Sentences with phrase «military company called»

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If you don't know the name Lenco, you know the Pittsfield, Massachusetts - based company's signature vehicle — an armored truck used by police, the military, and government officials called the BearCat.

And like many of today's companies, the military is turning to so - called graphics processing units to help it do so, Newmeyer said.

But in 1982, Congress let the military organization off the hook when it came to dealing with citizens» boneheaded behavior, handing nonemergency calls over to private companies.

Inside the company's Seattle headquarters, called the Starbucks Support Center, is a special wall adorned with quarter - sized silver medallions — each one etched with the name of a veteran or military spouse the company has hired since 2013.

«The military guys arrive calling the engineers thieves and saboteurs,» said a Venezuelan oil executive at a private company who frequently works with PDVSA.

It was at that point, according to the New York Times report, that the team at the Psychometric Centre was approached by Christopher Wylie, who worked at a company called Strategic Communication Laboratories, self - billed as a data analytics company «to governments and military organizations worldwide.»

In a conference call last month, Marianne Lake, JPMorgan's chief financial officer, said that the company's links to military - style firearms products «have come down significantly and are pretty limited.»

It is also incredibly lucrative for the owners and operators of so - called private military companies — and the money to pay for their activities ultimately comes from taxpayers through government contracts.

To that end, a company called AeroVironment, with funding from Darpa (the research wing of the U.S. military), unveiled its Nano Hummingbird in 2011.

In 2003 the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now known as the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency) began investing in a new company called Keyhole, which melded satellite imagery and photographs taken from aircraft into a three - dimensional tool for nuanced mapping of all kinds of terrain, including military areas and city streets.

Shaw spent the war years touring military bases with comedian Jack Benny and harmonica specialist Larry Adler; in the early»50s, she devoted her time to the stage, starring in the touring company of Call Me Madam.

The new digital magazine called Lets Battle will focus on the companies various properties and put a special emphasis on the history of military warfare.

Tip: Call pet insurance companies to ask whether they have a military discount and how you can get it.

Set four years post-MGS4, Rising sees Raiden working as part of a PMC (Private Military Company) called Maverick, one focused purely on security — rather than simply an army available to the highest bidder.

With early leaks of the new Call of Duty trailer, Activison released the official trailer of the game, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is described as focusing on a private military company lead by Kevin Spacey's character that has turned on the US government.

With early leaks of the new Call of Duty trailer, Activison released the official trailer of the game, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is described as focusing on a private military company lead by Kevin Spacey's character that has turned...

Release Date: Mar 2, 2010 Genre: Action, First Person Shooter Theme: Modern Military Rating: T for Teen Game Modes: Single player, multiplayer A bit of a surprise pick over Call of Duty: Black Ops, but Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a solid game from top to bottom across both the single and multiplayer game modes.

It is the sequel to the modern military first person shooter Battlefield Bad Company and like the first game in this Battlefield sub-series, it includes a full single - player campaign that follows a misfit group of soldiers, called Company «B», as they enter the heat of battle in a fictional war between the United States and Russia.

This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangermilitary figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living DangerMilitary Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously...

I've learned that a South African company called Seecrypt offers to enable «military grade» encryption of your mobile phone calls and texts.

In fact, there's a whole insurance company called USAA, which is dedicated to military personnel.

It first formed in 1999 as an audio technology company called AliphCom, and was initially focused on developing military - grade audio technology.

yro.slashdot.org - The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Peter Eckersley writes: Yesterday, The New York Times reported that there is widespread unrest amongst Google's employees about the company's work on a U.S. military project called «Project Maven.»