FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, May 24 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: By Felix A. Figueroa, DLA Public Affairs The Defense Logistics Agency recognized past teammates who have significantly contributed towards DLA's legacy during its Hall of Fame induction ceremony at its headquarters May 21. DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly hosted the event in which five former Defense Logistics Agency employees were inducted. In attendance were past hal  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 24 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: The U. S. Air Force released the Fiscal Year 2024 Selective Retention Bonus list, effective Oct. 1, 2024. The FY24 SRB program consists of 73 Air Force Specialty Codes, and none were removed from last year's program. If an Airman's Air Force Specialty Code is included in the FY24 list, they are eligible for a Selective Retention Bonus. Since no FY23 SRB-eligible career fields were removed in the FY24 SRB offering, Air  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 20 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funded by $1.5 billion investment into Brownfields sites from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address legacy pollution, advance environmental justice, and create healthier communities * * * Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $7.38 million in grant awards from President Biden's Investing in America (https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 21 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funded by $1.5 billion investment into Brownfields sites from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address legacy pollution, advance environmental justice, and create healthier communities * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday $2 million in grant awards from President Biden's Investing in America (https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/) age  more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies & Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agency's Technology Transfer Program. The performance-based firm-fixed price contract has a potential mission services value of $26 million and a maximum potential indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity value of $55 million. The contract begins on Saturday, June   more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on May 23, 2024: The National Park Service (NPS) today awarded $1,540,403.50 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) to protect 144.36 acres, including three battlefields in Mississippi and Virginia. "The National Park Service is proud to help state and local organizations preserve these historic, cultural, and natural re  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The White House issued the following news release on May 22, 2024: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of West Virginia and ordered Federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, flooding, landslides, and mudslides from April 2 to April 6, 2024. The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the   more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of West Virginia to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, flooding, landslides and mudslides from April. 2-6, 2024 The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Kana  more

QUANTICO, Virginia, May 24 -- The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command issued the following news release: It has been four years since 21-year-old Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez was reported missing near Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina. The remains of the 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper from Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) later washed up on Shackleford Banks Island on May 29, 2020. The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division continues to offer a reward   more

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia, May 24 -- The U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico issued the following news: By Cpl. Christopher Zincke, Marine Corps Base Quantico "I remember starving while trapped in the debris," she said, stuck under a collapsed building with her sister, Sophie. "We had no way to escape and no idea what's to come with the ongoing earthquake." A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12th, 2010, which took the lives of more than 200,000 other people. "It felt like   more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 24 -- Peterson and Schriever Space Force Base issued the following news: Air Force Reservists in space-related career fields interested in volunteering for the U.S. Space Force in a fulltime capacity can expect the application window to open June 1-Nov. 30, 2024. This transfer option is part of the Space Force Personnel Management Act (PMA), approved by Congress and signed into law as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. When fully implemen  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, May 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on May 23, 2024: A Newport News man was sentenced today to six years and six months in prison for federal drug and firearms offenses. According to court documents, on Sept. 9, 2022, two Newport News Police Department (NNPD) officers observed Daquan Montreal Lane, 29, driving a vehicle with a seven-year-old child in the back seat who was not properly restraine  more