Author: Mary Shinn
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Monument-based Tech7 and its ‘sherpas’ win $489 million contract with a focus on speed
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Tech7 Company, a Monument-based business, recently won a $489 million contract through the U.S. General Services Administration to help speed the process for acquiring new technology within the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland…
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‘We are going to war’: 24 years after 9/11, veterans remember fury, shock, sacrifice
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When planes flew into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania 24 years ago, the nation was filled with emotion — awash in shock and fury, followed by an outpouring of patriotism. Former…
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Colorado College welcomes speaker turned away at Air Force Academy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Author Paisley Rekdal will appear at Colorado College on Wednesday after the Air Force Academy canceled her scheduled talk because she criticized President Donald Trump. Rekdal, a University of Utah professor, was on the verge…
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Pikes Peak region to honor 9/11 losses at multiple events
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs area will commemorate the nearly 3,000 who died and 6,000 people who were injured in the 9/11 terrorist attacks 24 years ago during several memorials. Former President George W. Bush declared the anniversary of the attacks Patriot Day in 2005 to memorialize…
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Monument-based Tech7 and its ‘sherpas’ win $489 million contract with a focus on speed
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Tech7 Company, a Monument-based business, recently won a $489 million contract through the U.S. General Services Administration to help speed the process for acquiring new technology within the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Commerce. President and CEO Juan Echeverry…
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In Space Command fight, ‘national security should trump everything’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado lawmakers say President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama discounts national security concerns and could yet be overturned. “National security should trump everything,” said former U.S.…
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In Space Command fight, ‘national security should trump everything’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado lawmakers say President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama discounts national security concerns and could yet be overturned. “National security should trump everything,” said former U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs. But reversing the decision announced…
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Mobile missile warning system retired, Air National Guard expected to have jobs for airmen
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After about 40 years of standing ready to provide missile warning in the event of a war, the one-of-a-kind Mobile Ground System based in Greeley was recently retired. “We employed it to the outer limits of its capabilities,” Col. Stephanie Figueroa, commander of the 233rd…
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Soldier plans to give away more than $50,000 donated for his cancer treatment
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After donors gave more than $50,000 to Fort Carson Sgt. 1st Class David Hong to cover the cost of a new cancer treatment, the soldier now expects to give it all away to other cancer patients. “I was just blown away,” Hong said, about the outpouring…
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Fort Carson spouse to lend foreign-born experience to national Military Spouse Leadership Initiative
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ayana Garcia set about finding her place in Colorado Springs during 2022, when her husband left on a deployment a month after the couple moved to town. “I can’t just be siloed. … For me, it’s really about community engagement and civic involvement,” she said.…