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1 KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – When he first started working at Leghorn Army Depot for the U.S. Army in 1984, he and his fellow employees had less than 100 pieces of rolling stock they worked with, and the mechanical condition of the equipment was not their responsibility. Now, 36 years later – at that same Army depot in Livorno, Italy – the Army Field Support Battalion-Africa deputy support operations officer says his team is responsible for over 3,000 pieces of equipment, to include their serviceability and operational condition. “We’ve grown tremendously,” said Mas...

News Category Global Banking & Finance Reviews UTHealth in Houston and Athersys Announce Commencement of Patient Enrollment in a Phase 2 Trial Evaluating MultiStem® Cell Therapy in Trauma UTHealth in Houston and Athersys Announce Commencement of Patient Enrollment in a Phase 2 Trial Evaluating MultiStem® Cell Therapy in Trauma The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHX) announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating MultiStem cell therapy for the potential early treatment of traumatic injuri...

Pinkerton: Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Shows America’s ‘Can-Do’ Spirit Is Back V is for . . .  In addition to “V” for “Virus,” we can add that “V” stands also for “Vaccine.”  Furthermore, “V” is for “Victory.”  At least in the healthcare sector, America Has Been Made Great Again. One of the architects of that victory is Gen. Gustave Perna, a four-star who took leave from the U.S. Army’s Materiel Command to become chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed (OWS); as Perna explained the stakes of the struggle at a press briefing on December 12: We’re a...

Gen. Ed Daly For years, Army Materiel Command has spread its limited modernization funding more or less evenly across its dozens of facilities, giving each of them enough for marginal, incremental improvements but never enough for a true top-to-bottom overhaul. The new modernization plan, Daly said, is meant to change that by prioritizing some facilities for higher funding – which means, in a “zero-sum” budget, that others will get less. “If we do this correctly, we could do it as a zero sum,” Daly told me. “We don’t necessarily have to pay more money. All we have to do is inve...

4 The year 2020 has been a year like many have never seen and the likes of one we hope to never see again. It’ll be remembered as the year COVID-19, face coverings, social distancing, videoconferencing and teleworking became the norm while frequent traveling and in-person events seemed a thing of the past. As the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command readies for 2021, it looks back on a small fraction of the milestones and accomplishments achieved in 2020. Key personnel moves The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command bid farewell to one deputy to the commanding general an...