Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Tuesday, January 11, 2000
Raytheon wins Navy's Guam work
The Navy's Pacific headquarters in Honolulu has signed a $328.4 million contract with Raytheon Corp. to provide base operations support for the U.S. Naval Facilities, Guam. The contract is for an eight-month base period followed by seven one-year options.Raytheon's services will include administering the facilities, engineering and maintenance, operation and maintenance of the utilities, supply and transportation, waterfront and harbor operations, housing and food, and family support. Raytheon initially won the work in November in a bidding process. The work will begin in February.
Lexington, Mass.-based Raytheon is an international provider of commercial and defense electronics, engineering construction, and aircraft.
Halekulani hooks up with high-speed lines
The Halekulani Corp. has joined the Oceanic Communications/Time Warner Inc. fiber-optic network for data, Internet and voice communications. It will bring local switched and broadband data communications to Halekulani Corp.'s headquarters in downtown Honolulu as well as throughout its two hotels in Waikiki, the Halekulani and the Waikiki Parc. The Oceanic/Time Warner system already serves more than 11,000 rooms in 25 Hawaii hotels.
In other news . . .
Don Ho, whose 35-year career has helped make Hawaii famous around the world, has been named Sales Person of the Year by Sales & Marketing Executives of Honolulu, which calls him the "salesman of the century" for Hawaii. Ho will be honored at an SME luncheon Feb. 10th at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. For information on the luncheon, call SME at 537-1158.