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Pax River leaders win DoD award

Two Naval Air Systems Command employees based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River received the Department of Defense ...
McLean, Virginia-based BAE Systems received a five-year, $92 million follow-on contract to continue supporting Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems Operations onboard Navy ship- and shore-based sites ...
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Pax River-managed UAS program hits 1 million flight hours

The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program office at Naval Air Station Patuxent River announced that its Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Services UAS ...
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — If you’re a night owl or a light sleeper living near NAS Patuxent River and Webster Outlying Field, here’s a heads up you won’t want to miss. Mark your calendars for Aug. 6 and 7 ...
Unlike the spot where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet, there’s no monument at Maryland’s “Four Corners” where the counties of Carrol, Frederick, Montgomery and Howard touch one another.
On the wooded banks of the Patuxent River, which flows past his farmland near Upper Marlboro, Md., Fred Tutman, 62, communes with nature. “In a romantic sense, I’ve had a connection to the river since ...
Nestled near the tip of Southern Maryland lies Naval Air Station Patuxent River better known as PAX River, home to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) and Naval Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD ...
The Patuxent River Commission’s roots go back decades, to the genesis of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup movement, and its 34 members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate. That ...
Clyde B. “Bernie” Fowler, a former Maryland state senator who worked tirelessly to preserve the Patuxent River and restore the Chesapeake Bay, and was known for his annual “wade-in,” died of heart ...
You’ve seen the sign a thousand times while you’re driving on the highway and about to cross a bridge. The sign says that the river you’re about to cross is not just any river; it’s been designated a ...