Brazil Discusses SIVAM, Its 4-year-old Amazon Vigilance Program

A senior government official from Brazil will discuss how the country partnered with industry to secure 2.3 million square miles of the Amazon during the world’s largest environmental monitoring and protection program.

The discussion will take place during a border security case study and Webinar broadcast live from GovExec.com (http://www.govexec.com/) August 15 (11:30 a.m. MT; 1:30 p.m. ET). It will be held at the Border Security Conference hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso and the office of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso.

Brazilian Air Force Brig. Ar Alvaro L. Pinheiro, who led the System for Vigilance of the Amazon (SIVAM) program, and Matt Gilligan, Raytheon SIVAM program manager, will discuss the overall program objectives, program management and execution, and overall results.

Gilligan will provide the industry perspective on partnering with government to deploy a monitoring and protection program over a large and diverse geography with multiple levels of integration.

As SIVAM’s prime system integrator for the multi-billion dollar program, Raytheon managed a team of more than 30 major subcontractors during the project’s implementation.

The contract began in 1997 and was inaugurated in 2002, with full operations in effect in 2004. Two Brazilian companies, ASTECH and Embraer, were also selected by the Brazilian government to help supply and integrate the system across the Amazon region.

Raytheon Company $21.9 billion in sales in 2005. With headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company employs 80,000 people worldwide.

Tags:

You May Also Like

Brazil Lula’s Biofuel Boosting Tour Takes Him to Spain

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived this weekend in Spain where beginning ...

Brazil Triples Funds for Exports to Close to US$ 800 Million

Brazil's federal government is going to nearly triple the funds for its Export Financing ...

First US-Brazil Civil Society Forum to Discuss in Washington Immigration Reform

Later this month presidents Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Barack Obama of the United ...

A Time Bomb for Lula

Brazil’s debt burden expanded dramatically in terms of the national currency due to a ...

Brazil’s Operation Cataracts Seizes 11 Million in Contraband

Operation Cataracts, which is being carried out on the Brazilian border with Paraguay, confiscated ...

Brazil Opens 1000th Computer Center

The Bank of Brazil’s (BB) Digital Inclusion Program attained the mark of 1000 community ...

Jeitinho Land

In cases where regulations have to be confronted, Brazilians pride themselves on being especially ...

Brazil Learns to Extract Light Oil 15,000 Feet Deep

Aboard platform P-34, anchored off the coast of the state of EspÀ­rito Santo, Brazilian ...

Iran’s Defiance Cools Down Brazilian Bulls

Latin American markets were mostly higher, with Brazilian stocks edging up, as continued optimism ...

US$ 700 Million: Brazil Almost Doubles International Humanitarian Aid

The Brazilian government has substantially increased funds turned to humanitarian actions and operations for ...