Category: Border Security

Naval Surface Warfare Center: Seaport-e Task Order to SAIC

Company to Provide Systems Engineering and Training Analysis Support Services to Center for Surface Combat Systems Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced it has been awarded a follow-on Seaport-e task order by the Naval Surface...

Boeing & AgustaWestland Agreement

Boeing Secures All Rights to AgustaWestland AW101 for US Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program   Boeing announced that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as...

NextGen Systems Engineering Program: the largest in the FAA’s history

NextGen Systems Engineering Program: the largest in the FAA’s history

SE-2020 Program Will Help FAA Transform the US Air Transportation System Harris Corporation, as a member of The Boeing Company team, has been selected to provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with mission analysis...

Italy Navy Launches EU Operations Command Center

Italy Navy Launches EU Operations Command Center

The Italian Navy has launched a new land-based command facility that will be offered for use controlling European Union naval operations. Established at the Navy’s fleet command center at Santa Rosa, north of Rome,...

Boeing Delivers New Gen Phased Array Antennas

Boeing Delivers New Gen Phased Array Antennas

The phased array antennas will provide net-enabled operations through high-speed line-of-sight communications and data transported over a common data link (CDL) radio system between the Zumwalt-class ship and various airborne platforms. The Boeing Company...

DRS and Boeing to Sign Teaming Agreement for NewGen Tanker

DRS and Boeing to Sign Teaming Agreement for NewGen Tanker

DRS announced the teaming agreement for the NewGen Tanker program with The Boeing Company. DRS will collaborate with Boeing on the console design and then manufacture the Aerial Refueling Operator Station, also known as...

Presidential Helicopter Neverending Story

Presidential helicopters stand as a talisman, embodying the nuclear mission of the armed forces, America’s technological prowess and our government’s nearly religious concern for presidential safety. Buying a foreign helicopter would seem downright unpatriotic...

Boeing Delivers Security Capabilities to US CBP for the Northern Border Project

Boeing has finished installing 10 remote video surveillance systems in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Detroit Sector, completing the company’s work on all available sites in the Northern Border Project. The systems, delivered to U.S....

Adoption of a U.S.- EU and EU Member States Declaration on Counterterrorism

The Council of Ministers of Interior and Justice of the European Union adopted a U.S.- EU and EU Member States Declaration on Counterterrorism. Attorney General Eric Holder, who attended the EU/G6 Conference of Interior...

Two Men Arrested for Terrorism at Kennedy Aiport

Two Men Arrested for Terrorism at Kennedy Aiport

Two New Jersey men who were bound for Somalia to join an Islamic extremist group and to kill American troops were arrested at Kennedy International Airport on 6/6. The men, Mohamed Haoud Alessa, 20,...

100605 AOS News

100605 AOS News

Atlantic Organization for Security Obama Administration Unveils Security Strategy The Obama administration Thursday unveiled its new national security strategy, recognizing the need for military force but as a last resort and stressing the need...

Northrop Grumman: 5.5 M$ from FEMA

Northrop Grumman: 5.5 M$ from FEMA

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to design, develop, conduct, evaluate and provide operational support for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regional preparedness exercises. The 20-month, $5.5...

Obama Administration Unveils Security Strategy

Obama Administration Unveils Security Strategy

The Obama administration Thursday unveiled its new national security strategy, recognizing the need for military force but as a last resort and stressing the need to increase international diplomatic cooperation. President Barack Obama said...

Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT: Up To $4.4 Bn for NextGen Engineering Contracts

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today awarded three separate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) contracts totaling up to $4.4 billion over 10 years. Under the contracts, the companies will perform work that will...

Papp Takes Helm of Coast Guard

The Coast Guard’s quintessential ship captain, Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., took charge of the service Tuesday. The Coast Guard has been going through a transformational period, under the header of “modernization.” Everything from...

US CBP and China Sign MOU to Enhance Supply Chain Security

U.S. Customs and Border Protection today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China on Supply Chain Security and Facilitation. The CBP-China...

G8/G20 security bill to hit $833 million

CTV News has learned that Ottawa expects to spend $833 million on security for next month’s G8 and G20 summits. [montreal.ctv.ca] In March, the federal government had allocated $179 million for its security budget....

Cubic App Inc: Contract for Port Security Training in Colombia, Mexico and Peru

Cubic Applications, Inc., a mission support services subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has received a new contract from the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism of the Organization of American States (OAS) to provide...

DRS: 10 M$ for 71 MSTAR Man Portable Radars

DRS Sustainment Systems will deliver the Marine Corps 71 man portable surveillance target and acquisition radars (MSTAR), under a $9.7 million awarded by the U.S. Navy. The MSTAR is a component of the Ground-Based...

US Cyber Command Is Operational

U.S. Cyber Command, a subordinate unit of U.S. Strategic Command, is in its initial operating capability. The command is expected to be fully operational by October, according to Air Force Lt. Col. Rene White. Army Gen....