Center.

Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, a pilot during World War II. He describes growing up on a farm in Georgia, going to college at Berry, and working for Sears, Roebuck, and the Royal Typewriter Company before joining the U. S. Navy. He tells an anecdote about joining the navy so he could go to New York to see the World's Fair, since he had heard the Atlanta Reserve would be making a trip to the Fair. He began flight training in Florida in December 1940, finished the next September, then drove cross-country to San Francisco after the Pearl Harbor attack. He eventually joined the USS Enterprise in April 1942 and saw the B-25 bombers in the Doolittle Raid take off. He was part of Bombing Squadron Six and trained under Commander Best to learn how to do scouting flights, navigation, and dive bombing. He then describes his participation in the Battle of Midway, the hours before take-off, his first view of the Japanese fleet, and his bombing mission. He was later assigned to the USS Hornet and had to fly off to a little island so that planes from the USS Wasp could land on the Hornet after their ship …

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.