Terror Response Technology Report articles from May 2009

Terror Response Technology Report archives from May 2009

Briefing
May 27, 2009... *Boeing [BA] received a $1.2 million contract from the Air Force Material Command, Rome Research Center to provide services under the program name, Global Command and Control During a Cyber Attack: Providing Mission Assurance in the Face of...

TSA Readying New Round of EDS Purchases That Includes High-Speed Systems
May 27, 2009... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week began conducting market research for a new procurement round for explosives detection systems (EDS) that screen checked baggage at airports for bombs, outlining three categories of...

ICx Showing ThreatSense Can Track Spread of Trace Material Release in Airport
May 27, 2009... STAFFORD, Va.-- ICx Technologies [ICXT] has been testing its new comprehensive facility security solution at the Albuquerque International Sunport airport in New Mexico for the past two months, demonstrating that the system can track the...

TSA Acting Tech Chief Discusses S&T Needs
May 27, 2009... Threat facing the nation's aviation system are dynamic and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) needs detection technologies that can adapt to these changing threats, Robin Kane, the acting assistant administrator for the Office of...

Spectrum San Diego Sees DoD as near Term Customer for New Vehicle Inspection System
May 27, 2009... STAFFORD, Va.--The Defense Department is likely to provide the best near- term opportunity for sales of Spectrum San Diego's new CarSCAN vehicle inspection system for use at checkpoints in war zones, a company official tells TR2. ...

Earnings News and Notes
May 27, 2009... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] 4Q09 4Q08 FY09 FY08 Sales $57.3M $42M $218.4M $166.7M Net Inc. $8.2M, 0.92 $2.8M, 0.30 $28.4M, 3.18 $17.5M, 1.31 Net income soared on the...

Northrop Grumman Introduces New Airport Security Solution
May 27, 2009... Northrop Grumman [NOC] has introduced a new security management solution called Airtight that uses data from existing airport sensors and infrastructure to create a common operating picture that can be shared with emergency services and first...

Rapiscan Enters TSA WBI Competition with Secure 1000
May 27, 2009... OSI Systems [OSIS] Rapiscan division has entered the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) new round of competition for Whole Body Imagers (WBI) offering its Secure 1000 backscatter X-Ray system, Peter Kant, Rapiscan's vice president...

RedX Launches XPAKi for Explosives Trace Data Collection and Analysis
May 27, 2009... RedXDefense has launched a new system based on its XPAK portable trace explosives detection device that includes the i-MODULE data logging tool and Spotlight software for the visualization and analysis of this data. The i-MODULE is a hardware...

Datastrip Introduces Handheld, Biometric Travel Document Reader
May 27, 2009... Datastrip has launched its next generation EasyRead handheld reader, which can validate Machine Readable Travel Documents and verify document holders. The device reads and inspects first and second generation e-passports and border crossing...

AS&E Gets $25M Follow-On Mid East Order; $2.2M Service Renewal Contract
May 27, 2009... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received a $25 million follow-on order from a Middle East customer for multiple Z Portal cargo and vehicle screening systems and OmniView Gantry cargo inspection systems. The systems will be used to...

SRA Wins Recompete for $30M Coast Guard Support Work.
May 27, 2009... SRA International [SRX] has won a recompete of a support contract for the Coast Guard's Human Resources Information Systems Division value up to $30 million over five years if all options are exercised. Under the contract SRA will provide...

Reveal Imaging Nabs $20M TSA Contract for EDS; Mid East Sale
May 27, 2009... Reveal Imaging Technologies has received a $20 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to supply 54 of its CT-80DR Explosives Detection System (EDS). Deliveries have begun on the order and will continue through...

OSI Systems Announces Deployment of Eagle Systems with European Commission
May 27, 2009... OSI Systems [OSIS] Rapiscan division has deployed the first of 12 Eagle M407 mobile cargo and vehicle inspection systems as part of a European Union project to enhance border and customs controls in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. OSI had not...

Gryphon Technologies Wins $72.2M Contract to Support NSWC Panama.
May 27, 2009... Gryphon Technologies says it won a $72.2 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division, Fla., to provide programmatic, logistics and technical support dealing with issues confronting the program to maintain...

