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ManTech Awarded $8.8M from NATO to Support Analysis of Worldwide Operations Will Support the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre in Monsanto, Portugal and Worldwide. They received a five-year contract from NATO’s Supreme Allied Command...

Secretary Michael Chertoff Joins BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors The Honorable Michael Chertoff has joined the BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors. As a member of the Board, Secretary Chertoff will provide oversight...

As net centric warfare changes the nature of air and combat operations, the U.S. Navy is modernizing its aviation training, combining its various simulators into a unified platform to better replicate these complex missions....

France’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it was consulting with the families of two French TV journalists taken hostage in Afghanistan, after the Taliban demanded that France lean on Afghan and U.S. officials for a...

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has been awarded a contract by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) to support the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Corporate Operations and Comptroller Offices with a full...

Three events over the past ten days have allowed the U.S. Navy to capture a total of 21 suspected pirates At approximately 5:00 a.m. local time, the USS Ashland (LSD 48), was fired upon...

Assistant Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, will lead a six-member mission to Haiti at the request of the Rene Préval government. (see also in the full story “the five...

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate today applauded President Obama’s appointment of Robin Finegan as FEMA Regional Administrator for Region VIII, which encompasses Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming....

There are 4,313 subway security cameras on platforms and in the tunnels of the New York City’s subway system; trouble is, only 2,270 work; the other 2,043 cameras do not; the problem of missing...

The Boston-based Coast Guard Cutter Seneca repatriated 119 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti Friday, after they were interdicted at sea. While on a routine patrol, Coast Guard Cutters Tornado and Key Biscayne crewmembers...

EADS North America has received a five-year contract to provide commercial radar satellite data to the U.S. government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use in intelligence, military and homeland security applications. The data will...

A Danish tanker escaped a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden after a French patrolling aircraft forced the Somali attackers to flee, the multi-national anti-piracy force said Monday. The tanker MV Torm Ragnhild...

During the attack, the pirates fired rifles and aimed rocket propelled grenades at the vessel in an attempt to force it to stop. The Flagship of Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, USS Farragut (DDG...

  The 100402 AOFS Newsletter includes a the intervention of Steve Coles, Head of Security Strategy at SELEX SI/VEGA, who revisits the importance of information sharing for the UK in light of the failed Christmas Day airline bomb...