defense equipment

With talks on Iran's nuclear program likely to be extended, it's crucial that Congress continue to give the administration room to negotiate and not scuttle the chance for a deal with tough talk and unrealistic demands.

Neither U.S. activism in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Iran, nor U.S. inaction in the case of Syria, has yet to bring the results hoped for by the Obama Administration. While U.S. policy in the Middle East has not yet broken down, except, perhaps in the case of Syria; the U.S. remains a long way from the breakthrough in the region that the Obama Administration had hoped for.

Leadership, more than any other factor, shapes how federal employees view their workplaces, says Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service.

Exelon officials plan to build two additional natural gas-fired power generating units on utility-owned land off Chelsea Road in Perryman.

A new government report raises questions about the consistency of federal nuclear power plant oversight, noting regional disparities in the frequency with which plants - including Maryland's Calvert Cliffs - have been cited for safety problems or violations.

David Zurawik: Don't trust TV history -- ever. That's the big conclusion I came to this week after starting out on the simple assignment of previewing a two-hour National Geographic special on the Iraq War.

The Pentagon on Tuesday cut the number of furlough days for 650,000 Defense Department civilians from 11 to six — a welcome surprise for workers who have been saddled with a 20 percent pay-cut since early July.

Edgewood-based Smiths Detection's HazMatID Elite has won the Excellence in Design Gold Award at Appliance Design Magazine's 26th Annual Excellence in Design Awards. Elite is the next generation of Smiths Detection's HazMatID, the world's most widely used field-portable solid and liquid chemical identifier.

A government that lies to its citizens doesn't deserve to be called a democracy

How will neo-cons justify a war with Iran now that it has a moderate president?

Broadcast Sports Inc. in Hanover, Maryland, provides the technology for views from challenging places, such as Nik Wallenda's walk across the Grand Canyon on Sunday

Israel under the gun

Doyle McManus says disastrous war revealed deep problems with how the U.S. gathers and handles intelligence

R.J. Cutler film is deft non-fiction, but this kind of darkness demands Shakespeare

Having once been hoodwinked into war, the public won't be easily led astray anytime soon

President Obama has demonstrated that he, not the military and not the State Department, decides when the U.S. becomes involved in armed conflicts abroad.

The new Aberdeen Corporate Park promises 269,000 square feet of LEED-certified office space off of Route 22. But defense contractors have been slow to set up shop at this and many other office projects in and around Aberdeen.

'Fiscal cliff' would be especially painful for state's defense-related businesses

Travelers gripe about having to remove shoes while going through airport security. But imagine being the Transportation Security Administration screener who has to deal with thousands of grumpy passengers daily or must rummage through strangers' dirty underwear to look for items that could blow up a plane.

Developers like single-site arrangements because they work

The man accused of plotting to attack the Federal Reserve in New York considered striking a lightly guarded military installation in Baltimore, according to authorities.

Aside from rhetorical flourishes, Romney's foreign policy prescriptions differed little from those of the president

Polls may be trending President Obama's way, but much can happen in the final five weeks

ELTA North America, an Israeli defense company, has opened in Howard County

Israel Aerospace Industries' new ELTA North America subsidiary officially opened its headquarters in Howard County Monday with a plan to go from nine employees to 100 in the next four years.

Is Mitt Romney right that President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus?

President Obama should resist the drumbeat for war with Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rhetoric about Iran has eerie echoes to what the Bush administration was saying about Iraq a decade ago.

Maryland defense contractors are asking lawmakers for details on the so-called sequester — deep budget cuts, including $800 billion to defense spending, due to strike Jan. 2 because the congressional supercommittee failed last year to reach a deficit-reduction agreement.

Iran nukes: Aggressive action that falls short of war can keep Tehran perpetually '18 months away'

Atomic plant has biannual test of its emergency preparedness

Maryland's congressional leaders should take a stand for peace

President Obama is right to urge giving sanctions more time

Important things are happening in the world, but you wouldn't know it from the political right who only want to see events through anti-Obama glasses

Israeli's 'pugnacious' behavior toward Iran, and that country's nuclear ambitions, require some context

EDF withdraws opposition to merger of Exelon and Constellation

The state Board of Public Works gave its unanimous approval Wednesday to a wetlands dredging permit for a company that hopes to build a third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs power plant in Southern Maryland even though the project is far from getting off the ground.

Did Saddam have weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion in 2003?

A nuclear-armed Iran would be an intolerable threat to peace and stability in the Mideast

Military has no more excuses for denying females change to do any job for which they are qualified

Constellation Energy has taken a very different approach to its proposed acquisition by Chicago-based Exelon Corp. than it has for past offers, according to president and CEO Mayo A. Shattuck III.

Military housing program was able to leverage private dollars in a way that should offer broad lessons for the federal government