Terror Response Technology Report articles from May 2011

Terror Response Technology Report archives from May 2011

Briefing
May 25, 2011... *Cross Match Technologies has entered into an agreement with the National Public Administration of Argentina to support the deployment of identity management systems throughout the country. Cross Match says it will provide guidance in the...

Georgia Tech to Lead $10M DHS Effort Related to Open Cyber Security
May 25, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate selected the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to lead a five- year, $10 million effort for researching open source software. Under the Homeland Open...

VeriTainer Introduces Scaled Down Crane-Mounted Rad Detector
May 25, 2011... VeriTainer Corp., the company that developed the VeriSpreader crane- mounted system for detecting nuclear and radiological materials inside shipping containers, has introduced a low-cost variant of the system capable of detecting highly...

DHS Cancels Solicitation for Financial Management System amid New Requirements
May 25, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this month canceled a solicitation for a financial management system that it had awarded to CACI International [CACI] last fall, an award that was overturned by the Government Accountability Office...

Earnings News and Notes
May 25, 2011... L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] 1Q11 1Q10 Sales $97.2M $94.6M Net Inc. (10.8M, 0.12) (7.5M, 0.09) Sales rose 3% driven by gains in its services business--mainly for state and local government agencies--and its...

Massachusetts State Police to Pilot Test AS&E's Small X-Ray System
May 25, 2011... The Massachusetts State Police are set to pilot test a miniaturized backscatter imaging system under development by American Science and Engineering [ASEI]. The Advanced X-Ray Imaging Single-sided System (AXISS) is being developed through the...

SAIC to Trial CarScan Portal in Middle East
May 25, 2011... Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] is trialing several units of its VACIS XPL passenger vehicle scanning system--which is the CarScan product that it acquired through its acquisition of Spectrum San Diego last year--in the Middle...

Implant Sciences Launches Bench-Top Explosives and Narcotics Trace Detector
May 25, 2011... Implant Sciences [IMSC] has introduced a bench-top explosives and narcotics trace detector, the Quantum Sniffer QS-B220, it plans to offer for checkpoint screening applications worldwide. The B220 doubles Implant's product portfolio to two...

Telephonics Introduces New Radar to Detect Ultralight Aircraft
May 25, 2011... Telephonics has introduced the ThreatSTALKER Mobile Surveillance Capability (TMSC)-25 Active Electronically Scanned Antenna (AESA) radar system for detecting low radar cross section ultra light aircraft. Telephonics, a division of Griffon...

Camber Acquires Cyber Training Business from EADS North America
May 25, 2011... Camber Corp. has acquired a subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co.'s (EADS) North America division that provides products and services that allow for network security defenders to test and train without having to use...

ITT Completes Production Acceptance Testing for Swedish Coastal Surveillance System
May 25, 2011... ITT Corp. [ITT] has successfully completed production acceptance testing for the first system in the modernization of Sweden's coastal surveillance radar systems. In 2008, ITT began a series of design upgrades based on its new LCR- 2020 radar...

Paragon Systems Gets $51M Order to Supply FPS with Guard Services.
May 25, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service (FPS) has awarded Paragon Systems, Inc., a $51.3 million contract to provide protective security officer services for the department's Nebraska Avenue Complex in Washington,...

OSI Systems Gets New Awards for Rail Scanning, Service
May 25, 2011... OSI Systems [OSIS] says it has received two new contracts, one to supply a rail scanning system and another for $4 million to maintain its Secure 1000 whole body imagers. The company's Rapiscan Systems division has received a multimillion...

Implant Sciences Nabs Additional Quantum Sniffer Orders
May 25, 2011... Implant Sciences Corp. [IMSC] has received a number of orders worth a combined $2.6 million to supply its handheld Quantum Sniffer QS-H150 explosives trace detectors to customers in China and several other countries. Under a $1.3 million...

DoD Awards Smiths Detection $30M for Lightweight Chem Detectors
May 25, 2011... The Defense Department has awarded Smiths Detection a $30 million contract for the enhanced M4A1 Joint Chemical Agent Detector, bringing the company's awards under the program to over $350 million. Smiths began delivering the new devices,...

Environmental Tectonics Gets Award from Maryland County for Simulator
May 25, 2011... Environmental Tectonics Corp.'s [ETCC] ETC Simulation Division has received a contract from Carroll County, Md., for an Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS). ETC says that its ADMS-COMMAND US training system offers simulated...

DHS TSL Awards Bridge Contract to Small Firm.
May 25, 2011... Global Systems Technologies (GST) has received a $1.6 million contract extension from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) to continue to provide research and development support in the areas of...

TSA Releases RFP for TTAC Infrastructure Modernization
May 25, 2011... As expected, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released the Request for Proposals to consolidate enrollment services at the agency's Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing (TTAC). The government plans...

Air Force Issues RFI for Cyber OT&E and Range Support
May 25, 2011... The Air Force has issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding potential sources that can support a network warfare operations/cyber operational test squadron at Lackland AFB, Texas. The primary mission of any potential offerors will be to...

DHS Seeks Small Business Research Ideas.
May 25, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research Program Office is inviting small businesses to submit proposals in a number of homeland security-related topic areas. DHS would also like these firms to be able to...

DHS Plans ID/IQ Awards for Personal Body Armor.
May 25, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to award five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts as a small business set-aside for the purchase of personal body armor for all agencies. DHS plans to buy about 72,750...

DHS Plans Technology Day for CBP Tactical Wireless Systems.
May 25, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Wireless Systems Program office are hosting a Technology Day on May 24-26 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center, in...

DNDO Plans RFQ for SETA and SESP Support
May 25, 2011... The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) plans to issue a Request for Quotations in July for two separate efforts, one for Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and the other for the Systems Engineering Support Program...

