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Smuggling On Feb. 22, at approximately 7:15 a.m., Border Patrol agents from the West Palm Beach Station responded to a call from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office which reported a landing of migrants in...
The Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Quentin Davies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his French counterpart, Laurent Collet-Billon, which enables the potential for closer co-operation on the procurement of urgent...
BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defence company, has begun to restructure its once-lauded land and armaments division after losing key armoured vehicle contracts. The company said that it would cut thousands of jobs in the...
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead has signed off on the Navy’s “Vision for Confronting Irregular Challenges.” The Navy will buy ships and aircraft that provide “broadened” and “balanced” capabilities to deal with...
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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...
BAE Systems has said it will writedown $929 million (592 million pounds, 681 million euros) on 2009 earnings after failing to win a US military contract. BAE Systems on Thursday announced it had fallen...
* Navy aims to move away from system integrators * Could stage competition for combat systems later Cost will be the critical factor the U.S. Navy uses to judge competing designs from General Dynamics...
More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by...
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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...
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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...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano toured Transportation Security Administration (TSA) explosive detection technologies and canine program operations in Virginia and Texas—highlighting $576 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds...
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SBInet director shares frustrations and progress on delays, tests and Boeing But Mark Borkowski remains hopeful that SBInet will be a success As executive director of the Homeland Security Department’s Secure Border Initiative, Mark...
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...
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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...
Thales Australia will provide computer support services for a range of Australian Defence Force (ADF) command and control systems under a $51m contract, according to Defence Minister Greg Combet. “The command and control systems...
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract for Constructive Training Systems support by the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)....
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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,...
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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...
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India, which is planning a $1.5 billion upgrade for its 30 military airports and their air traffic control systems, issued a request for bids in January, a senior Indian Defence Ministry official said. The...
The United States urged NATO allies to send thousands of trainers to help strengthen Afghan security forces and exploit a window of opportunity to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The request came as...
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