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The Fix is hip -- some would say tragically so.' Umm, no. You center-right DC types have no feel for style. Too uptight or something. Look at Tucker Carlson, that says it all. And you, CC. Those shirts, those ties. Tragic is the word. But you run a decent open forum here, so that's okay. .
Governor Gibbons Appoints New Chief of Nevada Homeland Security
Rick Eaton, a federal law enforcement veteran who's retiring from the federal Department of Homeland Security, has been named by Governor Gibbons as Nevada's homeland security chief. Eaton replaces Larry Martines, who took the state post paying about 112,000 dollars a year in January. Martines is resigning for health reasons. Eaton currently is the assistant special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's investigations office in Sacramento. ICE is part of the federal homeland security agency. Gibbons says Eaton, in more than 29 years with the US Immigration and Naturalization Service and ICE, has overseen investigations of illegal activities ranging from drug smuggling and money laundering to human trafficking. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press.
General Electric Gets TSA Deal
General Electric Co. said Tuesday it received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security for its screening system designed to detect explosive devices in passengers' checked bags at the nation's airports. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. GE's Homeland Protection unit will provide 80 explosive detection systems to DHS' Transportation Security Administration. This is the largest order made by TSA for the screening systems, bringing the total number of detection devices to nearly 430. Shares of GE fell 50 cents to $37.67 in afternoon trading. .
Views vary on optimum police force
STAMFORD - How many police officers Stamford needs likely will be among the biggest questions facing the city over the next year, as the department struggles with budget cuts, overtime spending and the possibility of dozens of retirements, officials have said.
The number of patrol officers reached its lowest point in years after the city cut $1 million from the department's 2007-08 budget and demanded reductions in overtime spending. The city canceled plans to train 14 recruits this summer and fall.
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Secretary makes grand tour of Cape military base
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff got a first-class tour of the Massachusetts Military Reservation Wednesday, Coast Guard officials said. The Cabinet secretary flew to the Cape on a Falcon jet. He dropped off the Army's repel tower. He fired a machine gun at the Coast Guard's indoor range. Chertoff experienced firsthand what the base has to offer the Department of Homeland Security as the Coast Guard prepares to take control of the runways from the Air National Guard next year, Air Station Cape Cod Capt. Dan Abel said. Base leaders have long discussed reinventing the military reservation as a homeland security training center, combining the training capabilities of the National Guard, Coast Guard and other organizations located on the base. Yesterday was the first time Chertoff, whose vast federal agency includes the Coast Guard, visited the Upper Cape military reservation.
MicroStrain® Wins its Ninth Best of Sensors Expo Award
Williston, VT - June 26, 2007 - MicroStrain, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded another Gold "Best of Sensors Expo" award in the sensor category. MicroStrain has now won eight Gold awards and one Silver award in 6 years. This year's award was for an energy harvesting wireless strain node ("ESG-LINK") which was recently used to measure static and dynamic strains in rotating helicopter components during flight tests. The ESG-LINK will operate indefinitely - without the need for batteries, by converting the component's cyclic strains into DC power using piezoelectric materials (patents issued and pending). "We're delighted to win our ninth award at Sensors Expo 2007. Our first successful flight test, performed in concert with Bell Helicopter, has demonstrated that our technology works.
U.S. Coast Guard, Lockheed Martin Reach Agreement on Path Forward for National Security Cutter Command and Control ...
MOORESTOWN, N.J., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Coast Guard and Lockheed Martin (Nachrichten) today completed a consolidated contract action (CCA) regarding the shipboard command and control systems for the first three National Security Cutters as part of the Coast Guard's Deepwater fleet modernization program. The Lockheed Martin portion of a $592 million contract awarded to Integrated Coast Guard Systems is valued at $82.7 million.
"The consolidated contract action agreement announced today marks the culmination of more than a year's worth of painstaking work to put the Coast Guard's fleet modernization program on the right track," said Coast Guard commandant Adm. Thad Allen in a Coast Guard statement. "It clearly reflects my commitment to getting this program right as we address those concerns expressed by the Congress, the Government Accountability Office and the DHS Inspector General."
The National Security Cutters are built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, MS.
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