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Airbus‘ defense and space business has delivered satellite communications systems to support military training missions of the European Union in Somalia including the Sahel Niger and Sahel Mali EU capacity building and civilian missions. The company said Thursday it leads the missions on behalf of the EU to support government efforts to boost stability and response to security issues that impact […] More

AT&T has developed a cloud-based private networking system that will work to help clients manage and protect connected devices from security breaches. The AT&T Control Center is powered by Cisco‘s Jasper IoT connectivity management platform and designed to provide organizations visibility on data usage, performance costs and provisioning status, AT&T said Wednesday. The system also offers connectivity to cloud service […] More

Direct Steel has won a potential 14-month, $10.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to construct a maintenance building, fire pump house and a lockmaster facility at Olmsted Lock and Dam in Illinois. The Army Corps of Engineers received five proposals for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate the full contract amount from the service branch’s fiscal […] More

The U.S. Air Force has placed an order for a Taser International-built smart weapons platform designed for use in law enforcement operations. Taser said Thursday it received the order for 1,345 Taser X26P devices through its sole-source distributor Aardvark and expects to start delivery in the first quarter of 2017. Rick Smith, Taser CEO and co-founder, said the order […] More

Thales will deliver hardware-based encryption technology to Tunisia’s National Digital Certification Agency to help the country secure newly modernized national public key infrastructure designed to offer online services for e-government, e-commerce, e-banking and e-health applications. Thales said Wednesday its hardware security modules will help generate and defend keys against cyber attacks or potential malicious use. The company’s […] More

Viavi Solutions has received a potential five-year, $26.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide a telecommunication test set to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday that Viavi will perform work in California and Mexico under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The contract has a three-year base period will run through Feb. 1, 2020, and two one-year options. DLA’s land and […] More