Freight Forwarder Concordia Purchases Smiths' Explosive Trace Detector.
May 27, 2009... International freight forwarder Concordia International Forwarding Corp. has purchased 15 IONSCAN 500DT desktop explosive trace detectors from Smiths Detection to help meet the needs of the air cargo screening mandate. Concordia will deploy a...

Florida Orders Mobile ASP System from Raytheon
May 27, 2009... Florida's Department of Transportation, division of motor carrier compliance, has ordered a single Mobile Nuclear Radiation Detection System from Raytheon [RTN], which has delivered similar systems to the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office...

DHS S&T Issues BAA for Sensing All-Threats to Reveal Concealed Hazards
May 27, 2009... The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for a multi-layered research and development approach to address the need to detect and identify chemical,...

S&T Issues BAA for Automated Sample Prep.
May 27, 2009... The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology (S&T) branch has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking research for sample preparation techniques of samples with complex background matrices such as those culled...

DHS I&A Draft Solicitation for Support Services.
May 27, 2009... The Department of Homeland Security has issued a draft solicitation related to plans to establish indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for support services to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis under the program name...

TSA Issues RFP for Exit Lane Breach Control.
May 27, 2009... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to acquire equipment and services for turnkey exit land breach control technologies for pilot projects at Dallas-Fort Worth International and...

State Dept. Plans Industry Day for Global Support Strategy Program.
May 27, 2009... The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs will hold an Industry Day on June 10 regarding the upcoming Global Support Strategy (GSS) for Visa Services program solicitation. The GSS contract will provide support services for...

DNDO Issues RFI for Advanced Radiation Monitoring Devices
May 27, 2009... The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for the development of pager-sized gamma and neutron detection devices in anticipation of an Advanced Technology Demonstration in the area of Advanced...

RFI Seeks Topics Related to Chemical Detection Technologies
May 27, 2009... The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued a Request for Information for suggestions for technical review workshops in the area of novel analytical technologies for the detection of chemical...

CBP Solicits Small Business Help for HR Support Services.
May 27, 2009... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a solicitation seeking small disadvantaged business help with Human Resources (HR) support services under a potential $8.5 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. Sol. No....

Briefing
May 13, 2009... *President Obama plans to nominate Dr. Tara O'Toole as Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. O'Toole is founder, CEO and Director of the Center for Biosecurity at the Univ. of...

SBInet Construction Begins on Southern Border but Sensor Deployment Awaits DHS Nod
May 13, 2009... Construction began last Monday on sensor and communication towers along 23 miles of Arizona's border with Mexico for the first deployment of the technology component of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) although the Department of Homeland...

Cogent Says Not Selected for NGI Fingerprint Matching Effort
May 13, 2009... Cogent Systems [COGT] says that Lockheed Martin [LMT], the prime contractor for the FBI's next-generation biometric database, did not select if for the fingerprint matching portion of the program. Industry analysts had already begun...

AMREL Plans to Offer New Handheld Biometric Device for Army Competition
May 13, 2009... American Reliance, Inc. (AMREL), the first company to introduce notebook computers in the U.S. market in the early 1990s, has been developing a rugged handheld biometric collection device that it plans to submit for an upcoming evaluation by...

Netherlands Forms Public Private Partnership to Aid Security Integration
May 13, 2009... THE HAGUE--A new public private partnership here is being formed by 19 small and medium-size companies, including several U.S. firms, to improve technology integration and interoperability and also to give these firms access to expertise to...

Earnings News and Notes
May 13, 2009... L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] 1Q09 1Q08 Sales $150.2M $116M Net Inc. ($3.8M, 0.4) ($2.6M, 0.4) Losses widened on higher interest expenses and amortization still beat analysts' expectations by a penny on solid...

QinetiQ to Acquire U.S. Cyber Security Firm Cyveillance
May 13, 2009... Britain's QinetiQ has agreed to acquire Virginia-based Cyveillance, Inc., which develops and sells software products that help commercial firms monitor for cyber threats over the Internet, to boost its capabilities in the cyber security area...

Navy Plans to Deliver SIIMON Block II Prototype to Marines in July for Testing
May 13, 2009... Navy engineers developing a prototype handheld, multi-modal biometric collection and device are on track to deliver the system to the Marine Corps for testing in July. An earlier prototype of the System for Intelligence and Identity...

