Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] has received a potential $1.4 million task order from the Department of Homeland Security to continue providing on-site technical, program and financial management support to the Science and Technology Directorate’s First Responder’s Group. The award includes a two-month base period and two-one month options, extending existing work until Sept. 30 when a new competitive task order is expected to be in place. The agency had awarded a new contract to Noblis, Inc. in March, but that award was protested, necessitating the additional task order to Booz Allen.

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office has awarded RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC $964,846 contract for exploratory research related to the reduction in cost of existing near-term nuclear/radiological threat detection systems. The title of RadiaBeam’s work is “Inexpensive, High-Performance Betatron X-Ray Source.”

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology has awarded $2 million in competitive Phase 1 research projects to 20 small businesses under its Small Business Innovation Research program. The awards were made in six topic areas: DNA and latent fingerprint collection from the same sample; low-cost, disposable, tamper-proof bolt seal; enhanced distributed denial of service defense; privacy protecting analytics for the Internet of Things; a wearable communications hub designed to streamline and improve first responder communication capabilities; and canine mounted track and transmit device. Phase II awards may be made to companies based on results from Phase 1.