For example, the US Department of Defense has a major program in methanol-based fuel cells.
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The biggest employer in the world is the US Department of Defense, with 3.2 million employees.
The company is the sole liquidator of surplus and scrap assets for the US Department of Defense (DoD).
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As well as mounting attacks on government agencies, the group also targeted contractors and firms working for the US Department of Defense.
If you were to count only active forces within the US Department of Defense, it would number 1.6 million people and slip to seventh place in our list.
Some 4, 488 US service personnel died in Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom on 19 March 2003, according to the latest figures from the US Department of Defense.
In a statement following the inquest into the death of Mr Lloyd, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense said an investigation in May 2003 had found US forces had followed the rules of engagement.
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But the idea of Galileo had irked the US Department of Defense, which controls the existing American system, because of the potential of the European network's signals to interfere with those intended for use by the US military.
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Tim Heinemann is a retired Special Forces officer and a mobile training team leader for counter-terrorism professional development of American allies around the world for US Department of Defense.
On behalf of all of us at the Department of Defense, we thank the President, we thank Mrs.
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Official statistics provided by the Department of Defense tell us that something over 200, 000 service men and women are discharged each year.
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But the point is, if you wanted to join the US military and you had even visited any communist countries, the Department of Defense wanted to know about it.
That solemn responsibility is shared by us as human beings, by us as Americans, and by us as men and women of the Department of Defense, who could be asked, when the time comes, to act, to make sure that it never happens again.
First, Israel should request that US military assistance to the IDF be appropriated as part of the Defense Department's budget instead of the State Department's foreign aid budget where it is now allocated.
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At the same time, both South Korean intelligence and US Defense Department sources have accused North Korea of responsibility for launching massive cyber-attacks against US and South Korean computer systems over the past week.
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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In other words, Senators - and the rest of us - are being "spun": We are being encouraged to believe that the Defense Department has determined that there will be no adverse implications of the President's social experiment.
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