Latest Pentagon Stories

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Yet another group of “Hacktivists” have seen it fit to attack some government organizations and leak personal data in the name of Freedom of Information. Team GhostShell, a band of hackers with loose ties to Anonymous, announced yesterday that they have stolen accounts from several government agencies and organizations. As proof, these hackers have also posted information from 1.6 million accounts online, making the people...

Major changes in the way the Department of Defense buys goods and services are being driven by more than budget cuts. Fairfax, Virginia (PRWEB) December 04, 2012 The first results of research to be published in the Spring of 2013, addressing “Affordability, Performance and Competitiveness for The Pentagon,” point to a very different Department of Defense (DoD) procurement system just on the horizon. The study began in 2009, when defense spending was at record levels. Considerable...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to the Web site for Electronic Arts’ “Medal of Honor: Warfighter,” the video game is “The only game that gives players the ability to be in real world events.” “This personal story was written by actual Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas. In it, players step into the boots of these warfighters and apply unique skill sets to track down a real global threat, in real international locations, sponsored by...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two different aircraft the Pentagon says the nation no longer needs, but National Guard leaders and elected officials are fighting to keep in the Guard fleet, are playing a prominent role in the response to Hurricane Sandy. One Florida Army Guard C-23 Sherpa delivered 6,500 pounds of Meals Ready to Eat from Fort Belvoir, Va., to Farmingdale, N.Y., over the weekend. And Monday, it transported disaster response experts from the...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During a Pentagon press conference on May 10, 2012, General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, publicly excoriated Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, a 1994 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a highly decorated combat veteran. His reason: The course on Islamic Radicalism which LTC Dooley was teaching at the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) of the National Defense University was...

NEW YORK, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On this past Memorial Day we honored those Americans who have died in military service including 4,474 in Iraq and 1,966 fallen soldiers in Afghanistan.[1] As we move forward from a day of remembrance toward a lasting fight toward freedom, it's vital that we take a moment to recognize the toll which war takes not only on those afflicted by fighting in the war but also their families at home. A new survey that ranks the top struggles and...

The latest upgrade to America’s primary defense against a missile attack from belligerent enemies, assuming one ever launched a ballistic missile against the US, has successfully destroyed a test missile off the coast of Hawaii this week, writes Robert Beckhusen for Wired News. The Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 interceptor is key to the next phase of an anti-missile shield being built by the United States in and around Europe, Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced....

Training suggested destroying Mecca and Medina using 'Hiroshima' tactics WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the Department of Defense (DoD) to dismiss the instructor who taught fellow officers that only a "total war" on Islam would protect America, that they should use "Hiroshima" tactics, target civilian populations, and abandon the Geneva Conventions. The Washington-based Council on...

FAIRFAX, Va., April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has been awarded a contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for the U.S. Army Information Technology Agency (USAITA) to support the Services Directorate Enterprise Data Center Enterprise Backup, Mainframe and Server Services Program at the Pentagon. This one-year contract with one option year has a potential value of $20.2 million if all options are exercised. Under this contract, General...

ARLINGTON, Va., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's wounded warriors and active military will be honored in the 2012 Face of America, a two day bicycle ride from Arlington, Virginia to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this April 28-29. Starting at the Pentagon, nearly 500 disabled and able bodied riders on bicycles and hand cycles will travel past Virginia's iconic monuments and ride through gently rolling country byways to the historic Civil War battlefields at...