ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: As part of its ongoing modernization efforts, the Department of the Air Force chief information officer, in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory, is accelerating initiatives to provide Guardians, Airmen, civilian employees, and contractors the ability to responsibly experiment with Generative AI, with adequate safeguards in place. DAF senior leaders are focused on maximizing  more

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: By Beth Reece The military services are undergoing an intense transformation that requires the Defense Logistics Agency and industry to think, act and operate differently, DLA's director told leaders of 14 industry associations June 6. "Every service, every combatant command, and every regional command is reevaluating themselves - their equipment, warfighting concepts, organ  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, June 11 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is moving forward on a project to gain new insight into the interactions of electrons. The MOLLER experiment will make an extremely precise measurement of the electron's force field to learn about specific and rare interactions with other subatomic particles. On May 28, the experiment  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued the following order (MDL No. 3111): * * * In Re: Capital One 360 Savings Account Interest Fee Litigation TRANSFER ORDER Before the Panel: Defendants Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Financial Corporation (together, Capital One) move under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1407 to centralize this litigation in the Eastern District of Virginia. The litigation consists of six actions pending in five districts, as listed on Schedule A. S  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, June 11 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: A Honduran national was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. According to court documents, early on the morning of June 20, 2023, officers with the Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) responded to a report of an unconscious person in a c  more

WEST POINT, New York, June 11 -- The Military Academy issued the following news release: Cadet Zoe Winston, Class of 2025, has been selected as West Point's first Astronaut Scholar. The program aids the United States in retaining its world leadership in technology and innovation by supporting the very best and brightest scholars in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while commemorating the legacy of America's pioneering astronauts. The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, originally  more