Defense & Aerospace

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National Defense January 2009 Robert H. Williams	Prowler All-Terrain Truck for the Military An enhanced version of Phoenix International Systems Inc.'s Prowler is now on the production line.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Testing Specialized Plug to Contain Subway Fires Researchers at West Virginia University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a "tunnel plug" that would stop fires from spreading in underground train stations.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Braces for Bigger Crackdown on Corruption Federal regulators recently introduced new anticorruption rules that lawyers inside the Beltway have characterized as unprecedented in their scope and power.
National Defense January 2009 Robert H. Williams	Battery Charger Gets Going on Dash of H2O For troops in isolated areas with no access to traditional sources of power regeneration, on-going research by Ultralife Corp in conjunction with Lynntech Inc. and the Army's Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center is providing an answer.
National Defense January 2009 Robert H. Williams	Shocking Products Keep Bad Guys Behind Bars Guardtower is a non-lethal electric fence option and IP6000 is an induced pulse high voltage security fence controller. They are made by Oldcastle Security.
National Defense January 2009 Robert H. Williams	Armor Kits Allow Trucks on Ships Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corp. in Oshkosh, Wis., is constructing 1,500 reducible-height armor kits for the Marine Corps' all-terrain medium tactical vehicle replacement fleet.
National Defense January 2009 Reeder & Connolly	Conflict-of-Interest Plight Can Be Avoided Recently, one of the nation's largest government contractors faced a federal jury verdict that it violated the False Claims Act and breached two contracts with an independent federal agency based on failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	New Patrol Boats: A Must-Win for The Coast Guard The upcoming acquisition of new high-speed patrol boats for the U.S. Coast Guard is viewed as a make-or-break effort that could help the service recover from a string of setbacks in its Deepwater modernization program.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	Coast Guard Boosting Cooperation with Military Last summer, as Russian forces lay siege to the nation of Georgia, the Coast Guard cutter Dallas, along with two Navy ships, sailed to the Black Sea to provide relief.
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