Fort Meade News

Tuesday, friends and family gathered to remember 12-year Ronnie Gifford at his family's church in Mulberry.

MicroTech announced today a five-year contract award from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency to provide technical management support for the Global Combat Support System-Joint Computer Lab program.

More than $3.2 million in state and federal funding linked to base realignment at Fort George G. Meade has begun to trickle in, including money for crucial road upgrades around the sprawling west county post.

"By the very nature of the intelligence business, it is difficult to discuss much of the NSA mission." - National Security Agency Web site In this post-Sept. 11 world, plans by the National Security Agency to construct a colossal $1.9 billion information storage center at Camp Williams could be considered a power trip.

For all the talk about growth at Fort George G. Meade, most county residents haven't grasped the sheer size of the changes already rolling toward west county.

Sen. Ed DeGrange Sr. and Del. Pam Beidle were wearing 3-D glasses inside one of Northrop Grumman's executive conference rooms at its new Innovation Institute in Linthicum.

I was inducted into the Army in July 1955 at Fort Meade, Md. My third day there I saw an all-black troop marching by.

Facing a massive shortfall in funding and looming gridlock, Gov. Martin O'Malley voiced strong support Friday for more federal dollars toward Base Realignment and Closure transportation projects in the state.

Maryland's two U.S. senators pushed the need Tuesday morning for more job creation in the state, touting the Pentagon 's military reshuffling plan as a key driver for employment gains.

As the federal government prepares to sends more troops to fight in Afghanistan, Sens.

Lieutenant Colonel Eric M. Maroyka, Pharm.D., BCPS, has joined the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists as an Officer in Residence.

The opening of the first phase of the Intercounty Connector is not expected before October, but Maryland is preparing for its debut by ordering 18 "clean diesel" commuter buses for eventual transit service on the highway.

Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works officials will present plans for the ongoing central sanitation facility capital project at 7 p.m. Monday at Shipley's Choice Elementary School, 310 Governor Stone Parkway in Millersville.

Mitre Corp. celebrated the opening of its newest office in Anne Arundel County, becoming one of the largest defense contractors to expand in the area as part of the Pentagon's military realignment plan.

Federal prosecutors said a southern Ohio man has pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to run a sex and drug-trafficking business from a Maryland apartment.

The David W. Tomaszewski Memorial Committee will hold its annual One Stop Shopping and Santa's Workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Jessup Community Hall, 2920 Jessup Road.

During World War II and the decades that followed, the rough-and-tumble, mile-long strip of shops, liquor stores and bars along Route 175 in north Odenton, affectionately known as "Boomtown," beckoned soldiers stationed across the road at Fort George G. Meade.

The Fort George G. Meade Morale, Welfare and Recreation 2009 Runners Series conclude on Friday with the Reindeer Run.

The Navy announced Friday that Rear Adm. William Leigher will be assigned as deputy commander, Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet.

Posted By onlyonesecret 10 hours, 45 minutes ago in Science & Technology A recently declassified US Army report on the biological effects of non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for "ray gun" devices, which would cause artificial fevers or beam voices into people's heads.