REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, June 27 -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command issued the following news: By Anderson Bomjardim The Honorable Ashish S. Vazirani, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, visited U.S. Army Garrison (USAG)-Miami and its tenant commands Jun. 24, 2024, to learn more about programs and quality of life initiatives taking place on the installation. As the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, as of Sep. 8, 2023, Mr. Vazirani serve  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 26 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 17 state attorneys general in opposing the White House's recent decision to defer removing Palestinians from the United States. Earlier this year, President Biden ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop removing Palestinians subject to removal orders. The President purportedly ordered the deferral due to "humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian te  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, June 27 -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command issued the following news: By Carolyn Martino, Defense Integrated Business Systems Strategic Communications U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement are continuing to enhance the modernized Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) with the June 24 rollout of a new integration capability with the General Fund Enterprise Business Sy  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, June 27 -- The Army Space and Missile Defense Command issued the following news: By Carrie Campbell, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Conflict and combat are as old as humanity, but too often they leave silent and ignored remnants in survivors that lead to symptoms that create difficulties in their everyday lives. "Soldier's Heart," "Shell Shock" and "Battle Fatigue" are early attempts to diagnose the symptoms exhibited by Soldiers in war. It took humanit  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 26 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania have filed another set of amicus briefs in federal courts across the country this month to defend Title IX's protections of students from sex-based discrimination and harassment in education. Attorney General Platkin, the Division on Civil Rights (DCR), and their state partners are seeking t  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Funded by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Strengthen American Farms and Rural Small Businesses U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is partnering with rural Americans on hundreds of clean energy projects to lower energy bills, expand access to clean energy and create jobs for U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers. Many of t  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, June 27 -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command issued the following news: By Lt. Col. Jeffery M. Fritz Two U.S. Army students were recognized by the president of Estonia, Alar Karis, during their graduation of Baltic Defence College's (BALTDEFCOL) Joint Command and General Staff Course (JCGSC) June 20, 2024 in Tartu, Estonia. They were among 99 international students recognized during the joint graduation of the JCGSC, the Higher Command Studies Course (HCSC) and the Civ  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, June 26 -- Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on June 25, 2024: Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday announced she has awarded nearly $53.5 million to continue the expansion of high-speed internet service in Alabama. The grant awarded to the Alabama Fiber Network, a coalition of electric and generation/transmission cooperatives, will help develop the second phase of the state's "middle-mile" broadband network deployment. The project will impact 24 Alabama   more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, June 27 -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command issued the following news: By Maj. Matthew Pargett The US Army's 'Rapid Removal of Excess' (R2E) program, spearheaded by Gen. Randy George, is underway on Joint Base Lewis-McChord and aims to free up units from obsolete materiel by removing excess equipment from property books so soldiers can refocus their time and energy on training instead of burdensome inventories and maintenance for defunct items. This initiative, initial  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, June 27 -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command issued the following news: By Julia Hawkins A week of bustling activity at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant's depot operations outload sites ensured the depot operations team executed its outload mission with a 100% completion rate and 19 hours ahead of the surge outload exercise scheduled stop time. The exercise began on June 3 and was completed on June 7 with the depot operations team prepping and packaging almost 500 t  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following news release on June 25, 2024: The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau today announced a settlement to resolve its investigation into whether Verizon Wireless violated FCC rules by failing to deliver 911 calls during an outage in December 2022, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. As Congress and the Commission have found, robust and reliable 911 service i  more