ATLANTA (AP) — A soldier from Georgia has died supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

The U.S. Department of Defense, in a news release Tuesday, confirmed the death of Spc. Miguel L....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday that it has awarded a Mississippi-based shipbuilder a roughly $745.9 million contract to construct a Polar Security Cutter...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Remains belonging to a soldier from Tennessee who was killed in the Korean War have been identified nearly seven decades after he was declared missing in action.

HORSHAM, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense has quietly begun battling environmental regulators in several states, after the agencies attempted to force the military to clean toxic...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense issued a list of military construction project funds that may be diverted, under President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, for...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two American service members were killed during an operation in Afghanistan on Friday, the U.S. and NATO forces said, providing no other details on the combat...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's congressional delegation wants the federal government to set up the planned new space agency in the Land of Enchantment.

BEND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon State University project backed by more than $2 million in federal money could help firefighters better predict how wildfires behave in Central Oregon and...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly plans to resign next summer to attend the Air War College in Alabama.

Angela Major holds the highest civilian position on Fort Wainwright. She says she likely will study national security strategy or strategic studies at the U.S. Department of Defense senior professional leadership school.

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon woman plans to bury next spring the remains of her brother, who died during World War II and was identified through DNA.

Rosella Workinger says she was notified three years ago that the U.S. Department of Defense was matching DNA records of bones buried in unmarked graves in Hawaii. She and her son were asked to provide DNA samples.

Her brother Claude Gowey was identified through that process. He served on the USS Oklahoma, which was hit in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense says the remains of a Korean War soldier have been identified as those of a Wyoming man.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The police department in Connecticut's largest city has added a bomb-sniffing dog trained for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The Connecticut Post reports that Bridgeport police introduced K-9 Dennis last month. According to the department, the Belgian malinois was originally scheduled to travel to Afghanistan to work for the military.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado defense contractor has laid off 37 employees.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports a spokeswoman for Grand Junction contractor Capco Inc, which contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense to build weapons, weapons components and ammunition, confirms the manufacturer laid off the employees Wednesday.

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft plans to continue to provide its technology to the U.S. military, despite worries that advances in the field of artificial intelligence could empower weapons to act autonomously and kill people.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky has been awarded a contract from the Defense Department to study physical and mental fitness.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former non-military employee of the Oregon National Guard is accused of seeking $6.4 million in fraudulent reimbursements from the U.S. Department of Defense for work that was never completed.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense says the remains of a Wisconsin serviceman killed during World War II have been identified.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of Navy Seaman 1st Class George Naegle, of La Crosse, from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. He was among the unidentified military personnel buried in 46 plots in the cemetery, known as the Punchbowl.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense says the remains of a Wisconsin serviceman killed during World War II have been identified.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of Navy Seaman 1st Class George Naegle, of La Crosse, from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. He was among the unidentified military personnel buried in 46 plots in the cemetery, known as the Punchbowl.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy was part of a recent congressional trip to Guatemala and Mexico that the Louisiana Republican said involved discussions of border security, drug trafficking and trade.

Back in the United States on Tuesday, Cassidy said the group met with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and members of his cabinet and visited U.S. Marines working on a humanitarian mission in the country.

RADFORD, Va. (AP) — The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Defense has launched an investigation into the open burning of ammunition and explosives at military sites across the country, including at a sprawling Army ammunition plant in Virginia.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York city is suing federal and state agencies over the contamination of its primary water supply.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit that challenged plans to relocate a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan, over concerns about an endangered marine mammal.

Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco ruled late Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Defense adequately considered the base's effects on the Okinawa dugong — a manatee-like animal associated with traditional creation myths in Japan.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has found the U.S. Department of Defense improperly redacted several unclassified documents sought by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt related to surveying potential sites for housing terror suspects now held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

U.S. District Judge Donald Crabtree in his ruling Monday also found that the Department of Defense properly withheld some information in one document.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democrat running for state treasurer is launching her first television ad.

Sarah Godlewski's ad promises that she will be a fiscal watchdog for the state, showing her correcting children as they give her change at a lemonade stand. She also boasts in a voiceover that her work for the U.S. Department of Defense saved tens of millions of tax dollars.

BATH, Maine (AP) — Members of Maine's congressional delegation say they're relieved a defense spending bill has been stripped of a provision that would have taken $250 million in funding away from Bath Iron Works.

Delegation members lobbied against an amendment to the U.S. Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2018 that would have taken the funding away from a destroyer program.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Trump administration policy that requires green-card holders to pass a background check before they can start military service is discriminatory and has left hundreds of enlisted people in limbo, a civil liberties group alleges in a lawsuit Thursday.

