Teen stars of the most popular teen musical in American history urge Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to immediately take steps to clear name of 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. Lavena Johnson and other rape victims falsely labeled as “suicides.”

The US Army is set to handsomely reward people fluent in Arabic and other languages they the army deems strategic for its missions.

The US Defence Department has said it is forbidding Google from filming and depicting in detail its military bases, after officials found precise imagery of a Texas base on the Google Maps website.

U.S. defense officials made it clear today that while they appreciate the hard work NATO troop-contributing nations are doing in Afghanistan, more counterinsurgency training would help further the allies' success.

Symetrics Industries, LLC announced today an award from the U.S. Army for approximately 300 Improved Data Modems (IDM) for installation on Army aircraft. The contract value will be between $7 and $8 million, once final negotiations are completed. The IDM-304 is the Army version of the Improved Data Modems that Symetrics has been delivering to the U.S. Air Force for over 14 years.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received orders totaling $31.2 million under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the U.S. Army for support of the National Guard. Total orders received to date against the $463.2 million U.S. Army logistics contract increased to $459.8 million.

The U.S. military commander in one of Iraq's troubled areas has rejected a call by influential Republican Senator John Warner to begin withdrawing U.S. troops by the end of this year. Army Major General Rick Lynch spoke to U.S. reporters in a video conference from Iraq Friday. VOA's Cindy Saine reports from Washington.

AT&T Government Solutions, a business unit within AT&T Inc., has been awarded a contract worth up to $9.8 million to develop a customer premise data network at Fort Bliss, Texas, for the U.S. Army.

Sixty years ago this July 4, something happened in the desert about 100 kilometers northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A local newspaper at the time reported that a flying saucer had crashed and that the wreckage had been taken to the U.S. Army Air base just outside of Roswell.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have emerged as key players in a state-of-the-art program for the U.S. Army that focuses on the design and manufacturing of a lightweight, high-caliber, self-propelled cannon system.

US leader George W Bush is preparing to exercise his presidential veto for only the second time since the move has been prompted by the approval by Congress of a bill linking war funding to a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq.