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Agility Could Sign $2.5 Billion U.S. Army Deal: Report

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's Agility AGLT, the Gulf's biggest logistics provider by market value, is set to sign a $2.5 billion deal with the U.S. army in July, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The deal would include supplying food and providing ...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Kuwait, logistics provider, Middle East, food, warehousing, U.S., logistics, Thomson Reuters Corp., income, stock, Web site, Web

News items 2008-06-07

Three Strategies for Managing Generation Y

Getting the most from millennial employees requires a new approach to management. Here’s how Deloitte, Merrill Lynch, and the U.S. Army handle the needs of a new generation. ...

Tags: Andrew Tilin, recruit, U.S. Army, soldier, Generation Y, Human Resources, training, director, hiring, leader, strategy

Articles 2008-05-16

U.S. Army Acquisition - The Program Office Perspective

The purpose of conducting the BFI Benchmarking for Improvement engagements was to define the current state of the acquisition practices across the Army, to discover best practices currently in use by Army program offices, and to identify the software challenges that extend across Army programs. As part of the BFI...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Software Engineering Institute, acquisition, best practice, benchmarking, team, software

White papers 2005-10-01

Army Transformation Drives Biggest Change Since 1939

Fighting the war against global terrorism while simultaneously transforming itself to confront 21st-century threats is challenging the Army, a top military officer told U.S. House members here Feb. 3. The U.S. Army is in the midst of its greatest transformation since the period just before America's entry into World War...

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, terrorism, mobile

White papers 2005-02-04

Measuring Supply Management Change

Past experience in both the Army and the private sector has shown that organizations are slow to change and are aggressively unsympathetic toward change unless it results in a dramatic and immediate improvement in service level or financial status. Six Sigma uses customer-focused goals and measurements to drive continuous improvement...

Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Performance management, Total Quality Management, process improvement, Six Sigma, performance, supply chain, financial

White papers 2003-01-01

The Use of Risk Analysis by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Corps of Engineers has used risk analysis techniques and ideas for many years. It has only been in the last decade, however, that risk analysis methods have been explicitly integrated into decision making. This integration has provided the risk-cost and risk-net benefit tradeoffs, and distributions of net benefits. These...

Tags: Strategy, risk analysis, tradeoff, decision-making, benefit

White papers 2001-10-30

Additional Resources

Charlie Russell and the Mysterious Photographs

Have you ever picked up an old photograph and wished you knew the story behind it? Well, I did recendy when I received a phone call from historian Joe Crosby of Oklahoma City. Joe had come across two real photo postcards, both marked "Photo by Dean-Forsyth, Mont." and "At Fort...

Articles 2008-06-30

The Daily Record News Summaries: June 26, 2008

BAE employee killed in Iraq BAE Systems, of Rockville, the North American arm of a British defense company, announced that one of its employees, Nicole Suveges, a political scientist, was killed Tuesday in a bombing in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. She was working with the U.S. Army's...

Articles 2008-06-26

Sopheon Achieves Growth Milestone with Signing of 150th Licensee Customer

Novartis, Burger King Corp. and U.S. Army Among Latest Organizations to Select Sopheon Software MINNEAPOLIS & LONDON -- Sopheon, the international provider of software and services for product lifecycle management, announced today that 150 customers have now licensed its software products. Recent signees include Novartis, the world's fifth-largest...

Articles 2008-06-25

BAE Systems Statement Regarding the Loss of Employee in Iraq

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Nicole Suveges, a BAE Systems political scientist, was killed Tuesday in a bombing in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. She was supporting the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade Combat Team BCT, 4th Infantry Division, as part of the Human Terrain System HTS program. "We are deeply saddened...

Articles 2008-06-25

Officers round up 161 Utah fugitives

It's just after midnight, and a group of about 20 U.S. marshals and JCAT Joint Criminal Apprehension Task Force members from several jurisdictions quietly surround a house near 3500 South and 700 East. The group is looking for a fugitive wanted for investigation of attempting to run...

Articles 2008-06-25

American Defense Systems, Inc. Secures $7.7 Million in New Defense Contracts

HICKSVILLE, N.Y. -- American Defense Systems, Inc. (AMEX: EAG), offering advanced solutions in the design, fabrication and installation of transparent and opaque armor, security doors, windows and curtain wall systems, announced that the Company has recently secured multiple contracts from the U.S. Army and Marine Corps to provide Crew Protection...

Articles 2008-06-25

SwRI Receives $1.3 Million Grant for Chemical Weapon Antidote Development

SAN ANTONIO -- Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a one-year, $1.3-million grant by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command to develop and test nerve agent antidote formulations that can be administered as an intramuscular injection. Chemical warfare agents attack the central nervous system inhibiting acetocholinesterase...

Articles 2008-06-24

SENTEL Corporation Wins U.S. Army Contract for Night Vision and Electronic Sensor Technology

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- SENTEL Corporation, a technology services company that provides the federal government, military and commercial enterprises with engineering products and services worldwide, today announced that it is an awardee of the Sensor Technology Engineering Support contract for the U.S. Army. The award is for...

Articles 2008-06-24

Next target of Iraqi crackdown: Diyala

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took a victory lap Monday through the streets of Amarah, the latest city to be retaken from the control of Shiite militias. The Iraqi army reported no major resistance during four days of operations, and al-Maliki walked freely through the southern...

Articles 2008-06-24

Utahn to remain free pending verdict

A federal magistrate judge has allowed a Bountiful man to remain out of federal custody pending the outcome of his ammunition-sales case. Ralph G. Merrill, 65, is charged with scheming to sell the U.S. Army prohibited Chinese-made ammunition. Merrill appeared in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake...

Articles 2008-06-24

Residents fight to stop flood

WINFIELD, Mo. -- With a few days to go before the last stretch of the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water. Officials in Lincoln County asked for...

Articles 2008-06-24

Army Wins Two DoD Awards for Environmental Stewardship

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Two of this year's Department of Defense Environmental Awards were given to Army installations making strides in historic preservation and sensitive species protection. In Alabama, the U.S. Army Garrison Redstone Arsenal's protection of local history resulted in the DoD...

Articles 2008-06-24

Ducommun Incorporated Announces $21M Award for WaterWATCH Homeland Security Program

LOS ANGELES -- Ducommun Incorporated (NYSE: DCO) today announced that its Miltec Corporation Miltec subsidiary has been awarded a long term contract to develop, demonstrate and provide security solutions for facilities located on U.S. waterways. The WaterWATCH Program is a continuation of previous waterway security development efforts at Miltec and...

Articles 2008-06-24

Raytheon Awarded $76.2 Million to Provide Mission Support for Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment System

TEWKSBURY, Mass., June 23, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company has been awarded a $76.2 million U.S. Army contract to provide mission sustainment and support for the Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment systems that protect U.S. and coalition forces in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Raytheon first developed...

Articles 2008-06-23