Monat: Juli 2011

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 — Mil­i­tary readi­ness must remain para­mount as the mil­i­tary seeks ways to oper­ate in the face of loom­ing bud­get cuts, the … 

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 — The Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force joined Afghanistan Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai in con­demn­ing today’s killing of Kan­da­har City May­or Ghu­lam Haidar … 

NAVY             NAVMAR Applied Sci­ences Corp.*, Warmin­ster, Pa., is being award­ed a $73,952,510 cost-plus-incen­­tive-fee con­tract for a Phase III Small Business … 

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2011 — They are used to their deeds pass as unno­ticed as their bat­tle­field move­ments, but six Spe­cial Forces sol­diers took the … 

The Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced in Ade­laide today that the $8 bil­lion Air War­fare Destroy­er project has tak­en deliv­ery of three main … 

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2011 — A Defense Depart­ment clear­ing­house for renew­able ener­gy projects has approved 229 of 249 projects pro­posed in 35 states and Puerto … 

The Roy­al Aus­tralian Air Force (RAAF) has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed bilat­er­al fly­ing oper­a­tions with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) for the first time. 

A spe­cial­ist counter-nar­­cotics unit with­in the Afghan Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Force, sup­port­ed by Aus­tralian Spe­cial Forces has dis­man­tled a major insur­gent drug net­work after tar­get­ing and … 

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2011 — Afghan forces’ assump­tion of the secu­ri­ty lead in sev­en provinces and dis­tricts last week rep­re­sents “a sig­nif­i­cant step toward our … 

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 26, 2011 — An Afghan-led secu­ri­ty force killed two Tal­iban insur­gents today dur­ing a search for a road­side bomb expert oper­at­ing in … 

Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that Defence has signed a con­tract worth $25 mil­lion with Thales Aus­tralia to deliv­er nine addi­tion­al vehicle … 

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2011 — Work ahead for the U.S. mil­i­tary includes com­plet­ing cur­rent con­flicts and prepar­ing for an uncer­tain future, Army Gen. Mar­tin E. … 

NAVY             Cubic Defense Appli­ca­tions, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being award­ed a $49,530,355 firm-fixed-priced/in­de­f­i­nite-deliv­­ery con­tract to incre­men­tal­ly replace the Marine … 

           The Depart­ment of Defense announced today recruit­ing and reten­tion sta­tis­tics for the active and reserve com­po­nents for fis­cal year-to-date 2011, through June. 

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — U.S. Ambas­sador to Afghanistan Ryan C. Crock­er told employ­ees dur­ing his first day on the job in the Afghan capital … 

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — Two weeks after the chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for strong mul­ti­lat­er­al deter­rence against a con­tin­u­ing North … 

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — Guest blog­ger Stephanie Himel-Nel­­son is a social media con­sul­tant and the com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor for Blue Star Fam­i­lies . By Stephanie …