WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a mandatory grant for enhanced hunter education, safety in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $240,000. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state go  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a mandatory grant for sport fish populations restoration in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $10 million. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to stat  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a mandatory grant for wildlife restoration and basic hunter education in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $10 million. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is  more

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sept. 27 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: Lena Dagher, an engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport's Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, has been awarded the Department of the Navy (DON) Meritorious Civilian Service Award for meritorious contributions that are of high value or benefit to the Navy. Rear Adm. Douglas W. Small, Program Executive Officer, Undersea Systems Program Office (Integrated Warfare Systems (IW  more

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sept. 25 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: The first five NavalX Tech Bridges stood up earlier this month by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition James "Hondo" Geurts are not wasting any time in creating these outposts of collaboration and innovation. This is a lot faster than we're used to going, but that is how Mr. Geurts likes to do business," Director of Tech Bridges Cmdr. Sam Gray said. "That is called '  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: * * * - October marks the one-year countdown to REAL ID * * * Do you have a star encircled in gold on your Rhode Island driver's license? If not, there's still time to get your gold star REAL ID driver's license. Rhode Island residents who want to board an airplane will soon need a gold star on their driver's license, indicating that it i  more

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sept. 30 -- The Naval War College issued the following news: In what one scholar called a "golden age" for the field, the U.S. Naval War College gathered scholars Sept. 26-27 for a workshop on the state of the art in teaching foreign policy strategy. "We are living in a golden age of grand strategy education," said Hal Brands, global affairs professor at Johns Hopkins University, describing the discipline as a growth industry that is also creative and vibrant. "And we a  more