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International
Lockheed Martin Gains $40.4 Million Contract Change For Aegis Work On Japanese Ship
The Missile Defense Agency gave Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $40.4 million contract change to provide ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability to a Japanese Aegis-equipped destroyer, the JS Myoko, the company […]
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International
Cobham To Further Expand U.S. Business With SPARTA Acquisition
Britain’s Cobham plc this week said it has agreed to acquire SPARTA, Inc., for a net price of $416 million in cash, expanding its business base in the United States, […]
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International
GD Beats L-1 To Produce State Department’s New Passport Card
The State Department recently awarded General Dynamics [GD] a potential $72.7 million contract to produce its new border travel document, the PASS Card, beating L-1 Identity Solutions [ID]. The win […]
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Army
Army Still Committed To Transformation, Casey Says
By Ann Roosevelt As the Army works to rebalance the force strained by nearly seven years of war, one of its top priorities is transforming to a force that can […]
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Congress
Webb Calls For Growth In Maritime Forces
By Jen DiMascio The United States needs to start a national debate about how the military should be shaped, especially as the nation begins to reduce its presence in Iraq, […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy SDD Effort Putting Data Links On Harpoon, JSOW
The Navy has begun a Systems Design and Development (SDD) effort to incorporate a data link into Boeing‘s [BA] Harpoon missile and Raytheon‘s [RTN] Joint Stand-Off Weapon making the two […]
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Business/Financial
L-1 To Acquire Biometric Access Control Firm Bioscrypt
L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] recently said it as agreed to acquire Bioscrypt Inc., a Canadian-based firm specializing in biometric access control primarily for commercial customers, for about $44 million in […]
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Homeland Security
SRA Creates Data Protection Practice
Pulling together various capabilities that currently reside within the company, SRA International [SRX] said recently it is building a complete life- cycle data protection business for federal and industry clients […]
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Falcon III Radio Approved for Top-Secret Data and Voice Trafficking
The National Security Agency recently certified a Falcon III radio developed by Harris Corp. [HRS] to transmit and receive top-secret information, the company said recently. The recently approved radio–the Falcon […]
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Congress
England To Keep F-22 Line Alive With Supplemental Funds
By Jen DiMascio A Defense Department plan could keep the F-22 production line open with a request for the fighter jets in a fiscal year 2009 supplemental budget request, according […]