Two Six Labs, LLC has received a potential $13.4 million contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a wide-area, continuous, radiation threat monitoring network system under the SIGMA program. Under the two-year Phase 2 award, Two Six will scale up its prototype system to optimize the system architecture, adds support for new sensor types such as chemical and biological threats, ingest additional streams of contextual information and support data fusion. A key goal of Phase 2 is to scale up the system to support city-scale deployments.
OSI Systems [OSIS] says the turnkey screening services program it provides to Albania helped that country’s customs and police officials seize 1,350-pounds of cocaine hat was being smuggled into the country. The company says the drugs were hidden in a false floor of a produce shipment and detected by Rapiscan Eagle scanning systems. The estimated value of the seizure was $220 million.
The Univ. of Surrey in England has received a $1.1 million research grant from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency to research new types of nano-materials to be used as highly sensitive radiation detectors. The nano-composite organic scintillators have the potential to be used in next-generation radiation detectors due to their high yields and sensitivity to nuclear radiation.
The Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration are increasing by up to $2.2 million a task order awarded to Enterprise Services, LLC, under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program related to work for seven federal departments and agencies. The ceiling value of the company’s overall task order is being increased to $27.9 million. The government says the increase is necessary because the contractor found large discrepancies between the IT work that was advertised and the actual IT network architecture.