September 2023 - AlaDefense.com

Alabama ranks 12th in DOD’s latest spending report, and it’s a shipbuilder topping the list

September 26, 2023

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, ARMY, CONTRACTS, NAVY, SPACE FORCE

By Troy Turner [email protected] Alabama’s leading defense contractor in fiscal year 2022 Department of Defense spending isn’t either of the longtime industry giants Northrop Grumman, Boeing or Lockheed Martin, but a company that wasn’t even on the state’s Top 10 list just two years ago. International shipbuilder Austal, or specifically its Austal USA shipyard located…

Huntsville company tapped for cybersecurity services to intelligence agency

September 26, 2023

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Troy Turner

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CYBERSECURITY, MARINES

The Department of Defense has announced an $86 million contract for a Huntsville-based company to provide cybersecurity support services to one of its intelligence agencies. Agile Decision Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to provide services for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The work will be performed…

Alabama played a major role in destruction of chemical weapons stockpile

September 9, 2023

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Troy Turner

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ARMY

Related link: National Public Radio interview with journalist Troy Turner: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1418277 By Troy Turner Editor-in-chief [email protected] It was 20 years ago on Aug. 9, 2003, when the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility began destruction of more than 7 percent of the U.S. military’s chemical weapons stockpile. That’s how much of the military’s chemical arsenal was…

The day weapons of mass destruction became lost in a cluster

September 8, 2023

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Troy Turner

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ARMY, OPINION

Troy Turner is editor-in-chief and senior consultant for AlaDefense.com. IT WAS, WHEN THE NEWS FIRST became public, a strangely quiet and subdued announcement, and somewhat ironic. Several days prior, an ongoing media frenzy began and remained in full feast mode as news organizations during the short-staffed July Fourth holiday week desperately scratched for anything to…

Popular songwriter Jimmy Buffett donated aircraft to the USS Alabama battleship park

September 4, 2023

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, ARMY, MARINES, NAVY

By Troy Turner [email protected] Much has been made of the late Jimmy Buffett’s ties to Alabama, including his brief time as a student at Auburn University, notable concerts that included the University of Alabama, and of course the beloved songwriter’s admired lifestyle along the Gulf Coast and beaches around the world, highlighted by his song…

Alabama ranks 12th in DOD’s latest spending report, and it’s a shipbuilder topping the list

Huntsville company tapped for cybersecurity services to intelligence agency

Alabama played a major role in destruction of chemical weapons stockpile

The day weapons of mass destruction became lost in a cluster

Popular songwriter Jimmy Buffett donated aircraft to the USS Alabama battleship park

Soldiers and Marines train together at Fort Rucker in rescuing of downed aviators

TURNER: Boeing’s ‘coolest thing’ missile contribution in Huntsville plays a critical role that isn’t going away

For Old Guard soldiers, ‘Flags In’ is a personal mission

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