U.S. Department of Defense

Top Aberdeen Proving Ground general receives national honor

2013-06-14 14:54:00

Maj. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, senior commander at Aberdeen Proving Ground, received the "Military Leader of the Year" award from the Association of Defense Communities during a ceremony in Washington Thursday. Ferrell, commanding general of the U.S....

Little impact seen from suspension of clearance investigations

2013-06-14 20:22:29

The Pentagon decision to suspend security clearance vetting for some defense contractors is likely to have little impact on either the Defense Department or private industry, officials from both said. On Friday, the Defense Security Service stopped...

Federal workers get health and fitness programs

2013-06-14 00:00:00

For three hours each work week, Bert Rice walks laps around Burba Lake at Fort Meade — part of a mission by the federal government to build a healthier workforce. Rice, 76, a retired Army colonel and former Anne Arundel County councilman working as...

Snooping, past and present

2013-06-12 11:47:00

For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...

Details about Edward Snowden's life in Maryland emerge

2013-06-10 19:00:00

Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City. Snowden, 29, attended...

New APG supercomputers can do a quadrillion operations in a second

2013-06-12 09:33:52

Aberdeen Proving Ground continues to make computing history, as it formally unveiled a new supercomputer system Monday, one of only five such Army facilities in the country to have the sophisticated equipment. The supercomputers, named "Hercules" and...

Former Naval Academy instructor sentenced to 60 days

2013-06-03 17:18:18

A former instructor at the Naval Academy was sentenced Monday to 60 days in a military jail for indecent acts, fraternization and conduct unbecoming an officer stemming from an incident with two female midshipmen in 2011, an academy spokeswoman said....

Punished for honesty at the Naval Academy

2013-05-28 03:00:00

Last Friday morning, President Barack Obama visited Annapolis to address roughly 1,000 Naval Academy midshipmen. Then he took his seat with other VIPs and the thousands in attendance and watched as the midshipmen, decked out in their pristine dress...

Former academy instructor acquitted of rape of midshipman

2013-06-02 13:56:00

A former instructor at the Naval Academy has been found not guilty of aggravated sexual assault in an alleged attack on a female midshipman two years ago, an academy spokeswoman said Sunday. Marine Corps Maj. Mark Thompson, 43, was found guilty of...

Three Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault on female midshipman

2013-05-31 18:50:36

The Navy is investigating the alleged sexual assault last year of a female midshipman at the Naval Academy by three members of the football team, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Friday. The woman has told investigators she remembers little of the...

2013 Guide to Harford Business

2013-06-07 14:00:00

Harford County has a civilian labor force of approximately 140,000 people with a population of about 249,000. The private sector accounts for the largest share of jobs held by county residents, 62,000 in all. According to the Harford County Office of...

Privacy advocates outraged, but lawmakers defend collection of phone records

2013-06-06 18:16:00

Privacy advocates expressed outrage Thursday over revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting telephone records of virtually every phone call made in the United States for seven years, but the Obama administration and a bipartisan...

U.S. Marines Private First Class Sebastian Rodriguez, a machine gunner from Weapons Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force Darwin (MRF-D), fires a M240 machine gun during a night squad-attack exercise at Kangaroo Flats Training Area in Australia in this U.

2013-05-29 00:00:00

Kaman CEO Neal Keating signs a support statement the Pentagon's Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve program, seated next to the program's local official, Ted C. Graziani.

2013-05-20 12:37:48

The U.S. Marine Corps version of Lockheed Martin's F35 Joint Strike Fighter, F-35B test aircraft BF-2 flies with external weapons for the first time over the Atlantic test range at Patuxent River Naval Air Systems Command in Maryland in a February 22, 2012 file photo.

2013-03-15 00:00:00