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Alcatel-Lucent and EADS Defence & Security to demonstrate a public safety industry first: interoperable fourth-generation broadband wireless…

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:09:00 +0000

Houston and Paris – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU ) together with EADS Defence & Security (European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.

Unisys Selected to Compete for Applications Modernization Work for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:36:54 +0000

Unisys to Compete for a Broad Range of Task Orders Worth up to $1 Billion BLUE BELL, Pa. – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded a contract to Unisys ( NYSE: UIS ) to compete for task orders under the Total Application Services for Enterprise Requirements (TASER) contract for functional category 3 – Integration and Development services. Under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, Unisys will compete to provide integration and deployment support to NGA and support the agency's consolidation to a site at Springfield, Va

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Unisys Selected to Compete for Applications Modernization Work for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Imagine Optic Obtains ISO 9001:2008 Certification

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:30:01 +0000

Orsay, France, July 21, 2010 – Imagine Optic, Europe's leading provider of high-precision wavefront metrology and adaptive-optics solutions, is proud to announce that the company was accredited with ISO 9001:2008 certification in May by Bureau Veritas Certification. 'Achieving ISO 9001 certification was a challenging process during which our entire team worked together diligently in order to ensure that our audited internal processes met with the International Organization for Standards' strict quality requirements' notes Guillaume Dovillaire, Imagine Optic's Technical Director and COO. He continues by adding 'Our products have always been manufactured with the highest degree of quality and our history of exemplary customer support speaks for itself

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Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:30:01 +0000

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ASTRAEA drives forward on next steps to open airspace to Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:51:50 +0000

A unique partnership of industry, public sector, regulatory and academic bodies has reconvened a programme to research, develop and validate the necessary technologies, systems, facilities and procedures to enable the safe, routine and unrestricted use of unmanned air systems (UAS) in the UK.

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Boeing Flight Demonstrates Narrowband Communications Relay on ScanEagle

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:46:02 +0000

SEATTLE — The Boeing Company [ NYSE: BA ] and its subsidiary Insitu Inc. announced today that they successfully demonstrated a high-performance Narrowband Relay communications system aboard a ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in June. The relay was designed to meet the needs of small distributed forces operating in areas where Line of Sight (LOS) communications would not normally be possible.

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BAE Systems To Protect Frontline Troops With Liquid Armour

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:28:31 +0000

Farnborough, UK – A counterintuitive liquid which hardens when struck has been developed by BAE Systems as part of a project to create future body armour offering soldiers greater ballistics protection and ease of movement in combat situations. The technology, dubbed 'liquid armour' by scientists and engineers at BAE Systems, harnesses the unique properties of shear thickening fluids which 'lock' together when subjected to a force to enhance the existing energy absorbing properties of material structures like Kevlar.

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Thales to provide tactical radios to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on behalf of US and UK governments

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:13:54 +0000

Thales has received a contract to provide PRC-6809 multiband inter/intra team radios (MBITR) and TRC 3700 HF tactical radios to the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC).

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BAE Systems Completes Acquisition of Atlantic Marine

EveryCall — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:29:07 +0000

ARLINGTON, Virginia – BAE Systems has completed its acquisition of Atlantic Marine Holding Company (Atlantic Marine) after receiving all necessary U.S. regulatory approvals. On May 18, the company announced its definitive agreement to acquire Atlantic Marine from JFL-AMH Partners, LLC, a portfolio company of the private-equity firm J.F.

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Lockheed Martin’s Savi Ships Compact Mobile Tracking Systems for US Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces in Afghanistan

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:23:28 +0000

Savi's Portable Deployment Kits Track Supplies with RFID, GPS and SatCom Anywhere, Anytime MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.