Fort Monmouth News

Editor's note: As we take time this weekend to enjoy the Fourth of July holiday with friends and family, let us also be sure to remember the thousands of men and women serving in our armed forces who work every day to safeguard our independence and way of life.

Maj. Gen. Dennis L. Via, an Army signals specialist nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as the senior communications officer on the Joint Staff, has been selected to receive the Roy Wilkins Renown Service Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Federal investigators are going to test the automated system that is meant prevent train crashes like the one in Washington, D.C., that killed nine people.

New Jersey's Fort Monmouth has a new commanding general who may be the last to lead the Army post.

Shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday Army Maj. General Randolph P. Strong, a former Signal Corps officer, took over as the fort's commanding general.

Opus East, a cash-strapped Rockville-based commercial real estate developer, has handed over control of a deal to build a 2 million square foot office complex in Harford County to Baltimore-based St.

Security police shown checking driver's identification and vehicle at the front gate of the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna in May, 2005.

For years, civilian employees at the Navy base in Lakehurst, N.J., have earned more than their counterparts at nearby Army and Air Force installations.

ITT Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., was awarded on Jun. 4, 2009 a $363,120,648 24-month-base-firm-fixed-price contract for a single channel ground Airborne Radio System Baseline Systems Control, system enhancements and logistics support to ITT.

ITT Corp. will furnish continuing support for the Army's tactical radio system under a two-year, $363 million contract.

Photo credit David McNally U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan Commander Col. Dave Hall and Command Sgt.

Charles and Claudine Adams' company is about to become bigger than they or anyone else ever thought it would be.

Every time the Army makes a move concerning the closing and final disposition of Fort Monmouth, it exposes itself as incompetent, intransigent and reckless with tax dollars.

In the spring of 1954, Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, chairman of the Special Subcommittee on Investigations, moved on from routing out alleged Communist "sympathizers" in the State Department and the film and newspaper worlds to looking for them in the U.S. Army.

The 235-acre tract of land, nestled squarely between the Garden State Parkway and Rt.

In 2003, the Fort Monmouth Army post in central New Jersey signed a two-year deal to purchase electricity for 5 cents per kilowatt hour.

LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the US government community, announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded two delivery orders, totalling USD6.3m, by the US Department of the Army.

The U.S. Military Academy's insistence on adhering to collegiate sport regulations will cost the academy's preparatory school nearly half its faculty ... and could threaten the prep school's existence ... when the school is moved from Fort Monmouth to West Point, N.Y., according to an academy report.

In a sign that the nationwide military realignment known as BRAC is on the verge of transforming life in Harford County, authorities celebrated last week the completion of a 14-month, $23 million upgrade to the most widely used entrance to Aberdeen Proving Ground .

A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced today that the President has made the following nominations: A Army Maj Gen.