General Dynamics [GD] has received a contract from the Transportation Security Administration to provide 50 Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phones, PSTN Connect Modules, and a three-year extended warranty to address requirements of the agency’s Information Technology Communications Security account. The value of the award wasn’t disclosed. GD has been supplying the secure voice technology to TSA since 2014.
Viken Detection
is providing local, underfunded police departments with refurbished HBI-120 handheld X-Ray imagers free or at cost under its VALOR initiative, which stands for Viken Assisting Law-enforcement in the Opioid Response. The company has fielded about 1,000 HBI-120 units globally, including with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Viken has also received its first award for multiple Nighthawk-HBI units with BRS Innovations to supply the Canadian Border Services Agency. The Nighthawk handheld X-Ray imagers can be used for drug interdiction and other security missions.
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has invited 11 technology providers—CyberX, Dispel, Dragos, GreenTec USA, ForeScout Technologies, OSIsoft, Radiflow, SecureNOK, Tenable, TDi Technologies, and VMware—to collaborate on the Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments project. The “collaborators” will work with the NCCoE project team to provide a practical solution to help manufacturers protect their industrial control systems from data integrity attacks. The end result will be a freely available National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Practice Guide with practical steps for implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and industry standards and best practices.
BioFlyte, a New Mexico-based bio-threat detection company, has raised $1.25 million in seed equity financing to accelerate development of its fieldable mass spectrometer that enables miniaturized, low-cost, and low-power detection and identification of airborne microbes and toxins in real-time. Financing was led by the venture capital firm Anzu Partners.