Terror Response Technology Report articles from January 2010

Terror Response Technology Report archives from January 2010

Briefing
January 20, 2010... *Smiths Detection will supply its IONSCAN 500DT explosives trace detection system to Los Angeles-based ABLE Freight Services to help the freight forwarder meet the Aug. 2010 100 percent air cargo screening mandate. ABLE Freight specializes in...

Brijot Launches Whole Body Imaging Portal
January 20, 2010... Brijot Imaging Systems has introduced a new whole body imaging system based on its stand-off, passive millimeter wave checkpoint screening system that hopes to offer for passenger screening at U.S. and international airports. The SafeScreen...

Tek84 Plans to Continue Development of Security Technologies
January 20, 2010... Tek84 Engineering Group, LLC, which was recently formed by the security holders of the former Spectrum San Diego that was sold this month to Science Applications International Corp. [SAI], plans to continue the development of innovative...

Cross Match to Provide Fingerprint, Iris Scanners for Mexico ID Project
January 20, 2010... In one of its biggest wins, Cross Match Technologies will supply fingerprint and iris capture devices for Mexico's new national ID program. Cross Match is part of a team led by Belgium-based Smartmatic, which received a $23 million contract...

MorphoTrak Licenses Tattoo Matching Technology from Michigan State
January 20, 2010... MorphoTrak says it has acquired an exclusive license for tattoo matching technology from Michigan State Univ. that does matching based on color, shape and texture rather than labels or keywords. MorphoTrak, a unit of France's SAFRAN Group,...

Schiphol Airport Introduces Privacy Enhancements to ProVision Imagers
January 20, 2010... Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam says it has introduced automated detection technology on all of its L-3 Communications [LLL] ProVision whole body imaging systems that means "no image analyst is required to analyze the images anymore." Schiphol...

GD Opens Data Center to Support USCIS.
January 20, 2010... General Dynamics [GD] Information Technology (IT) business unit opened and enterprise data center in Colorado to serve as the Technology Operations and Maintenance Infrastructure Support (TOMIS) IT operations center for the U.S. Citizenship...

I.D. Systems Acquires Asset Intelligence from GE
January 20, 2010... I.D. Systems [IDSY] has acquired Asset Intelligence, LLC, from General Electric [GE] for $15 million in cash, giving it trailer and container tracking and monitoring solutions to go with its existing vehicle tracking and monitoring solutions....

Battelle, Decision Sciences Team on Passive Nuclear Material Detector
January 20, 2010... Battelle and Decision Sciences Corp. have teamed to further develop Decision Sciences Multi-Mode Passive Detection System (MMPDS) into an operational and deployable system in response to a Request for Information from the Domestic Nuclear...

Lockheed Martin Delivers New Workstations for FBI's NGI Program
January 20, 2010... Lockheed Martin [LMT] has begun delivering to the FBI the first Advanced Technology Workstations (ATW) under the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program, marking the first operational milestone of the agency's new biometric matching...

SAIC to Acquire Cyber Security Firm CloudShield
January 20, 2010... Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] has agreed to acquire CloudShield Technologies, a cyber security firm based in Silicon Valley, which provides solutions to telecommunications companies, federal and international customers....

Camero Sense Through The Wall System is FCC Certified.
January 20, 2010... Camero says its Xaver 400 LITE Sense Through The Wall radio frequency imaging system has been certified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which means it adheres to certain safety and RF transmission standards set forth by the...

Rapiscan Lands Large Contracts with Puerto Rico and Mexico
January 20, 2010... OSI Systems [OSIS] Rapiscan division this month announced two large contracts, one with Puerto Rico's Ports Authority for a turnkey cargo inspection service and another with an airport operating group in Mexico for high-speed hold baggage...

Lockheed Martin, Johns Hopkins Nab DARPA Phase II Cyber Range Awards
January 20, 2010... The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory Phase II awards to build and evaluate prototypes under the National Cyber Range (NCR)...

Canada Awards L-3 $10.7M for ProVision Body Scanners
January 20, 2010... Canada's Transport Ministry says it will purchase and deploy 44 body scanners from L-3 Communications [LLL] for approximately $10.7 million, with delivery and installations to begin this month in response to the failed Christmas Day bombing...

TSA Plans to Award Accenture Up to $6.2M to Continue PASS Operations
January 20, 2010... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it plans to award Accenture [ACN] a one-year $5.4 million contract by the end of January to continue providing the Office of Human Capital the Performance Accountability and Standards...

