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Founded in 1977, Biospherical Instruments Inc. is a research-oriented company. Based in San Diego, Calif., it designs and manufactures scientific instrumentation for environmental monitoring. This ranges from the Antarctic and Arctic, to municipal drinking water reservoirs. It offers customers various products, such as terrestrial and oceanographic global UV monitoring systems, water quality monitoring systems for municipal reservoirs and a wide variety of UV/visible wavelength radiometers for use in oceanographic/atmospheric research. Some of the services provides by Biospherical Instruments Inc. are evaluation, maintenance and optical recalibration.

ICF Jones & Stokes is an environmental consultation firm that serves clients in the transportation, energy and water resources sectors. The company offers a range of environmental planning and resource management services. It has more than 15 office locations throughout the western United States. The company undertakes projects for federal, state and local government. ICF Jones & Stokes also serves private and nonprofit organizations and engineering and law firms. The company, operational since 1970, employs a staff of over 500 people. It offers ecosystem restoration, flood protection and conservation planning services. The company s clients include the City of San Diego and TransAlta Centralia Mining. ICF Jones & Stokes is a part of ICF International.

BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair repairs, converts and overhauls nonnuclear ships from shipyards in San Diego. The company works on military vessels, such as destroyers, cruisers and landing ships. Its commercial customers include owners of cruise ships, barges, tankers, container ships and research vessels. BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair is a unit of BAE Systems Ship Repair, which is one of the leading nonnuclear ship repair, modernization, and conversion and overhaul companies. In addition to the Navy, BAE Systems Ship Repair s government customers include the Military Sealift Command, the Maritime Administration, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Coast Guard. Its major commercial customers include owners of tankers, cargo ships and passenger vessels, such as Disney, Holland-America Lines and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.