Source: United States Navy
ARABIAN SEA – Amphibious assault ship USS ESSEX (LHD 2), flagship of the ESSEX Amphibious Ready Group (ESX ARG), along with amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27), dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) and embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) entered the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, Sept. 12.
Source: United States Navy
SPARKS, Nev. – The Tailhook Association’s 2021 symposium—Hook ’21—came to a close on September 12, 2021, ending with a banquet keynoted by U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander, Adm. Samuel J. Paparo. The three-day event featured presentations and dialogue from leaders across Naval Aviation. The convention provided opportunities for naval aviators to discuss the requirements for current readiness and the future force.
Source: United States Navy
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Engineers at NIWC Atlantic’s Expeditionary Warfare Department spent years consolidating the Marine Corps’ primary intelligence system known as DCGS-MC. The major modernization effort resulted in a lightweight version of the system, which completed its first round of fielding to Marines this summer.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)
Director Christopher Wray has named J. William Rivers as the special agent in charge of the Cincinnati Field Office. Mr. Rivers most recently served as a section chief and the director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Mr. Rivers joined the FBI as a special agent in 2002 and was assigned to the Washington Field Office to investigate counterintelligence matters. In 2006, he was certified as a technically trained agent and worked on WFO’s Technical Operations Squad to support investigative programs. He also served on the SWAT team as the technical coordinator and as a certified sniper.
In 2013, Mr. Rivers was promoted to supervisory special agent. He remained on WFO’s Technical Operations Squad and provided technical investigative support to criminal, intelligence, and national security squads. He supervised 20 other technically trained agents and served as a liaison to the Operational Technology Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington and to outside partners.
Mr. Rivers was promoted in 2015 to unit chief of the TTA Operations and Development Unit in the Operational Technology Division at Headquarters and was responsible for the success of the FBI’s technical investigative personnel.
In 2018, Mr. Rivers was appointed assistant special agent in charge of the Norfolk Field Office in Virginia. He was responsible for all criminal, cyber, and administrative programs. He was promoted in 2020 to section chief and director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center. TEDAC is a multi-agency center that coordinates bomb-related evidence and intelligence collection for the U.S. government.
Mr. Rivers earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky. Prior to joining the FBI, he was a project manager and engineer for a private general construction company in Kentucky.
Source: United States Department of Justice
Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas, has agreed to pay $2.85 million in civil penalties and to improve its risk management program to resolve alleged violations of the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at its petrochemical manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas.