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Raytheon Polar Services
Raytheon Polar Services Company (RPSC) was a division of Raytheon that provided logistics, operations, and staffing for the National Science Foundation's operations in Antarctica and Antarctic waters. Its contract with the United States Antarctic Program expired on March 30, 2012. Operational Role The US Antarctic Program Participant Guide lists RPSC's role in Antarctica as the following: * Supporting science and operating research labs * Procuring, arranging for transport, warehousing, and issuing equipment and supplies * Operating and maintaining stations, research vessels, and numerous field camps * Arranging medical clearance and travel of parties * Managing transportation of passengers and cargo * Arranging annual resupply and fuel of McMurdo by Military Sealift Command contract ships * Providing marine terminal operations * Complying with safety, health, and environmental requirements Raytheon Polar Services operates the Antarctic Fire Department. Criticism Raytheon P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
