by MBJ Staff Published: January 11,2012
Tags: defense, federal contracts, manufacturing, military, soldiers
WEST POINT — Work on a contract to upgrade MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles for the U. S. Marine Corps will take place in Clay County. Yesterday, Navistar Defense, LLC announced it received an $880 million order to upgrade 2,717 MRAP vehicles for the Marines. Workers at the West Point plant will remove the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 15,2011
Tags: accreditation, certification, computers, computing, federal contracts, federal government, hardware, information technology, software, technology
JACKSON — Bomgar Corporation has been awarded a Level 2 Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS) 140-2 Validation: Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules for its B200, B300 and B400 appliances and version 10.6.2 software. FIPS 140-2 validation is a requirement for any cryptographic product, which will be used in a U.S. government agency network. According [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 6,2011
Tags: aerospace, contracts, courts, defense, education, federal contracts, federal government, federal grants, grant, grants, higher education, sentencing, wire fraud
GULFPORT — A researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles has been sentenced in Gulfport to probation and restitution in a wire-fraud case. Prosecutors said Michael D. Pottenger of Santa Monica, Calif., accepted a grant of nearly $100,000 that he wasn’t eligible to receive. The Sun Herald reports Pottenger received three years’ probation [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 6,2011
Tags: aerospace, courts, education, federal contracts, higher education
HANCOCK COUNTY — A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia Friday upheld the conviction of a former chief of staff for NASA in a case stemming from a $600,000 contract awarded by the space agency to Mississippi State University, a client of his consulting firm. Courtney Stadd, NASA’s chief of staff and White [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: April 28,2010
Tags: federal contracts, military, technology
STARKVILLE — Camgian Microsystems Corporation has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Terms were not disclosed. This program is focused on developing an ultra-low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology that will enable improvements in size and endurance over current generation wireless micro-sensor networks. “Today’s warfighter [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: April 5,2010
Tags: federal contracts, military contracts, SBIR, technology
STARKVILLE — Camgian Microsystems Corporation been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). The amount of the contract was not disclosed. In this program, Camgian, teamed with BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies, will aim to develop a multi-tiered intelligence, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 9,2010
Tags: education, federal contracts, NASA
GULFPORT — A former high-ranking NASA official has pleaded guilty in Mississippi to designing contracts in a way that netted him more than $270,000 in illegal profits. Liam P. Sarsfield, a former chief deputy engineer in Washington, D.C., controlled a $1.5-million fund and designed contracts that wouldn’t have to be put out for bid. He [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: October 16,2009
Tags: federal contracts, military
LAUREL — HC Services Fire Protection, d/b/a International Fire & Safety Inc., has been awarded a $5.5-million contract to support the Department of Defense. International Fire & Safety president and CEO Sue Bridges said the award will create 25 or more new jobs for Jones and surrounding counties as well as result in $30-$50 million [...] [...]
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