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July 3, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is changing the focus of a key effort aimed at developing and producing X-Ray-based screening systems that can detect the presence of nuclear threat materials through shielding to instead...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3196.html
July 1, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker Determined to secure the stronghold on the nation's driver's license credentialing market, L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] yesterday boosted its offering price for Digimarc Corp. [DMRC] by nearly $50 million to $310 million, trumping SAFRAN's...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3176.html
July 1, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is doing a better job justifying some of its expenditures under the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) but its spending plan is still lacking in terms of how it links to an overall secure border strategy and it doesn't...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3177.html
June 30, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker A federal appeals court last week overturned a March 2007 district court judgment that had awarded $129 million in damages to OSI Systems [OSIS] in that company's lawsuit against L-3 Communications [LLL] on claims of fraud and breach of...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3151.html
June 30, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking "positive" steps to ready itself for its first presidential transition, a period in during which terrorists may feel that the United States is weak, but the department must...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3153.html
June 30, 2008
If Seven Planes Cost $7 Billion, That Is 9 Percent Of 9/11 Damage In New York City Alone; $50,000-70,000 Per Missile Hit By ABL A Fraction Of Interceptor Cost Will Israel Be Interested In Purchasing ABL? The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3157.html
June 30, 2008
President Bush is lifting sanctions on North Korea, even though he remains "deeply concerned" about the rogue nation as a bad actor. But some observers asked why a treacherous nation should be rewarded, and why the United States would trust the...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3160.html
June 30, 2008
Lunar Craft Undergoes Checkout Prior To Mission A NASA spacecraft that will hit the moon has entered its final checkout phase, the space agency announced. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, will take a significant step...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3163.html
June 30, 2008
The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite is in thermal vacuum testing, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced today. The military communications satellite is in tests at the Lockheed facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. The Air Force AEHF system...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3169.html
June 27, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker The Senate Appropriations Committee last week approved a spending bill for Homeland Security that adds $72.3 million to the budget request for aviation checkpoint security, an amount that will allow the Transportation Security...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3144.html
June 26, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker The Coast Guard has improved its accountability for the program management of the Deepwater modernization program by giving its own managers greater oversight and by shifting the management focus to an asset-based approach instead of the...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3130.html
June 26, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker The House Appropriations Committee as expected on Tuesday approved by voice vote a $39.9 billion proposed budget for the Department of Homeland Security in FY '09. The bill must still be approved by the full House and then go to conference...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3133.html
June 25, 2008
An ORBCOMM [ORBC] satellite equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) capability was launched this month and will let the Coast Guard test the feasibility and effectiveness of message reception and reporting from space for ship tracking and other...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3091.html
June 25, 2008
OSI Systems [OSIS] has received two contracts worth about $16 million in total from separate international customers for various cargo, baggage and parcel inspection systems. One contract is for multiple Rapiscan Eagle Mobile high-energy X-Ray cargo and...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3092.html
June 25, 2008
Implant Sciences [IMX] has received $4.2 million in new orders from distributors and customers in Europe and Asia for its Quantum Sniffer handheld QS- H150 explosive detectors. The orders are on top of $2.7 million announced last month related to support for...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3093.html
June 25, 2008
Implant has also received $500,000 in follow-on funding from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate to develop integrated, miniaturized sub-systems for use in the detection and identification of trace explosives. The...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3094.html
June 25, 2008
Polimatrix, which last fall won a potential multi-million dollar contract to supply 20,000 pager style radiation detectors to law enforcement officers and emergency responders throughout Illinois, has signed its initial purchase order for 5,000 of the...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3095.html
June 25, 2008
American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received a $3.4 million contract from the Defense Department for service, support, and spare parts for Z Backscatter Vans (ZBVs). The contract is the final option of a multi-year award valued at $46.2 million that was...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3096.html
June 25, 2008
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Raytheon's [RTN] Integrated Defense Systems division a small contract to evaluate the effectiveness of an information assurance technology that helps protect against insider threats. Under the...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3097.html
June 25, 2008
Morphotek has received $1.7 million in funding approval from the Defense Department to further develop biologic-based monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapies targeting...
http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/3098.html
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