*FirstLine Transportation Security won a potential $1.3 million contract, including options, to provide private screening services for the Gallup Municipal Airport and the Roswell Industrial Air Center in New Mexico under Transportation Security Administration’s Screening Partnership Program. FirstLine, which also provides security officers at the Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, will provide screening services for both the passenger checkpoint and checked baggage operations at the New Mexico airports. The contract runs through next September.
*The Transportation Security Administration on Nov. 1 will begin enrolling port workers in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. Earlier this month port workers in Wilmington, Del., began applying for their biometric-enabled TWIC cards. Ten more ports are expected to begin TWIC enrollment in November.
*Raytheon [RTN] expects to record about $700 million in homeland security-related sales this year, a 20 percent increase over 2006, William Swanson, the company’s chairman and CEO, says. Bookings related to homeland security are expected to exceed $1 billion by year end, he says. Swanson expects the homeland security business to continue growing next year and cites the United Kingdom’s eBorders project, two border programs in the Middle East and some domestic programs as some of the larger opportunity sets here for Raytheon. A decision on U.K. eBorders is imminent, he adds.
*L-3 Communications [LLL] says that its Security and Detection Systems business will grow over 10% this year. The business had flattened out after it had largely completed supplying Explosive Detection Systems to the Transportation Security Administration following 9/11, Michael Strianese, L-3’s president and CEO, says. The company continues to see 10-plus percent growth moving forward, with airport security being a large part of that, he says.