March 2024

JACKSON, Miss.– Entergy Mississippi has completed construction of a new distribution substation in the Snowden Grove Park community, near Tchulahoma Road in Southaven. The substation is a part of a $37 million project, which included constructing nearly two miles of new transmission lines, 12 miles of new and rebuilt distribution lines, and 74 new composite

Gulfport, Miss. – Mississippi Power recently announced the appointments of Gifford Ormes as Vice President of External Affairs and Customer Growth and Melvin Roland as Vice President of Power Delivery and Division Operations. “The addition of Gifford and Melvin to our Management Council will continue the long history of successful leaders in these key roles,”

Airbus Helicopters has created a new final assembly line (FAL) for its H145 light twin at its facility in Colombus, Mississippi, with the first American-made example of the type set to roll off the line imminently. Speaking to Vertical on the eve of HAI Heli-Expo 2024 in Anaheim, California, Bart Reijnen, president of Airbus Helicopters, Inc. and

  PASCAGOULA, Miss. — HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division announced today the successful completion of acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico for amphibious transport dock Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29), the final Flight I transition ship before Ingalls moves into serial production of the LPD Flight II line. “We have had a successful trial