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  • Industry heavyweights come out for NAIS briefing

    Nationwide Automatic Identification System contract may eventually be worth as much as $165 million, but executives suspect that the project will lead into work on the Command 2010 project; Boeing, L-3, SAIC, and others attend a briefing

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  • Navy to deploy dolphins and sea lions to Washington naval base

    Puget Sound gets ready to accept a flotilla of marine mammals; dolphins use sonar to swiftly locate maritime intruders; versitile sea lions capture them with a rope; military hopes to eventually replace them with machines

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  • Senate to clash with House over container 100% inspection provision

    The House voted to mandate 100% inspection of U.S.-bound frieght containers; a Senate panel agrees with the Bush administration that the measure would be too costly

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  • Boeing wins $11 million UUV refurbishment and testing contract

    Industry heavyweight will give the AN/BLQ-11 Long-term Mine Reconnaissance System a thorough going-over; system capable of twelve hours of autonomous reconnaissance before docking itself through the torpedo tube; testing to begin at Puget Sound and Bahamas

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  • Deepwater under continued fire

    Henry Waxman charges Coast Guard with misleading DHS auditors and vows to get to the bottom of it; an independent DoD assessment finds the Deepwater project in trouble and wonders in Lockheed and Northrop should be stripped of their favored position; opportunities beckon for others

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  • Industry criticizes DHS for short-chaning port security

    Maritime- and port-related industries criticize DHS for continuing to give a disproportionately large slice of federal security funding to aviation security, while being unreasonably frugal when it comes to port security

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  • India announces coast guard expansion plan

    Country will buy fifteen new ships and twenty-three more aircraft, including UAVs; coast guard looks for deep water capabilities capable of assisting with coastal counter-terror missions

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  • GE and partners release upgraded version of container safety product

    While Congress debates the 100 percent insepction of U.S.-bound cargo containers, GE and its global partners are offering Version 3.0 of their CommerceGuard’s container security system

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  • UPDATE: National Security Cutter marred by fatigue cracks

    DHS says Coast Guard failed properly to oversee the $24 billion project; Deepwater program comes under increasing scrutiny; costs double while sea life decreases 20 percent; safety issues observed three years ago

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  • Coda Octopus announces new Underwater Inspection System

    Device creates real-time 3D images of subsea objects; port security the primary market for this intriguing new sonar product; company already known for its oil exploration-enhancing echoscope; government delivery pending

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  • Reliability continues to plague TWIC

    Lockheed wins a major $70 million contract, but low bidding may hide quality issues; “bait and switch” says one critic; cards said to suffer 50 percent error rates with unacceptable processing times; flimsy card stock at issue

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  • Update: Littoral failure upsets Lockheed subcontractors

    Nineteen companies to be affected by production stoppage, including five in the D.C. area alone; Argon ST, BAE Systems, EADS, Angle, and Terma face the future with gloom; fortunately, only one ship out of four is effected

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  • Littoral combat ship comes under heavy budgetary fire

    Lockheed Martin’s effort has increased in cost 87 percent, while General Dynamics sees soaring costs as well; Navy officials decide on a temporary halt while a review gets under way

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  • Coast Guard ready for maritime communications solicitations

    International automatic identification system equipment will be used to form an overarching view of maritime traffic within or near the U.S.; Phase two contracting set to begin for reception and communications set-up; project worth a total of $165 million

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  • Terrorism threat sparks a labor market for underwater detectives

    Grant from DHS launches a minor in underwater crime scene investigation at Florida State University; SCUBA diving, rules of evidence, among the coursework in this unusual discipline; investigations move beyond mere recovery of bodies

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