General Dynamics Unit to Continue Marine Operations Work
496328
General Dynamics of Falls Church said last week that it has agreed to provide six portable combat operations centers to upper-level Marine Corps commands under a $38 million modification of an existing contract.
563563
By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 15--The U.S. Coast Guard's Great Lakes district commander canceled two live-fire machine gun exercises that were scheduled for Thursday.   Rear Adm. John E. Crowley Jr., commander of the Cleveland-based 9th Coast Guard District, made the decision.
124141
The U.S. Army on Tuesday awarded  General Dynamics Corp. GD.N the lead role in developing a new  warfighter communications system, with Lockheed Martin Corp.  LMT.N. to get an equal share of the work, which GD said was  worth $7 billion through 2018.
26001
The Marine Corps may need to increase in size to sustain deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan without sacrificing needed training or putting undue stress on the corps, the new Marine commandant said Wednesday.
725028
Japan&#39;s Cabinet on Tuesday extended the country&#39;s naval mission to provide logistical support to the US-led coalition in Afghanistan by six months, and approved a plan to supply fuel for the coalition&#39;s helicopters.
272089
The Coast Guard is planning its first operating base in the Arctic as a way of dealing with ships that are already beginning to ply the Arcticâs increasingly ice-free waters.
249341
The Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in April to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Taliban offensive in the spring, military officials said Wednesday.
572143
Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N's   Space & Mission Systems business unit is being awarded a U.S.   Navy technical services contract worth up to $686.1 million to   support the U.S. Joint Forces Command's warfighting center, the   Defense Department said on Friday.
739622
By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Feb. 17--A March 7 deadline grows closer for commercial fishing boats in a Gulf of Mexico fishery to install satellite-monitoring equipment on their boats.
104248
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Repair crews have restarted the main engine of a Japanese whaling ship crippled by a fire a week ago near Antarctica, but the vessel has not yet moved under its own power, an official said today.
323045
ST. JOHN&#39;S, Nfld. (CP) - The Terra Nova offshore platform was given permission to resume drilling off Newfoundland on Monday. The platform was shut down by regulators after a spill of two barrels of oil on Dec. 20.
446279
VICTORIA - The navy&#39;s only submarine on the West Coast will stay moored at CFB Esquimalt while officials do a safety check on the three remaining subs bought from Britain.
208494
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Cargo operations at the nation's largest port complex will be extended to nights and weekends in an effort to reduce traffic jams and air pollution, terminal operators said yesterday.
537919
WORK to monitor Wales' marine environment moves up a gear this summer with joint research projects in the Menai Strait/Conwy Bay and Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau special areas of conservation.
550886
CAPE CANAVERAL-- The explosive growth of tools and toys using data from the US military&#39;s array of Global Positioning System satellites is showing no signs of letting up, and the US Air Force aims to meet demand.
576143
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Air and ship crews were keeping an eye on an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland Monday as containment crews waited out stormy weather to take action.
560279
Scientists working to help an Atlantic right whale that is entangled in fishing gear were able to keep track of it overnight and expected good conditions to continue, a spokeswoman said Friday.