Army wants contractors, small businesses, or inventors working in their basements to come forward with any devices or thoughts on how to defeat roadside bombs.

Marine Corps officials have raved about the MV-22 Osprey’s recent contributions to operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti.

Federal agencies that collect biometric data to screen individuals should concentrate their efforts on fingerprints, faces and irises, and perfect the collection of those technologies first, said a White House official.

Underwriters and shippers are as concerned about what the United States and other powers won’t do against Somali pirates, as they are about what the pirates will do against ships they insure, own and operate.