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CBP Awards FLIR, Griffon Contracts For Mobile Surveillance Systems

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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last week awarded FLIR Corp. [FLIR] and Griffon Corp. [GFF] each contracts to supply the agency's Border Patrol with mobile surveillance towers and equipment for use on the nation's southwest border. FLIR, through is acquisition last year of ICx Technologies, received a potential five-year, $101.9 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC). Griffon's Telephonics business unit received a potential five-year, $45.3 million contract for MSC. The awards for the first year…

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