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BAE Systems expands National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency mission support

Homeland January 25, 2019

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded BAE Systems a five-year, $250 million contract to continue providing Full-Motion Video (FMV) advanced analytic services, training, and intelligence production support. The task-order contract was awarded under NGA’s Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. In addition to providing analytic mission ...

New Communities Defeat Terrorism cinema advertising campaign launched

Homeland January 24, 2019

CT Policing have launched an eight-week Communities Defeat Terrorism cinema advertising campaign today timed to coincide with Oscars season. Previous national campaigns, which have been amplified at a local level, have helped increase intelligence reports by up to 50 percent. Currently over a fifth of public reports to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline ...

DE&S encourages school children to become engineers of the future

Homeland January 24, 2019

Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) played host to primary and secondary school children taking part the Primary Engineer Leaders Award competition. School children from across Bristol got to see state-of-the-art body armour and robots at first hand when they were welcomed inside the doors of the Ministry of Defence’s procurement organisation. Each ...

Connecting the dots: UN calls for greater cooperation with INTERPOL

Homeland January 23, 2019

The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is calling for greater cooperation with INTERPOL to counter terrorism and combat transnational organised crime.  Having readily endorsed a review of GA Resolution 71/19 (2016), UN member states have officially recognised the importance of providing INTERPOL with up-to-date intel from battlefields, counter-terrorism operations and national prison systems to increase ...