SILVER SPRING, Maryland, July 19 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news on July 18, 2024: * * * Funding Will Support Innovative Marine Debris Prevention and Removal * * * Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced $27 million in funding for projects to prevent and remove marine debris in coastal and Great Lakes communities as part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This fund  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 19 -- The Illinois National Guard issued the following news: Illinois Army National Guard Maj. Zachary DeGroot, of Chatham, the Illinois Army National Guard's state training officer and commander of 1st Battalion, 106th Assault Helicopter Regiment, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in a ceremony July 16 at the Illinois Military Academy, Camp Lincoln, Springfield. DeGroot commissioned into the active component of the U.S. Army as an aviation officer in 2006 through   more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Charles Stark Draper Laboratories Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, is awarded a $111,015,771 fixed-price-incentive-fee and cost-plus-incentive-fee modification (P00003) under contract N0003023C6008 to exercise optional line items for design analysis, testing, procurement, and manufacturing of Interferometric fiber optic gyros repairs and associated material. This modification also benefits a foreign mi  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND Ultimate Ammunition LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada; Canadian Commercial Corp., Ottawa, Canada; Blane International Group Inc., Cumming, Georgia; and Olin Winchester LLC, Oxford, Mississippi, is being awarded a multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (H9240323R00020001) with a maximum total ceiling of $750,000,000 and a separate $2,500 minimum ordering guaran  more

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, California, July 19 -- The U.S. Air Force Beale Air Force Base (9th Reconnaissance Wing) issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Frederick A. Brown, 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs The Air Force is no stranger to innovation when using flexibility to overcome challenges. The Air Force Manning Assist Program is proof of one of the Air Force's unofficial mottos, "The key to Air Power is flexibility". For two months, Airman 1st Class Nicholas Santos, a 375th Medical   more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: * * * YouthBuild grants fund pre-apprenticeship programs to prepare young people for workforce * * * The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of $99 million in funding to support the delivery of pre-apprenticeships in high-demand industries including construction, clean energy, healthcare, infrastructure, information technology an  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: The addition of IBM as a new partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, has been approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical q  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release: The office manager for a suburban Chicago medical equipment boutique has been indicted on federal health care fraud charges for allegedly billing private insurers for products that were never provided, including breast prostheses, compression garments, and wigs for cancer survivors. JUDY STRZELECKI served as the office manager for A Woman's Place LLC, a durable  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following weekly report entitled "Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims" for week ending July 13, 2024: * * * SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending July 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 243,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 222,000 to 223,000. The 4-week moving average was 234,750, an increase of 1  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released enforcement actions taken against national banks and federal savings associations (banks), and individuals currently and formerly affiliated with banks the OCC supervises. The OCC uses enforcement actions against banks to require the board of directors and management to take timely actions t  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, July 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on July 17, 2024: * * * Elected officials, Department of Energy leaders and other luminaries joined Argonne today to dedicate the upgraded APS The revamped facility is a strong investment in the future of science and innovation. * * * On a bright day in July, a crowd of hundreds gathered at the site of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) in Lemont, Illinois to we  more