The Department of Defense (DoD) said recently that it is awarding a total of $50.1 million in research-implementation awards to 176 university researchers at 96 academic institutions through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program to develop research and training. Read More »

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said recently that the Department of Defense (DoD) will invite computer specialists next month to try and hack into the DoD's public websites. Read More »

The Competitive Enterprise Institute think tank, in a recent online article by Marlo Lewis, said the EPA may be trying to skirt the Supreme Court's Clean Power Plan. Read More »

A new poll by the South Carolina Petroleum Council (SCPC) indicates that 67 percent of South Carolinian voters — 83 percent of Republicans, 62 percent of Independents and 54 percent of Democrats — support U.S. investment in offshore oil and natural gas development, with 91 percent of these voters agreeing that the U.S. should move toward investing in energy. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently started Known Employer, a pilot program in which potential hires are screened through specific visa categories. Read More »

Alcoa Defense said late last week that it was awarded a $50 million “Ground Vehicle Light-Weighting” contract to develop lightweight ground-combat vehicles for the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). Read More »

Duke Energy, the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC), industrial customers and other stakeholders recently reached a settlement agreement on costs and rate increases that will let Duke Energy proceed with its planned infrastructure improvement project. project costs. Read More »

Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises were held this week between U.S. and South Korean troops -- as well as with United Nations members Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, and Great Britain -- to help keep South Korean troops prepared, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said. Read More »

The Department of Defense recently announced several contracts awarded among the armed forces. Read More »

The Defense Department recently announced new service contracts awarded by the Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, Navy and Army. Read More »

The U.S. Special Operations Command, Army and Navy recently awarded new service contracts. Read More »

American Petroleum Institute (API) Vice President of Regulatory and Economic Policy Kyle Isakower voiced shale-industry concerns late last week over President Obama's plan for new methane regulations, even though emissions are decreasing. Read More »

The U.S. Supreme Court recently halted implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan before it had been judicially reviewed, a historical first. Read More »

A recent report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute, "Minority and Female Employment in the Oil & Natural Gas and Petrochemical Industries 2015-2035," said a significant number of the 1.9 million jobs expected to be generated in the oil, natural gas and petrochemical industries will be filled with a high number of women and minorities by 2035. Read More »

“Fear mongering and unproven rhetoric have closed the door to over 18,000 jobs for veterans and a chance to secure a totally energy independent America,” said Capt. James McCormick, USA (Ret), the program director for Vets4Energy. Read More »

To keep up with ever advancing technology in the U.S., a new Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program, titled "Improv," will recruit skilled workers in multiple fields and ask them to consider how technologies that are easily obtainable by the public may be subverted to create security risks, DARPA said late last week. Read More »

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon agreed this week to collaborate on efforts to boost each other's cybersecurity safeguards, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said. Read More »

A clarification request was sent by U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the agency's statement that it would continue on with the Clean Power Plan (CPP), even though the Supreme Court had voted to halt implementation 5-4 last month. Read More »

Vets4Energy is promoting energy independence for America, an issue U.S. military veterans are principally interested in for national security reasons, Tony Caldarelli, chairman of the Pennsylvania Vets4Energy chapter, said. Caldarelli said that when he went to Iraq in 2004, there were a lot of good reasons to be involved in the Middle East and one of them was because we needed their energy. Read More »

First Solar recently released its first-ever Corporate Sustainability Report, which lays out its plan to cut the cost of solar-powered electricity by utilizing photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Read More »