Monat: September 2011

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2011 — The Iraqi gov­ern­ment has trans­ferred its first pay­ment for 18 F‑16C fight­er air­craft, bring­ing Iraq clos­er to inde­pen­dent­ly secur­ing its … 

The Navy will com­mis­sion the newest Arleigh Burke class guid­ed-mis­­sile destroy­er, Spru­ance, Sat­ur­day, Oct. 1, 2011, dur­ing a 6:30 p.m. EDT cer­e­mo­ny at Naval Air … 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2011 — Com­bined Afghan and coali­tion secu­ri­ty forces made a major drug sweep and killed numer­ous insur­gent fight­ers in sep­a­rate oper­a­tions yesterday … 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2011 — Medal of Hon­or recip­i­ent Marine Corps Sgt. Dako­ta Mey­er plans to raise $1 mil­lion in schol­ar­ship mon­ey for the children … 

AIR FORCE     The MITRE Corp., Bed­ford, Mass., is being award­ed a $394,186,883 con­tract mod­i­fi­ca­tion to exer­cise option year three for sys­tems engi­neer­ing and integration … 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2011 — North Korea’s chal­lenges to Asia-Pacif­ic secu­ri­ty and sta­bil­i­ty were most acute in 2010, but remain a cen­tral con­cern for U.S. …

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2011 — Despite dif­fi­cul­ties in the rela­tion­ship between the Unit­ed States and Pak­istan, the Defense Depart­ment will con­tin­ue to try to work … 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2011 — NATO’s deci­sion to extend the alliance’s mis­sion in Libya shows its work there is not yet done, a NATO spokeswoman … 

FORT MEADE, Md., Sept. 27, 2011 — Rec­og­niz­ing there’s no cook­ie-cut­ter for­mu­la for a “cyber war­rior,” the out­go­ing chief of staff at U.S. Cyber Command … 

 Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that two more keel blocks had been deliv­ered to Ade­laide to con­struct Australia’s first Air War­fare Destroyer. 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2011 — When the com­man­der of U.S. forces in the Pacif­ic dis­cussed region­al chal­lenges today, Chi­na topped the list. 

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 27, 2011 — Afghan and coali­tion forces used a pre­ci­sion airstrike to kill a key Tal­iban leader in Afghanistan’s War­dak province yesterday, …