 thousands of laptops stolen from us military contractor laptops stolen from military contractor by jack clark zdnet uk  14 july 2010 1346 original appearance thousands of laptops stolen from us military contractor laptops stolen from military contractor   over 3000 laptops were stolen from a military contractor for the us special operations command in march according to a newspaper report a crew of thieves stole the equipment from igov technologies over nine hours on 8 march the company helps develop the special operations command s socom  tactical local area network taclan  it won a 300m 196m contract to develop the technology in 2005 and in february 2010 the contract maximum was increased to 450m according to military news service defense industry daily  details of the theft emerged when the st petersburg times  a floridabased newspaper found information about the crime within a search warrant filed in hillsborough county circuit court which sought the phone records for one of the suspects in the heist the investigation led the fbi and miamidade police department to a warehouse in miami that had been used to store the stolen property where 1911 items were recovered a socom spokeswoman told the st petersburg times that officials are aware of the igov breakin but could provide no immediate response    around the web  