Hi list Does anyone have any idea what NOOS stands for in connection with the US Department of Commerce? The letters NOOS was spotted in a round badge -- NOOS in the middle, US Department of Commerce along the circle in the bottom - four words in the top -- but I don't know which. Any help? Yours Bo Elkjaer, Denmark
They're not listed in the department's acronym list and site search reveals very little relating to NOOS (doubt they're NOS - National Ocean Service). "National Ocean Service (NOS)--conducts research on health of the coastal environment, which translates into healthy coastal economics.
From gathering data about the coast to producing marine and aeronautical charts for safe navigation, NOS is at the forefront of merging coastal resources with a forward-moving economy."
http://osecnt13.osec.doc.gov/public.nsf/docs/bureau-acronyms http://www.fedworld.gov/ I'd be more afraid they were these guys: Agency: Military Sealift Command Office: B-210 Washington Navy Yard Room 241, Code NOOS Washington DC 20378-5100 (202) 433-0061 Any enlightenment available on circumstances? Bo Elkjaer wrote:
Hi list Does anyone have any idea what NOOS stands for in connection with the US Department of Commerce?
The letters NOOS was spotted in a round badge -- NOOS in the middle, US Department of Commerce along the circle in the bottom - four words in the top -- but I don't know which.
Any help?
Yours Bo Elkjaer, Denmark
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Reynolds wrote:
Any enlightenment available on circumstances?
Last thursday a friend and colleague of mine visited the danish SIGINT site Skibsbylejren, which is under reconstruction and enhancement. They're building new 23 meters tall, 30 meters wide radomes. Three radomes are more or less finished by now, three more are planned to be built soon. My friend visited the site with a local politician. So they went in on the enclosed area (through the unlocked gate) and knocked on the door of a trailer parked near one of the radomes. This guy jumps up inside the trailer, rushes to the door blocking their access, and tells them 'you're not supposed to be here'. He's obviously american, wearing overalls and a blue workmans shirt with a round printed badge on left pocket: NOOS in the middle, US Department of Commerce along the circle. NOOS is short for four words - which also were printed in the badge, but they didn't get the time to read the words before the american ran away and eight danish military intelligence officers showed up and threw my friend and the politician out. My friend works for national radio, and they were visiting the site so she could interview the politician for a news-piece on signals intelligence in Denmark. The story about the american broke big time this morning and will be discussed in parliament later today. Yours
Bo Elkjaer wrote:
Hi list Does anyone have any idea what NOOS stands for in connection with the US Department of Commerce?
The letters NOOS was spotted in a round badge -- NOOS in the middle, US Department of Commerce along the circle in the bottom - four words in the top -- but I don't know which.
Any help?
Yours Bo Elkjaer, Denmark
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Greg Reynolds posted some jargon purporting to be from the US National Ocean Service:
"NOS is at the forefront of merging coastal resources with a forward-moving economy."
What a wonderful way of putting it. Corporate dont-sue-me-please on-message toe-the-line vision-and-values mission-statement blandness meets military-official Haigspeak and together they produce such a charmingly inoffensive little phrase. If you are a "coastal resource" you will be merged. You will be *assimilated* It's for your own good you know. None of that stitting around uselessly somewhere between the sea and the land. That cannot be tolerated. You will be merged. And don't think you are going to get a piece of the coast if you aren't a part of the "forward-moving economy". Backward-movers need not apply. And as for sideways-movers, we know how to deal with those little crablets. Trust me, I'm from the Fisheries Protection Agency, and I'm here to merge you. All those starfish had better co-operate too. They can crawl but they can't hide. They *will* be assimilated. Merged. A seamless geodesically forward-moving economic network encompassing all right-thinking coastal entities. I have seen the future and it writhes. Ken Brown
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