Sentences with phrase «at the defense department»

Last November, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a similar program at the Defense Department for «small disadvantaged businesses» was unconstitutional.

Elsewhere, appropriators may have to make some tough calls over differing takes on advanced computing and fusion energy research at DOE, and proposed cuts to basic research at the Defense Department.

According to Federal News Radio, Chris Lynch — director of digital services at the Defense Department — said «it's been an opening of the floodgates» for projects since his office opened eight months ago.

In July 2013, Mark, a repeat client from 2010, asked The Resume Place to help write the application for his dream job, a critical Senior Executive Service position at the Deputy Assistant Secretary level at the Defense Department.

Not exact matches

Somehow that project led him to have meetings with individuals at the Department of Defense and NASA — people who don't have sit - downs with anyone, much less rock stars.

They also impact everything from FDA food labels (think «Nutrition Facts») to public school lunch programs, recommendations at the doctor's office, and what people are fed from the Defense Department and Veteran's Affairs food programs to government assistance like SNAP and WIC.

«Climate change both threatens [Department of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told BusinesDepartment of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Businesdepartment of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Business Insider.

The RAND report estimated that if transition - related services were extended to active - duty personnel, the military's healthcare costs would increase by between $ 2.4 million and $ 8.4 million a year — at most a 0.13 % increase over the $ 6.2 billion the Defense Department spent on healthcare for active - duty personnel.

Another three of the same supercomputers will be installed at the Navy Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center in southern Mississippi.

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Defense Department's Supercomputing Resource Center at the Wright - Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH will receive four HPE SGI 8600 supercomputers, as part of the deal.

At one point, says Blank, the institutions of the Valley were so totally in the pocket of the Department of Defense that Stanford became essentially a research lab for the CIA.

A former top military aide to Secretary Ash Carter used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs at strip clubs in Rome and in South Korea frequented by prostitutes and engaged in «inappropriate» behavior with women, a long - awaited report by the Department of Defense Inspector General released Thursday found.

Each year 2,500 students from the sister service branches train at the Louis F. Garland Fire Academy, located at Goodfellow Air Force Base, in order to become certified Department of Defense firefighters.

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

For the hacker who used to work at the Department of Defense «this is the worst thing since Snowden.»

Washington, D.C., 16 January 2014: The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the release of its substantive report on the status of Department of Defense (DoD) use of clean energy technology at its extensive base facilities worldwide.

Despite the frightening concentration of incompetence in the West Wing, many critical posts — most of all at the Departments of Defense and Treasury and the Federal Reserve — appear to be in the hands of basically capable people.

«We located the spaceport on this big chunk of land below the Department of Defense's restricted airspace» at White Sands missile range, Spaceport America CEO Dan Hicks said.

Carmine's content has been implemented at Accenture, Google, Cisco, Walmart, Intel, Coca - Cola, Chevron, McKinsey, Medtronic, LinkedIn, and the U.S. Department of Defense, among many others.

Urmson is a leading light in the once niche and now burgeoning field of autonomous driving, having honed his craft at Carnegie Mellon University and through various Department of Defense self - driving car contests.

His no - holds - barred defense of the New York Police Department, often at the expense of minority communities, drew sharp criticism.

The technological challenge faced by Druker's team and Mafat (the Ministry of Defense R&D department) was like hitting a marble in the air with another marble, at high altitude and inconceivable speeds.

«On behalf of Secretary Panetta, and the Department of Defense, I offer my sincere regret for the incident at Bagram Air Base,» said Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Lavoy.

At the international level, the best and most extensive tests of deterrence theory, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, offer very little support for the notion that one can attain or maintain peace by preparing for war.

At lunch with me one day in the Pentagon, a senior Defense Department official complained about Roman Catholic bishops who, in involving themselves in nuclear issues, were «tampering in geopolitical areas.»

The president intentionally focused on domestic concerns, including defense and homeland security, at the expense of the State Department allotment.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

At UCLA, defense is a team affair, and none of the players — even Goodrich — is particularly outstanding in this department once the team's tough zone press breaks down.

You can't go to the defense department at WallMart.

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

Planning is under way at the Department of Defense to make Trump's military march dreams a reality.

Three congressional lawmakers from New York are calling on the U.S. Department of Defense to install filtration units immediately at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh to stop the spread of PFOS - contaminated water.

He says failure to include all impacted waterways is a dereliction of duty and demands immediate attention from top brass at the Air Force, Air National Guard and Department of Defense.

The Advocate has learned that concurrent meetings took place Monday morning at the White House and on Capitol Hill that could help clear the way for «don't ask, don't tell» repeal to be attached to the Department of Defense authorization bill later this week.

In its statement, McDonnell's defense team, led by Hank Asbill, John Brownlee and Noel Francisco, said it believed that the Justice Department «brought this case in good faith based on its view of the law as it existed at the time.»

The legislation could blunt disruption for the Defense Department and personnel stationed around the world if Congress can not work out a budget agreement by Friday at midnight.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday called out Navy leadership for its slow response to alleged drunken sexual misconduct at a Pentagon Christmas party involving an aide to service's top officer, demanding an independent review of the case by the Department of Defense Inspector General.

At the «Rally in the Valley», concerned residents demanded that Department of Defense stop PFOS from seeping into their drinking water

However, the Department of Defense granted a waiver to its requirement that military voters get at least 45 days to receive their absentee ballots.

Nixon both used the label to promote her first campaign fundraiser at the Stonewall Inn, and later joked about it at the event, saying, «I just want to say tonight that she was technically right, that I don't have my certificate from the Department of Lesbian Affairs — though in my defense there's a lot of paperwork required.»

Mr. Bratton had previously offered a strong defense of the department — and again noted the officers were killed for wearing the NYPD uniform — in remarks he made at Ramos» funeral last week.

US Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney have called on the Defense Department to immediately order the Air National Guard to install carbon filtration units at the site of PFOS contamination at the Stewart Airport Air Guard base.

U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, Assemblyman Frank Skartados, Newburgh City Manager Michael Ciaravino and Riverkeeper are calling on the Department of Defense to stop the discharge of PFOS contaminated water from outfalls at the base to Silver Stream and other tributaries to Washington Lake, the city's main drinking water source.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who co-sponsored the legislation calling on the Department of Defense to mandate comprehensive diversity, anti-discrimination and harassment training, said the abuse amounted to «torture» of a soldier at the hands of those he served with.

The US Probation Department had recommended 6 1/2 to 8 years of prison for Halloran, who tried to claim insanity as a defense at trial and is a «prince» in a pagan order that includes public floggings.

New York state and local officials have called repeatedly on the U.S. Department of Defense to take responsibility for cleaning up PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

Seggos and Hutton were at the press conference with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced legislative action he is taking to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base and halts PFOS - laden discharges from the base into area water bodies, including the city's main drinking water source, Washington Lake.

At 11:30 a.m., Hochul, Sen. Joe Griffo, Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi and Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente tour Rome Laboratory, Department of Defense Cyber Research Facilities, Rome Labs, main entrance, 26 Electronics Parkway, Rome.

At noon, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and elected officials will announce he is taking legislative action to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS and PFOA contamination at Stewart Air National Guard BasAt noon, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and elected officials will announce he is taking legislative action to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS and PFOA contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Basat Stewart Air National Guard Base.

But at a press conference organized by a political pressure group, Coalition of Democratic Governance (CDG) in Accra yesterday, Mr Motrye, a Ghanaian US based GPS Expert, said, the GPS project was launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1973 for use by the United States military originally Navstar GPS.