Smiths Detection Partners with ARMARK on Product Tagging and ID
May 13, 2009... Smiths Detection, in partnership with ARMARK Authentication Technologies, LLC, has launched a new product identification system called IntelliMark that embeds microscopic markers in products such as consumer merchandise, secure documents,...

DHS Approves Eight Laboratories for Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program
May 13, 2009... The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office for Interoperability and Compatibility has approved eight laboratories as part of the Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (CAP), which will provide more than 60,000 emergency response...

Spectrum San Diego Introduces CarSCAN X-Ray Imaging System
May 13, 2009... Spectrum San Diego has introduced CarSCAN, an ultra-low-dose dual-energy X-Ray imaging system for detection of explosives, contraband and stowaways in cars and light trucks. The company says the system works with vehicles traveling at normal...

TiaLinx Launches Handheld Millimeter Wave Imager.
May 13, 2009... TiaLinx, Inc., has launched the Eagle60, a handheld, ultra-wideband radio frequency scanner with imaging capability. TiaLinx says the millimeter wave radar will be deployed to address detection of unexploded ordnances and objects behind...

Orsus, Orad Partner to Implement Security Management System in Cypress.
May 13, 2009... Orsus and Israeli systems integrator Orad have partnered to implement Orsus' Situator situation management software at two airports in the Republic of Cypress, Paphos and Larnaka. At Paphos International Airport Orad implemented physical...

Reveal Gets $47M, Rapiscan $3M in First TSA Recovery Act Awards
May 13, 2009... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded Reveal Imaging Technologies a $47 million contract for Explosives Detection Systems (EDS) and OSI Systems' [OSIS] Rapiscan division a $3 million contract for checkpoint X-Ray...

Analogic Receives $16M from L-3 for EDS
May 13, 2009... Analogic [ALOG] has received a $16 million contract from L-3 Communications [LLL] for eXaminer 3DX and eXaminer SX Explosive Detection Systems. The subcontract relates to recent orders by the Transportation Security Administration from L-3 for...

Army Awards GD $34M for JBPDS Production and Support
May 13, 2009... General Dynamics [GD] says its Armament and Technical Products business has received a $34 million contract option for production, testing and field support packages for Joint Biological Point Detection Systems (JBPDS). The option brings the...

American Science Gets $7M in ZBV Contracts
May 13, 2009... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received two contracts totaling $7 million for multiple Z Backscatter Vans and maintenance services. One contract is worth $4.7 million for ZBVs equipped with Forwardscatter technology for use by...

CBP Issues RFP for Multirole Enforcement Aircraft
May 13, 2009... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for up to 40 Multirole Enforcement Aircraft (MEA) that would replace several existing planes used by the agency's Air and Marine Office. CBP wants to buy commercially...

JIEDDO Seeks Sources for Person-Borne IED Sensor Characterization.
May 13, 2009... The Defense Department's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEEDO) is conducting a market survey for a demonstration it is planning to characterize person-borne improvised explosive device sensors against an...

TSA Reopens Evaluation for TWIC Readers.
May 13, 2009... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Reader Pilot Initial Capability Evaluation. The readers, both fixed and handheld, must...

DHS S&T, TSWG Issues RFI for Standoff Optical Techniques for Trace Detection
May 13, 2009... The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate in collaboration with the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office of the Technical Support Working Group has issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding...

State Dept. Plans Task Order Competition for IT Cyber Security Architecture
May 13, 2009... The Department of State plans to compete a task order under and existing Blanket Purchase Agreement with Allied Technology Group, BearingPoint, Booz Allen Hamilton, ICF Inc., and Price Waterhouse Coopers for Enterprise Information Technology...

Air National Guard Issues RFP for UGS System
May 13, 2009... The Air National Guard has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an Unattended Ground System (UGS) that can help protect its bases around the country. The selected system must detect personnel and vehicles, have a low false alarm rate, be...

ICE Soliciting for Mobile Command Vehicles.
May 13, 2009... Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Federal Protective Service, has issued a Request for Proposals for two large and four small Mobile Command Vehicles that will be deployed throughout the continental U.S. Sol. No. HSCEEH- 09-R-00006....

Market Survey for Standoff Chemical Detection.
May 13, 2009... The Army Joint Project Manager for Nuclear Biological Chemical Contamination Avoidance is conducting a market survey regarding concepts and technologies to enhance standoff chemical detection in support of the Joint Contaminated Surface...