Smiths Detection Nabs Contract from UAE Group for Cargo and Baggage Scanners
The United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Group Security has awarded Smiths Detection a contract to provide various cargo and baggage X-Ray inspection systems at that group’s facility in Dubai World Central, a purpose-built economic support zone around the new Al Maktoum International Airport. Under the contract, the company supplier four dual view HI-SCAN 180180-300kV-2is medium-energy X-Ray cargo inspection systems for pallets and LD-3 airfreight containers, two dual-view HI-SCAN 100100T-2is systems for screening oversized baggage and bulky freight, and two HI-SCAN 7555si system. The cargo screening system developed for the facility also includes centralized monitoring, where an operator dedicated to each machine works in a closed, isolated central control room analyzing the images. Smiths says the HI-SCAN 100100T-2is deployed for Emirates Group includes the new HI-MAT Plus technology that displays more accurate and better material distinction.
German Airport Orders High-Speed EDS from Morpho Detection
Safran Group’s Morpho Detection business has received an order from the District Government of Upper Bavaria for high-speed CTX 9800 DSi explosives detection systems (EDS) to be deployed at Munich International Airport for hold baggage screening. The compute tomography-based EDS system will be used to screen all passenger checked baggage, which is referred to as Level 1 screening, for select high-risk flights. The deployment will also help the airport prepare for the transition to Standard 3 explosives screening capabilities to meet upcoming European Civil Aviation Conference mandates. Morpho Detection has supplied Munich airport with X-Ray Diffraction Standard 3 EDS for more than 10 years. The CTX deployment is the first in Germany.
WPI Gets $4M from NSF to Train Cyber Security Workforce
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Massachusetts-based Worcester Polytechnic Institute $4.4 billion to develop a program to prepare professionals to address cyber security challenges and threats for the federal government. Funding is being provided by NSF’s CyberCorps: Scholarships for Service initiative, which helps bolster the national cyber security workforce by providing scholarships for 25 undergraduates and graduate students who will commit to government service after graduation. The scholarship program is done in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
Army Awards International Biometric Group $3M for Biometric System
International Biometric Group, LLC, part of Novetta Solutions, has received a $2.7 million contract from the Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command at West Point to develop a biometric authentication system based on non-traditional modalities incorporated in existing active authentication research. This includes research and development of a biometrics application program interface consisting of a secure container for behavioral-based and traditional biometric sensors and analysis engine applications, sensor data fusion algorithms to support a multi-modality active authentication platform, cryptographic algorithms and protocols using biometrics features to support the ability to transmit and receive data security using a key exchange that is client-verified, and data collection support for specific biometric sensors that are part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Desktop and Mobile Active Authentication Program.