TSA Awards Support Contracts for Imaging Equipment
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded seven single awardee indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for technical and engineering services to support the agency’s fleet of security technology for checkpoint and checked baggage screening. The individual award values were not disclosed although the potential total over five years is $215.1 million, the agency says. Under the respective awards: CEIA will support its Walk Through Metal Detectors and Bottle Liquid Scanners; L3 Technologies [LLL]will provide support for its Quantum Sniffer B220 explosives trace detectors, ProVision body scanners, eXaminer medium speed and reduced size explosive detection systems, and ACX Advanced Technology X-Ray systems; Smiths Detection will support its medium speed and reduced size explosive detection systems, and Itemizer and IONSCAN ETDs, 6040 aTiX AT X-Ray systems; and bottle liquid scanners; OSI Systems’ [OSIS] Rapiscan Systems division will support its AT X-Ray systems; and Leidos [LDOS] will supports its Reduced Size X-Ray Systems. Smiths recently acquired the Itemiser ETDs as part of its acquisition of Morpho Detection. The Itemiser assets have to be divested per regulatory conditions. Under the potential award value, $39.4 million is for information technology security.
OSI Systems Receives $7M for Checkpoint Inspection Systems
OSI Systems [OSIS] says it Rapiscan Systems division has received a multi0year contract worth about $7 million to provide 620XR baggage and parcel X-Ray inspection systems to an international airport authority. The award includes follow-on maintenance and support services.
Decision Sciences Nabs Singapore Contract for Container Scanning System
Decision Sciences International Corp. says the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs has awarded the company a contract to deploy the Multi-Mode Passive Detection Systems Generation 3 (MMPDS Gen3) cargo inspection system at the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). The system at the ICA Ports Command is expected to be the first of many in Singapore to combat smuggling and enhance security, the company says. The MMPDS Gen3 combines passive cosmic rat tomography and gamma detection capabilities to detect, locate and identify unshielded and shielded radiological and nuclear materials, explosives, narcotics, cigarettes and other contraband. The ICA is the world’s largest transshipment hub. “This contract is a watershed industry event,” says Dwight Johnson, president and CEO of Decision Sciences. “Coming shortly after our announcement of a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office for deployment of the MMPDS Gen3 in the United States, this Singapore contract highlights the growing appreciation of the transformative benefits of the MMPDS Gen3 by sophisticated and forward thinking customers around the world.” The system also features advanced machine learning algorithms. And as the threat or contraband type changes, it’s software library can be updated to help identify additional materials of interest, the company says.
IARPA Awards Crossmatch $6M for Biometric Spoofing Detection Technologies
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) has awarded Crossmatch a $5.8 million contract to develop next-generation biometric spoofing detection technologies under the agency’s Thor program. Presentation Attacks attempt to circumvent the protection of a biometric system by falsely representing biometric data in such a way as to gain access or avoid identification. The goal of the Thor program is to develop reliable Presentation Attack Detection technologies that are difficult to deceive when someone attempts to disguise their true biometric identity in order to game the system, the company says. Crossmatch says existing PAD capabilities that are part of biometric products fall short when it comes to raising the entry barrier to known and unknown spoofing attacks. Research and development under the contract will be ongoing through early 2021.
Navy to Award Operational Intelligence Contract for Identity Operations Support
The Navy plans to award a contract to Operational Intelligence, LLC, to provide identity operations sustainment support to the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations Security Division. The division is responsible for generating, implementing, and measuring the effectiveness of service policy governing the Marine Corps Identity Operations programs and serves as advocate. The division need technical and analytical support in the following mission areas: continental U.S. based identity operations programs; exploitation and expeditionary forensics; maritime identity operations; headquarters/command and control identity operations; and identity intelligence. The contract will have a base-year and two one-year options. Operational Intelligence is a women-owned small business.
Guardtime Federal to Supply Cyber Technology to Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has contracted Guardtime Federal as a key supplier of cyber security elements into systems engineering processes, supply chain risk management, and software development efforts. Lockheed Martin says the contract makes it the first U.S. defense contractor to incorporate blockchain technology into its processes, which enables more assured offerings to the federal government. Since 2015, the two companies have conducted demonstrations of data integrity technologies to address the threat of manipulation in networked and weapons system embedded cyber physical systems. The companies have been engaged in ongoing assessments to address the continued evolution of cyber-focused threats across the entire development and fielding lifecycle. Guardtime is providing its Black Lantern appliances and blockchain infrastructure.
DHS S&T Awards Small Contracts to Improve sUAS Security
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded two contracts worth more than $350,000 combined to improve the security of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). The awards were made under its Silicon Valley Innovation Program Other Transaction Solicitation, which is aimed at non-traditional performers to offer solutions for homeland security missions. Ohio-based Asymmetric Technologies, LLC, received $199,814 to develop a platform-agnostic Secure UAS Flight Controller and improve the cyber security of Customs and Border Protection-deployed commercial sUAS systems. In the other award, San Diego-based Planck Aerosystems Inc., received $152,512 to build a fully autonomous, truck-based, search, surveillance, and data delivery platform for DHS applications. The system will be operated from a dash-mounted user interface and deliver real-time video and object detection to drivers and passengers, without the need for a dedicated pilot or extensive operator training. This award is also in support of CBP’s sUAS capabilities.