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High-profile cyber attacks on organizations such as Target and Neiman Marcus have drawn increased attention to the cybersecurity industry — an industry that continues to thrive in Maryland, and specifically in Howard County.

After more than a dozen years fighting side by side in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army and the National Guard now are battling each other over budget cuts.

A Naval Academy midshipman charged with sexually assaulting a classmate chose a trial by judge instead of a jury as his court-martial began at the Washington Navy Yard Friday morning.

The Maryland Air National Guard is set to lose its attack aircraft, but should be getting its airlift capability back, officials said Tuesday.

Christian Rojas wants to get his paralegal certificate. Then, he figures, he'll go into business for himself, helping people write their wills and file motions in court. He dreams of earning a law degree, eventually, and practicing law. First, though, he has to get out of prison.

President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.9 trillion federal budget on Tuesday that calls for spending billions more on infrastructure, raising taxes on the wealthy and closing an income inequality gap the president has made a top target of his second term.

Hagel's defense budget cuts would put the U.S. at risk.

Chuck Hagel's proposed defense cuts aren't enough.

George F. Carter, a retired Army colonel who witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack as a young lieutenant, died of stroke complications Feb. 24 at the Oakcrest Retirement Center. The Timonium resident was 96.

The U.S. military is due for an overhaul that leaves it more sustainable and better equipped to meet contemporary threats

The Army would shrink to its lowest troop levels since just before World War II under a budget proposed Monday by the Obama administration that seeks to downsize the Pentagon in ways that could have a significant impact on service members and contractors in Maryland.

Is there an inherent contradiction between secrecy-shrouded research at JHU and a commitment to academic freedom?

The Social Security Administration plans to streamline its review of disability claims for veterans starting next month, shaving weeks off the process by which it determines benefits, officials are set to announce Wednesday.

In an unusual partnership that appears to have paid large dividends to students, the aerospace company Boeing decided last year to invest $500,000 to improve the level of academic achievement at Aberdeen High School, where many military families and defense contractors in Harford County send their children

Despite President Hamid Karzai's erratic behavior, the U.S. has long-term interests in Afghanistan that must be protected

I'm glad to see our elected leaders in Washington have approved a plan to allow the federal government to spend money through 2014.

While the tensions and nuclear stare-down with the Soviet Union are over, the specter of nuclear Armageddon remains, requiring continued American vigilance.

The value of Aberdeen Proving Ground's contracts slid 13 percent last year, though businesses with Maryland locations ended up with roughly as much as the year before.

A team of civilian specialists from Aberdeen Proving Ground is heading this week to the Mediterranean Sea for what officials and others say is a historic mission to destroy Syria's chemical warfare stockpile – and one that could serve as a model in the drive to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.

Business e-end in Frederick carves niche with federal government and contractors

Robert Gates' new memoir shows he was admitted to the Obama inner circle and rather than openly blowing the whistle on presidential decisions with which he strongly disagreed, he chose to keep the depth of his dissent to himself until after his retirement when he was back in private life.

The National Math and Science Initiative presented Aberdeen High School Friday with the organization's School of the Year award for its students' outstanding gains on Advanced Placement test scores during the 2012-13 academic year.

Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools will be getting some major recognition Friday for their students' performance on Advanced Placement examinations and academic achievement.

In early 2003, I marched through downtown Washington D.C. with my fellow University of Maryland students to protest the Bush Administration's push toward war with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.

The superintendent of the Naval Academy has dropped all criminal charges against a second football player accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman at a party in Annapolis, officials said Friday.

Fifteen sexual assaults were reported to the academy during the 2012-2013 academic year, the Pentagon reported Friday, up from 13 in 2011-2012.

Criminal charges have officially been dropped against a Naval Academy midshipman accused of sexually assaulting a classmate at an off-campus party.

Qaida-linked militants in Iraq capture control of Fallujah and Ramadi

The number of sexual assaults reported at the Naval Academy increased slightly last year while reports fell at the other service academies, according to an assessment to be released by the Pentagon on Friday.

Facing a backlash from veterans, lawmakers in both parties — including several in Maryland — are reconsidering a cut to military retiree pensions that they approved last month as part of a rare bipartisan budget agreement.

Helena Williams went to the cemetery Saturday to lay a wreath on the grave of her son, Army 1st Lt. George "Geordie" Williams, a Joppatowne High School graduate, on the 25th anniversary of his death in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland

Maj. Gen.-promotable Robert S. Ferrell, the former senior commander of Aberdeen Proving Ground, has accepted a promotion to the Pentagon after less than two years at the helm of the Harford County Army installation.

Hours after Congress passed a range of proposals to combat sexual assaults in the armed forces, President Barack Obama ordered military leaders on Friday to conduct a yearlong review of their progress in eliminating rape from the ranks — and threatened further changes if he is not satisfied.

Congress was poised late Thursday to pass new legal protections for victims of sexual assault in the military, but victims and their advocates already were looking ahead to what they see as the larger battle: The contentious campaign to overhaul the military justice system.

A recap of the Dec. 12 episode of 'Scandal,' as more truths about Olivia's mom and dad emerge

Virginia Beckett "Becky" Tubbs, a retired Department of Defense worker, died of cancer. She was 89 and lived in Severna Park's Ben Oaks community.

With the deadline for reaching a bilateral security agreement with the Afghan government weeks away and Karzai refusing to relax his recalcitrant stance, the United States must find another way of getting approval to ensure a continued foreign troop presence after most forces pull out in 2014.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill Monday to begin a critical week of budget negotiations with wide-ranging economic implications for Maryland — on issues from Baltimore harbor dredging to pre-school classrooms to the Eastern Shore's poultry industry.

The Harford Sheriff's Office announced the creation of an aviation unit with the acquisition of a Bell OH-58 helicopter named "Eagle 1."