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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Featured on the exceptional agenda scheduled at the Air Force Association's 29(th) Air Warfare Symposium is a panel led by three former Secretaries of the Air Force, Secretaries Whit Peters, James Roche and Michael Wynne. The 2013 Air Warfare Symposium will be held February 20-22, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando, Florida. It promises to bring together Air Force leadership, industry experts, academia and current...
HONOLULU, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the last night's successful SM-3 Block IA intercept. Ellison is one of the top lay experts on missile defense in the world. On a dark night, with stars sparkling high above the shores of the Hawaiian Islands, at 11:10 p.m., a two-stage unified non separating target missile representing a Scud-B medium-range...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ninety members of the Pennsylvania National Guard have been placed on State Active Duty to assist with recovery efforts in Connecticut as a result of Winter Storm Nemo. Forty-five members of the Air National Guard's 201st RED HORSE--short for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers--left Fort Indiantown Gap today with about 25 pieces of heavy machinery. Twenty-eight members of the Army National...
Rep. McKeon, Sen. Inhofe proposed legislation would fatten defense contractor cronies while slashing federal jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There they go again. The usual suspects are scheming to spare their big defense contractor friends from the impact of sequestration by arbitrarily slashing federal employee jobs. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon and Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, along with other...
ASHBURN, Va., Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ian, Evan & Alexander Corporation (IEA) has been awarded a contract to provide Conference Center and Meeting Management Support to the TRICARE Management Activity (TRICARE) at the Defense Headquarters (DHHQ) in Falls Church, Virginia. Under this contract, IEA provides conference center management for up to 250 attendees and meeting support for 25+ TMA meeting rooms with video/audio capabilities. Tasks include program management, quality...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Some 1,300 Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers and airmen will join a team of 6,000 National Guard members to provide security, crises response, traffic and crowd control during the 57th presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Pennsylvania guard members will assist the District of Columbia's Department of Transportation and Department of Fire and Emergency Services, as well as the U.S. Park Police. "It is...
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Compendium is pleased to announce that two of their key team members, Dana Lacy and Jeff Barb, were recognized and personally thanked by SES Bobby Smart (SAF/CIO A6P) for their significant contributions to United States Air Force (USAF) decision making process. The team developed a unique solution that allows users to see the ripple effects of decisions made throughout the USAF at an enterprise level. Specifically, their work enables the...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Guard Association of the United States today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett Jr., the NGAUS president: "The final conference report on the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act is a mixed bag of wins and losses for the Air National Guard, the Air Force and the nation. "The language developed by House and Senate negotiators restores the cuts Air Force officials wanted to...
RESTON, Va., Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Santeon Group, Inc. (OTC: SANT, "Santeon" ? News) today announced that it signed a new and larger contract with The MITRE Corporation ("MITRE") to provide Agile coaching and consulting services to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for the remainder of 2012 and all of 2013. The new contract was awarded to Santeon based on its successful performance during the first...
Defense Department Presents "Patriot Award" to Supervisor HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A supervisor in the Office of Administration received an award today for his support of a state employee serving in the Army National Guard. Andrew Hardy, Sgt. 1st Class in the 166(th) Regiment, nominated his civilian supervisor Randy Frye for a "Patriot Award" from Employer Support of Guard and Reserve (ESGR). Jim Astor, South Central Area Chairman of the ESGR...
