The White House is planning to cut off the spread of violent extremism at the source: the point of radicalization. Read More »

General Dynamics Mission Systems has been granted a U.S. Navy production contract for the Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP), Block 1B3, General Dynamics said this week. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (H.R. 4084), a bipartisan bill to support federal research and development (R&D) and stimulate private investment in advanced nuclear-reactor technologies in the U.S., advanced out of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Read More »

The Supreme Court of the Philippines recently upheld the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) signed by President Obama last year, bolstering U.S. relations with the multi-island nation, a key U.S. ally in the South Pacific. Read More »

The Government Accountability Office released a study this week that found the Department of Defense (DOD) has yet to establish a net-zero policy, or a strategy to achieve net-zero efficiency. Read More »

A firm-fixed-price contract -- a maximum of $7,046,395, for one year with no option period -- for electricity and ancillary services has been awarded to Constellation NewEnergy of Baltimore by the Navy's Defense Logistics Agency. Read More »

U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, responded in a statement on Wednesday to reports that the Obama administration plans to delay the premature retirement of the A-10 air fleet in its fiscal year 2017 budget request. Read More »

The U.S. Marine Corps said this week that it is moving ahead with gender-integration initiatives after last year’s Pentagon decision to break the gender barrier for all military jobs -- including combat roles. Read More »

President Obama presented his final State of the Union address this week to Congress, during which he detailed his administration’s successes, and the surge in solar-energy employment has been a standout. Read More »

South Texas-based Marathon Oil awarded Phase II implementation of its Eagle Ford Digital Oil Field (DOF) Program this week to Technical Toolboxes Inc. (TTI) subsidiary Energy Industry Consultants and Engineers (EICE) International. Read More »

Army and Air Force leaders are teaming up to engineer training methods that can turn out more-adaptable leaders who can develop creative solutions to complex challenges. Read More »

Several companies recently were awarded defense contracts to provide a variety of resources to the Army, Navy and Special Operations units, including enterprise planning services, environmental support, practice bombs, flooring, sensor systems, processor systems and computer-intelligence applications. Read More »

Several Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency contracts recently were awarded to companies to provide operations workload, infrastructure, systems engineering, and supporting technology and equipment services. Read More »

Just weeks after President Obama signed a bill that lifted a 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude oil exports, two tankers filled with U.S. crude oil pulled out of Texas ports, en route to U.S. allies in Europe. Read More »

After the Obama administration said recently that it will cease all coal leases on federal lands, Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, condemned the move. Read More »

U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a statement late last week on Iran's temporary seizure of two U.S. vessels and detainment of 10 U.S. sailors. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DoD) issued a report late last week detailing new biological-management procedures that are being implemented in the wake of accidental shipments of live anthrax to dozens of labs in the U.S and abroad. Read More »

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) recently announced a shakeup in its Health Subcommittee, with the departure of Clay Alspach as chief counsel. Read More »

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) recently pledged $11 million in funding late last week for seven projects to develop data repositories and open-access models to upgrade the U.S. electric grid. Read More »

Wisconsin's lower legislative house recently passed legislation to repeal the state's 33-year-old ban on constructing new nuclear power plants in an effort to boost low-carbon electricity production. Read More »