WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: ARMY Nakupuna Consulting LLC,* Arlington, Virginia, was awarded a $370,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the integration for functionality into the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 9, 2031. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Provin  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced on July 10, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Kenneth Dawdy, 39, from Sioux City, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine on January 26, 2024. At the plea and sentencing hearings evidence showed that Dawdy participated in a conspiracy from January 2021 through June 2023 that distr  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Johnnie A. Cannon, 38, from Sioux City, Iowa, formerly from Osceola, Arkansas, was sentenced on July 9, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. On January 18, 2024, after a 3-day jury trial, Cannon was convicted, by jury verdict, of one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and three counts of distributing and aiding and abetting another in the distribu  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 12 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey are leading a seven-state challenge to a Biden Administration rule requiring doctors to provide - and states to pay for - experimental gender transition procedures. Similar rules were enjoined by federal courts in 2019 and 2022. On May 6, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule that "force  more