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Maj. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, senior commander at Aberdeen Proving Ground, received the Military Leader of the Year award from the Association of Defense Communities during a ceremony in Washington on Thursday.

The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a 10-point plan this week to address the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski said Tuesday.

The superintendent of the Naval Academy has decided to bring charges in the alleged sexual assault of a female midshipman last year by three members of the football team, academy officials said Monday.

The Pentagon decision to suspend security clearance vetting for some defense contractors is likely to have little impact on either the Defense Department or private industry, officials from both said.

For three hours each work week, Bert Rice walk laps around Burba Lake at Fort Meade — part of a mission by the federal government to build a healthier workforce.

Aberdeen Proving Ground continued to make computing history, as it formally unveiled a new supercomputer system Monday, one of only five such Army facilities in the country.

Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City

Obama administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers defended the program as both legal and necessary.

A former instructor at the Naval Academy was sentenced Monday to 60 days in a military jail for indecent acts, fraternization and conduct unbecoming an officer stemming from an incident with two female midshipmen in 2011, an academy spokeswoman said.

A former instructor at the Naval Academy has been found not guilty of aggravated sexual assault in an alleged attack on a female midshipman two years ago, an academy spokeswoman said Sunday.

Fort Meade officials plan to close the main gate of the Army base in Anne Arundel County on Saturday, but police said they didn't not have plans to limit traffic on surrounding roads during a mass demonstration for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

These injustices and many others, coupled with a Presidential enemies list and Obama's army of ideological trolls on steroids are killing the America of "We the People".

For candidates for elite teams, the moral high road can lead to expulsion and dashed hopes

For Theresa Mills, the "most emotional day" was the day last June when the Marine Corps notification team visited her Laurel home to tell her that her older son had been killed in Afghanistan. The second most emotional day, she said, came Monday.

President Barack Obama told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy on Friday that the nation needs them to "project power across the oceans" and vowed to continue to fight for military resources for their missions in the face of deep federal budget cuts.

President Barack Obama told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy on Friday that the nation needs them to "project power across the oceans" and vowed to continue to fight for military resources for their missions in the face of deep federal budget cuts.

President Barack Obama will travel to Annapolis to speak at the Naval Academy commencement, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit.

Technically it's a day to honor those who have given the last full measure of devotion, but realistically speaking, serving in the armed forces is a dangerous job and there's a lot to be said for saying thanks to people when they're around to appreciate the sentiment.

In his new book, "The GAMe: Unraveling a Military Sex Scandal," just released by Beaver's Pond Press, the former general points out the U.S. Department of Defense's latest estimates show that at least 18,000 service members are sexually assaulted each year, and possibly as many as 26,000.

Annapolis company's head was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year in April by the U.S. Small Business Administration

The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistle-blowers, particularly those in national security agencies.

Lawmakers exempted the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from the across-the-board cuts to the federal budget known as sequestration, but veterans still could feel the sting.

The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground plans to conduct a firing program beginning on or about May 20 and ending on or about May 24

Jonah Goldberg writes that we now know, without a doubt, that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton lied about Benghazi.

As the Maryland National Guard prepares for what could be its final deployment to Afghanistan, its commander sees a "pivotal point" in the nation's history.

As the Maryland National Guard prepares for what could be its final deployment to Afghanistan, its commander sees a "pivotal point" in the nation's history.

How sexual assaults are investigated and resolved by the U.S. armed forces must be reformed

The Pentagon estimated Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year, 36 percent more than a year earlier, in a trend so severe that senior officials warned it could threaten recruiting and retention of military personnel.

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin and its partners bring an F-35 "cockpit demonstrator" to the Baltimore area to show elected officials and the media what the fighter jet can do — a counter to years of stories and Congressional hearings about delays, technical problems and massive cost overruns.

Anne Arundel County Briefs

Uh, oh, dear readers, the British are coming!

A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles.

Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver.

The debate over whether the CIA tortured terrorist suspects is over; what remains is deciding the steps that must be taken in order to avoid making the same mistakes again

As federal agencies pull back on spending, 7Delta's strategy is thinking big. The Columbia IT firm is going after larger contracts, a diversification tactic that other federal contractors at the smaller end of the scale are trying, too: Expansion in a time of retrenchment.

Two U.S. Navy sailors who died diving in the Super Pond at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February accidentally drowned, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Monday.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel once called the military budget 'bloated,' but he's treading cautiously so far.

Sequester is putting national security at risk

When city or county firefighters have a family obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the federal government, the ability to swap shifts is limited.

One month after across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration began there are signs the impact on the economy — even in a state such as Maryland with strong ties to the federal government — might not be as severe as initially feared.