Sen. John McCain supports an alliance by Muslim nations to fight terrorists. As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain spoke positively of the alliance formed by 34 Muslim nations. Read More »

Leidos was selected as one of the four contractors to compete for delivery orders under a $750 million contract awarded by the U.S. Special Operations Command.  Read More »

The Ohio Congressional delegation recently urged the Air Force to upgrade the Youngstown Air Reserve Station’s (YARS) 910th Airlift Wing. Read More »

The Air Force, Army, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency announced its latest series of military contracts on Thursday. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Institute praised the recent Omnibus Appropriations Act that recently was signed into law by President Obama, the NEI said on Monday. Read More »

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy late last week applauded the lifting of the U.S. oil-export ban, which was included in the Omnibus Appropriations Act signed by President Obama. Read More »

The Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations (TCVO) is among several veterans groups reaching out to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, calling on them to support the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act. Read More »

The king of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter late last week at the king’s home in Bahrain. Read More »

The U.S. Senate recently confirmed award-winning scientist Cherry Murray as the new director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. Read More »

Transportation, communications and defense solutions company Cubic Corp. has acquired TeraLogics LLC and has agreed to acquire GATR Technologies Inc., Cubic said on Monday. Read More »

The United Nations Security Council held a special meeting in New York City late last week with global finance ministers, chaired by U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, on how to fight ISIL through its finances and targeting its sources of financing. Read More »

The U.S. government and its allies are looking to attack ISIL on multiple fronts. Read More »

he Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to beef up cybersecurity that protects the nation’s energy infrastructure by releasing a research strategy to study cyber attacks in the early stages. Read More »

Katie Arrington, vice president of sales operations at Dispersive Technologies, was elected to the Charleston (South Carolina) Defense Contractors Association (CDCA) Board of Directors, Dispersive said on Wednesday. Read More »

The Department of Defense released the names of four Air Force and two Air National Guard officers who were killed in a suicide-bomber attack near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Read More »

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will be keynote speakers at the seventh Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit, Feb. 29 to March 2. Read More »

The Department of Defense recently announced the awarding of several government contracts. Read More »

The Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University is teaming up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Clean Energy Education & Empowerment program (C3E). Read More »

ManTech International Corp. recently received a contract potentially valued at $31.6 million from the U.S. Army. Read More »

Xcel Energy is the new owner of a 50-megawatt, Hooper solar photovoltaic power plant in Colorado's San Luis Valley. The plant is estimated to provide power to 13,500 homes in Colorado. Read More »