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ITT gains Navy, Air Force orders for night-vison aviation tubes
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., 11 June 2008. ITT Corp.'s Night Vision division has received a $14 million order from Annapolis, Md.-based ARINC Inc. for 16-millimeter image intensifier tubes for two advanced aviation programs. The tubes will be integrated into the Panoramic Night Vision Goggle (PNVG) and the Quad-Eye. The PNVGs will be used by the U.S. Air Force and Army while the Quad-Eye will serve Navy aviators as part of the Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System.
Luciad to provide visualization tool to FAA
Leuven, Belgium, 11 June 2008. Luciad, a software provider for high-performance visualization of geospatial information, has signed an important contract for the development of a SUA (Special Use Airspace) editor with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency responsible for the safety of civil aviation in the U.S. The system will support AIXM 5, the new global aeronautical data interchange standard.
Honeywell gas detectors provide backup in U.S. mission to shoot down spy satellite
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., 10 June 2008. U.S. Standard Missile 3 enabled by Honeywell technology recently shot down a rogue U.S. spy satellite in space carrying over 1000 pounds of hydrazine, a highly toxic chemical used in rocket fuel. Honeywell Analytics gas detection technology played a critical backup role in the operation: its Single Point Monitor was deployed throughout the U.S. to monitor for hydrazine gas clouds in the event the chemical was attached to any debris that fell to earth.
ITT to supply first responders with night vision
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., 10 June 2008. ITT Corp.'s night vision division has received an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide PVS-14 night vision kits to first responders through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP).
Northstar Electronics wins contract for P-3 Service Life Extension program
VANCOUVER, B.C., 9 June 2008. Northstar Electronics Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Northstar Network Ltd., has received contract amendments on the P-3 Service Life Extension program. The contract with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics calls for the refurbishment of the outer wing box assembly on the P-3 Orion marine patrol aircraft. The contract, called a Master Purchase Order (MPO), had an original value of $6,307,191 covering 48 aircraft, extending to year 2012.
Smiths Detection wins TSA contracts for advanced checkpoint x-ray systems
PINE BROOK, N.J., 9 June 2008. Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, won follow-on contracts worth $25.2 million from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for additional Advanced Threat Identification X-Ray (aTiX) systems.
Boeing awarded Navy contract for ScanEagle services
ST. LOUIS, 9 June 2008. Boeing and Insitu Incwon a $65 million contract to provide continuing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services through the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system.
U.S. Army Special Forces Unit orders Stealth Sensor
GEORGETOWN, Mass., 8 June 2008. Paradigm Tactical Products Inc., a provider of detection technology and homeland security solutions to the military as well as to the corrections, law enforcement, and security industry, has received its first significant order for the Stealth Sensor.
Input reports $1 trillion in active federal opportunities
RESTON, Va., 7 June 2008 Input is tracking more than $1 trillion in active contract opportunities in the U.S. federal government. $500 million is from anticipated re-competitions of existing contracts expiring over the next 2 to 4 years. The $1 trillion in contract opportunities represents a 30 percent increase in the value of active opportunities tracked by Input in June of 2007.
SpaceX, NASA to improve mission-critical software
HAWTHORNE, Calif., 6 June 2008. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) facility at Fairmont, W.V., working through the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of Greenbelt, Md., signed a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission- and safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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