Military Technologies

EDAC Technologies Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of jet engine components, tools, fixtures, injection molds and spindles, reported today that the U.S. Military has exercised its option for an additional $1.9 million on a contract that EDAC had been awarded earlier this year and announced by EDAC on January 10, 2008. This option exercise by the U.S. Military doubles the size of what had been EDAC's largest military contract to date. The original $1.9 million contract commences shipping in April 2008 continuing through Februar ...

EHS Technologies said Thursday that it won contracts from U.S. Navy Naval Surface Warfare Center divisions for $62.5 million.The Moorestown, N.J., company said it won a $30.8 million contract from the Indian Head, Md., division for engineering and technical and program management regarding ordnance-related systems. EHS said Indian Head "researches, develops, tests and engineers the range of technologies necessary to deliver ordnance to the military."EHS said it won a $31.8 million contract from the Carderock division of Bethesda, Md., ...

JOPLIN, Mo., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, a leading producer of batteries and energetic devices for the defense, space and commercial industries, announced today they have received CE LCMC (Communications-Electronic Life Cycle Management Command) approval from the U.S. Army for EaglePicher's BA-5380 and BA-5360 batteries. These lithium manganese dioxide batteries, designed to meet U.S. Army specifications, provide approximately 35 percent more running time than their sulfur dioxide predecessors.The batteries ar ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that defense electronics firm DME Corp. is incorporating Agilent N6700 low-profile modular power systems in its Advanced Tactical Agile Communications Test Set, or ATACTS, for testing military radios in the field. Military field technicians use the ATACTS system to determine whether a radio is usable or needs to be sent back to the depot for repair.ATACTS combines the operations of 12 to 16 different virtual test instruments into a single, compact unit. Technici ...

LONDON -- Frost & Sullivan presents Scent Detection Technologies Ltd. (SDT) with the 2006 Technology Innovation Award in the field of advanced explosive detection in Europe. This Award is presented in recognition of the company's innovative explosive trace detection technology and its efforts in the research, as well as the strategic commercialisation of its novel portable Explosive Trace Detector (ETD).Established in 2004, the company's focus has been to overcome the operational challenges faced by detection techniques such as Ion Mo ...

After two years of political wrangling among governments, the EU is finally set to unveil a collective space policy for the 27-nation bloc, including implications for the military use of space.Germany, currently sitting at the EU's helm, is expected to table the European space strategy before its six-month term presidency expires at the end of June, according to defensenews.com.The strategy will not only focus on supporting Europe's commercial space sector, but also will touch on the military use of space and whether EU governments ca ...

SAN DIEGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- SYS Technologies, Inc. ("SYS") (AMEX:SYS) a leading provider of information connectivity solutions that enable situational awareness and real-time collaboration, provided critical support for Trident Warrior '07 held March 16th through March 30th. The premier annual sea-trial experiment for the Navy's Command and Control System titled FORCEnet, the Trident Warrior '07 exercise tests cutting edge Tactics, Techniques and Procedures and Technologies to determine where the Navy should invest current and future ...

WASHINGTONLockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT - News) and Gibbs Technologies have agreed to develop a family of high speed amphibious vehicles designed specifically for military operations.The militarized High Speed Amphibians (HSAs) will use technology from a fleet of prototype amphibious vehicles developed by Gibbs Technologies for consumer use, including the Gibbs Aquada, a three-person sports car, Gibbs Humdinga, a four-wheel military vehicle, and Gibbs Quadski, an amphibious all terrain vehicle.Gibbs' technology enables amphibians to trav ...

EFJ, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFJI - News) announced today that its 3e Technologies International (3eTI) subsidiary has received an incremental contract for $850,000 for a U.S. military customer to support their secure, wireless video solution. The contract calls for the purchase of 3eTI products which will be integrated with monitoring middleware to provide for rapid security surveillance when deployed in the field."Border and perimeter monitoring is an important component of homeland security," said Michael E. Jalbert, chairman and chief execu ...

Airborne Systems Group, which has combined the world's leading parachute brands specializing in aerial delivery, rescue and survival equipment, and engineering services, held a two day event allowing allied militaries from around the world to participate in a demonstration of the world's most advanced parachute delivery technology.The event called "Airborne Days" focused on equipment used in aerial cargo delivery, airborne insertions and in rescue and survival operations. Military personnel from 23 different countries made jumps with ...

Columbia, MD (PRWEB) February 12, 2007 -- In the face of continued threats to United States interests at home and abroad, the success of global military operations depends on the timely and accurate exploitation of foreign communications and materials. The need for additional capabilities and innovations to support these mission objectives stems from the growing shortage of translators and analysts to process the tremendous volume of information.From March 20-22, twenty-thousand attendees from Government and Industry will convene on t ...