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Zions Bank a semifinalist for DoD award

Last updated Friday, May 17, 2013 - 4:20pm

The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, an operational committee for the Department of Defense, selected Zions Bank as a semifinalist for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.

Zions is one of 138 semifinalists chosen from among 2,899 employers nominated by a National Guard or Reserve employee.

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Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. listens at left as Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks on the Democratic budget during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 21, 2013. The House of Representatives passed a huge stopgap spending bill Thursday to keep the government functioning through the end of September, sidestepping any threat of a government shutdown. The bipartisan vote in the Republican-controlled House follows approval earlier this week in the Democrat-controlled Senate and sends the measure President Barack Obama to be signed into law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Defense Dept. to delay furlough notices

Lisa Rein The Washington Post

Last updated Friday, March 22, 2013 - 10:14am

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department said Thursday that it is delaying planned furlough notices to almost 800,000 civilian employees while officials analyze whether the stopgap budget Congress passed can avert some days of unpaid leave.

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers from Maine and New Hampshire rally to call on Congress to cancel automatic budget cuts that will affect their pay in Portsmouth, N.H.Thursday March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

House budget plan protects some Defense projects

Tony Capaccio Bloomberg News

Last updated Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 2:59pm

WASHINGTON — House-passed legislation that would ease the effects of automatic budget cuts on troop training and operations also would bolster funds for Israel’s missile defenses and weapons made by General Dynamics Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp.

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Lois Mitchell gets a comforting hand from Phil Scott as she talks about her grandson's recent deployment to Afghanistan and impending furloughs for Crane workers Friday, March 15, 2013 in Crane, Ind., just outside the military facility's main gate. The employees are protesting a three-year pay freeze and pending 22-day work furlough resulting from automatic federal budget cuts. (AP Photo, Bloomington Herald-Times, David Snodgress)

Despite stopgap budget, furloughs at Hill still possible

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 6:42am

WASHINGTON — The stopgap budget that Congress is likely to pass this week to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year gives a few agencies flexibility to address spending priorities, but it likely won’t stop furloughs at Hill Air Force Base.

The budget will lock in $85 billion in across-the-board cuts known as the sequester until Sept. 30.

The version of the plan approved by the House — known as a continuing resolution — allows the Defense Department to address its current spending needs rather than rely on plans that have become outdated.

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Aircraft electrician Les DuBois, of Syracuse, works on an F-16 cockpit at Hill Air Force Base in this file photo. Civilian employees at military bases may be required to take unpaid leave this year if lawmakers fail to approve the budget plan, causing automatic spending cuts to the Department of Defense to take effect. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Furloughs not imminent for Hill Air Force Base civilian workers

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 1, 2013 - 9:27am

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Nearly 20,000 civilian employees at Hill Air Force Base will show up for work this week unless they’re told otherwise.

The Defense Department is preparing to notify its 800,000 civilian employees that some of them may have to take unpaid leave next year if lawmakers don’t pass the budget deal reached between the White House and Senate Republicans late Monday night.

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Chambers ask legislators for help fighting BRAC

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 6:38am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Northern Utah Chamber Coalition has asked legislators to seriously consider allocating money to promote Hill Air Force Base.

Members of four chambers of commerce -- Davis, Ogden-Weber, Box Elder and Cache -- met with Top of Utah legislators early Monday morning to discuss their priorities concerning public policy and government funding.

At the top of the list is funding for the Utah Defense Alliance, a nonprofit organization that has played a key role in keeping the base open during previous Base Realignment and Closure actions.

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Why the costly F-35 program won't die

James Rosen, Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 10:55am

WASHINGTON -- For all its high-tech stealth and record price tag, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter embodies the droll military motto, "Hurry up and wait."

Conceived in the heady post-Cold War 1990s, the futuristic fifth-generation jet fighter was to be a technological marvel built in a rush and paid for with "peace dividend" dollars.

But now with the economic crash, the fighter is billions over budget and years behind schedule.

Here's part of the problem: axing the F-35 would eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in 47 states. Few members of Congress are willing to go along.

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Suicides drop, sex assault up among military

Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 6:30pm

The rate of suicide throughout the U.S. military has stopped rising, but sexual assault and post-traumatic stress problems are on the rise, the Pentagon said this week as it released new data outlining the scope of both problems.

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Khalil Hicks (left) steers his robot on Friday at Northridge High School in Layton. Much of a $660,000 grant recently awarded to the school will benefit the popular robotics class.

Northridge High gets funds for engineering, math, science

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 8:11am

LAYTON -- Northridge High School is building a new stadium, and the competitors who will do battle there are still in the early construction phase.

Thanks to a $660,000 grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Educational Partnership, Northridge will have extra money for its engineering, science and math departments. A good chunk of the cash is going to the newly formed robotics class.

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Northridge High to receive DOD grant money

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 12:34pm

ARLINGTON, VA — The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Educational Partnership awarded a $660,000 grant to the Davis School District through the FY 11 Grant Program.

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