*Emergent BioSolutions [EBS] received a $400 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide 18.75 million doses of the anthrax vaccine BioThrax through Sept. 2010 for the strategic national stockpile. Contract terms also include an additional $34 million if the ...

Project Seahawk, the Department of Justice administered unified intelligence operations center for the Port of Charleston, S.C., has deployed the OmniView Gantry X-Ray system for the inspection of high risk cargo containers entering the port. OmniView is the most powerful X-Ray inspection system ...

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has completed the installation of a new computer-aided dispatch system and the company's CommandPoint Mobile applications for the Los Angeles Police Department. CommandPoint Mobile interfaces between the command center and field units, providing public safety personnel with ...

Canberra has introduced the Falcon 5000, the company's first portable germanium-based nuclear identifier, which can detect, locate and identify radiation. The battery cooled device includes Canberra's Genie 2000 gamma analysis software and easy to use control functions. The device can operate for ...

Aion Technologies, a subsidiary of Taiwan Secom Co., Ltd., has begun to market its vein recognition reader, company officials tell TR2 at the recent ASIS security conference in Las Vegas. Aion is seeking a U.S. distributor for INVERAS, which combines the reader, controller and access control device ...

Catcher Holdings, Inc. [CTHH] has agreed to acquire Vivato Networks, Inc., a provider of indoor and outdoor extended-range wireless network infrastructure equipment and services. The deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007, will allow Catcher to provide more complete ...

General Electric [GE] has installed its CommerceGuard tracking and detection system at the Port of Oakland in California to monitor shipping containers equipped with the company's container security devices (CSD). GE says that over 20 ports internationally have the CommerceGuard network installed. ...

IBM [IBM] won a $98.5 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under a potential five-year, $1 billion award to improve information sharing within the agency. The contract was awarded to meet the Operational Applications Support and Information Services requirement ...

The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] a $28.5 million contract modification to provide for an increase in identiFINDER quantities from 160 to 362. Work will be performed in Germany and is expected to be completed by June 2012. The identiFINDER is a lightweight, ...

American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received $19.4 million in new contracts, including a $13.1 million service and maintenance renewal order from the Defense Department to support its fleet of Z Backscatter Vans (ZBVs). Most of the ZBVs are located in "high risk areas," the company says. ...