$15m to perform nuclear remediation services

Homeland Security Capital Corporation's environmental remediation subsidiary, Safety and Ecology Corporation (SEC) has been awarded a task order valued at $15.2M to perform nuclear remediation services for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District. This project is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Contracted by the Army Corps through the Buffalo District, SEC will be performing remediation activities to include excavation, rail transportation, disposal, backfill, site restoration, site analysis and health & safety activities.

One millionth automated manifest system

LaserCard (www.lasercard.com) has shipped its one millionth automated manifest system (AMS) card, used for securely identifying contents of U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) shipping containers. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) recently renewed the AMS contract for three years through prime contractor General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics.

$15m for National Gang Intelligence

Sim-G Technologies has been awarded an order by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to design, develop, deploy, operate and maintain the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) Information System (IS). The task order, awarded under the GSA Alliant Small Business Contract, has an estimated value of $15 million over five years if all options are exercised.

$2.7m spend by FDA

PPD, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) post-market spontaneous adverse event surveillance system. The company will conduct a thorough evaluation of the value of the spontaneous adverse event reports to support safety-related regulatory actions and report its findings to the FDA and the public. The award of $2.7 million for year one, is part of a two-year project of FDA’s Initiative for Maximizing the Benefit of Passive Adverse Event Collection throughout a Product’s Life Cycle (IMPACT). IMPACT, launched in 2008, is intended to fulfill a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) IV commitment.

Handheld biometric readers sold

MaxID and CoreStreet have sold ten iDLMaxG TWIC-accredited handheld biometric reader devices to the United States Coast Guard. The iDLMaxG units delivered to the Coast Guard are bundled with the CoreStreet PIVMAN Client software, which provides a TWIC-compatible solution that has been in operational use for more than three years in the DoD, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), various states, and is on the FIPS 201 Approved Products List.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Envisage Technologies will implement its Acadis® Readiness Suite at six U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) law enforcement training academies across the United States thanks to a contract award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Meka Seawright, chief of the Technology Resource Branch for the Office of Training Development (OTD). CBP is one of the Department of Homeland Security’s largest and most complex agencies, with over 41,000 employees to manage, control and protect the Nation’s borders. Its priority mission is to keep terrorists and their weapons out of the United States. Its responsibilities include securing and facilitating trade and travel and enforcing hundreds of federal regulations, including immigration and drug laws. OTD is responsible for centralized leadership and direction of all Customs and Border Protection (CBP) training programs and establishes standards and policies for designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating training.

$19.3 million order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection

American Science and Engineering, Inc. has won a $19.3 million order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for multiple Z Backscatter^™ Vans (ZBV^™). The ZBV allows for immediate deployment in response to security threats and its high throughput capability facilitates rapid inspection. The system’s “drive-by” capability allows operators to conduct X-ray imaging while the ZBV drives past suspect vehicles and objects. For personnel safety in dangerous environments, a remote console is available for operating the system in stationary mode from a distance of up to 500 meters.

$98.8 million DHS contract

ManTech has been awarded an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide a full range of program management support services to the nation's Secure Border Initiative (SBI). The competitively awarded, single-award IDIQ program has a base-year and two option years and a total potential value of $98.8 million.

Hawaii Air National Guard

Telos^® Corporation will employ its SE7EN Application Development Framework to provide custom development of a multi-touch, multi-user, computing application for the Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG). The solution will enhance HIANG’s ability to access complex geomapping data and to share it with collaborating agencies. (Col. Joe Garnett, commander of the 201^st Combat Communications Group, Hawaii Air National Guard.)

Verification solutions in Florida

Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Florida has chosen Medversant Technologies’ OneSource Web-based credentials verification solutions in an effort to streamline administrative processes, reduce costs, and gain real-time access to continuously verified provider information. OneSource automates physician credentials verification and allows the records to be viewed in real time through a Web-based platform that is updated and available 24/7. The technology allows for transparency, which is critical for the full outsourcing of this important business process. Provider data is continuously monitored and updated, and includes an automatic status alert when changes occur.

Increased security and streamlined access

Naval Air Station Lemoore has implemented the RAPIDGate Program to increase security and streamline access for the thousands of vendors, suppliers, service providers and contractors who access the installation. The program includes company enrollment, employee registration, employment status validation, identity authentication, background screening, biometric verification, and entry authorization for vendor, supplier, service provider and contractor employees that are not authorized a Common Access Card (CAC).

$25 million for checkpoint security screening

Rapiscan Systems has received an order from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration valued at approximately $25 million for multiple units of its Secure 1000 Single Pose advanced checkpoint security screening solution. The order is the first to be placed under the terms of OSI’s recently awarded, $173M Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration for Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) solutions.