AS&E Receives $5.8M Mid East Order for Cargo Inspection Equipment.
January 20, 2010... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received a $5.8 million follow-on order from a Middle East customer for cargo X-Ray inspection equipment to secure critical infrastructure. The equipment will scan vehicles and trucks entering a...

AtHoc Deploys Enterprise-Wide Emergency Notification System for Coast Guard
January 20, 2010... The Coast Guard has awarded AtHoc, Inc., a second increment to a contract awarded last July to add another 25,000 users to the company's next-generation Internet Protocol-based wireless emergency mass notification system, bringing to 50,000...

Raytheon Receives $3M USAF Award for Cyber Defense
January 20, 2010... Raytheon [RTN] says it has received a $2.9 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop new approaches for protecting Defense Department service oriented architectures against malicious attacks. Raytheon says the...

DHS S&T Plans $1M Extension to SRI International for Cyber Support
January 20, 2010... The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate plans to award SRI International up to $988,900 under a bridge extension to an existing contract to continue to provide technical, management and subject...

IDO Selected to Install MagShoe Units in 12 Chinese Airports.
January 20, 2010... IDO Security [IDOI] says it has won a tender in China to install MagShoe weapons metal detection systems in 12 airports in Xinjian province. The largest installation is in Urumqi International Airport, the central airport of the province and...

Defentect Gets Small Award to Deploy Rad Detectors in Hospital
January 20, 2010... Defentect says it has received an $80,000 contract to provide its DM3 security management software and Gammatect gamma radiation detection sensors at a hospital in the Northeastern U.S. The installation is the first for the medical company,...

DNDO Issues RFI on Rad Detection in Freight Rail Cargo
January 20, 2010... The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on capabilities that can be used to support detecting and or identifying radiological and nuclear materials traveling into the U.S. by freight rail cargo....

DNDO, NSF Solicit Academic Research
January 20, 2010... The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have issued a joint FY '10 solicitation for transformational research focused on detection systems, individual sensors or other research that is...

CBP Seeks Info on Coastal Interceptor Vessel
January 20, 2010... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for commercially available vessels to perform law enforcement operations in the littoral waters of the U.S. and Caribbean. The sensor-equipped vessel should be...

DHS Surveys Market for Sensors to Detect PNT Interference
January 20, 2010... The Department of Homeland Security has issued a Request for Information on sensors capable of detecting and localizing positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) interference, whether intentional or unintentional, with intent to cause harm or...

Army ARDEC Seeks Info on Biometrics
January 20, 2010... The Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) has issued a Sources Sought notice to locate interested sources capable of providing information in the filed of biometrics. The U.S. Fire Control Systems Technology...

TSA Seeks Sources for Data Loss Prevention.
January 20, 2010... The Transportation Security Administration (TS) has issued a Sources Sought notice seeking sources for content-aware data loss prevention technologies currently available in the marketplace. The agency is evaluating data loss prevention...

Briefing
January 6, 2010... *Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] has acquired Spectrum San Diego, a high technology company that last May introduced a new low-dose, dual- energy X-Ray imaging system for detecting explosives, contraband and stowaways in cars...

L-3 Put on TSA Body Scanner Contract
January 6, 2010... In the immediate wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a passenger plane nearing its destination in the U.S., the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week put L-3 Communications [LLL] on a $164.7 million indefinite...

TSA Plans to Accelerate ETD Testing for Air Cargo Mandate
January 6, 2010... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the coming months expects to issue a solicitation to begin testing explosive trace detection (ETD) systems to qualify them for use in meeting the air cargo screening mandate, agency...

TSA Ready to Kick-Off New EDS Competition
January 6, 2010... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shortly plans to start a long awaited competition to purchase explosive detection systems (EDS) used to screen checked baggage at the nation's airports, with contract awards expected in...

Intellicheck Mobilisa Nabs Small Award for TWIC Reader Pilot at NY/NJ
January 6, 2010... The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Intellicheck Mobilisa [IDN] a small contract to supply five handheld biometric-enabled smart card readers to be used for security purposes at the Port of New York/New Jersey this winter under...

Integrated Biometrics Fingerprint Reader on TSA's Access Control QPL
January 6, 2010... Integrated Biometrics (IB) says that its TRU650 terminal fingerprint reader unit has been tested and approved by the Transportation Security Administration and place on the Biometrics Qualified Products List (QPL) for Access Control. "The...

