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May 5, 2008

Military contractor and construction and engineering firm KBR Inc. said Friday that first-quarter profit more than tripled, helped by a gain from an arbitration award. May 2, 2008

A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a former government-contractor

employee accused of taking a $1 million kickback in an alleged conspiracy with a Kuwaiti businessman to defraud the U.S. military. Jurors said they were deadlocked after three days of deliberations and could not reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of Jeff Alex Mazon. Mazon, 39, is charged with four counts of major fraud and six counts of wire fraud. Attorneys are to meet next week to schedule a new trial. Prosecutors said Mazon, of Country Club Hills near Chicago, conspired to inflate a military contract by $4.8 million and got $1 million as a reward for inflating the subcontract for Ali Hijazi's company. The $5.5 million contract was for fuel services at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. The defense has said Mazon was overworked while employed at former Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc. and made an honest mistake while converting Kuwaiti currency to U.S. dollars. Hijazi faces similar charges, although he lives in Kuwait and has not been taken into custody. The indictment came from a federal grand jury in Illinois because the Army Field Support Command at the Rock Island Arsenal oversees the military contract that included the tanker deal. Apr 30, 2008

A federal judge will sentence former defense contractor Mitchell Wade, who pleaded guilty to bribing now-jailed former Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham, in December. Prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina to sentence Wade after the November trial of former CIA executive director Kyle Dusty Foggo.Prosecutor Howard Sklamberg refused to say after Monday's hearing in Washington whether Wade would testify at Foggo's trial. Urbina set Wade's sentencing for Dec. 15. Foggo is charged with fraud and conspiracy in connection with the attempted awarding of CIA contracts to his friend Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor who worked with Wade and was convicted in November of bribery, money laundering and other counts. Wilkes is serving a 12-year federal prison sentence. Apr 28, 2008

DARPA

Three firms receive DARPA contract to study unmanned plane. Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Aurora Flight Services recently received Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracts to develop an unmanned plane that can remain in the air for five years. DARPA hopes the plane can carry surveillance or communications equipment and be flexible enough to change course and move around the world. Apr 29, 2008

DARPA

DARPA to test hypersonic planes in May 2009 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will start testing expendable dart-shaped Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 demonstrators in May 2009. The hypersonic test planes will launch using Orbital Sciences Minotaur solid-fuel rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base. They will use global positioning systems and inertial measurement units to navigate. Apr 30, 2008

Ness Technologies

Ness Technologies, Inc. , a global provider of information technology solutions and services, today announced that it has signed a $30 million contract to provide its Integrated Command and Control System (ICCS) to a foreign country and build a national command and control center for the purchasing country. Ness Technologies & Systems Group (Ness TSG) will act as prime contractor for the engagement, which includes establishment of the national command and control center, development and implementation of the system. ICCS is a comprehensive command and control system that integrates and fuses situation pictures from different military branches (ground forces, air force, navy, etc.), security services and emergency forces. The system provides the connectivity capabilities to automatically share operational information among the various units and agencies. May 1, 2008

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