The Pentagon has upped its order for armored troop vehicles built in part by Bennington, Vermont’s Plasan North American. Wisconsin’s Oshkosh will build an additional 1,700 additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain-Vehicles at a cost of $1 billion. That on top of the 2,244 vehicles already ordered. The contract will create 150 jobs at Plasan. Plasan America is [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Department of Defense intends to cut 98 positions from a Washington Air National Guard unit that protects the US from Internet-based attacks. The Air National Guard’s annual budget eliminates the positions at the 194th Regional Support Wing by October 1st. Most of the unit is based at Camp Murray, near of Tacoma. Targeted jobs include the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 15, 2009
The US Government will spend $10.4 million to expand its radar testing facilities at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, creating 160 jobs. The expansion will include a new radar test pad, test ranges, a 330′ test tower and a testing station. Construction will begin early next year, and be completed by July 2011. The Tobyhanna Army Depot [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
The US Department of Defense is conducting a national competition and talent search to help find 10,000 computer security experts, including 200 jobs with the DoD itself. The DoD’s Defense Cyber Crime Center will only consider applicants from the continental US — it cannot afford to fly in applicants from Alaska or Hawaii. Challenge participants submit solutions [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 5, 2009
Northrop Grumman, the Pentagon’s number three supplier, is cutting up to 750 jobs, mainly administrative positions in Southern California, even as it plans to hire up to 850 engineers and technicians for work on advanced weapons. The layoffs stem chiefly from the consolidation of Northrop’s aircraft-making Integrated Systems unit, headquartered in El Segundo, with the satellite-building [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 16, 2009
The US military will recruit skilled immigrants living in the United States with temporary status, offering them a chance to become citizens in as little as six months. Pakistanis and Afghans living in the US on temporary visas who can converse in the Pashto and Hindi languages may become American citizens within six months if they [...]
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