Atlantic Organization for Security (AOS)

Harris Receives $69 M for C4I in Asia

Harris Receives $69 M for C4I in Asia

Harris Corporation has received orders totaling $69 million from a nation in Asia to support the next phase of a comprehensive command, control and intelligence system. Harris will provide an integrated regional C4I infrastructure...

Europe wants to limit passenger data sharing with US

Europe wants to limit passenger data sharing with US

Europe laid out Tuesday strict conditions for the exchange of airline passenger data with the United States, Canada and Australia, insisting it should be restricted to terror and criminal probes. The European Union’s executive...

Net 6000: Automatic Transit Baggage-Handling System

The Net 6000 is the largest automatic transit baggage-handling system ever implemented in Italy and one of the leading solutions in Europe. It was officially opened on 8 July 2010 at a ceremony attended...

US ratifies defense sales pacts with Britain, Australia

US ratifies defense sales pacts with Britain, Australia

The US Senate has ratified treaties with Australia and Britain to streamline military sales by eliminating most export licenses. This ratification ends a very long process. In June 2007 then President George W. Bush and...

NGC Wins $2.63 Bn IT Integration Project for US DHS Headquarters

NGC Wins $2.63 Bn IT Integration Project for US DHS Headquarters

Northrop Grumman Will Implement a Robust IT Infrastructure and Cyber and Physical Security Platforms for the New DHS Washington, D.C. Campus McLean, Va. – Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $2.63 billion task...

Carter To Unveil Affordability Guidelines

Carter To Unveil Affordability Guidelines

Chief U.S. weapons buyer Ashton Carter on Sept. 14 will announce new guidelines to govern how the Pentagon purchases everything from weapons to support services, the Defense Department has told industry. The announcement will...

CBP High-Tech X-ray Detects $1.6 Million of Marijuana at the Douglas Port of Entry

CBP High-Tech X-ray Detects $1.6 Million of Marijuana at the Douglas Port of Entry

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stopped a drug smuggling attempt when a large high-tech mobile X-ray unit detected more than 177 pounds of marijuana concealed in the double fuel tanks of a...

TSA: $13.3M to GD to Integrate Airport Screening

TSA: $13.3M to GD to Integrate Airport Screening

 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a $4.7 million contract for the first year of a multi-year award for Phase II of the Security...

Era will provide a Nationwide Wide Area Multilateration solution in the Republic of Tajikistan

Era will provide a Nationwide Wide Area Multilateration solution in the Republic of Tajikistan

Era a.s., a subsidiary of SRA International, Inc., today announced that Tajikaeronavigation, the Republic of Tajikistan’s air navigation service provider (ANSP), has selected Era to provide a nationwide wide area multilateration (WAM) solution in...

TSA: New Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Rochester International Airport

TSA: New Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Rochester International Airport

In-line baggage handling systems use state-of-the-art technology to screen baggage for explosives quickly while streamlining the ticketing and boarding process. This eliminates the need for passengers to walk checked baggage to a screening location...

Maritime Raid Force Recaptures Ship From Pirates

Maritime Raid Force Recaptures Ship From Pirates

U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force (MRF) aboard USS Dubuque (LPD 8) operating under Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151), boarded and seized control of Antigua-Barbuda-flagged, German-owned vessel M/V Magellan...

NATO’s European Dimension

NATO’s European Dimension

Download the full report     The Security & Defence Agenda is proud to present this report on “NATO’s European Dimension” from the annual conference on 21 June 2010 at the Concert Noble in...

UK Formula One skills to protect troops from IEDs

UK Formula One skills to protect troops from IEDs

British engineering skills that are relied on by all the UK based Formula One teams are now playing a key role in Ocelot, a new light protected patrol vehicle that provides unprecedented levels of...

America top-secret

America top-secret

NOTE: For convenience of the reader the full document can be downloaded, with a single “click” at 100820 TWP America Top Secret. After 11 September in the U.S. thousands of agencies against terrorism were...