Army contracts for emergancy equipment certification

September 29, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, SoBran, U.S. Army, logistics, medicine 

The US Army signed a five year contract with SoBran to provide testing and certification of chemical protection equipment. The work will be done at the Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. SoBran is a leading expert in design and engineering to defend against chemical and biological attacks. Under this contract they will test and certify breathing apparatus used to act in contaminated environments. While the threat moving from large scale types of attack on the battlefield to potential limited terrorist attacks there is still a need for this type of equipment.

See MarketWatch.com for the press release.

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Navy to develop WMD simulator

August 27, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, Cubic, U.S. Navy, development program, logistics, training 

The US Navy awarded Cubic Applications Inc a contract to begin development of a training simulator for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) environments. The contract is worth up to about $16 M, with $2M executed to date. The Navy will ultimately end up with a system that can conduct repeatable training on a range. The contract is for development of a system as well as looking at future technologies that can support this type of training.

See the press release at the The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.com site.

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