Redstone Arsenal News

About 2,400 of the 4,651 government positions coming to Redstone Arsenal and Huntsville under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure decision have already moved here, and 2,000 have been filled, according to Army Col.

Duane A. Guhlke, age 62, of Hortonville, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Saturday morning, December 12, 2009.

Col. Robert Pastorelli, garrison commander of the Armya s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, center, discusses the BRAC process with community leaders during a Thursday visit to Athens State University.

Sentencing was delayed Thursday for Douglas Ennis, a former missile defense official at Redstone Arsenal in Hunstville who admitted receiving $75,000 from a federal contractor.

The Army has awarded the fifth-year contract for the Lakota light utility helicopter to EADS North America for $247.2 million.

More than half of the military jobs coming to Redstone Arsenal have transferred, with the remaining moves expected in 2010 and 2011, said the garrison commander.

A former high-level official with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville has been sentenced to federal prison for taking $1.6 million in bribes.

That's according to information obtained by GameSpot through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Retired NAVY SEAL commando Zack Vaughn speaks at a special memorial service Monday held at the FBI Hazardous Devices School to honor fallen bomb technicians.

After the Army nixed the Patriot Parkway from crossing Redstone Arsenal, city planners went to work to find an alternative route.

Times Staff Writer kenneth.kesner@htimes.com 238 subcontractors get a piece of $848 millionsoftware contract The Army issued an order to SAIC recently that's good for the huge defense contractor but also benefits a team of 238 subcontractors in Huntsville, said John Gully, SAIC senior vice president and Systems and Technology Solutions business ...

Republican Tim James said one of his first actions if elected governor next year would be to form a committee to prepare for the next round of military base realignments and closings in 2015.

Congressman Parker Griffith is asking Fifth District residents to participate in his "Holiday Cards for Our Troops" program.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 1, 2009 a ' The Boeing Company and the US Army successfully completed a test in September in which a laser system mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle destroyed 50 improvised explosive devices similar to those used by adversaries in war zones.

Alabama's major defense and space agencies along with prime contractors will help businesses learn how to get federal contracts at a Wednesday conference in north Alabama, U.S. Rep.

What are you thankful for? It's a question that comes up every Thanksgiving, and the answer is usually a reason many people celebrate the last Thursday in November.

While many of you got to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with your families, hundreds of soldiers stationed at Redstone Arsenal were unable to make it home.

Police believe a loversa quarrel led to Tuesdaya s shooting death of an Athens man.

The Redstone Arsenal is an engineers' playground. The massive base hosts NASA and Army researchers involved in spacecraft and weapons-systems testing, from moonbound rockets to America's Army video-game development.

The US Army is building up its Sky Warrior UAV's offensive capability in anticipation of a late-2010 deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan The US Army's General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1C Sky Warrior unmanned aerial vehicle is expected to conduct a live-fire test of a Hellfire air-to-ground missile for the first time during a flight ...