Coast Guard C4IT Service Center Plans Industry Day.
May 25, 2011... The Coast Guard C4 Information Technology Service Center plans to hold an Industry Day on Aug. 17 at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., in Arlington, Va. The center will provide advance acquisition planning information to the...

Briefing
May 11, 2011... *The Coast Guard has awarded a potential five-year, $32.4 million contract to the full-service advertising agency Laughlin, Marinaccio & Owens. The Northern Virginia-based firm is being retained to provide services and support such as...

L-3 Chief Says Airport Testing of AIT Auto Target Detection Successful
May 11, 2011... The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) testing of automated target detection (ATD) algorithms on whole body imagers in three airports has been "successful," according to Michael Strianese, chairman, president and CEO of L-3...

TSA Pegs TTAC Infrastructure Modernization Contract at $140 Million
May 11, 2011... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this month plans to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a new effort aimed at consolidating enrollment services for multiple programs at the agency's Office of Transportation Threat...

Smiths Detection Offers Air Cargo Screeners Network Security Solution
May 11, 2011... Responding to demand from its customers for ways to automate security reporting and to network different pieces of security equipment, Smiths Detection has introduced its FirstView-LINX security software platform for air cargo screening. ...

Earnings News and Notes
May 11, 2011... American Science and Engineering [ASEI] 4Q11 4Q10 FY11 FY10 Sales $67.7M $71.3M $278.6M $242.1M Net Inc. $9.6M, 1.03 $12.3M, 1.34 $42.8M, 4.63 $36.2M, 3.97 Net income in the...

Smiths Detection Offers New Handheld Radiation Detector
May 11, 2011... Smiths Detection has launched a new handheld radiation detector called RadSeeker that was developed using internal funds and with funding from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) for customs, Coast Guard, law enforcement and...

Telephonics Says CBP Ready for Deliveries of Mobile Surveillance Systems
May 11, 2011... Telephonics Corp. says it has received approval from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to begin supplying the Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC) systems for use on the nation's southwest border. Late last year CBP awarded Telephonics a...

Telos Offering New Version of Mobile Identity Enrollment Platform
May 11, 2011... Telos ID says its Identity Management Solutions unit is offering a new version of the Smartmatic PARmobile platform, a mobile, all-in-one identity enrollment and capture solution. The new unit features a larger hard drive and multiple biobay...

L-3 Upgrades EDS Systems to Meet EU Standard 2 Requirements.
May 11, 2011... L-3 Communications [LLL] says it has upgraded over 100 of its VIS-108 automated explosives detection systems (EDS) to VIS-HR EDS systems that meet European Union Standard 2 requirements. The field upgrade consists of replacing select software...

Mistral Completes Blast Testing on New Line of Blast Resistant Trash Cans
May 11, 2011... Mistral Security Inc. has successfully completed blast testing on its new product line of Blast Resistant Trash Receptacles based on new design and test standards created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and commissioned...

USIS in Teaming Agreement with Univ. of Arizona to Develop New Investigative Tools
May 11, 2011... Background investigations provider USIS has signed a teaming agreement with the National Center of Border Security and Immigration (BORDERS) at the Univ. of Arizona to develop new investigative tools that will enable agencies to conduct...

iPhone App for Radiation Exposure
May 11, 2011... Scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia and a small California firm have developed an application for the iPhone that provides real- time information about exposure to radiation from solar activity and other sources from...

DHS Awards Local Grants for Interoperable Communications in Border Areas
May 11, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced $25.5 million in grant funding under the Border Interoperability Demonstration Project (BIDP) for localities to strengthen interoperable emergency communications along the U.S. borders...

OSI Systems Receives $12M Contract from DHS for Air Cargo Screening.
May 11, 2011... The logistics firm DHL has awarded OSI Systems [OSIS] a $12 million contract to provide multiple X-Ray inspection systems for the screening of air cargo across Europe. OSI System's Rapiscan Systems division will supply high- speed MVXR 5000...

CACI Nabs $41M Info Assurance Award from Army.
May 11, 2011... CACI International [CACI] says it has received a three-year, $41 million contract from the Army to support information assurance and cryptographic programs for the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center. The...

CBP to Order Explosives Detectors from American Innovations
May 11, 2011... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it plans to negotiate a sole- source contract with the small firm American Innovations, Inc., for portable explosives detectors to supplement existing weapons of mass destruction equipment. The...

GSA Plans RFP for DHS Operations Center Construction at St. E's
May 11, 2011... The General Services Administration (GSA) plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the for the construction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Operations Center as part of the DHS headquarters consolidation at the St....

TSA Seeks Info on Automated Clearance of Low Density Items by X-Ray Systems
May 11, 2011... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a Request for Information regarding a number of concepts related to automatically clearing low density and low threat items using X-Ray systems at airport checkpoints. The agency is...

DHS Issues RFI for End-to-End ID Credential and Access Management Solution
May 11, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Offices of the Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer have issued a Request for Information (RFI) for an end-to-end identity credential and access management solution to include personal...

DHS Plans Small Business Events for Advanced Acquisition Planning
May 11, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in support of the White House Initiative on Small Business Contracting, is hosting two small business events to provide small business advanced acquisition planning information to industry. The...

TSA Seeks Small Business Help with Critical Incident Response Services.
May 11, 2011... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Air Marshal Service plan to issue a Request for Proposals for a potential five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for Critical Incident Response and Training...

CBP Seeking Sources to Re-Engineer Automated Commercial System
May 11, 2011... Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information regarding potential sources for a less expensive and more efficient hardware and database platform to operate and maintain its Automated Commercial System, which is a...

DHS Seeks Program Management Support for HSIN
May 11, 2011... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking qualified business sources in anticipation of a future requirement to provide overall program management, development oversight, technical direction, and program support for the Homeland...