Wyle Provides Cyber Security Help in Support of NOAA Program
January 6, 2010... Wyle says it is providing cyber security support to Harris Corp. [HRS] in its development of NASA's new ground-based system that supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next-generation of geostationary weather...

DHS, Michigan in Proof-of-Concept Cyber Security Partnership
January 6, 2010... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is deploying its Einstein 1.0 computer network intrusion detection system to Michigan's computer networks, marking the first federal-state cyber security partnership. The partnership is a...

Northrop Grumman Conducts Fire Scout Demo for Coast Guard
January 6, 2010... Northrop Grumman [NOC] last fall successfully completed maritime sensor demonstrations for the Coast Guard using a company-owned MQ-8B Fire Scout tactical vertical unmanned aircraft system. Fire Scout was equipped with the Telephonics' [GFF]...

SpectraFluidics Says Its Technology Detects Trace Levels of PETN
January 6, 2010... SpectraFluidics, Inc., a small California-based firm that plans to release its first product this year, says its sensing technology has successfully detected trace levels of PETN, the explosive used in the failed Christmas day bombing aboard...

AS&E Nabs $40M for Cargo Inspection Systems.
January 6, 2010... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] says it has received a $39.7 million order from an unnamed government agency to screen cargo and vehicles for explosive threats and contraband at strategic border crossings. AS&E would not say which...

AS&E Gets $7.3M Mid East Order for Gemini X-Ray Systems.
January 6, 2010... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received a follow-on order from a Middle East customer for a "significant quantity" of Gemini X-Ray parcel inspection systems. The order is the third from the customer, AS&E says. [Copyright...

Smiths Detection Expands PROTECT System in D.C. Metro
January 6, 2010... Smiths Detection has received several contracts from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to expand the PROTECT security system used for early warning of potential chemical threats and substances. The value of the awards was not...

IDO Receives MagShoe Order from Macau.
January 6, 2010... IDO Security [IDOI] has received a multi-unit order for its MagShoe shoes-on weapons metal detection system from the Macau Sports Development Board. The units have been supplied by IDO's agent in Hong Kong, Digital East, Ltd., and will be used...

CBP SBI Program Issues RFP for Mobile Surveillance Capability
January 6, 2010... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Secure Border Initiative (SBI) Acquisition Office has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Mobile Surveillance Capability to detect, track and identify items of interest along the U.S. border. CBP plans...

PNNL Solicits for Second Generation Mobile Rad Detection System.
January 6, 2010... Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is soliciting proposals for a second-generation Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS) in support of the Megaports Initiative. Megaports is a Department of Energy, National...

Coast Guard Surveys Market for Handheld Biometrics Collection Devices.
January 6, 2010... The Coast Guard Research and Development Center is conducting market research for sources capable of providing handheld biometrics collection devices for use by Coast Guard boarding teams in their mission. The device must be able to acquire...

BAA for CanScan Released
January 6, 2010... The Department of the Interior, National Business Center, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, has issued the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for innovative Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) and...

DHS S&T Issues Long Range BAA.
January 6, 2010... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued its 2010 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for long-range science and technology projects and innovative prototypes. Topical areas of...

Air Force Group Seeks Sources for Cyberspace Infrastructure Help
January 6, 2010... The 38 Cyberspace Engineering Group at Tinker AFB, Okla., is conducting a market survey to acquire information regarding contractors' capabilities to provide maintenance, sustainment, documentation and modernization of the Cyberspace...

TSA Seeks Automated Wait Time Technology
January 6, 2010... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is seeking sources for Automated Wait Time (AWT) systems and plans to establish an open Qualified Products List for vendors who can meet the agency's requirements for the technology. The agency...

TSA Issues RFP for Contact Center
January 6, 2010... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) from small businesses to establish, staff, operate, manage and maintain the TSA Contact Center (TCC). The TCC will use contractor-provided technology...

Coast Guard Plans Vendor Demos for LIMS
January 6, 2010... The Coast Guard has issued a Sources Sought Notice for vendor demonstrations related to its Logistics Information Management System (CG-LIMS). CG-LIMS will require a centrally managed, integrated, enterprise-wide logistics information...

CBP Interested in Robotic Technologies for Tunnel Monitoring.
January 6, 2010... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding robotic technology for monitoring storm drains and tunnel characterization. CBP's Office of Border Patrol, Enforcement Information Technology Division...

DHS S&T Issues BAA for Adaptive Adversary Modeling
January 6, 2010... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for a research project to build new, or apply existing, risk analysis applications to terrorism risk that are...