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The U.S. Defense Department's plan to send 30,000 additional troops into Afghanistan is likely to prove a boon to defense contractors that gather and monitor intelligence and provide essential logistics services.

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. military has maintained training in Kuwait. The Defense Department has awarded a $162.7 million contract to L-3 Communications to support the U.S. Army program in Kuwait.

Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., last year.

Even though L-3's fundamentals remain strong, the market seems to be ignoring this well positioned defense company.

Under this award, MPRI will be a subcontractor to Raytheon to provide training for U.S. and Coalition forces at the Udari Range in Kuwait.

Salt Lake City-based Parvus Corporation , a designer of ruggedized computer systems for the military, has scored a $3.2M contract from fellow Salt Lake firm L-3 Communications.

By MICHAEL L. DIAMOND * BUSINESS WRITER * November 13, 2009 L-3 Communications plans to move about 400 employees, most of them currently serving the Army at Fort Monmouth, to a new office building at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, officials said.

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Now that the market is rallying again, the group has fallen out of favor. Among other things, Wall Street is worried about cuts in defense spending, and uncertainties surrounding U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Narda , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the Model FO-MDA-20-25DD-1, a dual-channel DQPSK modulator driver for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s optical transponder applications that has been tested at data rates as high as 113 Gb/s, demonstrating excellent performance even at the highest data rates.

A Montague man with ties to the Democratic Party has been appointed to the Muskegon County Road Commission for a term that expires in 2014.

L-3 Communications Corp. plans to shift 400 workers to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County, where it is relocating workers under the Pentagon's base realignment plan.

November 06, 2009... AeroMechanical Services Ltd. has signed an agreement with L-3 Communications to sell AMS's real-time data communications and Internet data delivery systems for aircraft.

Deliveries are expected during Q1 2010. The ROVER is widely used by US and NATO forces to view real-time video from unmanned and manned aircraft for battlefield situational awareness.

AS&E reported fiscal-second-quarter results last night. Judging from the stock price, the crowd has gone wild -- and rightly so: Second-quarter sales rose a modest 9%. But through a combination of cost controls and good product mix, AS&E transformed single-digit sales growth into a 42% surge in profits -- $1.18 per share.

U.S. stock futures rose on Wednesday, with traders ignoring the traditional caution ahead of a Federal Reserve interest-rate meeting.

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Narda , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the Model 368BNM and Model 369BNM coaxial terminations that operate from 2 to 18 GHz and 700 MHz to 18 GHz, respectively, and are extremely rugged for use in applications ranging from instrumentation to transmitters in the field.