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NORAD 50th Anniversary
As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO, Monday, May 12, 2008 Well I can tell how thrilled you all are--oh, it's 10 o'clock--great, there are two speeches. Laughter Thank you, Gene. General Renuart was my senior military assistant when I started...
Tags: Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-05-12
BRIEFLY
Exercise tests NORAD, NorthCom Terrorist attacks in Washington state and the accidental release of a chemical agent in Oregon are among the scenarios providing the backdrop for a natonwide military exercise that wraps up Thursday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command...
Tags: Government, Manufacturing, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Research articles 2008-05-05
USA: BOOZ ALLEN AWARDED CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL COLLECTION.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. of Herndon, Va., is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for $17,514,399.The National Agency Technical Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Geospatial Information Systems, technical collection and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance/incident awareness and assessment, and intelligence analysis for North American...
Tags: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Government, Herndon, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Virginia
Research articles 2008-04-06
An interview with Victor E. Renuart, Jr
JFQ: A recent RAND Corporation study called for carving out 9,000 Army National Guard Soldiers to form 10 homeland security task forces, including training and equipping, ahead of the next major natural disaster or domestic terrorist attack. Although multiple command and control structures complicated the military response to Hurricane Katrina,...
Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Government, Governor, MARKETING, Mexico, NATO, North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2008-01-01
Jordanian prince visits base
Prince Feisal Ibn Al-Hussein of Jordan toured defense facilities in Colorado Springs on Monday -- part of a weeklong visit to Colorado to learn about the National Guard and homeland security operations. The prince, second son of King Hussein Ibn Talal and Princess Muna Al-Hussein, received unclassified...
Tags: Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Research articles 2007-06-05
Canada at a Glance: AM.
Byline: Resource News International WINNIPEG, MB, May 01, 2007 Resource News International via COMTEX -- The following is a quick glimpse of the news making the headlines in Canada. NORAD, STUDENTS, TRAVEL WILL BE FOCUS OF AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT Auditor General...
Tags: Afghanistan, agreement, Canada, FINANCE, Government, lawyer, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-05-01
Audit agency denies support of NORAD move
The government's audit agency disputes statements by Adm. Timothy Keating last month that it supports the move out of Cheyenne Mountain. "That's not true," said Davi D'Agostino, director of the Government Accountability Office's Defense Capabilities and Management team. At issue are Keating's comments made...
Tags: agency, audit, FINANCE, General Accounting Office, Government, MARKETING, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Research articles 2007-04-05
Operational-level analysis: DoD's strategic mobility and logistics support to the homeland security architecture
Introduction On September 11, 2001 (9/11) the United States appeared powerless in the face of a sudden asymmetrical terrorist air attack on several key centers of national power. While the nation rallied in the wake of the attacks, most notably with heroic consequence management efforts in hardest-hit New York...
Tags: agency, analysis, Atlantic, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Government, Katrina, logistics, MARKETING, mobility, North American Aerospace Defense Command, president, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, unity
Research articles 2006-12-22
NorthCom chief says attack not inevitable
Despite an astounding array of threats, the United States is getting better at defending itself, said Adm. Timothy Keating, commander in chief of U.S. Northern Command. And, though others say a future terrorist attack here is guaranteed, he's not so sure. "I do not...
Tags: Air Force, attack, Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SECURITY
Research articles 2006-10-06
5 Years After 9/11-A CANR Perspective.
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, Sep 9, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Gone are the days of battling world super powers and mutually assured destruction. Canadian Chief of Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier, has stated several times that we no longer face "the bear", but rather "a ball of...
Tags: Government, Manufacturing, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Research articles 2006-09-09
N. Korea fires rockets
TOKYO -- A defiant North Korea test-fired a long-range missile Wednesday that may be capable of reaching America, but it failed seconds after launch, U.S. officials said. The North also tested five shorter-range missiles in an exercise the White House called "a provocation" but not an immediate threat. ...
Tags: Government, Japan, missile, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SOFTWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2006-07-05
Marching together: after many years of keeping a distance between Canadian and U.S. defence relations, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is moving towards closer cooperation.
Paul Cellucci was the U.S. Ambassador to Canada from 2001 to 2005. Ambassadors are not supposed to ruffle the feathers of their host nation. But, Mr. Cellucci appears not to have read that part of the diplomat's training manual. He was often blunt and undiplomatic. ...
Tags: attack, Canada, Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SECURITY, U.S.
Research articles 2006-05-01
Many questions linger
VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING that is known about United Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner that crashed into a coal field in western Pennsylvania, has been put into the new Hollywood feature film about the doomed voyage. Director Paul Greengrass not only relied on known transcripts and accounts of real conversations that...
Tags: Bush, Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, United
Research articles 2006-04-27
Springs firm wins SBA award
Colorado Springs-based Delta Solutions & Strategies has won a 2006 Prime Contractor of the Year award from the Small Business Administration. The company provides services such as strategic planning and support for training programs for the U.S. Department of Defense, public safety and private corporations. ...
Tags: Government, honor, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Research articles 2006-03-16
BRIEFLY METRO
Springs gets federal grant Colorado Springs received $704,092 from the federal government as reimbursement for money spent on emergency response and terrorism prevention. Of that amount, $186,000 was spent on equipment to disarm bombs, and $518,000 for communications equipment. The money came from the...
Tags: Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SECURITY, terrorism
Research articles 2006-02-03
Military, civilian leaders will talk security policy
Policy setters and other experts in homeland security and defense will convene in Colorado Springs next month in what's being called an unprecedented blending of military and civilian officials. "This is probably the biggest policy-level powwow that you've ever seen of homeland defense and homeland security officials,"...
Tags: Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, security
Research articles 2005-09-25
Plane too close for comfort in D.C.
WASHINGTON -- It weighed about half as much as a Volkswagen Beetle and was traveling toward the nation's capital slower than police have clocked speeders on Interstate 95. But the fact that a single-engine Cessna could shut down all three branches of federal government on Wednesday shows that no matter...
Tags: aircraft, Government, Manufacturing, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Washington
Research articles 2005-05-13
Anti-terror cooperation urged
Government officials must work more closely with business and industry to better protect the United States from terrorist attacks, the head of U.S. Northern Command said Tuesday. That was a chief finding from the nation's largest terrorism exercise, TOPOFF 3, held April 4-8 on the East Coast,...
Tags: Canada, Government, MARKETING, North American Aerospace Defense Command, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2005-05-04
NORAD at turning point in mission
Canada wants to opt out of NORAD's Star Wars mission, which could foreshadow changes in the way the United States fights the war against terrorism. The two nations are negotiating the first post-Sept. 11 agreement for operation of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, based at Peterson...
Tags: Canada, Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Research articles 2005-03-28
Canada At A Glance: AM.
WINNIPEG, MB, Mar 03, 2005 Resource News International via COMTEX The following is a quick glimpse of the news making the headlines in Canada. MISSILE TRADE WAR?: MCKENNA LINKS SHIELD REFUSAL TO WOOD, BEEF WASHINGTON - Frank McKenna, Canada's new ambassador to the...
Tags: Canada, Government, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Ottawa, SECURITY, U.S.
Research articles 2005-03-03
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