Homeland Security
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Homeland Security
DNDO Awards $29.5 Million To New York City Region For Anti-Nuke Measures
The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) last week awarded a $29.5 million to the New York City Police Department for the purchase of radiation detection equipment and related communications and […]
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Homeland Security
DHS, Navy Say Drug Smugglers Increasingly Turning To Semi-Submersible Craft
By Calvin Biesecker Through the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2008 United States Government homeland security forces have reported thwarting 62 events involving the use of semi-submersible craft to […]
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CongressNorth Korea Test-Fires ICBM Engine; Russia Launches Missile Said To Defeat U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Shield
Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]
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Business/FinancialJapan Uses PAC-3 To Kill Target Missile In Test; But U.S. THAAD Test Is Blocked By Weak Target
Japan succeeded in using a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) interceptor to take out a target tactical ballistic missile, but a U.S. test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or […]
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Business/Financial
Senate Approves Amendment Providing $89 Million For Ballistic Missile Defense AN/TPY-2 Radar
Provision Doesn’t Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide […]
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Homeland Security
General Cool To Expanding Missile Defense System To Protect Space Assets From Attack
The United States shouldn’t leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] of San Diego. This extension […]
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Homeland Security
DHS S&T Begins Testing System That Screens People For Hostile Intent
By Calvin Biesecker UPPER MARLBORO, Md.–After a year or so of initial development and integration work, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch this week began […]
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Homeland Security
Goodrich to Supply Scanner Modules for GD’s Chem Detector
Goodrich [GR] has received a production contract from General Dynamics [GD] to provide scanner modules and associated data items for the Army’s Joint Services Lightweight Standoff Chemical Agent Detector (JSLSCAD) […]