On March 17/10 DLA’s Defense Supply Center Philadelphia awarded 2 contracts to Cardinal Health , a Dublin, OH-based pharmaceutical and medical products supplier, worth up to $807.1 million for drug distribution to US military medical facilities worldwide. Under a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity prime vendor contract (SPM2DX-10-D-0001), Cardinal Health will distribute drugs to medical facilities...
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Reports of sexual assaults within the military were up 11 percent in fiscal 2009, a Defense Department report shows. The report does not attempt to explain whether the increase is attributable to more incidents or more victims coming forward, but Kaye Whitley, who is in charge of the DoD's prevention efforts, said the latter...
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A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she will freeze funds for expanding the virtual fence that originally was supposed to monitor most of the 2,000-mile southern U.S. border by 2011 but now covers only a portion of Arizona's boundary with Mexico.
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The commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento has been temporarily relieved of duty, five months after several crewmen died in a collision between one of the station's aircraft and a Marine Corps helicopter.
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A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.
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SAN DIEGO — The Navy identified the officer killed in a weekend vehicle crash here as Ensign Zackery Norrbom. Norrbom, 24, was speeding in a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro about 12:45 a.m. Sunday when the car went off the road in the coastal village of La Jolla and hit a sign and then a...
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At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug. And many troops are taking more than one kind, mixing several pills in daily “cocktails” — for example, an antidepressant with an antipsychotic to prevent nightmares, plus an anti-epileptic to reduce headaches — despite minimal clinical research testing such...
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Thursday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that bars open service by gays — the second in six weeks — will feature three outside witnesses who are all former commissioned officers. Two were booted out for being gay, and a retired Marine Corps four-star general will testify...
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — U.S. Senate candidate and former Navy admiral Joe Sestak is challenging the petition of a fellow candidate seeking to get his name on May’s Democratic primary ballot. Sestak’s challenge filed late Tuesday in Commonwealth Court said Joseph Vodvarka’s petition does not contain enough valid voter signatures. Sestak is a second-term...
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A Maryland man who vanished in January 2009 with thousands of dollars that he raised for a presidential inaugural ball for veterans that never happened — leaving sponsors, entertainers and ticketholders in the lurch — is back. Using a slightly different variation of his name, D. Dante Anthony Hayes is trying to raise...
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah National Guard is sending medical staff to Afghanistan for a yearlong deployment. About 80 soldiers from the 144th Area Support Medical Company will leave Saturday for Fort Lewis, Wash., where they will stay for 30 days before flying to Afghanistan. The soldiers hail from all corners of...
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The third trial of a soldier accused of killing a woman and her two daughters in North Carolina more than 20 years ago is under way. Fifty-one-year-old Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis was recalled to active duty so he could face a military trial at Fort Bragg in the death...
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THAAD: In flight (click to view full) Budget figures, onging radar improvements. (March 16/10) The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system is a long-range, land-based theater defense weapon that acts as the upper tier of a basic 2-tiered defense against ballistic missiles. It’s designed to intercept missiles during late mid-course or final...
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Defense executive panel offers advice to contractors on future industry challenges. ASDReports.com : Global market for armored vehicles will reach $10.3 billion fueld by continued IED threat. CSC snags 5-year, $27 million contract to provide IT to US DoD’s Dependents Schools-Europe, which runs 81 schools for the children of US military. Cubic in...
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Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.
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The U.S. Navy says two fighter jets on a training mission collided over the northern Nevada desert, but both pilots survived.
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A major reorganization of allied forces in Afghanistan will centralize both American and other foreign troops under the direct command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior U.S. and NATO commander in the theater.
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