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A Fairfax County company has won a nearly $27 million contract to provide engineering and technical support for the U.S. Navy's navigation systems in the United States and abroad.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 11:17 am US/Eastern ORLANDO, Fla. Former astronaut Lisa Nowak is expected to decide during a Tuesday court hearing whether to accept a plea deal offered to her by prosecutors.

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Navy ships from North and South Korea have exchanged fire along their disputed western sea border, a South Korean military officer has said.

Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said.

It seems that a SETI experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960.

A warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center has been put into service in New York.

Days of heavy rains loosed mud and boulders that rolled down the slopes of the Chichontepec volcano before dawn Sunday, burying homes and cars in Verapaz, a town of about 3,000 people 30 miles outside the capital, San Salvador .

Frank McBryde says there are plenty of parallels between serving in the U.S. military and teaching.

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The Army psychiatrist suspected in Thursday's deadly Fort Hood rampage in Texas could get the death penalty if he is convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder - and military law experts say the evidence against him will be substantial.

Albert Oberg had given up on ever receiving his Purple Heart. After all, it had been many years -- more than 67 of them now -- since the former U.S. Navy radioman narrowly escaped his sinking ship with third-degree burns after a torpedo attack by a German U-boat in World War II.

The United States Secretary of the Navy will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of NCIS , TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 4:00 pm US/Central 1 of 1 The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

Here is a look at some of the victims of the Fort Hood shootings identified yesterday: Major L. Eduardo Caraveo Captain John Gaffaney Gaffaney, 56, was a psychiatric nurse who worked for San Diego County, Calif., for more than 20 years and had arrived at Fort Hood the day before the shooting to prepare for a deployment to Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's efforts to smuggle arms to Hezbollah on a cargo ship are a war crime.

Graphic shows the number of active duty U.S. soldiers of the Islam faith as of Aug.

Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For troubled service members, military therapists are at their sides.

From his office window at Newport, R.I., Capt. Michael Langston could see the Narragansett River.

The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center.