Homeland Security Report, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Top Story Briefing Customs and Border Protection has ordered a single body scanner from Tek84 for deployment to Miami International Airport for contraband detection. The company will provide its Intercept weapons and contraband detection ...

Coast Guard Issues Sixth RFI for WCCs The Coast Guard has released its sixth Request for Information (RFI) for its planned Waterways Commerce Cutters (WCCs) as it continues to gauge industry interest, capability and capacity to design and build the small craft that will ply the nation’s inland ...

DSA Nabs $10M TSA Award for Large Security Screening Bins The Transportation Security Administration has awarded DSA Detection, LLC, a potential five-year, $9.5 million contract to provide large security screening bins that will be used with checkpoint X-Ray screening systems that meet the AT-2 ...

DHS S&T, St. Louis in Smart Cities Integration Pilot The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, the city of St. Louis, Mo., and the Open Geospatial Consortium, have initiated a smart cities technology integration for public safety. S&T says the pilot, which is ...

Deployments of new scanners with enhanced capabilities for peering inside travelers’ bags at airport security checkpoints will begin this fall, says a senior Transportation Security Administration official. Deployments of the computed tomography (CT)-based checkpoint scanners originally were ...

A potential new biological threat detection solution that the Department of Homeland Security recently began to evaluate is expected to lead to a nationwide infrastructure that runs from detection, analysis and response at a far faster pace than currently, says a senior department official. The ...