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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest integrated market analysis. Teal Group’s 2011 market study estimates that...
SUMMARY: Transparency is essential for effective congressional and public oversight of the arms trade, and the US government is widely (and rightly) praised for its reporting on arms exports. Yet there is also significant...
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced channeling service provider agreements with three award recipients: American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), L-1 and Telos ID. Through aviation channeling service providers, employee data is collected and...
Six Islamic fundamentalists were detained Friday in a probe into anti-Christian incitement including an alleged threat to “punish” Pope Benedict XVI for baptising a noted Egyptian-Italian journalist and member of the European Parliament who...
Electronic Systems Center officials of the Hanscom AFB intend to call for proposals within the next few months for development and production of a new deployable air traffic control system. Referred to as the Deployable Radar...
Manchester Airport’s Terminal One hi-techface recognition gates were suspended after they allowed a man back into the country on his wife’s passport. It is understood an immigration officer double-checking the data on a computer...
Prime Minister David Cameron met representatives of some of Britain’s biggest private companies to work with the Government on protecting the country against cyber attack. Foreign Secretary William Hague and Baroness Neville-Jones also took...
Company to Serve as Lead Systems Integrator Supporting Bureau of Information Resource Management Information Technology (IT) Initiatives McLean, Va. – Science Applications International Corporation announced that it was awarded the Vanguard 2, Task Order 2.2.1 by...
Rolta and SELEX Communications, a Finmeccanica company, have signed a Strategic Partnership Teaming Agreement for the Indian Tactical Communication System (TCS) program, in the frame of which the companies will collaborate to provide comprehensive...
The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says, in what could be a clue into how it might have infected the...
The government needs to launch new programs and ease export controls to ensure defense contractors remain capable and viable, said Wes Bush, chief executive and president of Northrop Grumman, in a speech to the...
The system which will be supplied to the Royal Thai Navy will equip the Royal Navy Air and Coastal Defence Command and be settled in an area in the South of Bangkok. It will...
The Cosmo-SkyMed satellites, operated by the Italian space agency, have acquired the first images of the Italian oil tanker Savina Caylyn since it was hijacked earlier this week by Somali pirates in the Indian...
BAE Systems recently migrated a server-based mission application into a virtualized data-center environment to increase reliability and reduce operating costs, completing the first task order under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Total Application Services...
An Australian AP-3C Orion aircraft assisted a merchant vessel under attack by pirates in the Arabian Sea. The Orion was conducting a routine surveillance patrol for the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) when it was...
Telespazio has acquired the space activities of Finmeccanica subsidiaries Vega and Elsag Datamat. Telespazio said the acquisition is more of a restructuring of Finmeccanica’s space services and applications business and aims to broadening the...
On 4 February, NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, delivered the keynote speech at the Munich Security Conference on building security in an age of austerity, a challenge he asserted that NATO was ideally...
see also Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) – The District’s top security chiefs are planning to expand their use of electronic surveillance and to procure new technology that “allows us some flexibility,” Police Chief...
hybrid approaches can afford the Army the opportunity to both fast-track a needed technology and also preserve the process of checks, balances and certifications typically associated with traditional acquisition practices. Maj. Gen. Mark Brown,...
Contracts / DHS / site protection / TSA
American Science and Engineering, Inc. (“AS&E”) a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced a research and development contract award under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T)...
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