Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab has received two Defense Department contracts worth a combined $1.7 million for support related to cyber security. The largest award, $1.5 million, from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3 and Cyber Architectures, Requirements and Mission Analysis, is to support the functional and acquisition oversight capabilities for cyber space operations in DoD through studies and analyses of DoD programs. The second task order requires studies and analyses to support the functional and acquisition oversight of C3 and cyber warfighting capabilities in DoD.
Customs and Border Protection
has selected General Dynamics’ [GD] Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone over CISCO’s [CSCO] VOIP phone for a contract to provide 46 of the desktop phones that will be located in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, to meet follow-on requirements for a secure communications system. The value of the pending award was not disclosed. The Sectera phones will replace L-3 Communication’s [LLL] Secure Terminal Equipment, which cost $2,800 per unit and require a KSV-21 card, at another $333 per unit. CBP has about 300 STEs deployed nationwide. The Sectera phone doesn’t require the KSV-21 card because it has an electronic encryption key that protects information classified Top Secret and below over commercial, wired networks.
Implant Sciences Corp. [IMSC] has won a competitive bid to provide 14 of its QS-H150 handheld and QS-B220 desktop explosive trace detectors to Minsk National Airport in Belarus. The airport, which can accommodate nearly 3.6 million passengers a year, expanded its infrastructure and security systems ahead of the 2014 Men’s World Ice Hockey Championships this month. The airport is a new customer for Implant Sciences.