Security Industry

SPINDALE, N.C., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. company First Choice Armor announced the launch of a new body armor technology for the military and law enforcement markets.

MADRID, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Spanish defense officials have contracted General Dynamics European Land Systems for the company's armor-protected vehicles.

FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has contracted General Dynamics Information Technology to support communications infrastructure in Afghanistan.

WARRENVILLE, Ill., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Navistar Defense has been contracted to develop a next-generation version of its mine resistant ambush protected vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps.

HOUSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has contracted Fairway Medical Technologies Inc. to develop a biological warfare agents detection technology for use in combat zones.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A Honeywell and Rolls-Royce partnership has been contracted by the Turkish army to provide engine technologies for the AgustaWestland T129 helicopter.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Armed Forces and their Iraqi allies have succeeded in severely limiting the ability of al-Qaida and other insurgent forces in Baghdad to carry out large-scale vehicle-borne improvised explosive device terror attacks on Iraqi civilians and other targets, U.S. officers in the city have told United Press International.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The central role played by Russian tanks in occupying one-third of Georgia in only five days teaches a very sobering lesson: The major wars of the 21st century will be a lot more like World War II than most fashionable pundits and military theorists have dreamed.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Continuing sweeps and targeted raids by U.S. and Iraqi forces for extremists' weaponry in northeast Baghdad are steadily chipping away at enemy munitions stores and hobbling attack capabilities, U.S. military officials say.

MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The year 2008 has been the most productive for American missile shield plans since President Ronald Reagan launched his famed Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s.

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Transportation Command has deployed a new container security technology from GE Security Inc. to protect military shipments into Pakistan.

PALMDALE, Calif., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. company Lockheed Martin says its Intelligent Control and Autonomous Re-planning of Unmanned Systems successfully demonstrated new automation capabilities.

WARRENVILLE, Ill., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has awarded Navistar Defense two contract extensions for the company's medium tactical vehicles.

DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Next-generation robots will change the way militaries fight wars, according to a report released by Ireland-based market analysis firm Research and Markets.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department has approved a communication technology developed by Amcom for use by the U.S. government and military.