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PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received a subcontract from VETCO LLC to assist in providing technical services under the Program Management, Administrative, Clerical, and Technical Services (PACTS) multiple-award procurement for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract, with a total ceiling of $1.5 billion for all thirty-four (34) PACTS contractors,...
ARLINGTON, Va., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today it has been awarded a prime, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $94 million along with an initial task order award of $14.2 million. CACI is one of two companies awarded the five-year (one base year with four one-year options) contract by the National Protection and Program Directorate (NPPD) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The new work...
BETHESDA, Md. and SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Fleet Management Solutions, Inc. (FMS) and Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) announce that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) has selected FMS Iridium-based vehicle tracking and mobile resource management systems for deployment under a major initiative to optimize efficiency.The FMS tracking equipment and hosted Web software will improve asset readiness, enhance mission...
TEWKSBURY, Mass., July 6, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded a follow-on contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a capability for Stand-Off Warning Against Radiological Materials (SWARM). This second-phase effort is an eight-month contract for $1.176 million managed by DHS' Domestic Nuclear Detection Office under the Exploratory Research in Nuclear Detection Technology Program. It is the second of a five-phase development program worth...
LOS ANGELES, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With approximately 11,000 Transportation Security Administration members in 32 Locals nationwide, the American Federation of Government Employees will mark its role as the only real union for TSA workers with a celebration of Transportation Security Officers at LAX on June 25. AFGE will show its support for the TSA workforce with a TSO Appreciation Day, at which AFGE representatives will be on hand to discuss the union's involvement in TSA....
Treasurer Of Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty Detained And Interrogated For Carrying Cash At St. Louis Airport NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is subjecting innocent Americans to unreasonable searches and detentions that violate the Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU filed the complaint on behalf of a traveler who was illegally detained and harassed by TSA agents at...
Company to Continue Development and Teaching of Emergency Response Training Curriculum at Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Ala. SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been awarded a prime contract by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide training support to the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). The single-award contract...
A Department of Homeland Security-sponsored environmental health scientist has given some of his best years to itMark Nicas has given some of his best years to spittle. He builds models "“ the mathematical kind "“ of how someone else's slobber ends up on you. The size of the particles, whether they come out in a dry cough or a wet sneeze, their evaporation rate, air speed "“ these are all complications, reasons why people like Nicas can spend careers piling up academic papers, all the...
TEWKSBURY, Mass., March 26, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a phase 3 contract to continue development of a Stand-Off Radiation Detection System (SORDS). Phase 3 is an eight-month contract for $2.3 million managed by DHS' Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO); it includes the construction of a prototype. This is the third of a four-phase development program worth a potential $9.9 million if all four options are exercised....
ANDOVER, Mass., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dynamics Research Corporation (Nasdaq: DRCO), a leading provider of innovative management consulting, engineering, technology and information technology services and solutions to federal and state governments, today announced that it received a $1.5 million task order to provide program management support to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A). The task order, which has a one-year base...
