Category: Military

WBAL TV
An antimissile system that could protect commercial airlines from handheld missile fire was unveiled at BWI Thurgood Marshall airport on Wednesday.

The system was developed and tested by Northrop Grumman. The company said it will protect planes from …

WBAL.com
Quartermasters with the Baltimore County Police Department became aware of a higher demand on ammunition as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and planned accordingly.

Bill Toohey with the department says their supplier was giving the priority …

Baltimore Sun
Some of the first Fort Monmouth, N.J., employees to be transferred to a Maryland installation, taking over the fort’s responsibilities, are scheduled to move this summer.

The Press of Atlantic City reported that by Friday, 221 Fort Monmouth workers …

Examiner
A Virginia company won a $370 million contract to build the new home of defense information at Fort Meade.

“The contract award is the first tangible step in the Base Realignment and Closure transformation at Fort Meade,” Army Col. Kenneth …

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Baltimore Sun
A series of explosions at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground today rattled dishes and startled residents from Perry Hall to Middletown, Del., 30 miles away.

“The entire house shook,” said Joseph MulQueen, who called The Sun from his …

Baltimore Sun
After the band had played, the politicians had spoken and the 180 returning members of the Maryland National Guard had been recognized for serving their country overseas at yesterday’s “Freedom Salute” welcome home ceremony, it was 3-year-old Evelyn …

Baltimore Sun
A federal judge in Baltimore substantially reduced yesterday the amount of damages a Kansas-based anti-gay group and three of its leading members must pay for their protest at a Marine’s funeral in Westminster.

In a 52-page decision, U.S. District …

Frederick News-Post:
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of several labs planned or being built for the National Interagency Biodefense Campus.

Construction on the $143 million project is on schedule at 60 percent complete, and should be finished …