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In the days leading up to Memorial Day, the Military Spouse JD Network is experiencing a flood of last-minute support for their upcoming event at Washington D.C.'s Army and Navy Club this Wednesday May 22. The Grassroots startup has attracted the attention of Joining Forces, Congressional supporters, and the US Chamber of Commerce. In the shadow of cuts to vital military family services, nonprofits like MSJDN are stepping in to fill the gap and find creative ways to move forward....
Partnership officially kicks off just in time for 2013-14 Army football season WEST POINT, N.Y., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Black Knights and its athletic multimedia rights holder, Army Sports Properties, are proud to announce their newest corporate partner for Army Athletics Association. The recently secured, Maspeth, N.Y.-based, Tommy Moloney's joins them in making an Army Athletics experience one that will excite all the senses. (Photo:...
WEST POINT, N.Y., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Black Knights and its athletic multimedia rights holder, Army Sports Properties, are proud to announce our newest corporate partner for Army Athletics Association. The recently secured, Maspeth, N.Y.-based, Tommy Moloney's joins us in making an Army Athletics experience one that will excite all the senses. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130516/CG15003) The first-ever, three-year marketing and sponsorship...
Effort will mark first time Army has capability on unmanned vehicle MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army's Networked Electronic Warfare, Remotely Operated (NERO) system. The payloads were delivered as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy NAVSEA-Crane in 2012. NERO is utilized on the Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS (Umanned Aircraft System) as an airborne electronic...
U.S. Army, Army Reserve and National Guard to receive mission-capable vehicles, in any situation anywhere in the world. COLUMBIA, Md., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE:HON) has won a three-year, $72.4 million maintenance and training contract from the U.S. Army for Total Package Fielding Army Modernization Training to provide mission-capable vehicles and requisite training to safely operate and maintain heavy tactical vehicles. (Logo:...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), today awarded the first of its kind Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC) for the first technology under this contract to support renewable energy on Defense Department installations. Individual MATOC awards are being staggered by...
With unprecedented fidelity and detail, next-generation radar system will track munitions and other military test targets at leading Army test ranges. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics C4 Systems received a contract modification to the Range Radar Replacement Program (RRRP) to develop a new High/Medium Power Close-in Radar system. The Close-in radar system is mobile and will provide unprecedented fidelity when tracking munitions and other targets at a...
Public-private community developer secures $465 million for additional development, renovation of U.S. Army guest lodging NEW YORK, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lend Lease, an infrastructure and property solutions provider and leader in public-private community development, has reached financial close on the third phase of the Department of the Army's Privatization of Army Lodging (PAL) program, and secured $465 million in project debt to continue delivering hotels for Service members, their...
Army Veteran joins the cycling and swim teams in Colorado Springs, May 11-16 WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte announced today that Will Reynolds, senior consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP in Deloitte's Federal Government Services practice has been named to the 2013 U.S. Army Team competing in the Warrior Games. An active participant in adaptive sports since 2005, Reynolds earned his spot on both the cycling and swim teams following tryouts with the Army earlier...
The cornerstone of the U.S. Army's network modernization plan, WIN-T, combined with the PRC-154 Rifleman and PRC-155 Manpack radios, delivers a secure information highway for soldiers wherever they deploy. TAUNTON, Mass., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The General Dynamics-built Warfighter Information Network - Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 is now in the hands of soldiers with the U.S. Army's 4(th) Brigade Combat Team, 10(th) Mountain Division. The soldiers are training for their...
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Patrick Forrester is a NASA astronaut and a retired United States Army officer. He was born Patrick Graham Forrester on March 31, 1957 in El Paso, Texas. He is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and attended West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia, where he graduated in 1975. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in applied sciences and engineering from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York in 1979. After his graduation, he was...
Timothy Creamer is a NASA astronaut as well as a Colonel in the United States Army. He was born Timothy "TJ" Creamer on November 15, 1959 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, but he was raised in Maryland. He graduated from Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland in 1978, and then went on to earn his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Loyola College in 1982. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army through the ROTC program. In August 1983, after attending the...
