Names and Notes

Paul D. Rose Jr. of New Market was recently named principal of Severn, O'Connor & Kresslein of Frederick.

Rose has been with the firm since 2004, concentrating on general civil litigation and employment law.

"Paul has done a great job as an associate and we are pleased to welcome him as a principal of the firm," said president David A. Severn in a statement.

Rose is secretary of the Frederick County Bar Association and chairman of the Frederick County Trial Courts Nominating Commission. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ARC of Frederick County and was recently recognized by ARC of Maryland as its Volunteer of the Year.

Bartlett holds meeting

for veteran entrepreneurs

An information session for veteran business owners will be held at 1 p.m. Sept. 5 at the American Legion Francis Scott Key Post 11 at 1450 Taney Ave., Frederick. Doors open at noon.

Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-Dist. 6) of Buckeystown will be joined by Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson and representatives from VA medical centers, the Baltimore VA Regional Office and National Cemetery Administration.

Patriot Technologies

engineer awarded patent

Lee Kelly, a security engineer for Patriot Technologies of Frederick, recently received a patent for his Vendor Security Management System, which he co-developed before joining Patriot.

The system verifies information technology security with multiple vendors.

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Nonemployer firms generated $970B in '06

More than 20.7 U.S. businesses without a payroll generated total revenues of $970 billion in 2006, the Census Bureau recently reported.

Those businesses comprise 18.2 million sole proprietorships, 1.4 million corporations and 1.2 million partnerships. Three sectors, with a total of 7.9 million businesses, accounted for almost half of the receipts: real estate and rental and leasing, $193 billion; construction, $159 billion; and professional, scientific and technical services, $124 billion. Nationally, nonemployer businesses reported average receipts of $46,724.

The report is available at www.census.gov/epcd/nonemployer/index.html.

Westminster firm wins

$7.24M NASA contract

NASA has selected Carleton Technologies of Westminster for a $7.24 million contract to design, develop, fabricate and deliver a propellant tank for a spacecraft mission managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.

The tank will contain all of the fuel used for maneuvering a global positioning measurement spacecraft, one of the next generation of satellite-based Earth science missions that will study global rain, snow and ice. The mission is slated for launch in July 2013.