October 15, 2002: "A Small Local Company is Gaining Notoriety for its Pivotal Role in the Operation of U.S. Naval Ships.".  Fairmount Automation was featured on the front page of The Phoenix newspaper.

October 11, 2002: Fairmount Automation Receives Financial Investment From Prominent Philadelphia Business Entity and Receives the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce's Manufacturer of the Year Award.

May 4, 2002: Fairmount Automation Founders Receive Entrepreneurs of the Year Award from Alma Mater.

February 15, 2002: "Sailing Along.  On board with a big customer, Fairmount Automation makes things very tough".  Fairmount Automation was featured in the Growth Strategies section of the Philadelphia Business Journal.

October 26, 2001: Fairmount Automation Named One of Philadelphia's Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies.

October 25, 2001: Fairmount Automation, Johns Hopkins University, and The Naval Surface Warfare Center Demonstrate Advanced Ship-wide Automation System Architecture.

June 2001: A Collection, Holding, and Transfer (CHT) Tank Level Indication (TLI) control system installation was completed on the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) by a team from Naval Automation Group (NAG) and Fairmount Automation.  A similar installation was previously completed on the USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CV-67) as a prototype in January 2001. The system employs radar tank level indicators from Ohmart Vega and process controllers/receivers from Fairmount Automation (FAC-2000s). The FAC-2000s are providing power for the TLIs, local tank level indication and alarm status, control of discharge pumps, and control of a seawater flush sequence to clean the radar TLI head.  Based on the success of this and the previous system, plans are being made to duplicate this installation on the remaining CHT tanks on the USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CV-67) later this year.

June 2001: "Chesco firm seeks out 'Navy niche' and enjoys the benefits of success".  Reporter Peter Binzen featured Fairmount Automation on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Business section Monday June 18^th 2001.

May 2001: Fairmount Automation received continued funding to upgrade the Chilled Water Reduced-Scale Advanced Demonstrator (CW-RSAD) in support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Integrated Engineering Plant (IEP) Program. ONR funded NSWC to assist the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) in the development and testing of an agent-based Open Autonomy Kernel (OAK) architecture for automating interdependent shipboard machinery systems. OAK will be tested using the CW-RSAD.

March 2001: The FairNET connection to the Integrated Conditional Assessment System (ICAS) for the Automatic Boiler Control (ABC) System on USS SEATTLE (AOE-3) is complete.  This system employs 28 FAC-2000 controllers communicating over four individual FAIRNET networks.   Fairmount Automation’s FairNET OPC Server software interfaces the controller networks to individual ICAS stations.  From these stations the data is broadcast around the ship.  This gives ships force the ability to monitor and analyze important plant information from just about anywhere in the vessel.

January 2001:  A new Collection, Holding, and Transfer (CHT) Tank Level Indication (TLI) control system installation was completed on the USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CV-67) by a team from Fleet Technical Support Center Atlantic Fleet (FTSCLANT), Naval Automation Group (NAG), and Fairmount Automation.  This new system employs a radar tank level indicator from Ohmart Vega and a Fairmount Automation FAC-2000.  The FAC-2000 is providing power for the TLI, local indication of tank level and alarm status, retransmission of the tank information to the ships oil lab and control of a seawater flush sequence to clean the radar TLI head.  Reports from ships force indicate that the system is far superior and much more accurate than the previous legacy CHT TLI system.

September 2000:  Fairmount Automation receives a $2.5 million multi-year contract from NSWCCD-SSES at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center to provide controls equipment and software to the US Navy via code 925, the Propulsion and Machinery Automation Systems Branch.  Code 925 has been a leader in the effort to upgrade aging pneumatic controls in the fleet to newer electronic controls.  The results of their efforts have been increased reliability of the systems, reduced manning, fuel savings, increased stability and control system capability.

September 2000: The first FairNET control network is operational on USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63) on all feedwater control stations.  These devices are part of a 72 controller automatic boiler control system that regulates all 8 propulsion boilers on the ship.  During the 2nd quarter of 2001 all 72 control stations will become part of a FAIRNET network which will supply plant information to the ship wide Integrated Conditional Assessment System (ICAS).

June 8th, 2000:  We will be presenting a demonstration of our current products and describing future products at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center in the main auditorium of Building 4 at 1:00 PM.  The presentation will last approximately one hour with a question and answer session to follow.

June 2000: Fairmount Automation's main web-site goes live.  We also have a presence at www.Naval-Technology.com.

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