WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 14, 2025 AIR FORCE General Electric Aerospace, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity $5,000,000,000 ceiling contract for F110 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) engines. This contract provides five years of pricing for F110-129 install and spare engines, with modernized engine monitoring system computers and spare engine accessories s  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on March 13, 2025: * * * Name of Product: Konwin Desktop Heaters Hazard: The heater's fan can fail to turn on and cause the unit to overheat and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards. Remedy: Refund Recall Date: March 13, 2025 Units: About 6,050 Consumer Contact: Meijer at 800-927-8699, via contact form at Web Form, or online at https://help.meijer.com/csp?id=m_kb_recall or https://www.meijer.c  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The FBI issued the following news release: * * * Shohini Sinha Named Assistant Director of the Victim Services Division The Federal Bureau of Investigation has named Shohini Sinha as the assistant director of the Victim Services Division. Ms. Sinha most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City Field Office. Ms. Sinha joined the FBI as a special agent in 2001. She was first assigned to the Milwaukee Field Office, where she worked in countert  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 15 -- The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following agenda: * * * TO: Commission Chairman James F. Huston, Commissioners Bennett, Freeman, Veleta and Ziegner FROM: Commission Technical Divisions DATE: March 14, 2025 RE: 30-Day Utility Articles for Conference on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m. The following thirty-day filings have been submitted to the Commission. Each item was reviewed by the appropriate Commission Technical Divisions an  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 14 -- The Indiana Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following weekly hearing schedule: * * * Monday, March 17, 2025 CAUSE NO.: 44147-GCA49; ALJ: KRESGE; TIME: 9:30 A.M.; ROOM: PNC, Room 222 PETITION OF OHIO VALLEY GAS CORPORATION AND OHIO VALLEY GAS, INC. FOR APPROVAL OF CHANGES TO THEIR GCA RATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH INDIANA CODE Sec. 8-1-2-42(G). Division: Energy * * * Monday, March 17, 2025 CAUSE NO.: 38707-FAC143; ALJ: KRESGE; TIME: 10:00 A.M  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development released the following testimony by Molly Dodge, senior vice president of workforce and careers at Ivy Tech Community College, from a March 5, 2025, hearing entitled "Strengthening WIOA: Improving Outcomes for America's Workforce." WIOA is the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. * * * Good morning, Chairman Owens, Ranking Member Adams, and members of the subcommittee. My   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 (TNSFR) -- The Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (UTIC) has announced changes to its membership, according to a notification filed on January 17, 2025, with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. The filing, submitted under the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, extends legal protections that limit the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specific conditions. The latest update welcomes several ne  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance released the following testimony by Women for Gun Rights founder Dianna Muller from a March 4, 2025, hearing entitled "The Right to Self Defense": * * * Thank you for inviting me to discuss self-defense and the role of the 2nd Amendment. For decades now, gun control advocates push for more laws and more restrictions. It's time to look at the evidence and acknowledge the truth. Guns save lives   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: * * * Young Reintroduces Legislation to Promote Competition, Protect Taxpayer Dollars in Government Contracting WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), along with 13 of his Senate Republican colleagues, reintroduced the Fair and Open Competition Act (FOCA), which would prevent the federal government from mandating project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal projects funded by taxpayers. This legislati  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: * * * Young, Berger Op-Ed: America Needs a National Economic Security Strategy to Counter China's Rise The following column by Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) and General David Berger was published in The Hill on March 14, 2025. By Senator Todd Young and General David Berger As America confronts an ambitious economic and military peer in China, we desperately require a more coherent playbook for protecting   more