• Posts Tagged ‘Department of Defense’

    Defense Department, state reach chemical storage settlement (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine Published: May 14,2010

    Tags: agreement, chemicals, Department of Defense, Pueblo Depot

    The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has reached an agreement with the Department of Defense about the chemical weapons stored at the Pueblo Chemical Depot. The agreement requires additional monitoring procedures of the mustard agent currently stored at the depot. The final agreement is pending the U.S. District Court judge’s approval, and ends a [...] [...]

    Bill would bar contracting with delinquent companies  (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine Published: April 22,2010

    Tags: contracts, Department of Defense, House Appropriations Committee

    If you haven’t paid your taxes, Uncle Sam isn’t going to give your company the defense contract. The bill was approved by the House Armed Services Committee earlier this week, and would give the government about $1 billion a year through additional taxes. The tax-delinquent provision is an amendment to the committee’s acquisition act that gives managers [...] [...]

    DoD to hold public health symposium (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine Published: October 19,2009

    Tags: Colorado Springs, Department of Defense, pandemic, Peterson Air Force Base, UCCS, University of Colorado

    U.S. Northern Command is looking for a few good policy makers, health care providers and academics. The Department of Defense is seeking white papers to assist the military in creating a response to a national public health emergency. The military wants to know how to best use the broad capabilities of the combined services - both active [...] [...]

    DoD awards health provider contracts (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine Published: July 14,2009

    Tags: Aetna, Department of Defense, Health Net, Humana, TriWest, United Healthcare

    TriWest will once again provide the managed care support to the Department of Defense program for the state of Colorado. The Department of Defense announced the contract - estimated at a worth of more than $16.9 billion - earlier this week. The contract will assist the military health system in 21 other western and mid-western states. However, the [...] [...]

    Fort Carson funding could stay though troops not coming (access required)

    by Becky Hurley Published: June 30,2009

    Tags: construction, Department of Defense, Fort Carson

    The Associated Press and Army Times report that Fort Carson might get to keep more than $500 million to improve its facilities even though it’s no longer receiving a new brigade combat team. A Defense Department budget bill for the year ending Sept. 30, 2010, that was approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee this week [...] [...]

    Springs again named to top 10 list for defense jobs (access required)

    by Becky Hurley Published: April 21,2009

    Tags: Department of Defense, Jobs

    In every recession, there’s a bull market somewhere. In 2009, it’s for security-cleared professionals in the defense, aerospace and homeland security industries, according to ClearanceJobs.com. which has named its top 10 U.S. cities for such positions. Colorado Springs is one of 10 cities named as one of the country’s most active markets for defense-related hiring, one of [...] [...]

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