EIELSON AFB, Alaska, Jan. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Eielson Air Force Base (354th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Carson Jeney, 1st Combat Weather Squadron, Detachment 3 The 1st Combat Weather Squadron, Detachment 3, hosted the second annual Arctic Weather Workshop at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Jan. 16-19, 2024, to promote discussions between the Department of Defense, its partner countries, as well as academics and professors here in Alaska. The workshop w  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2024: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has a cooperative agreement with Alaska under the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). Through this agreement, USDA and Alaska are working together to offer over $1.9 million in competitive grant funding for projects designed to build resi  more

SEATTLE, Washington, Jan. 20 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2024: Today, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice for America's more than 33 million small businesses in President Biden's Cabinet, issued the following statement praising President Biden's appointment of Beto Yarce as Regional Administrator of Region 10 of the SBA, overseeing the agenc  more

EIELSON AFB, Alaska, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Air Force Eielson Air Force Base (354th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Carson Jeney, 354th Force Support Squadron The 354th Force Support Squadron recently conducted a Ready Raven Beddown exercise aimed to refine readiness within the squadron and promote cohesiveness for future deployments, Jan. 6, 2024. The exercise is based off the Ready Raven program which primarily tests the capabilities of housing Airmen, in the event  more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians who routinely defeat dangerous devices had to overcome a different kind of hazard during training in Alaska. To enable the U.S. Army's focus on regaining Arctic dominance, EOD techs from the Fort Drum, New York-based 760th Ordnance Company (EOD) recently traveled to an even colder climate to train t  more