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The Army is reporting progress in cleaning up management of Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery was hit last year by a scandal revealing misidentified graves and a dysfunctional leadership team.
September 21, 2011 -
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The service no can longer pump money into ambitions that don\'t offer any immediate prospect of payoff, especially if those projects don\'t promise to deliver something the Air Force truly needs, the service\'s top officer said Tuesday.
September 21, 2011 -
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Government contractor CACI has landed a $33 million contract with the Navy\'s Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division, The Washington Business Journal reports.
September 20, 2011 -
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Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said Monday there are certain capabilities the service must keep whole as it navigates the current budget situation. He did not offer clues as to what the service would be willing to give up.
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The Agriculture Department, the Energy Department and the Navy are turning to industry to try to leverage advanced technologies to produce a new generation of biofuels. A request for information they just issued says the private sector would have to match any federal funds the agencies spend. The three departments are willing to spend up to 500 million dollars to jumpstart an industry to produce fuels that could serve as drop-in replacements for jet fuel and diesel. The Navy is aiming to get half its energy from alternative sources by the year 2020.
September 19, 2011 -
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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 -
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Katherine Hammack is the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy & Environment.
September 14, 2011 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Panetta says the attacks a decade ago have in some ways strengthened the United States at home and abroad.
September 07, 2011 -
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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
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