Business/Financial
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Business/FinancialEDS Gets $11.6M VA Award for HSPD-12 Smart Cards
EDS Corp. [EDS] received an $11.6 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to support the implementation and deployment of Personal Identity Verification cards to all VA employees, […]
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Business/Financial
Delay In Supplemental Poses Dire Consequences For Marine Corps, General Says
By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps could be facing dire consequences if Congress and the president are unable to reach an agreement on the supplemental defense bill, according to a […]
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Business/Financial
Cross Match, L-1 Get Initial U.S.-VISIT 10-Print Orders
Cross Match Technologies and L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] have received initial orders for both companies’ 10-print livescan systems as part of an upgrade of the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S.-VISIT […]
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ArmyDARPA, Northrop Grumman Move Into Next Phase of UAV Control Architecture
The Pentagon’s advanced research shop and industry partner Northrop Grumman [NOC] are moving into the next phase of a program that will allow Army personnel to coordinate the tactical operations […]
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Business/Financial
U.K. MoD Orders More Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk UAS
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $4.8 million contract to procure additional Desert Hawk III Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the company said Nov. 28. With […]
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Army
Bell Helicopter, Army, Sign Cooperative Agreement To Develop CBM Technologies
Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] and the Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) have signed an agreement to develop and mature state-of-the- art condition based maintenance (CBM) technologies. Bell’s winning proposal […]
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By Geoff Fein Three days after acknowledging a weld problem with its Virginia-class submarines, the Navy yesterday said the issue was not as serious as first thought and all three […]
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Air ForceBoeing Confident HH-47 Will Prevail Again In New CSAR-X Competition
The Boeing [BA] HH-47 helicopter will prevail once again in the Air Force’s revised CSAR-X competition because it is the best platform for the combat- search-and-rescue mission, the company official […]
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Air Force
Boeing Rejects Again Idea of Split Buy In Air Force KC-X Tanker Contest
By Michael Sirak Boeing [BA] remains resolutely against splitting the Air Force’s multi-billion-dollar KC-X tanker program with rival Northrop Grumman [NOC], the senior official leading the company’s KC-767 proposal said […]
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Air Force
Air Force, Boeing, Demonstrate Technology For Automated Refueling of Unmanned Aircraft
The Air Force and a Boeing [BA]-led industry team have demonstrated in-flight the ability of unmanned aircraft to rendezvous autonomously with tanker aircraft so that they could be refueled in […]