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The Army is planning to move an over-the-horizon radar system, more than 100 soldiers and a pair of giant, blimp-like aerostats that fly as high as two miles up, to Aberdeen Proving Ground in the fall, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said Thursday.

George H. Lazzaro Jr., an engineering technician in the Firepower Directorate of the Aberdeen Test Center, died while completing routine maintenance at the Underwater Test Facility, a spokeswoman said Friday.

A former Naval Academy instructor will be court-martialed for an alleged sexual assault on a female midshipman, an academy spokeswoman said Thursday.

Jonah Goldberg says allowing women in combat is a huge change that should have been the subject of a national debate

The specter of federal budget reductions has meant hundreds of jobs lost at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Maryland, but as the defense contractor vies to build a key U.S. Navy radar system, that same cost-cutting pressure could boost the importance of Northrop's Baltimore-area operations, company leaders said.

When Maryland National Guard Capt. Cara Kupcho first enlisted in the military 18 years ago, she wanted to drive a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. "I like things that go boom," she explained Thursday. "I like tanks."

Endless chatter about the "fiscal cliff" has avoided serious consideration of military spending, a major cause of our difficulties. Defense appropriations are $525 billion for 2013 — 57 percent of the discretionary budget, more than those of all other departments and agencies combined. The U.S. military has twice the budget as the seven next nations combined. We could have an effective military at a far lower cost. Why are expenditures so high?

Military spending is bankrupting the country

The idea of Second Amendment nuts that they could resist a tyrannical government is lunacy.

A Marine Corps officer who worked as an instructor at the Naval Academy has been accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman in his Annapolis apartment following the annual croquet match between the academy and St. John's College in 2011.

The Department of Defense was called Saturday afternoon to deal with an ordnance found near a home in Anne Arundel County, fire officials said.

Cal Thomas says senators have a right to question Chuck Hagel's statements about Israel and Iran

An integrated national defense budget would deliver the funding this neglected service branch deserves

Fort Meade's Cyber Command chief of staff, Navy Rear Adm. Margaret Klein, will headline the BWI Business Partnership's Signature Breakfast, Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m., at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve, 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd., in Hanover.

Obama's nominees for the Pentagon and CIA deserve scrutiny, but senators must put substance ahead of politics in their deliberations.

Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Hunt, a Gaithersburg reservist, is one of four servicewomen suing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to end the long-standing policy that excludes women from serving in direct combat.

President Barack Obama needs more backbone in his dealings with the generals at the Pentagon, and combat veteran Chuck Hagel could give it to him.

Anne Arundel Community College students Marcelle Lee of Severna Park and Dustin Shirley of Odenton had never taken a digital forensics course at the school until summer, but they are undoubtedly fast learners.

J.O. "Bo" Coppedge, a former Navy football player and wrestler who ran Navy's athletic department from 1968 until his retirement in 1988, died Wednesday night -- less than three days before the Midshipmen were scheduled to play Arizona State in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco.

Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cyber security plays in the state's economy.

The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, plans to conduct several large detonations beginning on or about Monday, Dec. 17, and ending on or about Friday, Dec. 21.

Concerns about cutbacks in defense spending notwithstanding, there are plenty of business opportunities on the horizon connected to activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week, more than 1,100 business and economic development representatives from across the country attended the proving ground's first installation-wide Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry, where APG commands presented more than 180 potential contracts worth an estimated $19.5 billion over the next five years.

If there's a downside to the joy of operating a 55,000-bulb holiday light display that's synchronized to popular Christmas music, it's the time it took to program the 30-minute extravaganza: 12 hours of coding for every minute of show, the equivalent of nine 40-hour work weeks.

A Maryland member of the Campaign to Fix the Debt committee says the general public needs to get involved in pressuring elected leaders to compromise on the budget.

Has Congress nothing better to do than debate military's use of lead?

Chris Van Hollen is no friend of Israel

A Defense Department funding bill has made bedfellows of two groups more likely to be found in opposite corners: federal labor and federal contractors.

Gen. Dennis L. Via, commanding general, U.S. Army Material Command, visited several major supporting commands based at Aberdeen Proving Ground on Friday, the post command said. The general's visit highlighted the rapid changes that have taken place at the Harford County military installation in just six years because of base realignment, typically referred to as BRAC.

Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges.

The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, is once again conducting several large detonations likely to generate sound and/or vibration outside the proving ground boundary.

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

A pair of reports critical of military spending, from health care costs to Pentagon-ordered beef jerky production, are part of the latest round of scrutiny of the Defense Department's budget as the fiscal cliff approaches.

The Harford County Council narrowly approved tax-increment financing for the James Run Corporate Campus project at Route 543 and I-95, with those supporting it calling it an important opportunity for the county.

Students chatting in Morgan State University's gleaming new engineering building grew wide-eyed when a classmate shared the news: a highly regarded professor had been indicted on charges he defrauded the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding.

At the Naval Academy, Gen. John R. Allen is remembered as a standout midshipman, an award-winning teacher and a transformative commandant who worked to usher in a new era of civility and sensitivity at the training ground for future Navy and Marine Corps officers.

Many questions remain surrounding the sex scandal that led to David Petraeus' resignation as CIA director