Category: training

Lessons Learned: 8.8M$ to ManTech Co.

Lessons Learned: 8.8M$ to ManTech Co.

ManTech Awarded $8.8M from NATO to Support Analysis of Worldwide Operations Will Support the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre in Monsanto, Portugal and Worldwide. They received a five-year contract from NATO’s Supreme Allied Command...

Secretary Michael Chertoff, BAE Systems and the Whole-Body Scanners affair: $3 billion over the next eight years

Secretary Michael Chertoff, BAE Systems and the Whole-Body Scanners affair: $3 billion over the next eight years

Secretary Michael Chertoff Joins BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors The Honorable Michael Chertoff has joined the BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors. As a member of the Board, Secretary Chertoff will provide oversight...

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...

Italian navy to deploy AW101s to Afghanistan

Italian navy to deploy AW101s to Afghanistan

Italy will deploy three of its AgustaWestland AW101 amphibious support helicopters to Afghanistan in October for a 12-month tour of duty. The “Task Group Shark” detachment will involve aircraft from the navy’s 1st Helicopter...

CBP Seizes Counterfeit DVDs at California Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials today announced the seizure of a single truckload containing more than 6,300 counterfeit DVDs last month at the Otay Mesa cargo export facility.  click for hi-res At about...

DRS Awarded $15 M to Provide Satellite Connectivity and Services

DRS Awarded $15 M to Provide Satellite Connectivity and Services

DRS Defense Solutions, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DRS Technologies, Inc.,Finmeccanica Group,  announced its Global Enterprise Solutions business unit was awarded a $15 million task order to provide X-band satellite connectivity and terrestrial transport...

U.S. Homeland Security Chief Meets Europe Counterparts

U.S. Homeland Security Chief Meets Europe Counterparts

European officials agreed at last Jan Madrid Meeting to accelerate the drafting of a common strategy with the United States to improve airline security during a meeting with Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of...