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ManTech Awarded $6.2 Million Task to Support Counter-Narcotics Operations in Colombia

February 25th, 2011 · No Comments

ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) (www.mantech.com) received a task order under its Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) prime contract to support the operations of the U.S. Military Group Colombia and the AFSOUTH Air Operations Coordination Cell (AAOCC) in Colombia. The award is valued at $6.2 million, with an initial period of performance of 12 months plus two [...]

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DIGITAL REASONING SYSTEMS SECURES IQT INVESTMENT TO ADVANCE ANALYTICS IN THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

February 16th, 2011 · No Comments

Digital Reasoning, the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, today announced a strategic investment, licensing, and development agreement from In-Q-Tel (IQT), the investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The transaction will make Digital Reasoning’s technology available for use within in the U.S. Intelligence [...]

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Oil Spill Cleanup Summary

June 5th, 2010 · No Comments

U.S. Senator Susan Collins said:

“It’s clear that Americans, especially those who live along the affected areas of the Gulf Coast, are frustrated with the response of both BP and the Obama Administration. I believe that the Administration should immediately convene a task force of national and international government and private sector engineering, environmental, and oil [...]

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Northern Border Fence Project in Saudi Arabia - 30km completed at cost $900Mln

March 18th, 2009 · No Comments

The Saudi Border project includes a radar grid covering 6,000km of Saudi borders with Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Jordan, Yemen and Oman. EADS has completed the first stage of the project - 30km fence at northern border built at the expense of $900MLN.
Three leading defense concerns - EADS, Raytheon and Thales - are competing to take [...]

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Pakistan’s Precarious Security Setting

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is an excerpt of Statement of K. Alan Kronstadt Specialist in South Asian Affairs Congressional Research Service before the U. S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information,Federal Services, and International Security titled “Addressing the U.S .-Pakistan Strategic Relationship”.

Concurrent with this sharp increase in domestic [...]

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What is the World’s Largest National Energy Infrastructure Security Market?

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Sky-high oil prices have ensured that the global economy has been propelled into an era of high energy prices and security of energy infrastructure has now become the foremost concern of governments everywhere. The “trickle down economics” theory states that if the energy-rich economies invest more into expanding energy infrastructure, it will in turn drive [...]

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