L-3 Wins Recompete for C4ISR Systems for Fast Response Cutters
L-3 Communications [LLL] has it has won a recompete to supply the C4ISR system for the final phase of the Coast Guard’s Fast Response Cutter (FRC) program. L-3 says the potential nine-year $160 million contract was awarded by Bollinger Shipyards, which is the prime contractor on the Sentinel-class FRC. L-3 was the incumbent C4ISR integrator for the first 32 FRCs the Coast Guard is buying from Bollinger in Phase 1 of the program. In May Bollinger was awarded a $1.4 billion contract from the Coast Guard to supply the last 26 FRCs under the planned 58 ship buy. Under its contract with Bollinger, L-3 will provide initial design upgrades to the FRC, including the antenna arrangement and analysis, exterior communications and other situational enhancements. The company will also deliver, install and support the integrated bridge, interior and exterior communications systems, and distributed navigation equipment. L-3 will also provide training of the FRC crews at its site in Camden, N.J., and will provide post-delivery warranty support at each cutter’s homeport.
CBP Awards FLIR $16M for Mobile Surveillance Capability Support
FLIR Systems Inc. [FLIR] has received a $15.7 million contract from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to provide various products and services related to the company’s Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC) systems it has provided the agency for border security. Under the contract FLIR will provide technical document package, maintenance training, software maintenance, operator training, repair, spare parts, and engineering change proposals. Each MSC system consists of an integrated suite of sensor equipment attached to a flat skid cargo bed of a government furnished 4×4 truck with an operator work station located inside the cabin. Between FY ’13 and so far in FY ’16 FLIR has delivered 61 MSCs that are deployed in the Tucson and San Diego Border Patrol sectors. FLIR is slated to deliver 13 more MSCs this year with deployments in the Yuma and El Centro sectors.
DHS S&T Awards $4M for Privacy Enhancing Technology
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has awarded three contracts totaling $3.7 million for research and development of privacy-enhancing technology that better defends personally identifying information and protect privacy in cyberspace. Yale Univ. is receiving $1.7 million for research to help protect the identity and location of individuals against malicious tracking and surveillance, Raytheon’s [RTN] BBN Technologies unit is receiving $1.3 million on technology for performing multiple online searches simultaneously to facilitate information sharing while preserving privacy, and the International Computer Science Institute is getting $665,000 to develop technology that will detect privacy intrusions on mobile devices and alert the device owner to protect their private information. For the Raytheon project, S&T says it is partnering with the Israel National Cyber Bureau. The projects are part of S&T’s Cyber Security Division’s Data Privacy program, which works with cyber security researchers to develop innovative, easy-to-use and cost-effective privacy-enhancing technologies that can be quickly deployed in the public and private sectors.
Colombia Acquires Morpho Detection’s MobileTrace for Port Security
Safran Group’s Morpho Detection says 12 of its hardened MobileTrace handheld explosives trace detectors (ETDs) have been deployed to screen for explosives and narcotics at seaports throughout Colombia. “We selected Morpho Detection because we felt they had the best technology combined with great local presence and support,” says Carlos Montoya, IT Director-Terminal de contenedores de Buenaventura TCBuen. “Throughout this process they have been very proactive with meeting our precise specifications and timelines.” The work was awarded to Morpho Detection’s local authorized distributor Magna Seguridad Electronica Sa. The value of the contract wasn’t disclosed.
DHS S&T Increases Value of Task Order to Noblis for Support of Explosives Division
Noblis Inc. has received an additional $1.4 million under an existing task order from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology branch related to work the company did for S&T’s now disbanded Resilient Systems Division and has been transferred to the Explosives Division. Noblis provides systems engineering and technical assistance support to the Explosives Division, just as it did to the Resilient Systems Division. The work for the Explosives Division supports the Apex Screening at Speed program. The increase in funding takes the total value of the task order to $11.8 million. The task order work ends on July 9, 2017.
Coast Guard Awards Rockwell Collins $2M for HC-144 Avionics
Rockwell Collins [COL] has received a $2.3 million contract from the Coast Guard to refresh avionics components on the service’s HC-144A Ocean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft. The company’s avionics support a number of the service’s fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.