$4.4 million for U.S. Navy

Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. has received from the U.S. Navy a contract modification adding $4,483,398 of additional funding for the Company's Floating Area Network (FAN) and Littoral Sensor Grid wireless security buoy technology. The wireless security buoys provide a high-capacity communications network grid to provide real-time monitoring for marine environments. The buoys can include sensors for both environmental and homeland security purposes, including Water Quality, Oil Spill detection and Dirty Bomb detection.

$6.2 million for mobile biometric recognition

L-1 Identity Solutions has received a $6.2 million task order for HIIDE mobile biometric recognition devices to be deployed in areas of conflict as part of an existing customer agreement. Approximately half of the order is expected to ship in the fourth quarter with the remaining units expected to ship in the first half of 2010.

Missing girl found

When a nine year old local Sandy girl was reported missing in this Salt Lake City suburb in the heart of the Wasatch Mountains, the Sandy Police Department (SPD) was able to use the department’s new state-of-the-art wireless mesh video surveillance network to track her path. The system allowed the department to survey a vast portion of the city which narrowed the search area and decreased the time it took to locate the girl and return her to her family. The surveillance system, which was deployed by Salt Lake City’s AlphaCorp Security using Firetide wireless infrastructure mesh equipment, was initially installed by the SPD to monitor the town’s main State Street corridor, parks and business districts. Because the wireless network has been a resounding success for the community’s public safety goals, the network is building upon the interest from other municipal groups as they realize its value. (Sandy Police Chief Stephen Chapman.)

$1.8 million spend by DEA

WidePoint Corporation, a provider of advanced information technology, identity assurance and protection, and mobile telecom expense management (TEM) services, said today that its subsidiary, iSYS, LLC has been awarded its first contract with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The five-year agreement is initially worth approximately $1.8 million in support of the DEA’s Office of Information Systems.

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms wins $1.7m deal

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has received an initial order valued at $1.7 million from Northrop Grumman Information Technology TASC for systems featuring GE Fanuc’s CL11 single board computers and ICS-1555A high speed AD (analog-to-digital) PMCs. A total of 216 systems is expected to be ordered over a five-year period, making the long term value an anticipated $7.5 million. The GE Fanuc systems will be integrated by Northrop Grumman into signals intelligence solutions to support intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) information in tactical environments.

St Petersburg to share crime data

St. Petersburg, Floirda has become the 500^th law enforcement agency to share crime data with the public through CrimeReports.com. St. Petersburg joins other agencies that have chosen to inform and engage their citizens through timely, block-level crime data. The city’s 250,000 residents can now more fully benefit from the St. Petersburg Police Department’s continued commitment to cutting–edge technology and community outreach efforts and local neighborhood watch efforts have gained a valuable tool that will enable them to work more closely with officers to keep their communities safe. (Chief Charles Harmon.)

Major League Soccer tackles counterfeits

Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level professional soccer league in the United States, has extended its partnership with OpSec Security to acquire expanded services for anti-counterfeiting and brand licensing management. “All of our licensed merchandise totaling $300M in sales is protected by our product authentication program. OpSec’s advanced anti-counterfeiting holograms are a recognized symbol of authenticity for consumers to identify genuine MLS merchandise,” said Stuart Crystal, Vice President of Consumer Products, MLS. MLS’ holographic labels use overt and covert anti-counterfeiting technologies to provide a deterrent to counterfeiting. It also provides a convenient means for fans to identify genuine merchandise from fakes.

Headquartered in New York City, Major League Soccer is the top-level professional soccer league in the United States and features many stars from the United States and around the world. The League's 14th season kicked off on March 19, 2009. The 15 teams in MLS are: the Chicago Fire, Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Red Bull New York, New England Revolution, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Toronto FC, and the newest team that debuted this year, Seattle Sounders FC. MLS continues to grow as the Philadelphia Union will begin play in 2010 and teams in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Portland, Oregon will become the 17th and 18th clubs in 2011. For more information about MLS, log on to the League's official web site at www.MLSnet.com.

USDA BPA up to $30 million

ManTech International Corporation is one of six companies awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide cyber security support. The BPA has a one-year base period, four one-year options and an initial ceiling value of $30 million for all six firms. ManTech was also recently awarded its first two task orders under this BPA. The first, to provide a vulnerability assessment of several USDA applications, is valued at $41,000. The second is a four-year contract to provide computer forensic support to the Agriculture Security Operations Center valued at $1.3 million. ManTech will continue to compete to assist the USDA in implementing new cyber security measures to ensure the proactive protection and security of its networks, applications and hardware. These measures will include identifying security vulnerabilities, responding to attacks against agency resources and implementing corrective action accordingly.