Category: Export Control

A collaborative effort between officers of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents resulted in the arrest of 23 foreign nationals early yesterday morning off the San Diego coastline....

Support for Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ export-control reform initiative is not robust within the cabinet agencies with authority over international weapons sales, according to a panel of experts on U.S. export policy. Suzanne Palmer,...

In early 2010, the Defense Department began a comprehensive effort to increase efficiencies, reduce overhead costs, and eliminate redundant functions in order to improve the effectiveness of the DoD enterprise. This effort is focused...

The European Union’s anti-piracy mission said that on Nov,7 pirates had hijacked a yacht on the Indian Ocean, off the Seychelles and that one of its passengers had been taken in by a warship. Local...

Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Victoria (A387), under the command of Captain Rob Dorey, boarded, cleared and destroyed a suspected pirate vessel. Fort Victoria is currently deployed as part of a special counter-piracy operation...

Raytheon Co. has acquired Trusted Computer Solutions, a Herndon, Va., provider of cross-domain, operating system and network security solutions. Financial terms were not reported. The acquisition of the private company is the seventh transaction...

It’s been years of work and waiting, but for Marinette Marine Corp. employees, a Navy decision this week to buy 20 littoral combat ships from two contractors is a welcome relief. Congressional approval for...

Congressional approval of a plan to buy littoral combat ships from Austal and Lockheed Martin will be “challenging but not impossible,” said U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile. Getting Congress to approve the U.S. Navy’s plan...

The Navy wants to put off a decision about which of two cutting-edge designs to choose for its latest vessel class, the littoral combat ship, slated to be stationed in San Diego. The first...

see the Command Structure here: https://www.aofs.org/2010/05/21/us-cyber-command-is-operational/ – Department of Defense announced that U.S. Cyber Command has achieved full operational capability (FOC). Achieving FOC involved U.S. Cyber Command completing a number of critical tasks to ensure...

Britain and France announced an unprecedented partnership on defense in a bid to allow two medium-sized powers to remain global players, officials and diplomats say. IT IS SAID that British Prime Minister David Cameron,...

This contract to Microsoft originated a large debate about the method used for the assignement: see, the following articles by J. Nicholas Hoover, www.informationweek.com, Army Consolidates Email Under DISA Cloud Joe Gould, www.DefenseNews.com  Army E-mail Headed...

Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke continued the administration’s push to boost U.S. exports 100% by 2015 in accordance with President Obama’s 3/11/10 executive order establishing the National Export Initiative (“NEI”).  Last week, Secretary Locke...

Standard X-ray is not enough Senior counter-terrorism officials warned that al-Qaida has exposed a blind spot in international aviation security by successfully smuggling bombs onto commercial cargo planes bound for the US. One official...

During three transatlantic laboratory demonstrations conducted earlier this year, eight Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) member companies validated their team’s ability to cut, by 66 percent, the time and cost of integrating their...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) delivered it’s first multi function surveillance and threat alert radar (MF- STAR) to a foreign customer. The MF- STAR is an advanced all-weather, day/night radar capable of performing various missions...