AP - Facing a phalanx of angry military spouses, the Defense Department said Thursday it will resume payments for college courses and job training for spouses who had already applied for grants when the popular program was abruptly halted last month. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:36:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AFP - The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednesday.
AP - Defense contractor Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC Inc., on Wednesday said it received a contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and enhance command and control software. -- read full article
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:02:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AFP - A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction.
AFP - The US Defence Department on Tuesday defended its bidding practices as fair after Europe and some US lawmakers charged that contract rules threw a major military deal to Boeing.
Reuters - Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said. -- read full article
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:11:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AP - Defense contractor ITT Corp. said Monday it has named Dave Melcher, president of its Defense & Information Solutions business, a senior vice president of the company. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:52:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AFP - Top US defense contractor Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS said Monday they would not bid for a 35-billion-dollar US Air Force tanker plane contract, clearing the way for a Boeing win.
Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church at funerals for U.S. military members killed in Iraq. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:07:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AFP - Colombia's Constitutional Court has decided to review an agreement giving US forces access to seven Colombian military bases after a group of lawyers filed a complaint arguing it is unconstitutional, court officials said Saturday.
AP - A pressing legal reality for the "don't ask, don't tell" standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States.
AP - The pay of Lockheed Martin Corp. CEO Robert Stevens fell 10 percent in 2009 as the nation's biggest defense contractor felt the effects of shifting Pentagon spending priorities. -- read full article
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:12:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AP - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm. -- read full article
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:08:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Military
AFP - A senior US envoy has warned that ties with Japan could be "affected in many fields" if Tokyo missed a May deadline for solving a dispute over an American military base, Japanese lawmakers said Saturday.
Reuters - A California man who was fatally shot after opening fire on security officers outside the Pentagon appears to have been acting alone, with no links to domestic or international terrorism, police said on Friday.
