Category: NEC

Aptima’s Software to Support U.S. Navy’s Distributed, Multi-simulator Training

Aptima’s Software to Support U.S. Navy’s Distributed, Multi-simulator Training

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....

Taliban Pushes France for Detainee Swap

Taliban Pushes France for Detainee Swap

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...

SAIC: 84M$ to Support Naval Air Systems Command

SAIC: 84M$ to Support Naval Air Systems Command

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...

USS Ashland Captures Pirates

USS Ashland Captures Pirates

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...

HAITI: OAS Assistant Secretary General leads mission to Haiti

HAITI: OAS Assistant Secretary General leads mission to Haiti

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...

FEMA: Appointment Of Robin Finegan As Regional Administrator for Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming

FEMA: Appointment Of Robin Finegan As Regional Administrator for Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming

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....

Half of New York City’s subway cameras do not work

Half of New York City’s subway cameras do not work

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...

CG Rescues, Repatriates 119 Haitians

CG Rescues, Repatriates 119 Haitians

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 NA and Infoterra: 85M$ contract to supply radar satellite data for intelligence, military and homeland security

EADS NA and Infoterra: 85M$ contract to supply radar satellite data for intelligence, military and homeland security

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...

Danish tanker escaped a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden

Danish tanker escaped a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden

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...

Sierra Leone-flagged tanker under attack by Somali Pirates

Sierra Leone-flagged tanker under attack by Somali Pirates

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...

100402 AOfS Newsletter

100402 AOfS Newsletter

  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...

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...

US Navy Awards 92.5 M$ in Net-Centric Ops Support

US Navy Awards 92.5 M$ in Net-Centric Ops Support

The US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) awarded $92.5 million in contracts to support net-centric operations, information management, and decision support operations of the US military services. The contracts...

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...