Business/Financial

By Calvin Biesecker Believing its products, technologies and solutions are in the sweet spot of the nation’s security needs, ICx Technologies [ICXT] expects to be able to deliver annual organic […]

By Calvin Biesecker Alliant Techsystems [ATK] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the space and related information systems business of Canada’s MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in a $1.3 […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has begun jockeying to get a piece of the action in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile shield program now led by prime contractor Boeing [BA], a […]

By Geoff Fein and Jen DiMascio Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Oshkosh Truck Corp. [OSK] yesterday said they are partnering to compete for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program. Additionally, […]

TopEyeView, a provider of real-time video imagery via aerostats and unmanned air vehicles, and Vidiation, LLC, which has developed radiation detection software that is integrated into video camera systems, have […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has signed a cooperative agreement with Germany-based facial recognition technology firm Cognitec Systems, firming up its ability to integrate and offer multi-modal biometric solutions. "This cooperation agreement […]

L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] has agreed to acquire Canada’s Bioscrypt Inc. in a $44 million stock-for-stock transaction, in a deal that would give it capabilities and customers in the biometric-based […]

Sikorsky [UTX] Dec. 26 announced the first H-92 helicopter featuring fly-by-wire (FBW) technology completed its first successful flight Dec. 20 at the Sikorsky Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, […]

By Jen DiMascio 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 yesterday. The recently […]

By Calvin Biesecker L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] yesterday said it as agreed to acquire Bioscrypt Inc., a Canadian-based firm specializing in biometric access control primarily for commercial customers, for about […]