Next February, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expects to have the robust information technology network backbone ready so that it can scale to handle the ramp up of a biometric-based system that will track the exit of foreign nationals from the U.S. in accordance with their visas, an agency official says. The Travel Verification System […]
Bollinger Shipyards delivered to the Coast Guard the 25th 154-foot Fast Response Cutter, the USCGC Jacob Poroo, which will be the second FRC stationed in Pascagoula, Miss. The Poroo will be commissioned on Nov. 8. So far the Coast Guard has ordered 38 of the 58 FRCs it plans to buy. The Critical Infrastructure Research […]
In the next month or two the Air Force expects to decide on two additional locations in the U.S. to base F-35s with Air National Guard units, which would be on top of a decision last year to base the guard’s first F-35s with the Vermont Air National Guard. The Air Force is studying five […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Responding to customer demands for more affordable, flexible and responsive products, Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Tuesday introduced a new family of satellite busses with hundreds of common features able to carry payloads weighing from 22 pounds to more than 5,000 pounds for commercial, civil and military missions. The company invested $300 million over […]
Amid overseas deployments and responding to natural disasters in the U.S. and its territories, the readiness of the National Guard is where it needs to be, Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel said on Tuesday. “We are right where we are supposed to be in terms of what we’re built to go do,” Lengyel, who is […]
ManTech International [MANT] on Monday said it has agreed to acquire InfoZen for $180 million in cash in a deal that expands customer base with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information technology (IT) solutions. ManTech said it will fund the deal with cash on hand and from its existing credit line. The acquisition […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Sweden’s Saab AB said on Tuesday said that if the Boeing [BA] team wins the U.S. Air Force’s multi-billion dollar contract to develop and build the T-X trainer aircraft, it will open a manufacturing and assembly facility in the U.S. Hakan Buskhe, president and CEO of Saab, said the company is looking at […]
Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] proposed $7.8 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK [OA] will drive improved affordability for its customers, strengthen its competitiveness in a number of areas such as space and missile defense systems, and help spur innovation, Wes Bush, Northrop Grumman’s chairman, president and CEO, said Monday on an investor call. Bush said that the […]
Unlike its original electronic fingerprint database that went more than a decade without upgrades to its core fingerprint matching software, the FBI’s new multimodal biometric database is being enhanced along the way, taking advantage of the flexibility built into system, an agency official said last week. The FBI’s original Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), […]
L3 Technologies [LLL] on Sept. 14 said it acquired Doss Aviation, Inc., in a deal that bolts on the only supplier of initial flight training to Air Force pilots. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Colorado-based Doss has about 450 employees and L3 expects the new business unit to add about $50 million in […]
