Army
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The Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command awarded 36 contracts under its OPTARSS II program. The program provides DoD with operational planning, training and more.
April 21, 2011 -
A new report finds the Pentagon used faulty data when it decided to relocate 6,400 Department of Defense workers from Crystal City to Alexandria\'s Mark Center as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Act.
April 21, 2011 -
Security designs for the new Mark Center have been posted online. In a major breach of security, Defense officials admit a document describing the bomb-proofing security plans for the new Defense building were published on a public website for the Army Corps of Engineers.
April 20, 2011 -
Army officials told Congress Thursday that they had made progress in reforming management at Arlington National Cemetery, an institution they said lacked a management foundation when a new management team took over in the wake of a scandal involving mismarked grave sites and other problems. Some members still are unhappy with the changes.
April 15, 2011 -
After a decade at war, the Army must transform itself to better face the challenges of the future, the general taking the helm of America\'s ground force said Monday, telling soldiers he will lay out a plan for the future in two months.
April 12, 2011 -
The DoD is funding research to combat the effects of altitude sickness in warzones. Research Physiologist, Dr. Stephen Muza, explains why.
March 31, 2011 -
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on the Experimental Crowd-derived Combat-support Vehicle.
March 30, 2011 -
With cybersecuirty professionals in short supply, the Army is reaching out to contractors for help.
March 30, 2011 -
Both Raytheon and Northrop claim part of an Army Forces Command contract to support military operational and training needs.
March 29, 2011 -
The Pentagon wants servicemen and women to use their own smartphones to develop apps and access the military\'s networks. Senior officials as early as next month will approve the technical standards for devices that run the Apple and Google operating systems.
March 29, 2011 -
Federal News Radio spoke with the FBI and the Army about their various uses of cloud this week. Listen to the interviews by clicking the links below. Part 2: Fulgham says secure mobility will change the FBI In a two-part interview with agency chief information officer Chad Fulgham, Federal News Radio talks about the various [...]
March 26, 2011 -
The contract is for a new intelligence-gathering plane.
March 25, 2011 -
Susan Lawrence, the Army\'s newly-appointed Chief Information Officer members of the IT and communications industry that the service is focused on creating an end-to-end IT infrastructure, eliminating structures that required soldiers to train and live on one network, and deploy on another.
March 21, 2011 -
The suicide rate for female soldiers triples when they go to war, according to data from an Army study.
March 18, 2011 -
More U.S. troops who sustain combat-related brain injuries could soon be eligible for the Purple Heart.
March 17, 2011
