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Photos from an event for the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico.
Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
Hundreds of visitors to Arlington National Cemetery filed through the Memorial Amphitheater Chapel here to pay respects to America's last "Doughboy."
Release Time: For Immediate Release At today’s meeting, the President and his national security team reviewed the situation in Libya and options to increase pressure on Gaddafi. In particular, the conversation focused on efforts at the United Nations and potential UN Security Council…
Chaos theory… a butterfly flaps its wings in China…. causing a tornado in Kansas. Who would have thought a nuclear power plant could survive an earthquake only to have the back-up generators flooded by a tsunami? News for .gov japan earthquake tsunami nuclear … Reuters Nuclear Plant Funding…
Be careful before you resell or give away your handheld devices like Palms. The new owner can uncover data. At a minimum, figure out how to reset it to the factory standard. Refer to your manual or call the manufacturer. For more information on deleting data:…
WASHINGTON, DC — NASA will host a summit about open source software development on March 29-30 at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on both days. NASA’s first Open Source Summit will bring together engineers, policy makers and…
Release Time: For Immediate Release 2:18 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon. I apologize for the fact that we’re running a little late here today. Before I get started, I’d just like to give you a short update on the response to the situation in Japan. The…
Release Time: For Immediate Release The short-term funding bill passed in the House of Representatives today gives Congress some breathing room to find consensus on a long-term measure that funds the government through the end of the fiscal year. The President urges the Senate to pass this…
Release Time: For Immediate Release Location: James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 10:06 A.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Thanks, everybody, for being here. This is, I think as advertised, an off-camera but on-the-record briefing we’d like to do for you, one of two previewing the…
Release Time: For Immediate Release Location: Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C. This morning, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the Congressional City Conference of the National League of Cities to make the economic case for communities to address childhood obesity. Childhood…
Release Time: For Immediate Release STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC TIES CONTRIBUTE TO JOBS AND GROWTH The United States and Brazil, the two largest economies and the two largest democracies in the Western Hemisphere, share one of the most important trade and economic relationships in the world. …
Release Time: For Immediate Release AN EMERGING PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH President Obama is committed to enhancing U.S. leadership in Central and South America, and at the same time, recognizing the region’s emerging markets as key players in the global economy. Central and South…
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite.
Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland, on Monday, March 14, for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice.
The U.S. Army is beginning mission equipment upgrade modifications to its fleet of OH-58 Kiowa Warrior scout aircraft in an effort to build a new, high-tech "F" model helicopter designed with improved avionics, better sensors and stepped-up overall performance capability, service officials…
U.S. Army forces in Afghanistan will begin receiving the first of more than 13,000 gunshot detection systems for the individual dismounted Soldier later this month, service officials said.
In the wake of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami, Red Cross officials are encouraging U.S. servicemembers and families posted there to register with an online resource intended to keep family and friends back home informed of their welfare.
Picatinny recently received a patent for a realistic video game that simulates combat environments and uses the same controls as actual robots to safely train Soldiers how to detonate improvised explosive devices.
The Army's Test and Evaluation Command is seeking to harvest efficiencies in time and money by taking a hard look at the 1,100 tests it has ongoing every day around the world.