To lessen travel difficulties created by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and commercial airlines are working to facilitate the ability of U.S. citizens to use certain expired passports to return from abroad directly to the United States. U.S. citizens currently abroad whose passports expired on or after January 1, […]
A former civilian contractor for the U.S. Army was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his role in a scheme to steer Army contracts for work to be performed at Camp Arifjan, a U.S. Army base in Kuwait. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special Agent Jozette Gillespie, […]
20 years a month ago, Americans woke up to learn that the United States had invaded Iraq. They had been told it would cost $50 billion and that it would end soon. Forty-two days later the President declared Mission Accomplished, and that the U.S. would be greeted as liberators. That all didn't work out as […]
Andrea Martinez, Associate Technical Professional - Civil, traveled to Kandahar, Afghanistan to work on a KBR project based at a NATO airfield. Below is an account of her time on the project through her own eyes. As a civil engineer, I have faced many challenging situations in my career but this opportunity offered me one […]
The last big plane left the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Feb. 14. Of the 150 scientists, technicians, and support staff, only 33 men and eight women remained for the winter: six months of darkness, no arriving supplies, average temperatures of -76F. Also: no Wi-Fi or cell phone service. At the South Pole, iPhones become expensive […]