RADFORD, Va. (AP) — One of three people injured during a flash fire at the main propellant-manufacturing facility for the U.S. Department of Defense has died.

The Joint Munitions Command of the U.S. Army says Andrew Goad died Saturday due to injuries sustained during last week's blaze at Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia.

The 42-year-old man of Dublin, Virginia, worked as a group leader at the facility.

RADFORD, Va. (AP) — One of three patients being treated for injuries sustained during a fire at the main propellant-manufacturing facility for the U.S. Department of Defense has been discharged from a North Carolina hospital.

A spokeswoman for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Wednesday that one patient injured earlier this week at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant had been discharged and the other two remained in critical condition.

RADFORD, Va. (AP) — Three people have been injured in a fire at the main propellant-manufacturing facility for the U.S. Department of Defense, and production at the Virginia site has been suspended.

A news release issued Tuesday says a flash fire at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant occurred in a nitrocellulose drying facility Monday evening. The injured workers were being treated at a hospital in North Carolina.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The remains of a young gunner from New Mexico who was killed during World War II will soon be brought home to be reburied at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

The U.S. Department of Defense recently notified the family of Sgt. Alfonso Duran that his remains had been identified.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a nearly $2 million grant for a Virginia program designed to help veterans become teachers.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced last week that the grant will support the state's Troopers to Teachers Virginia Center at the College of William and Mary.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Military personnel can gain free admission to over 50 Connecticut museums this summer.

Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday museums will offer free admission this summer to active duty members of the military and up to five members of their families. This is a part of the ninth annual Blue Star Museums Program, a collaboration with the Blue Star Families and U.S. Department of Defense.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The federal government has awarded Connecticut a $1.1 million grant to help military veterans become school teachers.

The funding, announced Friday, comes from a U.S. Department of Defense program known as Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support. It will provide service members transitioning into civilian life and those who've already left military service with the training to teach in K-12 schools.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some Wisconsin police are returning mine-resistant vehicles on loan from the U.S. Department of Defense and replacing them with smaller, armored emergency vehicles they say are more appropriate for law enforcement.

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — A $17.3 million U.S. Department of Defense contract with New Balance to provide U.S.-made athletic shoes to service members is getting cheers from lawmakers in Maine, where the company employs hundreds of people.

Members of the delegation pushed for athletic footwear to be made subject to the Berry Amendment, which requires the defense department to give preference to home-grown products.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier whose remains were identified last year after being captured and killed nearly 70 years ago during the Korean War will be finally laid to rest in Ohio.

WSYX-TV reports a memorial service and burial with full military honors will be held Friday in Columbus for Private First Class Leroy Bryant.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top lawyer in the Tennessee attorney general's office has been nominated to become the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense.

The White House announced the nomination of Paul C. Ney Jr. this week.

Ney has recently served as chief deputy attorney general in Tennessee, where he coordinated and supervised the substantive legal work for all divisions of the state attorney general's office.

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo has called for the U.S. Department of Defense to halt military construction projects on the island until the shortage of foreign labor is remedied.

Federal immigration officials have denied most of the requests by Guam businesses to use temporary foreign labor under the H-2B visa program, the Pacific Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/2xQXNQ6 ) on Friday.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana company owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes was awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force to supply fighter jet parts to Saudi Arabia.

The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/2xQ0VLY ) the U.S. Department of Defense announced the $559 million contract last week for S&K Aerospace LLC to provide F-15 components to the Royal Saudi Air Force.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana research center will receive $6.7 million to study ways to improve the health of men and women in the United States military.

LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center announced Monday it has been awarded the grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide research and information on nutrition and metabolism.

KITTERY, Maine (AP) — Maine Sen. Susan Collins is introducing an amendment she says would repeal a U.S. Department of Defense policy she believes is unfair to some shipyard workers.

Collins, a Republican, says her proposal would repeal the defense department's long-term temporary duty policy for shipyard workers who are conducting off-yard maintenance. She says the policy was enacted in 2014 and reimburses the shipyard workers at a reduced flat rate rather than the full rate.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is one of a pair of senators introducing an amendment to prevent the U.S. Department of Defense from removing service members from the military because of their gender identity.

Collins, a Republican, is working on the amendment with Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. They say their amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would protect transgender service members.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is planning to refocus some of its research on U.S. Department of Defense interests in an effort to secure more government funding.

PHOENIX (AP) — A 31-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant from Tucson, Arizona, was confirmed killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash off the coast of Yemen.

The U.S. Department of Defense said Staff Sgt. Emil Rivera-Lopez went missing when the helicopter crashed during a training incident on Aug. 25.

Officials declared him dead Thursday and released his identity Friday.

Six service members were aboard the helicopter when it crashed. Officials say the other five were rescued.