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U.S. Government Analyst Blames Freeh's Investigation for Keeping Pennsylvania's Children In Harm's Way WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the last six months, the investigation and subsequent report penned by Louis Freeh has come under fire for being light on facts, heavy on supposition and lacking the legal teeth to provide any of the answers about Penn State's role in the Jerry Sandusky scandal. A new report released today by U.S. Government analyst Ray...
MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today introduced Critical Insight(TM) Solutions, an end-to-end suite of big data optimization tools and expertise for large organizations looking to bring order and clarity from massive amounts of disparate data in real-time. With almost a decade of experience managing petabytes of real-time data for the U.S. Government, SAIC can now offer their experience, solutions and...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Requests by law enforcement agencies for Google’s user data have skyrocketed more than 70% since 2009, the Internet search giant revealed on Wednesday in its latest Transparency Report. The report is Google’s voluntary disclosure of how many times it removed data from its services, or submitted user information to government agencies during the last six months. The company said it received 8,438 U.S. government requests for...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Eric Prokopi, a Florida fossils dealer, has pled guilty to smuggling charges. He has agreed to give up the $1 million Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year after he attempted to auction it through Heritage Auctions. Prokopi is giving up "Ty," the T. bataar that will eventually be returned to Mongolia, along with six other dinosaurs and various other bones in a deal that might win him a little...
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today reported fiscal 2012 fourth quarter and fiscal year financial results. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121115/AQ14468LOGO) "MTS' full fiscal year results illustrate the overall strength of our operating model in terms of geographies and technology applications. Despite negative currency...
KVISTGARD, Denmark, November 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bavarian Nordic A/S (NASDAQ OMX: BAVA) announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded the company two new contracts valued at up to $18.9 million for the development of recombinant Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA)-based vaccines, building on the company's MVA-BN(R) platform. The NIH contract, valued at up to...
CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) was awarded Lot 13 orders valued at $33.9 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) for the U.S. Government and Turkey. The orders resulted from a competitive procurement through the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) and were awarded under the MIDS Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract initially executed in March 2010. The MIDS LVT...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy (Alliance), an industry coalition, today commended the U.S. government for successfully concluding 11 criminal and civil cases related to HCFC-22 refrigerant smuggling over the last two years. Individuals and companies were found guilty of various crimes related to the illegal importation or sale of over 3.3 million pounds of HCFC-22, fined over $1.5 million, required to forfeit...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Frontline Health Workers Coalition has received a $750,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded to coalition member IntraHealth International, to support the group's mission to urge greater and more strategic U.S. investment in frontline health workers in developing countries. Building this workforce is the most cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer, more prosperous world, the...
Jorge Scientific executives and staff are charged with allegedly jeopardizing the U.S. mission and lives WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two former employees of Jorge Scientific, an intelligence and defense company and long-term contractor to the federal government, have filed a qui tam lawsuit against Jorge for the scandalous actions they witnessed, during their tenure at the company's Legacy Contract project in Kabul, Afghanistan. Video recordings documented...
