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Siemens Government Technologies Chosen for Electronic Security System Maintenance & Services on Florida’s Space Coast
February 11, 2021 GMT
RESTON, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 11, 2021
Siemens Government Technologies (SGT), Inc. – the federally-focused U.S. arm of technology powerhouse Siemens – has been awarded an initial task order for a contract valued up to $21 million by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, for electronic security maintenance and support of vital operations conducted by the Space Force 45 th Space Wing on Florida’s Space Coast. Utilizing the Army Corps of Engineers’ Utility Monitoring and Control Systems fifth generation (UMCS V) contracting vehicle, SGT will leverage smart infrastructure expertise to provide maintenance and support for electronic security systems in support of orbital vehicle launches and range operations at Cape Canaver
Duty Calls: Honor Guard funerals far fewer in 2020
Terry Brown
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New York Army National Guard Sgt. Joshua Sanzo a member of the northern district Honor Guard, salutes the casket of Victor Frager during a military funeral in 2018 at the Gerald B. Solomon National Cemetery, Schuylerville.Spc. Andrew Valenza / New York Army National Guard
Scores of New York National Guard Honor Guard soldiers and airmen had far less military funerals to perform last year and the elite soldiers and airmen had to adjust the way they performed their duties.
Pandemic restrictions on funeral services have resulted in New York Army and Air National Guard Honor Guard teams providing more than 2,000 fewer military funeral services in 2020 than in 2019, according to Eric Durr, state Division of Military and Naval Affairs spokesman.
33 LATHAM, New York The New York National Guard was among the first states to call up Soldiers and Airmen for the COVID-19 pandemic on March 10, and ten months later, on December 17, it was one of two Guard forces to begin administering a COVID-19 vaccine to its troops.
Since the first 300 Soldiers and Airmen mobilized to help contain a coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York has seen 5,066 Soldiers and Airmen, along with members of the New York Guard and New York Naval Militia, employed as part of the mission.
At the peak of mobilization in April, 3,646 personnel were on duty responding to COVID-19. Currently there are 1,682 personnel on duty for Operation COVID-19.
New York Army and Air National Guard Presided over 2,00 less services this past year Written by New York Army and Air National Guard
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Pandemic restrictions on funeral services resulted in New York Army and Air National Guard honor guard teams providing over 2,000 fewer military funeral services in 2020 than in 2019.
The honor guard Soldiers and Airmen expect to conduct 8,835 military honors at veteran s funerals by the end of 2020.
In 2019 the New York Army and Air National Guard provided military honors for 11,006 families.
The New York Army and Air National Guard provided military burial honors 11,326 times in 2018 and 11,170 times in 2017.
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