http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 8:32:22 EDT By Calvin Biesecker ManTech International [MANT] this week established a new subsidiary that will focus on the development and marketing of new cyber products and solutions for its federal, state, local and commercial customers. The new business is called... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7447.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) selected Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics [GD], SAIC [SAI] and SRA International [SRX] to compete for task orders under a $388.9 million contract ceiling in support of the National Communications System. The... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7435.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Senate moved yesterday to add funding to the Coast Guard's budget, not requested by the Obama administration, for rehabbing a polar icebreaker that has been drydocked for three years. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen testified... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7436.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT *Raytheon [RTN] has received a $1.2 million contract from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) for an eight month, phase two effort to develop a capability for Stand-Off Warning Against Radiological Materials (SWARM). "The team is developing modeling... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7396.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT A House proposal that would shift the responsibility for testing of automated biological detection systems from one agency in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to another would likely lead to further program delays, says the official in charge of the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7397.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT As of now the costs of replacing existing radiation portal monitors with next-generation systems outweigh the benefits and the newer systems have only showed marginal improvements over those currently deployed, according to separate reports issued late last... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7398.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Smiths Detection says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has certified its HI-SCAN 100100T-2is dual view X-Ray systems for screening air cargo, giving the company seven products on the List of Candidate Air Cargo Screening... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7399.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT General Electric [GE] says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has certified its Itemiser DX desktop explosive trace detector following testing at the Department of Homeland Security Transportation... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7400.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed two Reveal Imaging Technologies CT-80 explosives detection systems to screen checked baggage at Evansville Regional Airport in... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7401.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT ARINC Inc. and its partner Impeva Labs have successfully demonstrated continuous real-time visibility of more than 900 electronic asset tags distributed across a half-a-square-kilometer test site at Moffett Field, Calif., using a large mesh network. The test... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7402.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT] in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate is developing a tunnel location capability using ground penetrating radar mounted in a trailer towed by a truck operated by Border Patrol... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7403.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) says it has won a large contract to be the System Integration Engineer on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Border project, providing command, control, surveillance and related solutions along 5,600 miles of the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7404.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Department of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has selected five firms to provide... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7405.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Smiths Detection has won over $20 million in contracts to provide automatic explosives detection equipment and checkpoint X-Ray systems at Qatar's New Doha International Airport that is currently under construction. The security systems are slated to... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7406.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT ACG Systems, Inc., has received a three-year, $10.9 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to provide Whisper... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7407.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The U.S. Army has awarded ICx Technologies [ICXT] a $6.8 million contract to provide Fido XTi explosives detection systems for use by the Afghan... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7408.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Israel's Magal Security Systems, Ltd., says it has received purchase orders to provide security systems for airport, border and critical infrastructure protection. The largest order, $4.6 million, is for... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7409.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Pranalytica, Inc., a $3.3 million contract to continue development of High Efficiency Mid- Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers under the Efficient Midinfrared Laser (EMIL) program. The... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7410.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to determine sources of mobile surveillance capabilities--either commercial-off-the-shelf or government-off-the-shelf--to detect illegal border crossings... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7411.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has issued two Requests for Proposals (RFP) for two five-year contract vehicles worth a potential $485 million combined that would permit various work done in the chemical, biological, radiological... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/homeland_defense/7412.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT