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Homeland Security

Briefing

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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*The Coast Guard awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] $13.3 million in contract options to install mission systems aboard two HC-130J aircraft, which will complete the service's planned inventory of six missionized HC-130Js. The aircraft modifications include installation of a belly-mounted surface search radar, a nose-mounted electro-optical/infrared imaging system, a flight deck mission operator station and a mission integrated communication system. The new mission systems leave the cargo space fully usable on the HC-130J. *American Science and Engineering [ASEI] received a $2.2…

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