Fort Monmouth News

Separate investigations by the Department of Defense's Inspector General found no wrongdoing on the part of two government officials who had key responsibilities in the 2005 decision to close Fort Monmouth.

Frank Pallone lazily stretches back on the leather chair in his office, his long legs ranging forward toward his guest, an Army officer in the new crisp dress blues that emulate Civil War uniforms.

Local officials are demanding more say in planning for the future of the Fort Monmouth property after Army operations there end in 2011.

Steve Mendoza knows the Gulf War Syndrome acquired by veterans of the First Gulf War in 1990-91 still has an impact.

Since the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority was organized in 2006, Gov.

Just outside the main gate of Aberdeen Proving Ground , construction workers are finishing up a three-story building's brick exterior, preparing to install windows and divide the vast interior into offices.

In the 92 years since it was first established, Fort Monmouth has been home to carrier pigeons, helped to launch satellites and been the scene of cutting-edge work intended to protect those in uniform serving around the world.

Fort Monmouth is in transition. As a military installation, the base, which includes portions of Oceanport, Eatontown and Tinton Falls, is expected to close in Sept.

Continuing a trend that began last year, the two Republicans and the lone Democratic candidate for two three-year terms on Borough Council did not put out lawn signs or engage in the kind of partisan mudslinging that had characterized earlier races.

Keith DiPatri , firefighter, teaches children from the Child Development Center about fire safety and how to escape from a burning building.

As businesses and personnel throughout the region continue to assess the effect of base realignment and closure, the state of Delaware is taking advantage of all business growth opportunities.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Oct. 14 to celebrate the completion and opening of a 75,000-square-foot dining facility.

Two men stood in front of a monument dedicated to fallen soldiers, one in Army fatigues, one in a dark suit.

Modus Operandi has been awarded a $730,000 contract by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command .

The Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command has demonstrated a new system that can be used both to locate electronic emitters on the battlefield - radios, remote-controlled improvised explosive devices, radars and other sources of electromagnetic radiation used by a potential adversary - and then jam them.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $31 million contract to a team lead by Lockheed Martin to develop a network protocol to improve the confidentiality, integrity, and security of US military networks.

Two weeks ago, Fort Monmouth employees learned that a classified Defense Department report confirmed that the decision to transfer their mission to Maryland, which will result in uprooting their families and endangering U.S. troops fighting terrorists overseas, was based on flawed and intentionally skewed information.

The following federal contracts were awarded to this area: Lockheed Martin was awarded a $33.1 million federal contract by the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal for M299 launchers and launcher spares for the Longbow program.

They are stationed at 440 main installations in the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Guam with 95,000 sailors afloat on Navy vessels in our waters alone.

Sgt. Sarah Haskins, a signals analyst with the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, did not win the Army's Best Warrior competition.