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You may have seen or heard about the movie Transformers and the military theme in the movie. It may soon be more than a movie. For several years now the Pentagon has been looking into flying cars. Now they\'re working on a flying humvee. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen two companies to participate in project Transformer. It\'s a fully automated four-person vehicle that can drive like a car and then take off and fly like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs. Lockheed Martin and AAI Corp., a unit of Textron Systems are moving to the next stage.
August 30, 2010 -
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner says Virginia officials should keep up the fight against the closing of a defense command in Norfolk. According to the Associated Press, the Virginia Democrat also suggested a different tack during a stop in Portsmouth on Thursday. He said Virginia officials should convince the Pentagon that it makes military and economic sense to keep the Joint Forces Command in Hampton Roads. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced this month he wants to close the command, which employs some 6,000 military and civilian workers.
August 30, 2010 -
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The former chief of U.N. nuclear inspections worldwide, told Le Monde newspaper that Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for 1-2 nuclear weapons. But Olli Heinonen, said it would not make sense for it to \"cross the bomb-making threshold with such a small amount\". He also said Iran\'s uranium reserve still represented a \"threat.\" Pentagon officials told Congress last spring Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a one nuclear weapon in as little as a year.
August 30, 2010 -
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While GSA feds think about how to make federal buildings greener, they\'re going to be doing it from outside their own offices.
August 30, 2010 -
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Leo Bosner Former President, AFGE FEMA Local 4060 Jim Aldridge Secretary-Treasurer, AFGE Federal Law Enforcement Steering Committee Vincent DeMarco President, Maryland Citizens Health Initiative
August 26, 2010 -
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Canadian authorities say they\'ve broken up an al Qaida terror plot. Two residents from Ottawa have been arrested after one of them was preparing to leave the country. Authorities are tight-lipped about the investigation, but they say the plot involved at least one suspect who had traveled to the tribal territories of Pakistan and Afghanistan. They also indicated the plot involved explosives. Canada is the only one of the major countries on Al Qaida\'s list that they have yet to successfully attack.
August 26, 2010 -
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A failure by Navy air traffic controllers to follow standard procedures contributed to a midair collision that killed seven Coast Guard members and two Marines off Southern California last year, according to a Coast Guard report released Tuesday. The Associated Press says controllers at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, near San Diego, failed to notify the pilot of a Coast Guard C-130 plane that four Marine helicopters were in the area. The Marine flyers were also unaware of the Coast Guard plane\'s presence. The report said there is no single reason or person to blame for the crash on the night of Oct. 29, 2009. It made a series of recommendations to improve safety in the largely unregulated airspace.
August 25, 2010 -
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You may remember the story of a pregnant Marine who was murdered at Camp Lejune in December of 2007. A jury on Monday convicted a former Marine of first-degree murder in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, in December 2007. Cesar Laurean, 23, of Las Vegas faces life in prison without parole. He was also convicted of theft and fraud charges.
August 24, 2010 -
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The Pentagon is warning for the first time about the Chinese military\'s use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies and government agencies. DoD has issued a report says the People\'s Liberation Army, is using \"information warfare units\" to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks, and those units include civilian computer professionals.
August 23, 2010 -
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August 23rd and 25th RITA\'s mission is to promote transportation research, solid analysis, and education across the different operating agencies within the USDOT.
August 23, 2010 -
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All\'s quiet on the western front. Maybe a little too quiet for telework proponents.
August 23, 2010 -
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Learn what transpired at the annual FDR conference. Aug. 20, 2010
August 19, 2010 -
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Dwight Bowman AFGE 14th District National Vice President Armstrong Williams Political Commentator and Host, The Right Side TV Show Gary Chaison Author, \"Unions in America\"
August 19, 2010 -
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The \"height of irresponsibility\". That what the Pentagon says about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange\'s decision to release another 15-thousand documents related to the war in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says \"there are very serious operational consequences. There are the names of a lot of Afghans who have worked with us and helped us in those documents.\" He added the documents contain a significant amount of information about U.S. tactics, techniques and procedures, including places where they are vulnerable.
August 16, 2010
