Posted on 06/18/2015 4:51:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Elephant Auto Insurance will add 1,173 jobs at its Henrico County headquarters and will invest $2 million to expand the operation.
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced the expansion today in Cardiff, United Kingdom, where he met with officials from Elephant's parent company, U.K.-based Admiral Group PLD.
Elephant which had 365 employees at its headquarters in March, was already in a growth mode. In January the company moved from a 32,000-square-foot office on Eastshore Drive in the Innsbrook Corporate Center to a 54,000-square-foot site in the Deep Run I office building at 9950 Mayland Drive.
I hope some of the numbers are off in this report. That’s way too little space for that many employees, unless working conditions are especially bad.
It’s the old circuit city HQ.
Cool. Next time I need to insure my elephant I’ll know who to call.
VA Republican, I just read an old post about you looking for other SAGE computer techs. I was stationed at Malmstrom, AFB in Montana from 1980-1983 as part of the 24th Air Division and regularly looked after the pair of IBM AN/FSQ-7 computers. I am curious to know if those were if fact the last ones to be decommisioned and what happened to them. The rumor at the time was that they would end up at the Smithonian, but I haven’t been able to find out any other information.
Hi, my dad was with sage. He’s passed away. I was just looking for more info as he never ever talked about it.
The building that housed the SAGE computers was call a direction center. The computer gathered information from RADAR sites all around the area that was being monitoured, in my case the N.W. corner of the country and lower portion of Canada. There was a room that had situation displays where operators would watch a section of air space. If they got a trace they would use a light gun to highlight the track and the computer would the attempt to identify it by means of a transponder. If there was no answer back from the air craft the track was then handed over to the seinor director who would then try to identify the track and if he couldn’t he would make the call to scramble fighter planes to greet the offender. To my knowledge no planes were ever shot down. In a nut shell thats how the system worked. Hope this answers some of your questions.
my dads time was early 60’s
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