Gun maker takes aim at TDOT

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:39 am

Ronnie Barrett says state officials told him they were on board with his plans to expand and add 300 jobs just off I-24 in Rutherford County — until they weren’t and left him with a building he can’t get to.

“TDOT was very in favor of it. They said, ‘Yes, we like it. It’s an old farm fence out there. I think it’s going to be easy just to move the fence,’” said Barrett. “Now we have the inability to be able to win certain government contracts because our building’s not big enough.”

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Tags: Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc., commercial real estate, economic development, infrastructure, litigation, manufacturing, Ronnie Barrett, Rutherford County, Tennessee Department of Transportation, the military  

Nashville to be decommissioned

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on June 9, 2009 at 10:42 pm

Almost four decades after being commissioned, the USS Nashville will be mothballed at the end of September. The amphibious transport dock spent its last mission off the west coast of Africa.

BTW, know how many other American warships have carried the Nashville name?

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Tags: the military, U.S. Navy, USS Nashville  

Delek snags another defense deal

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on April 1, 2009 at 7:30 am

The Department of Defense has renewed its contract to buy fuel from the Brentwood-based company (Ticker: DK) and increased its size from $102 million a year ago to more than $160 million. Delek has been supplying the military since 2006.

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Tags: Delek Refining Ltd., Delek US Holdings Inc., energy, government contracts, the military, U.S. Department of Defense  

Military spending closer to home

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on February 22, 2009 at 10:28 pm

The stimulus bill is set to bring more than $100 million in spending to Fort Campbell, work that one observer says will help contractors around the region.

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Tags: construction, Fort Campbell, government stimulus, the military  

Uncle Sam’s paycheck

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on January 19, 2009 at 1:00 pm

A lousy job market and a new G.I. Bill are helping army recruiters hit their numbers.

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Tags: employment, the military