SAN DIEGO, Calif: Cubic Defense Systems, a business unit of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) announced today it was awarded a follow-on contract worth more than $35 million. The three-year contract is for support and repair of the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) system at the Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the UK and the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada.
SAN DIEGO, Calif: Cubic Defense Systems, a business unit of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) announced today it was awarded a follow-on contract worth more than $35 million. The three-year contract is for support and repair of the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) system at the Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the UK and the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada.
Sharp rise in roadside speeding fines raises questions over use...study calls for revenues to be invested in community projects
New figures reveal a dramatic rise in speeding fines imposed by roadside officers over the past three years as revenues from speed cameras have declined.
The statistics, obtained using Freedom of information legislation, show that from April 1 until December 31 last year, police using speed guns collected £3,130,360 in fixed penalty fines, compared with £2,202,240 in the whole of 2011-12, a rise of 42%. The total for 2013-14 is likely to be considerably higher when revenues from January 1 to March 31 are added.
Frankfurt/London: Travelling 18,000 miles around the world by bicycle: What sounds like the storyline for an adventure film was in fact the personal adventure of James Ketchell. After 214 days away, the British globetrotter has now completed his trip around the world. During the trip, he documented his experiences in a travel blog, for which he had to log in to a computer network, even under very difficult conditions. Ketchell managed to do this from all over the world without any problems by using the tokenless two-factor authentication solution from his sponsor SecurEnvoy. Access was possible even from regions with extreme climates.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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