Monat: März 2011

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — The fight in Afghanistan has become a glob­al effort, with com­mit­ted part­ners from nations that include Mon­go­lia, Bul­gar­ia, Ton­ga and …

The Roy­al Aus­tralian Air Force (RAAF) today marked its birth­day with an annu­al com­mem­o­ra­tive ser­vice and the addi­tion of Bat­tle Hon­ours to the RAAF Memo­r­i­al. …

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — Cost sav­ings reflect­ed in the fis­cal 2012 Defense Depart­ment bud­get do not rep­re­sent a cut from cur­rent fund­ing lev­els, but …

This week the Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard announced a decrease in acti­vat­ed reservists, while the Army and Marine Corps announced an increase. The …

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — Weapons and equip­ment that are more expen­sive than pro­ject­ed present a strug­gle every acqui­si­tion exec­u­tive in the Defense Depart­ment has …

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — With a busier-than-usu­al mil­i­tary mov­ing sea­son about to kick into high gear, offi­cials are ask­ing ser­vice mem­bers to book their …

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — From robot­ics engi­neer­ing to gam­ing tech­nol­o­gy, Defense Depart­ment school offi­cials are hop­ing their new, cut­t­ing-edge cours­es will spark a life­long …

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — U.S. Strate­gic Command’s pri­or­i­ty is to deter nuclear attack on the Unit­ed States and its allies, but broad­er respon­si­bil­i­ties in …

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — Afghan and coali­tion forces detained sev­er­al sus­pect­ed insur­gents yes­ter­day in the Moham­mad Aghah dis­trict of Afghanistan’s Log­ar province, mil­i­tary offi­cials …

ARMY The Boe­ing Co., Rid­ley Park, Penn., was award­ed on March 28 a $528,125,000 firm-fixed-price con­tract. The award will pro­vide for the pro­cure­ment of 25 …

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 — The inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty must work toward three goals in Libya, America’s senior diplo­mat said today: deliv­er­ing human­i­tar­i­an assis­tance, pres­sur­ing and …

The Aus­tralian Defence Force’s air oper­a­tions capa­bil­i­ty has returned to Afghanistan to sup­port Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force (ISAF) oper­a­tions for 2011. The Rotary Wing Group …

12 Feb­ru­ary 2009 Civil­ian Casu­al­ty Inci­dent Orders made by the Judge Advo­cate Orders per­tain­ing to the Pre-Tri­al Direc­tions Hear­ing for two Aus­tralian Defence Force mem­bers …

Cather­ine Ash­ton, the High Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Union for For­eign Affairs and Secu­ri­ty Pol­i­cy and Vice-Pres­i­­dent of the Com­mis­sion, made the fol­low­ing state­ment today: “I …

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 — Deputy Defense Sec­re­tary William J. Lynn III topped the list of 100 gov­ern­ment and indus­try lead­ers rec­og­nized at an infor­ma­tion …

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 — Afghan and coali­tion forces killed numer­ous insur­gents yes­ter­day in the Sar Kani dis­trict of Afghanistan’s Kunar province after a com­bined …

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY The Mis­sile Defense Agency is award­ing a cost-plus-incen­­tive fee mod­i­fi­ca­tion to Raytheon Mis­sile Sys­tems Co., Tuc­son, Ariz., for con­tract N00024-07-C-6119, CLIN 0016, …

HAMPTON, Va. — A new study com­mis­sioned by the Defense Depart­ment affirms many of the sui­­cide-pre­ven­­tion efforts being made with­in DOD and the mil­i­tary ser­vices …