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Boeing Wins!
Alexandria :: VA :: USA | 2 days ago
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backers got a rare bit of good news this week (and every little bit helps , right?) Over in the nation's capital, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just overturned a lower court's ruling that stripped Boeing of its contract to service...
Tags: Boeing Wins!, Beleaguered Boeing, Air Force, Pentagon, Alexandria, Northrop Grumman, Aerial refueling, KC-X, United States Air Force KC-135 replacement effort, Business Finance, Air refueling, Boeing, KC-135 Stratotanker
Fort Hood hearing in hospital requested
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Fort Hood suspect to be held in hospital Killeen, Texas (CNN) -- Prosecutors have requested a pretrial confinement hearing for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan in his hospital room on Saturday, Hasan's attorney told CNN on Friday.
Tags: Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Brooke Army Medical Center, Pentagon, hood shootings, Nidal Hasan, Afghanistan, hood suspect, Washington, Killeen Texas, Hasan ibn Ali, Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area, Bell County Texas, Coryell County Texas, Law Crime, Hood, Hijab, Hate crime, Headscarf, Headgear, Scarves, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Social Issues, Occupation of Iraq, Human rights abuses, Iraq War troop surge, Kandahar International Airport, War in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, War Conflict, Politics
Gates cites corruption as Afghan obstacle
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Tackling lingering issues over corruption in the Afghan government will not happen overnight, said U.S...Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for his second term Thursday in Kabul. His inauguration comes as world leaders measure their commitment...
Tags: Afghanistan, Robert Gates, U.S, Iraq, Barack Obama, defense secretary, gates told, Pentagon, Hamid Karzai, Karzai Made, Kabul, Afghan presidential election, Pashtun people, War in Afghanistan, Politics of Afghanistan, Politics, Elections in Afghanistan, Karzai, Military of Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, Opposition to the War in Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Stress, Abnormal psychology, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Suicide, Anxiety disorders, Military medicine, Military psychiatry, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
U.S. soldiers missing in Afghanistan named
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Pentagon names soldiers missing in Afghanistan (CNN) -- The Pentagon on Wednesday identified two U.S. soldiers who disappeared in Afghanistan this month, announcing the death of one of the men and saying that the whereabouts of the other remain unknown.
Tags: Afghanistan, Pentagon, Benjamin Sherman, Kabul, War Conflict, Morghab, War in Afghanistan, The Pentagon
MP calls for Scot who hacked Pentagon to be given job
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Gary McKinnon should be given a job rather than extradited to the United States, as his skills could be "put to good use". That was the view of MP Keith Vaz, who heads the home affairs select committee. He said McKinnon showed intelligence "far beyond...
Tags: Gary McKinnon, Pentagon, United Kingdom, London, UFOs, Keith Vaz, Extradition, Cybercrime
Rise in soldier suicides leaves Pentagon looking for answers
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 days ago
Credibility Suicides in the army alone have passed last year’s record of 140 — 141 in 2009 so far — in what campaigners called a “perfect storm” of stress, poor co-ordination between the branches of the Pentagon’s healthcare apparatus and the stigma attached to seeking...
Tags: Pentagon, Iraq, Baghdad, Rape, Traumatology, Michael Mullen, United States Army, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Abnormal psychology, Military medicine, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Pentagon moves to reduce stigma of mental counseling
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Advocates of better mental health care for troops say a new Pentagon policy aimed at reducing the stigma of getting psychiatric counseling could be a small but important step. Under the new policy, troops won’t have to reveal past job-related therapy...
Tags: Defense Robert Gates, Fort Hood, Pentagon, defense secretary, secretary robert, pentagon review, Tennessee, Washington, CNN, Iran-Contra affair, Robert Gates, Texas A&M University System, Politics, United States Secretary of Defense, Gates, Health Medical Pharma, Geoff Morrell, Human Interest
Aetna's military contract bid had improprieties, says GAO
Rancho Cordova :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Federal investigators said they have found improprieties in the bidding process that helped insurance giant Aetna land a $16 billion military health contract at the expense of Rancho Cordova-based Health Net Federal Services...Molly Tuttle, a spokeswoman...
Tags: Health Net Federal Services, Aetna, GAO, Pentagon, Rancho Cordova, Health Net, TRICARE, Government Accountability Office, Labor, Health maintenance organizations, United States Department of Defense, Healthcare in the United States
Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants
Taipei :: Taiwan | 5 days ago
Credibility Gary McKissock retired in 2002, he did what many other ex-military leaders do: He joined the board of directors of a defense contractor, a company doing business with his former service...The Marines brought him back as an adviser, at double the rate...
Tags: Air Force Materiel Command, senior mentor, retired generals, U.S. Army, defense contractor, Marines, defense companies, Pentagon, Gary McKissock, records showing, Taiwan, Taipei, Mentor, United States Department of Defense, Blackwater Worldwide, Politics, Alternative education, Mentorship, Anthony Zinni
Lockheed is upbeat about F-35 program
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Lockheed Martin officials say the company is well on its way to surmounting the worst of the obstacles faced in building test airplanes for the F-35 joint strike fighter program. Dan Crowley, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
Tags: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Dan Crowley, flights test, Pentagon, Washington, Loren Thompson, Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Carrier-based aircraft, F-35 Lightning II, VTOL aircraft, Lockheed, Joint Strike Fighter Program, Stealth aircraft, Lockheed Martin, Jet aircraft
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