IRVING, Texas, April 11 -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced today a record number of members for the 2024 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of the NCAA, NAIA and sprint football who each maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college careers. An elite group of 1,988   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, April 9 -- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, Washington, District of Columbia has been assigned a patent (No. US 11953566 B2, initially filed Aug. 25, 2022) developed by Paymon Shirazi, Corona, California, and Subrata Sanyal, Eastvale, California, for "Apparatus and methods for virtually linear and temperature-independent sensing of magnetic fields."  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following Q&A on April 10, 2024: By Christopher B. Johnstone Prime Minister Kishida Fumio this week is conducting an official visit to Washington, the first by a Japanese leader since former prime minister Abe Shinzo visited in 2015. Official or state visits feature the highest diplomatic honors that can be accorded a visiting leader, including a state dinner; this is just the fifth such visit during the Bide  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 [Category: National Defense] -- The Military Officers Association of America issued the following news: The March 13 launch of a joint DoD-VA electronic health record (EHR) at a North Chicago care center marked a "monumental moment" in the program's progress, officials said during an April 4 briefing with MOAA and other veterans groups. The launch of the federal EHR at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) -- a first-of-its-kind fully integrated DoD  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee, delivered the following opening remarks at a hearing on military operations in cyberspace and building cyber capabilities across the Department of Defense. Rep. Gallagher's remarks as p  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Institute of World Politics issued the following news release: On 26 March, IWP Professor Aaron Danis spoke to the IWP-supported Cyber Intelligence Club in Washington, D.C. The event was held at the Army-Navy Club, and Professor Danis was the guest of IWP Chief Information Officer Dean Lane. Professor Danis' talk was titled "Thwarting Terrorist Use of the Internet: An ISIS Case Study." The talk took a high-level strategy approach to countering terrorist use and misu  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: BREMERTON, Wash. - Three members of the company, "The Band of Sisters," spoke with Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees, March 28, during a command observance in honor of Women's History Month. Cie Nicholson, Angelique Bellmer-Krembs and Lori Tauber Marcus represented the group as they addressed the importance workplace culture and the role gender bias plays i  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 [Category: National Defense] -- The Military Officers Association of America issued the following news: This article by Karen Jowers originally appeared on Military Times, the nation's largest independent newsroom dedicated to covering the military and veteran community. Military pharmacies have returned to full operations, six weeks after a cyberattack on the nation's largest commercial prescription processor disrupted normal business at thousands of pharmacies around the  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 [Category: National Defense] -- The Military Officers Association of America issued the following news: By Christina Wood In 2009, while biking in the French Pyrenees, Lt. Col. Tom von Kaenel, USA (Ret), suffered a devastating accident that dislocated his hip and shattered his pelvis. His extensive injuries were beyond the scope of the local hospital in France, so he was flown to a U.S. medical hospital in Germany -- Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. "I was in a trauma w  more

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland, April 11 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: The final day of the Sea-Air-Space Expo 2024 began with a question-and-answer session with representatives from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) and concluded with an overview of NAVAIR's Fleet Readiness Centers. Irma Alexander, deputy director of small business for NAVAIR Headquarters, and Larry Butts, deputy director o  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: CRANE, Ind. - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) held a collaborative event to respond to urgent operational needs on January 23-25. The event, called TRON Queen's Gambit 24, included in-person and virtual participants from more than a dozen organizations within the Naval Research and Development Establishment (NRDE). Carmelo Fontan (SSTM), the Chief Technology Officer for  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: 04.10.2024 - Engineers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) gathered with defense partners, high tech industry, and academia at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Marriott to participate in the inaugural Shipboard Robotics Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) on March 5, 2024. The event, hosted by the Liberty Tech Bridge, powered by NavalX, provided an opportunity to unite  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: NEWPORT, R.I. - The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport's Federal Women's Program celebrated Women's History Month with a panel discussion by five female employees on March 26 that focused on insights and experiences as women working for the U.S. Navy. The event, which was broadcast to employees throughout the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), kicked off with a video featurin  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Last night, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, voted to pass the A Stronger Workforce for America Act which makes critical improvements to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The bill passed the House by 376-26. WIOA is the federal program that funds the Eastern Workforce Investment Board (EWIB) and its successful Manufact  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the below statement in response to several developments within the Department of the Navy suggesting significant challenges ahead for shipbuilding and defense procurement. Specifically, Senator Wicker is responding to the recently released 30-year shipbuilding plan, the Navy's $2.2 billion unfun  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bob Casey (D-PA) announced growing support for their push for the Biden Administration to initiate an investigation into the People's Republic of China's (PRC) unfair trade practices in commercial shipbuilding that undermine American workers and jeopardize our national security. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), John Fetterman (D-PA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), an  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Virginia. *** Deep Learning Based Detection of Malicious Shell Scripts ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, April 9 -- CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC, McLean, Virginia has been assigned a patent (No. US 11954202 B2, initially filed May 14, 2021) developed by five inventors Farshid Marbouti, San Jose, California; Sarvani Kare, Clarksville, Maryland; Boshika Tara, Pleasanton, California; Stephen Fletcher, Arlington, Virginia;   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 11 -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: In celebration of 15 years of legal education and highlighting its globally recognized expertise in national security, the Nebraska Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law Program is changing its name to the Nebraska Space, Cyber and National Security Law Program. First launched in 2008, a defining feature of the program has been its longstanding relationship with the U.S. Air Force and   more

NAPLES, Italy, April 10 -- The U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa - U.S. 6th Fleet issued the following news: After a safe Suez Canal transit, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) transited the Straits of Messina and arrived in Palermo, Italy, for a regularly scheduled port visit, April 9, 2024. "Navigating the Strait of Messina has historical significance as a mariner, as the uniqueness of the transit has been highlighted in myths and legends, with the most notab  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 10 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: By Joan Tupponce Helping people. That's the reason Geoffrey Robb joined the Navy, became a registered radiologic technologist and will now graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University in May with a bachelor's degree in clinical radiation sciences from the College of Health Professions. "His outgoing nature and caring attitude really stand out. He's sensitive to those around him," said Melanie Dempse  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: * * * In a letter sent today, more than 100 U.S. Navy veterans joined PETA to urge Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro to end cruel and irrelevant decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity experiments on pigs and other animals. Documents obtained by PETA reveal that among myriad atrocities at the Naval Medical Research Command   more

WASHINGTON, April 11 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on April 10, 2024: * * * Japan Official Visit with State Dinner to the U.S. Today, President Biden welcomed Prime Minister Kishida of Japan for an Official Visit with State Dinner to celebrate the deep and historic ties between our two countries. This visit also reflects the upward trajectory of the U.S.-Japan Alliance as it evolves into a global partnership that promotes a shared vision of progress and prosperit  more