Category: Crisis management

Naval Surface Warfare Center: 37 M$ to SAIC

Naval Surface Warfare Center: 37 M$ to SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced it has been awarded a task order by the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) – Crane Division to provide technical and training support to the U.S. Navy Surface...

Airport scanners still in storage

Airport scanners still in storage

President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan included $25 million for airport screening machines capable of detecting explosives like those carried by the Christmas Day bomber. But more than a year after passage of the...

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: THE FIVE LESSONS

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: THE FIVE LESSONS

“Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management” is part of a series of Workshops titled “Share Best Practices across the Atlantic” organized by SELEX SI. The 3rd Workshop guest speaker, the Hon Michael Chertoff, former Secretary...

NATO Contract to SELEX Sistemi Integrati

NATO Contract to SELEX Sistemi Integrati

SELEX Sistemi Integrati has received a Contract of 15 M€ for the integration of about 230 Sensors on new implemented Air Command and Control (ACCS) Sites, hosted by eleven NATO Nations: Netherlands, Spain, Turkey,...

Thales caught in all too familiar French political trap

Thales caught in all too familiar French political trap

The EADS story is all too familiar. For years, the European aerospace and defence group has been hamstrung by its French and German political masters. But these days it seems that the French government...

Equatorial Guinea Maritime Security: 250 M$ potential value to L-3 Communications

Equatorial Guinea Maritime Security: 250 M$ potential value to L-3 Communications

L-3 Communications announced that its MPRI division has been awarded a $58 million firm-fixed-price task order with the government of Equatorial Guinea to establish a Maritime Security Enhancement Program (MSEP). This task order is the...

EUROSAM bids for Turkish Air Defence System

EUROSAM bids for Turkish Air Defence System

Turkey’s defence procurement office removed MBDA from a blacklist last month after an international legal dispute between the Ankara government and the French missile maker ended amicably. One immediate effect: Eurosam, whose shareholders include MBDA,...