Business/Financial

By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration shortly will kick-off a long awaited competition to purchase explosive detection systems (EDS) used to screen checked baggage at the nation’s airports, with […]

By Geoff Fein When the USCGC Stratton (NSC-3) is launched next year, the Coast Guard and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding are looking to have her almost 80 percent complete, a […]

Seeking to find new sources for a dwindling supply of a key ingredient used in the manufacture of radiation portal monitors (RPM), the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) last week […]

Britain’s Cobham plc said yesterday it is establishing a subsidiary in India early next year to help it forge closer relations with key customers and business partners, in particular to […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is readying the USS Freedom (LCS-1) for its initial deployment in early 2010, making sure the modified surface warfare package and the crew are prepared […]

By Geoff Fein The cost for the recently awarded contracts for the third and fourth Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) was more than $430 million per ship–however missing from that number […]

By Geoff Fein The administration’s decision to shift its missile defense policy for Europe away from a land-based system has allowed for the Navy to examine using its ship-based ballistic […]

By Calvin Biesecker Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday announced it has partnered with a number of utility companies to improve the nation’s electric grid and partnered with a leading university to […]

By Calvin Biesecker In an effort to get in front of emerging and future cyber threats, Northrop Grumman [NOC] has partnered with three universities to create the Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity […]

By Geoff Fein Preventing terrorists and criminals from getting materials to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the United States is a shared responsibility among a number of federal and […]