Defense
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AMC is offering $25,000 dollars to more than 30 civilian employees at its headquarters in Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, Federal Times reports.
September 19, 2011 -
Katherine Hammack is the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy & Environment.
September 14, 2011 -
Under the deal\'s terms, Lockheed will support the integration of software and components for the Air Force\'s combat support automated information systems.
September 14, 2011 -
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal to modernize the Navy\'s shipboard computing system. The Navy will decide early next year if it will go with Lockheed\'s designs or proposals from competitor Northrop Grumman.
September 14, 2011 -
Department of Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen said business systems and infrastructure are two main areas to reduce the cost of the service\'s technology. September 8, 2011
September 08, 2011 -
The Navy and Army told the House Armed Services Committee they were on track to meet the 2017 deadline to have clean financial audit. The Army Corps of Engineers already achieved the goal and the Marine Corps is well on its way as well.
September 08, 2011 -
Gen. Raymond Odierno has been sworn in as the new Army chief of staff. At the ceremony, he said the United States must avoid rash decisions such as slashing the size of the Army in order to rein in the defense budget.
September 08, 2011 -
Panetta says the attacks a decade ago have in some ways strengthened the United States at home and abroad.
September 07, 2011 -
The Army is planning a 2012 release for a major information technology contract. Request for proposals are set for the second quarter on the 10-year, $5 billion dollar IT Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware contract.
September 06, 2011 -
The Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation a $50 million contract to evaluate the service\'s inventory of sensors. The Atlanta company will survey the sensor market and test how well different devices work and will also look at new ways for the military to use sensors.
September 06, 2011 -
A year after a scandal upended the leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army is making swift progress toward creating a single database of all those interred at the site. Soldiers are using iPhones to record information and submit it to analysts to check the data against existing records.
September 02, 2011 -
The Departments of the Navy, Agriculture and Energy are asking industry how best to spend $510 million on the future of biofuels. They are leaning on a 1950 law that lets the government pour cash into defense-critical industries.
August 31, 2011 -
The contract is for HP to provide work stations, processors and other products.
August 30, 2011 -
For the first time this weekend, dual-commanders were deployed for a natural disaster, the Defense Department announced.
August 29, 2011 -
The Army\'s new cyber command, only 11 months old, is working to implement a strategic plan based on three pillars. One challenge is building a workforce that can meet the service\'s offensive and defensive objectives in cyberspace.
August 29, 2011
