It was also responsible for the creation of a separate Department of the Air Force from the existing United States Army Air Forces.

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"I think she's had an enormous impact on women in the military, " says Sheila Cheston, general counsel of the Department of the Air Force.

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The company said that the Department of Defense authorized the purchase of six F-35A aircraft for the Air Force and tentatively approved the purchase of six F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps.

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Each of these individuals are safety and mission assurance-related officials in other federal departments of the federal government, from the Air Force, from the Navy, from the Department of Transportation, and across the federal expanse.

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AeroVironment hopes to generate sales not just from services like the Army and Air Force, but also from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security (for help with border control) and weather services (for storm tracking and disaster recovery).

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Fischer-Tropsch derived fuels for aviation have been produced recently for the Department of Defense by U.S. based Syntroleum, and have been successfully tested by the US Air Force in a B-52 jet with all eight of its engines fueled by the mixture.

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And records show that the number of courts-martial proceedings, the judicial process the military uses to determine guilt or innocence and the appropriate punishment for soldiers accused of criminal and disciplinary offenses, have been the lowest on record for the Navy, Army and Air Force Department of Defense.

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Such data will be screened and cleared for release to the Japanese by defense technology experts from the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense.

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The third problem, in addition to the infrastructure and the warheads themselves, is the fact that the Defense Department has been plagued with its own systemic problems which culminated in the high profile termination of the Secretary of the Air Force and the service's Chief of Staff.

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