Homeland Security

Smiths Detection says that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s (USPIS) has acquired number of the company’s security technologies for use in the Mobile Mail Screening Station that is being deployed […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded four contracts for the development of therapeutic agents for select biodefense pathogens, including awards to Achaogen, Inc. for $26.7 million, […]

U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), the Defense Department’s supply chain overseer, in July began using container security devices (CSDs) supplied by an industry team in order add a layer of security […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has awarded $11.7 million through 13contracts for cyber security research. The awards were made under Broad Agency Announcement 07-09. The […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch next week will begin its first demonstration of an integrated standoff explosives detection architecture under a multi-year program created […]

EF Johnson Technologies [EFJI] has received a $2 million task order from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide submersible Project 25 compliant radios and accessories as part of […]

*Pentagon Acquisition Chief John Young on Sept. 2 issued an Acquisition Decision Memorandum that elevates Defense Department Biometrics as a major acquisition program, or Acquisition Category 1-Special Interest Program. That […]

Goodrich [GR] has received a production contract from General Dynamics [GD] to provide scanner modules and associated data items for the Army’s Joint Services Lightweight Standoff Chemical Agent Detector (JSLSCAD) […]

German air carrier Lufthansa says its cargo unit has acquired 19 Smiths Detection IONSCAN 500DT benchtop dual trace explosives detectors for all of its airport locations in the U.S. as […]

Building upon the Chemical Combat Assessment System and Biological Combat Assessment System programs, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding weapons of mass […]