U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
AmerisourceBergen Drub Corporation, Chester Brook, Pa. is being awarded a maximum $177,500,000 firm fixed price, prime vendor contract for pharmaceutical requirements.  Other locations of performance include Texas, Massachusetts, Virginia and North Carolina.  Using services include all designated providers that are part of the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan program.  The original [...]

Zombie Markets Kept Alive by Fed Black Magic

ShareSo says Scott Bleier, president of CreateCapital.com, in a scary, fascinating and enraging read.
What’s keeping up the stock market? Voodoo monetary policy that we cannot see or perhaps comprehend.
The Federal Reserve practices behind-the-scenes conjuring that keeps alive the malevolent zombie-dead who take fed money artificially keeping them alive and then instead of lending it to small businesses and living people, [...]

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: NAVY
 
                Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Irvine, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5405); Harper Construction Co., Inc., San Diego, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5406); Barnhart, Inc., San Diego, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5407); Sundt Construction, Inc., Tempe, Ariz. (N62473-10-D-5408); RQ Construction, Inc., Carlsbad, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5409); R. A. Burch Construction Co., Inc., Ramona, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5410); Solpac Construction, Inc., dba Soltek Pacific Construction Co., San Diego, [...]

Join the American Pie movement – Tea Baggers Welcome!

ShareTea baggers who complain about too much government intervention in our lives and fiscal responsibility missing in Congress and the Obama administration, sound like they are on the verge of a tax revolt, yet tend to focus all their ire and anger on health care reform. This of course only serves to make them appear [...]

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. Teams With HireVeterans.com

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IT Giant Seeks US Veterans for Their Workforce
By Randy Miller
Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) is an Information Technology (IT) Services Company headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. SBS provides IT infrastructure design, integration, and operation services to corporate, non-profit, and government entities. Their expertise encompasses the full spectrum of infrastructure technologies including the [...]

American factories operating near record low utilization

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American factories operating near record low utilization
By Andrea Orr
The U.S. manufacturing sector has been hit hard in the latest economic downturn, but has also suffered a steady decline for the past decade. The Figure [below] tracks capacity utilization, or the share of manufacturing capacity in use, since 1973. Capacity [...]

Do Veterans Need an Advanced Education Degree?

Everyone has heard stories that say “maybe I can get by without an advanced degree.” But the overwhelming odds are that none of those stories will apply to you.

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Cardinal Health, Inc., Dublin, Ohio, is being awarded a maximum $206,434,187 requirements-type, prime vendor contract for distribution of pharmaceutical items. Other locations of performance are North Carolina and California. Using service is the Department of Defense. The original proposal was solicited on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site with four responses. [...]

Florida Continues to Tax Its Citizens During Economic Instability

ShareThe next time you are considering a relocation from within or outside of the United States, you might just want to conduct some research on the States that are taxing its citizens to death. Case in point–the Sunshine State aka Florida. The State of Florida currently boasts an unemployment rate of 11% and even with [...]

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
 
                Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla., was awarded a $41,898,184 contract which will provide for the purchase and contractor logistic support of sniper advanced targeting pods to support a foreign military sale customer, Saudi Arabia. At this time, $20,949,092 has been obligated.  448 PKHCB, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., [...]

Air Force Association Taps USAA for Financial Services

More than 121,000 Air Force Association members now can take advantage of a comprehensive suite of financial services from one of the nation’s highest rated* financial services providers, thanks to an agreement just signed with USAA.

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: NAVY
                 Navistar Defense, LLC, Warrenville, Ill., is being awarded a $178,262,162 modification to delivery order #0013 under previously awarded firm-fixed priced contract (M67854-07-D-5032) for the procurement of 1,222 independent suspension system kits and aluminum catcher plates for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles.  Work will be performed in West Point, Miss., and the [...]

Labor Organizations, Unions, Muslim Community leaders and Peace Demo Organizers speak out: “Why WE are marching on 20 March”

ShareDespite intimidation from Police in LA, San Francisco, and Washington, DC,  the PEACE demonstrations on Saturday, 20 March to demand “U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now” have been endorsed by over 1,500 organizations and individuals. Suppression of dissent regardless if it comes from the Bush or Obama administration, the LAPD, SFPD, DCPD, Capital or [...]

Young Veterans Returning Home to Few Jobs

The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: NAVY
 
                LPI Technical Services*, Chesapeake, Va., is being awarded a $84,140,685 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to furnish repair, maintenance, modernization, logistical, and technical support services for material handling equipment (yellow gear) and hull, mechanical, and electric machinery and systems in order to ensure continued ship operation and performance. Work will be performed in Norfolk, [...]

Caterpillar Brings Jobs Back Home in ‘Onshoring’ Trend

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BY KRIS MAHER AND BOB TITA
Caterpillar Inc. is considering relocating some heavy-equipment overseas production to a new U.S. plant, part of a growing movement among manufacturers to bring more operations back home—a shift that will likely spark fierce competition among states for new manufacturing jobs.
The trend, known as onshoring or reshoring, [...]

Veteran-Owned small business Colorado Corporation seeks Veteran employees

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EEC is working with HireVeterans.com to attract our Veteran community to these new green jobs
By Randy Miller
The age of green energy is all around us. EEC is living up to the challenge and this Veteran-Owned small business based in Colorado, is leading the way in creating GREEN JOBS in Colorado.
The president and founder Albert Wallace [...]

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
 
                ADVENT Environmental, Inc., Mount Pleasant, S.C. (FA8903-10-D-8602); EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., Hunt Valley, Md. (FA8903-10-D-8601); and Zapata Inc., Charlotte, N.C. (8903-10-D-8600), were awarded a $350,000,000 contract which will provide environmental support restoration and remediation.  At this time, $3,000 per contract has been obligated.  AFCEE/ACX, Brooks City-Base, Texas, is the [...]

Huge Trading Volume on “Failed Financials”

ShareSuddenly, It’s Like Last Summer: “Failed Financials” Jump on Huge Volume
by Peter Gorenstein
Let’s face it; it’s been a slow week on Wall Street. …

Unless you’re trading the ‘failed’ financial stocks.
Volume in Citigroup, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been off the charts.  Tuesday, they accounted for 25% of all trading volume on the NYSE.  [...]

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: NAVY
 
                Guam Pacific International, LLC*, Barrigada, Guam (N40192-10-D-2800); Bulltrack-Watts, JV*, Marysville, Calif. (N40192-10-D-2801); Niking Corp.*, Pearl City, Hawaii (N40192-10-D-2802); Overland Corp.*, Ardmore, Okla. (N40192-10-D-2803); P&S Construction Inc.*, Lowell, Mass. (N40192-10-D-2804); and Pacific West Builders*, National City, Calif. (N40192-10-D-2810), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award construction contract for new construction, renovation/modernization and [...]

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