Category: US Coast Guard

German Weather Service Selects Selex Systems Integration and Lockheed Martin for Wind Shear Detection at Frankfurt and Munich Airports

German Weather Service Selects Selex Systems Integration and Lockheed Martin for Wind Shear Detection at Frankfurt and Munich Airports

The German Weather Service (DWD) has signed a contract with Selex Systems Integration GmbH to deliver a Low Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS) for the Frankfurt and Munich, Germany airports. The systems consist...

SBINET in danger? No finish in sight for ‘virtual’ border fence

SBINET in danger? No finish in sight for ‘virtual’ border fence

A multibillion-dollar “virtual fence” along the southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants is a long way from becoming...

Pentagon Panel Has Contractor Contacts: Analysis finds financial ties

Pentagon Panel Has Contractor Contacts: Analysis finds financial ties

More than half of the panel members appointed to review the Pentagon’s latest four-year strategy blueprint have financial ties to defense contractors with a stake in the planning process, a USA TODAY analysis shows....

Harris: 25 M$ for Communications Backbone of Army Battle Command System

Harris: 25 M$ for Communications Backbone of Army Battle Command System

Highband networking radios from Harris Corporation will form the communications backbone of the U.S. Army’s new Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS).  Harris will supply its radios to carry critical battle-command...

Project Vigilare Command and Control System Passes Factory Acceptance Testing

Project Vigilare Command and Control System Passes Factory Acceptance Testing

Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, this week announced that Project Vigilare, a Network Centric Command and Control System (NC3S) solution for the Royal Australian Air Force, has passed...

US CG Cutters debate: the beginning of a “never-ending story”?

US CG Cutters debate: the beginning of a “never-ending story”?

WH ‘Hammered’ Allen on CG Woes White House officials pressured the Coast Guard commandant to tone down comments that his service faces serious threats to its ability to respond to emergencies such as the Haitian...

EADS DS to Extend Bulgarian Security Forces’ Tetra Network

EADS DS to Extend Bulgarian Security Forces’ Tetra Network

EADS Defence & Security has been awarded a contract by the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance to extend the TETRA network for the security forces. This complementary contract will achieve almost full TETRA network coverage...

BAE SYSTEMS: 242 M$ U.S. NAVY EPIC

BAE SYSTEMS: 242 M$ U.S. NAVY EPIC

BAE Systems has been awarded a $242 million Enterprise Platform Integration Contract (EPIC) from the U.S. Navy to provide integration, engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly, test, inspection, delivery, and limited installation of integrated Command, Control,...

Finmeccanica reaches the amount of $100 million in U.S. military orders for DVE

Finmeccanica reaches the amount of $100 million in U.S. military orders for DVE

Finmeccanica, through its company DRS Technologies, Inc., have reached $100 million in U.S. military orders for infrared Driver’s Vision Enhancers (DVEs). The delivery orders have been placed against a September 2009 contract awarded by...

Canadian Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP) competition

Canadian Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP) competition

Canada’s Department of National Defence expects to issue a request for proposal (RfP) for its emerging Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP) competition. ISSP gear is similar to the US Army’s currently fielded Land Warrior...