International
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Business/FinancialMonument Capital Group In Distribution, Equity Agreement With Vortex
Vortex Systems LLC, the principal supplier of unattended ground sensors (UGS) to the U.S. Border Patrol, has signed an international distribution and equity acquisition agreement with Monument Capital Group LLC […]
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Business/Financial
Satellite Firms Should See Growth As Need For Imagery Mounts, Official Says
By Geoff Fein Even with the concern over dwindling defense budgets and the high cost of putting satellites into orbit, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) sees the […]
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Business/Financial
BAE Completes Acquisition of Atlantic Marine
BAE Systems yesterday said it has completed its acquisition of four shipyards of Atlantic Marine from the private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Co. for $352 million in cash. The […]
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Homeland Security
U.S., Canada Reach Cooperative Agreements On Security, Trade
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews reached several agreements yesterday, including a first-ever plan to establish a comprehensive cross-border approach to critical infrastructure resilience. […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Says Narus Acquisition Provides International Cyber Presence
By Calvin Biesecker Boeing‘s [BA] pending acquisition of cybersecurity software firm Narus, which is based in California but has regional offices around the world, will give it a global presence […]
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InternationalBoeing Australia Completes High Frequency Modernization Project
Boeing Defence Australia [BA] said it’s completion of Joint Project 2043’s High Frequency Modernisation (HFMod) Project. The formal letter of completion for the project was delivered on behalf of the […]
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International
Boeing Sees Foreign Arms Sales Balancing Pentagon Spending Slowdown
Boeing [BA] executives said they hope to grow their international military sales as Pentagon spending is set to slow dramatically in the coming years. “We see a definite counterbalance in […]
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International
Egypt Requests Continued Frigate Technical Support
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress July 1 of a possible $210 million Foreign Military Sale to Egypt for the continuation of technical services in support of four Oliver […]
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International
Egypt Requests $77 Million To Support Skyguard-Sparrow Upgrades
Egypt would spend an estimated $77 million on a potential foreign military sale of 40 Skyguard AMOUN Solid-State Transmitters to support the upgrade of the Skyguard-SPARROW Launcher/Illuminator System and associated […]
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International
European Defence Agency-EC To Consider Joint UAV Funding
The European Defence Agency (EDA) and the European Commission (EC) conference on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) plans to consider closer cooperation in a common European way forward. “The tasking given […]