Atlantic Organization for Security (AOS)
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The marriage between Finmeccanica and DRS Technologies, the U.S. military electronics company bought in 2008 for 3.7 billion euros’ is successful, although there is still much to do. Moreover Rome was not built in...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened a new facility to help enhance information sharing across the nearly 60,000-person organization. The new Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center will serve as the “one-stop-shop” for operations coordination...
It is a battle that is being fought every second of every day. A battle in which the attackers are unseen and often undetected and the victims unaware and often unwilling to publicly acknowledge...
Finmeccanica has won contracts with a total value of approximately 13 M$ million through its companies DRS, SELEX Sistemi Integrati and Elsag Datamat. Specifically, DRS Technical Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finmeccanica Group...
DRS Technical Services, Inc., Finmeccanica Group, announced that its Tactical Services & Network Solutions business unit was awarded a contract for approximately $77 million to provide technical assistance to the United States Army and...
The delivery ceremony was held at Alenia Aeronautica’s Training Centre at Turin-Caselle and was attended by Air Vice Marshal DS Dillimono (Chief Operation Officer) and Wing Commander AT Marquis (Programme Manager ATR-42MP NAF) who...
MPs say that business travellers should not know what to expect when they pass through airports in order to beat terrorism The current confusion over what business travellers should expect when they go through...
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, and a leader in providing advanced air traffic management solutions, announced today the launch of its newest and most advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) automation...
In what was said to be the first incident of its kind, private security guards aboard a merchant ship plying the pirate-infested waters off Somalia shot dead one of several attackers trying to seize...
Replacing World War II-era radar with 21st century GPS technology and implementing several new airline safety rules would be required under a $34.5 billion bill approved on March,22 by the Senate. The measure funding...
Steve Coles, Head of Security Strategy at SELEX SI/VEGA, revisits the importance of information sharing for the UK in light of the failed Christmas Day airline bomb plot. According to President Obama, it was...
Merchant, military vessels put on alert The Navy is warning ships sailing in waters near Yemen that al Qaeda is planning seaborne attacks similar to the 2000 suicide boat bombing of the USS Cole....
Elbit Systems will be presenting the “Dominator ™” – an Integrated Infantry Combat System at the upcoming Australian Air Show. Geared for the unit level and individual soldier, the “Dominator ™” enables forces to...
Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, today announced that a contract has been signed with Elbit Systems Limited (Elbit) to provide the next generation of command, control and communications capability to...
Finmeccanica is looking to further increase its business activity in the U.S., capitalizing on its acquisition of DRS Technologies.The company has long eyed the U.S. and, through a growing industrial footprint, has tried to...
The United States maintains a range of “terrorist lists,” of which the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list is one of the better known. But in two recent court cases, the U.S. government has offered...
Five Mexican migrants were apprehended this afternoon by Coast Guard officers and Customs and Border Protection marine interdiction agents as they tried to illegally enter the U.S. by boat. At 9:26 a.m., the Coast...
SELEX Sistemi Integrati signed a contract with TELEDIFE for the upgrading of the ATCR 33 radar for air traffic control, installed in the firing ground of the Italian Army in Nettuno (Rome). The contracy...
Joint system testing is currently underway on the Cooperative Airspace Initiative (CAI), which is being developed under the auspices of the NATO-Russia Council. The CAI fosters NATO-Russia cooperation on airspace surveillance and air traffic...
SELEX Sistemi Integrati signed a contract with TELEDIFE for the development of the second phase of the MAJIIC (Multi-Sensor Aerospace-Ground Joint Interoperable ISR Coalition) programme. MAJIIC is an international multilateral cooperation programme issued by...