http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2008 Sat, 17 May 2008 11:11:27 EDT Emergent BioSolutions [EBS] has acquired the assets and rights to a recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology from VaxGen, Inc. [VXGN] for $2 million plus a potential additional $8 million in milestone... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2649.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Transportation Security Administration has begun 90-day employee screening pilot programs at seven airports to test various methods for enhancing aviation security. At Boston's Logan International Airport TSA will conduct 100 percent physical employee and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2650.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Legislation introduced by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) would require the Department of Homeland Security to form a working group with industry stakeholders to help find the best way for airports nationwide to deploy... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2651.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT IBM [IBM] has joined the Lockheed Martin [LMT] team that earlier this year won the FBI's potential $1 billion program to develop and implement the multi-modal Next Generation... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2652.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Aethlon Medical, Inc. [AEMD] says it will submit a contract response to a recent Broad Agency Announcement for the development and evaluation of category A, B and C bio-terror threats. "Based on pre-clinical... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2653.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Camero USA has launched the Xaver 400 handheld device to its series of through-wall imaging products. The Xaver 400, which weighs six pounds, can... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2654.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Accenture [ACN] and CPS Human Resource Services have each received new contract extensions valued at up to $37 million and $73 million respectively from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2655.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT American Science and Engineering [ASEI] has received a $14.3 million order from the U.S. military for service, support and spare parts... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2656.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Transportation Security Administration has ordered additional Advanced Technology (AT) X-Ray inspection systems from both OSI Systems [OSIS] and Smiths Detection to screen passenger carry-on bags at U.S. airports. Under the new... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2657.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Ahura Scientific, Inc., says it has delivered 201 FirstDefender handheld chemical identification instruments to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) 2007 Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP)... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2658.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Robotic Systems Joint Program Office has awarded ICx Technologies [ICXT] a $4.8 million contract to provide Fido XT handheld explosives... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2659.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems' Information & Electronic Systems division a $3.3 million contract under the Hyperadsorptive Atmospheric Sampling Technology program, which... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2660.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking proposals from small businesses to participate in the Science & Technology Directorate's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) FY... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2661.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Procurement Operations, Enterprise Solutions Office, which currently manages the EAGLE and FirstSource contract vehicles, has issued a Request for Information for an automated Procurement Task Management System... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2662.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency, Center for Domestic Preparedness is conducting an end-user functionality and efficacy assessment of colorimetric tub and chip chemical... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2663.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Virginia Contracting Activity (VaCA) has issued a Request for Information seeking to identify qualified sources capable of developing a Biometric Equipment Kit that... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2664.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is soliciting white papers to integrate selectable passive and non-passive metal detection technology into a single unit or instrument that is currently made or can easily be... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2665.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office of the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) and Sandia National Laboratories have completed the design and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2666.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Cogent Systems [COGT] has acquired the Security Solutions Division of MAXIMUS [MMS] for $5 million in cash, in a deal that will help move it beyond its base of fingerprint software search and matching products into the broader identity management solutions... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2667.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this week expanded the pilot test of American Science & Technology's [ASEI] backscatter-based... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/tr2/2668.html Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT