BALTIMORE, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Walters Art Museum, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate and the University of Delaware's Department of Art Conservation have been selected by the United States Department of State to be cultural partners to participate in the Iraq Cultural Heritage Project announced at the Embassy...
Avon Foundation & U.S. State Department Announced Public-Private Partnership at 2008 Breast Cancer Global Congress WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Avon Foundation and the U.S. Department of State announced today their partnership to strengthen the global fight against breast cancer at the 2008 Breast Cancer Global Congress...
Munir is five years old, and he lives in a ruggedly remote, rural village in Northern Pakistan. For months, he has suffered from an aggressive and worsening skin lesion that, for want of medical care, has gone untreated. But now, his fortunes have changed for the better --...
Hoku Solar, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU) has been selected to design, engineer and install photovoltaic PV power systems at airports across the state of Hawaii. Today, Hoku Solar and the Hawaii State Department of Transportation DOT entered a series of agreements by...
Firm to Provide Domestic and International Project and Program Management Support Services to State Department FAIRFAX, Va. -- ICF International announced today that ICF Incorporated, an ICF International subsidiary, was awarded a blanket purchase agreement BPA by the U.S. Department of State with a ceiling of $300 million. Under...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The U.S. Department of State has awarded DynCorp International (NYSE:DCP) a contract to establish a humanitarian Quick Reaction Force QRF to respond globally to urgent humanitarian operations that require the removal or mitigation of explosive hazards to protect civilian populations. Under the contract, awarded by the...
DENVER -- XeDAR Corporation (OTCBB: XDRC), a provider of homeland security and defense consulting and IT security services to our national intelligence agencies and the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and others, announced today that its Point One subsidiary has been awarded a GSA SmartBUY contract from the Department of...
Providing Services to Refugee Processing Center FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. , a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, today announced it has won a contract with the Department of State's Bureau of Population,...
WASHINGTON AFP — North Korea does not appear to be resurrecting its Yongbyon nuclear plant despite reports Pyongyang had made moves toward relaunching the facility, the US State Department said Wednesday. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that North Korea appeared to be moving equipment at the site but...
KEITH M. WOODWELL has been selected as the new director of the Division of Securities of the Utah Department of Commerce. Woodwell has held several positions within the U.S. State Department both stateside and abroad, served as associate general counsel to the Utah Legislature and was an associate attorney with...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States accused North Korea Tuesday of violating a six-nation nuclear accord and retained it on a terror blacklist, after the hardline communist state defiantly suspended disabling its atomic plants. Washington said North Korea would stay on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list until it...
NEW YORK AFP — The United States and North Korea held talks Friday to break a deadlock over measures to verify Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program that could pave the way for removing the hardline communist state from a terrorism blacklist. The talks in New York between Sung Kim, the...
Lyman Elementary students Jacob Roberts, left, a fourth-grader, and Colton Meditz, a third-grader, make their way through the small intestine to the villi as they enter the bloodstream to the heart during a tour of the Body Venture on Thursday at the Sunrise Optimist Building . The exhibit is sponsored...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States on Wednesday suspended a program aimed at reuniting refugees from mainly East Africa with relatives in the United States after DNA testing revealed rampant fraud. Only about one of five tested "could show that family relationship," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said when...
Your editorial published on Aug. 4 claims that the creation of a Department of Peace (HR 808) is "Feel-good silliness." Your editorial misinforms your readers because it assumes the Department of Peace DOP conflicts with existing governmental structures. It does not. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will...
WASHINGTON AFP — Five more US military flights with relief supplies were dispatched to war-torn Georgia Monday as Washington considered the possibility of sea humanitarian missions, officials said. So far, 14 planes have been involved in the US humanitarian effort, which cost more than 4.2 million dollars, including medical...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The U.S. Department of State has awarded DynCorp International (NYSE:DCP) a new task order for the Afghanistan Civilian Advisor Support ACAS program under the International Civilian Police CIVPOL contract. The new task order has a value of $317.4 million over a performance period of 18...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US government as a "safety precaution" revoked visas it had issued to four Palestinian recipients of prestigious Fulbright fellowships, the State Department said Tuesday. "We had interviewed four scholars. We had issued visas," said State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos. But, Gallegos said that "subsequent...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-1 August 2008-ManTech wins US Department of State contractC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT) has announced that it has been awarded a USD124m contract by the US Department of State. The contract involves supporting the State Department's Bureau of Information Resource Management Program Management and...
FAIRFAX, Va. -- ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT) announced that is has received a $124 million contract from the U.S. Department of State to support the Global IT Modernization GITM program. Under the competitively awarded, five-year contract, ManTech will support the State Department's Bureau of Information Resource Management Program Management and...