TV Repair Company Guards the President

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TV Repair Company Guards the President

WASHINGTON -- The reason Brown International got into the business of guarding the president with a sophisticated radar command center is really quite simple, its officers say. Repairing televisions just wasn't paying enough.

While no longer the 12-person repair operation it was in the 1980s, the Huntsville, Ala., company is still a tiny fish in a huge pool of corporations helping the military defend the homeland. But it was Brown's engineers who got a frantic call from an Air Force commander the evening of Sept. 11, 2001.

His message: We want your latest invention, and we want it now.

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Such began the homeland security life of the device that has made Brown famous in military circles -- a control unit transportable by Humvee vehicle that merges military and civilian radar systems conveniently onto one screen, helping determine quickly whether an approaching aircraft is a friend or foe.

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