Новости за 30.07.2015

The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that Cerner had been awarded a coveted $4.3 billion, 10-year contract to overhaul the Pentagon's electronic health records for millions of active military members and retirees.

A century ago, American troops invaded and occupied a foreign nation. They would stay there for almost two decades, install a client government, impose new laws and fight insurgents in bloody battles on difficult terrain. Thousands of residents perished during what turned out to be 19 years of de facto U.S. rule.

A rare gap in the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf this fall could hinder military capabilities in the war against the Islamic State, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead the Navy told the Senate Thursday.

Government agencies have grown wary of for-profit colleges' pursuit of veterans and their families. Military service members receive federal education funding that has become a stable source of revenue for many of the schools.

Vice President Joe Biden met House Democrats in hopes of securing their support for the nuclear accord with Iran, as the White House confronts a tougher than expected fight to ensure that the deal survives congressional review.

Republican lawmakers have opened a new avenue of attack on the Iran nuclear accord by criticizing what they call "secret side deals" governing the inspection process that will be withheld from Congress.

The House on Thursday edged toward raising Tricare copays for prescription drugs as it wrangles with the Senate over ballooning costs that are draining the budget for military health care.

In a sign of its resilience, the Islamic State appears to have recruited new fighters to offset 15,000 militants killed in a U.S.-led airstrike campaign approaching its first anniversary, U.S. military and intelligence estimates show.

The next indispensable tech tool may be a drone of your own. And daily life may never be the same. "I see a time when every home will have a drone. You're going to use a drone to do rooftop inspections. You're going to be able to send a drone to Home Depot to get a screw driver," predicted on NASA official in California.

More than 260,000 Filipinos and Filipino-Americans, including 300 from Hawaii, answered President Franklin Roosevelt's call to liberate the Philippines 74 years ago, but unlike the nisei soldiers or the African-American Tuskegee Airmen, many feel they have not received adequate recognition for their wartime efforts.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord is proposing to establish three off-base helicopter training areas and one mountain training area. These training areas would be available to use 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, except for federal holidays. The training would involve helicopters flying as low as 500 feet above ground level.

On Tuesday, friends, family, police officers, military personnel and elected officials gathered at First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe for Smith's funeral. They filled seats on two floors and listened to stories about Smith.

Congress has approved a $3.3 billion budget fix at the Department of Veterans Affairs aimed at keeping payments for outside medical treatment flowing after Friday and keeping its nationwide network of hospitals open after Aug. 20.

Amid a call for Department of Veterans Affairs employees to report wrongdoing, whistleblowers and a government watchdog warned senators Thursday that the agency tasked with investigating those claims has been complicit in retaliation.

In the fall of 1967, Julius Cartwright "Corky" Foster – a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve lance corporal and graduate of West Virginia University in the spring of '67 – was so upset by national sentiment relating to the Vietnam War, that he walked 404 miles from Welch, W.Va., to North Carolina to re-enlist and demonstrate his commitment to his nation.

In the wake of the tragic shootings at a military installation earlier this month in Chatanooga, officials with Drinkard Development have committed to add ballistic safety glass at the recruiting offices in the King Edward Plaza Shopping Center.

The U.S. Navy has established a command senior chief rate designed to give senior enlisted personnel additional leadership experience, the Navy announced.

During their first tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art last summer, the military veterans entered a modern-art gallery displaying a series of paintings that troubled them. Something about the scribbly nature of Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam, based on Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad, stirred visceral emotions, dark memories of their service. One veteran teared up.

Arafat M. Nagi used the Internet to voice his elation when the Islamic State terrorist group beheaded its victims. He bought a machete, night-vision goggles and other combat gear. And he made two trips to the Middle East, allegedly attempting to link up with ISIS leaders.

Nine U.S. Marines en route to Ukraine for a training exercise were held up in Vienna for questioning last week because their weapons had not been properly declared, an Austrian newspaper reported.

The 71st Fighter Squadron will be re-activated under a slightly different name – the 71st Fighter Training Squadron – during a ceremony Aug. 21, according to a statement from the base.

Just when it seemed Turkey was getting serious about the fight against IS, it has turned its military focus to pounding its old foe: the Kurdish rebels.

A Folsom engineer and retired Navy commander was fined $7,500 and placed on two years of probation on Wednesday in Sacramento federal court for transferring classified data from a government computer to a personal computer.

The Taliban confirmed on Thursday that their founder and leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had died, as Pakistan canceled a new round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents due to “uncertainty” caused by the death.

Federal prosecutors are recommending Christopher Glenn serve an 11-year federal prison term for abusing his position as a computer tech support contractor to hack and steal military secrets when he worked at a U.S. base in Soto Cano, Honduras, in 2012.