Thousands of members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force take part in an event to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, including a flypast of 78 current and historic aircraft.

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Thousands of members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force are taking part in a parade and flypast for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

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Armed forces in Jubilee parade

In a refurbished Air Force hangar on Cape Canaveral, engineers from NASA and commercial space company SpaceX on Tuesday pored over data from a launchpad test of a gleaming white rocket poised to be the next step in U.S. space strategy. Read full article > >

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SpaceX launch of Dragon capsule to space station to put NASA strategy on display

John P. Jumper’s high-velocity military career was over, and the former Air Force chief of staff was settling into a quiet retirement in Fredericksburg. He and his wife had built a house. He’d signed on to corporate boards. He was ready for visits from the grandkids. Then came an unexpected call to duty: an offer to run contracting giant Science Applications International Corp. The weeks since have been a blur. Read full article > >

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New SAIC chief John Jumper aims to shore up contracting giant

The Air Force said Friday it will impose harsher penalties on the former commander and chief deputy of the Dover Air Force Base mortuary after a federal probe found they retaliated against subordinates for reporting systematic problems there, including cases in which body parts were lost. Read full article > >

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Air Force to further discipline former supervisors in Dover mortuary controversy

The disclosure came as an independent panel concluded that the Dover Air Force Base mortuary should have more oversight, training of employees and inspections.

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9/11 Victims’ Remains Disposed of in Landfill, Mortuary Report Finds

Exelis, Computer Sciences Corp. and Raytheon risk losing $3 billion in rocket-launch revenue during the next decade as the U.S. Air Force consolidates contracts to reduce costs. The Air Force plans to save at least 5 percent by eliminating redundancies in three maintenance and engineering contracts, Christina Sukach, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Space Command, said in an e-mail. Read full article > >

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Air Force pares contracts in cost-reduction move

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Federal investigators have concluded that supervisors at Dover Air Force Base retaliated against four civilian whistleblowers after they reported missing body parts and other failures at the mortuary that handles America’s war dead. Read full article > >

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Dover mortuary whistleblowers suffered retaliation, say investigators

PHOENIX — President Obama is used to tangling with Republicans in Congress. On Wednesday, he sparred with one on a tarmac. Arriving in this Southwestern city on the second stop of his post-State of the Union tour , Obama descended the stairs of Air Force One and was greeted by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who was among the local politicians waiting for him in a customary receiving line. Read full article > >

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Obama tangles with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer over immigration book

The Obama administration on Thursday hailed a new $30 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia as both a hedge against Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf and an economic windfall that could create thousands of U.S. jobs over the next decade. The agreement to sell 84 top-of-the line F-15SA fighter jets to the Saudi air force also provided a needed boost to U.S. relations with the oil-rich kingdom after months of strain over the White House’s response to the Arab Spring uprisings, U.S. officials and Middle East analysts said. Read full article > >

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U.S. touts Saudi Arabia fighter jet deal as a foreign policy, security and economic boon

DENVER — Santa Claus set records Christmas Eve as he raced across the globe on his traditional holiday mission. Santa tracking volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado said they fielded about 102,000 telephone queries beginning early Saturday on his progress, breaking the previous mark of 80,000. Read full article > >

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NORAD Santa trackers have record holiday telling children about big man’s location

A member of the Royal Air Force injured in an explosion in Afghanistan has died in a UK hospital, the Ministry of Defence says.

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Afghanistan injury kills RAF man

The leaders of a congressional committee investigating the Dover Air Force Base mortuary said Thursday that they would broaden their probe to include all military burial practices over the past decade, including reports that partial remains of hundreds of war dead were incinerated and dumped in a Virginia landfill. Read full article > >

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Dumping of partial remains of war dead in Va. landfill spurs wider probe

A retired four-star general from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead a review of operations at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary after federal investigations found evidence of “gross mismanagement” at the repository for America’s war dead . John P. Abizaid, who retired from the military in 2007 after serving four years as the head of the U.S. Central Command and 34 years in the Army, was selected to oversee the review by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, the Pentagon announced late Monday. Read full article > >

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