Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics win U.S. Navy orders

This snippet is from a Navy message from 1944. (Credit: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Naval Personnel) Until just recently, the Navy had a lot in common with your obnoxious uncle who just now discovered the Internet and ...

Defense contractor General Dynamics Corporation ( GD ) won a contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Navy for four new ships. The contract is worth $2.84 billion. The latest is a fixed-price incentive firm target contract that ...

The longtime Waukegan police officer named the department's chief last month wrote on his job application to the agency in 1987 that he had trained to be a Navy SEAL, linking himself to an elite, celebrated combat force. But Chief Robert Kerkorian ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- When the Department of Defense sent furlough notices to hundreds of thousands of civilian employees beginning last week, thousands of workers were exempt from the mandatory 11 days off the job without pay. The ...

The Department of Defense started the week off with a bang Monday (if you'll pardon the expression). Across a field of 20 contracts awarded, the Pentagon laid out plans to spend nearly $6.6 billion in total contracts -- and just two contracts ...

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Cobalt Technologies, U.S. Navy, and Show Me Energy Cooperative to demonstrate that jet fuel can be made economically and in large quantities from a renewable ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Department of the Navy's top civilian has ordered commanders to remove risqué pictures and other potentially offensive items from public areas, including places like hangar tool sheds and ship bathrooms. In a ...

Agency: Department of the Navy Office: Naval Air Systems Command Location: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division Date you need to respond by: 18-June-2013 Solicitation Number: N6134013T0056 Naics code: 541519 Computer Systems Design ...