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McQ Receives $4.8M SBInet Order for Ground Sensors

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

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Boeing [BA] has awarded Virginia-based McQ Inc. a $4.8 million contract to supply OmniSense unattended ground sensor systems for deployment on the U.S. southern border in the Tucson and Ajo sectors under the Secure Border Initiative (SBInet) program. OmniSense features automated target detection, classification and image capture and fuses seismic, acoustic, magnetic and passive infrared detector data to minimize false alarms. The system is networked and can work with terrestrial and satellite communications systems, and includes a distributed architecture of…

Congress

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Army

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Congress

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Budget

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