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Navistar receives another order from Marines

MBJ Staff — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:59:41 +0000

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 [...]

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Bomgar Corporation earns certification, accreditation

MBJ Staff — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:39:49 +0000

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 [...]

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Researcher sentenced for wire fraud in grant scheme

Associated Press — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:51:35 +0000

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 [...]

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Ex-NASA official’s conviction for steering contracts upheld

Associated Press — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:06:59 +0000

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 [...]

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Camgian awarded SBIR project

Wally Northway — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:04:21 +0000

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 [...]

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Camgian Microsystems earns SBIR project

Wally Northway — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:04:11 +0000

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, [...]

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Ex-NASA official pleads guilty to contract-steering

Associated Press — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:57 +0000

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 [...]

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Firm wins Defense contract, adding jobs

Wally Northway — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:10:44 +0000

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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