UIC gives Moore contract extension

Published April 17, 2013

Sports Network

Chicago, IL –  The University of Illinois at Chicago has given head men's basketball coach Howard Moore a three-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

Moore led the Flames to an 18-16 record this season. the most for the program since the 2007-08 campaign. UIC advanced to the postseason for the first time since 2004, and defeated Chicago State in the first-round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT), tallying the program's first-ever postseason win. The Flames then lost to Northern Iowa to conclude Moore's third season at the school.

"As a staff, we are very proud of the things we accomplished last season - we had great senior leadership, and our young guys really bought into the vision of our program," Moore said. "But we're not satisfied. Our goals are to compete for championships year-in and year-out. Everything is about our approach - in recruiting, in practice, in the classroom and in competition. We're very excited about this offseason, and are looking forward to our continual climb to the top of the Horizon League."

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UIC give Moore contract extension

Published April 17, 2013

Sports Network

Chicago, IL –  The University of Illinois at Chicago has given head men's basketball coach Howard Moore a three-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

Moore led the Flames to an 18-16 record this season. the most for the program since the 2007-08 campaign. UIC advanced to the postseason for the first time since 2004, and defeated Chicago State in the first-round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT), tallying the program's first-ever postseason win. The Flames then lost to Northern Iowa to conclude Moore's third season at the school.

"As a staff, we are very proud of the things we accomplished last season - we had great senior leadership, and our young guys really bought into the vision of our program," Moore said. "But we're not satisfied. Our goals are to compete for championships year-in and year-out. Everything is about our approach - in recruiting, in practice, in the classroom and in competition. We're very excited about this offseason, and are looking forward to our continual climb to the top of the Horizon League."

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US military company gets contract in Haiti

Published April 09, 2013

Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –  A leading U.S. military contractor announced Tuesday that it won a contract for up to $48.6 million that will help support a U.S. contingent to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

The Falls Church, Virginia-based DynCorp International received the contract from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. It will recruit and finance up to 100 officers to join the U.N.'s police unit affiliated with the mission, known as UN Pol, and 10 U.N. correction advisers.

The contract also means that DynCorp will provide logistical support to Haiti's police academy, along with five French- and Haitian Creole-speaking experts to advise senior police officials.

The firm says it has already trained more than 400 officers with Haiti's National Police Department, a chronically understaffed force that today has only 10,000 officers in a country of 10 million people. Haitian officials hope to bring the total number of officers to 15,000 by 2016.

The DynCorp task order has a one-year base period with three, one-year options that carries a total value of $48.6 million.

The U.N. mission of now more than 9,000 troops has been in Haiti since 2004 with the goal of providing stability following the ouster that year of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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