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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

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WidePoint Corp. [WYY] has received a one-year $2.3 million task order from the Federal Protective Service under a Department of Homeland Security contract for cellular services. The task order is the first for WidePoint under the potential $600 million Cellular Wireless Managed Services Blanket Purchase Agreement, for which the company’s subsidiary iSYS LLC was the sole awardee. Elbit Systems [ESLT] has received a $100 million contract to supply integrated systems for a homeland security solution in Latin America. Elbit says…

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