Monat: Dezember 2011

RFA Wave Ruler arrived home on 12 Decem­ber 2011 after spend­ing near­ly two years work­ing across hur­ri­cane zones and drug-traf­­fick­­ing routes. 

FORT MEADE, Md., Dec. 22, 2011 — The pros­e­cu­tion and defense rest­ed today after deliv­er­ing their clos­ing state­ments in the Arti­cle 32 hear­ing of a … 

WASHINGTON — All four active-duty ser­vices and four of the six reserve com­po­nents met or exceed­ed their recruit­ing goals in Novem­ber, the sec­ond month of … 

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2011 — U.S. forces act­ed in self-defense and respond­ed with appro­pri­ate force after being fired upon dur­ing a Nov. 25–26 inci­dent on … 

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND Fed­er­al Express Char­ter Pro­grams Team Arrange­ment, Mem­phis, Tenn., is being award­ed an esti­mat­ed $693,634,631 firm-fixed-price con­tract for inter­na­tion­al air­lift ser­vices with a … 

WASHINGTON — The Pen­ta­gon and the U.S. Army are in the ear­ly stages of a far-reach­ing Sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy effort designed to engi­neer, build and … 

The sec­ond-high­­est-rank­ing Roy­al Air Force offi­cer has vis­it­ed British per­son­nel who are being trained in Amer­i­ca to use the Riv­et Joint air­craft — the RAF’s …

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2011 — A senior Pen­ta­gon offi­cial today under­scored the military’s “zero tol­er­ance” against bul­ly­ing and haz­ing in light of charges brought against … 

NEW DELHI, INDIA-Rein­­for­c­ing BAE Sys­tems’ strong rela­tion­ship with the Indi­an Air Force (IAF) and air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er Hin­dus­tan Aero­nau­tics Lim­it­ed (HAL), the com­pa­ny has recent­ly secured … 

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2011 — Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen sur­veyed coali­tion troops posi­tioned along Afghanistan’s bor­der with Pak­istan this week, as mem­bers of … 

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2011 — Eight U.S. sol­diers deployed to south­ern Afghanistan were charged today in con­nec­tion with the death of a … 

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Refin­ery Asso­ciates of Texas, Inc., New Braun­fels, Texas*, was award­ed a fixed-price with eco­nom­ic price adjust­ment con­tract with a max­i­mum $1,095,855,536 for … 

WASHINGTON — The Army-led sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy Joint Mul­ti-Role Demon­stra­tor effort to design a next-gen­er­a­­tion ver­ti­­cal-lift air­craft by 2030 is heav­i­ly focused on lever­ag­ing advanced …