Implant Sciences [IMSC] says it has received an order for its QS-B220 desktop explosives trace detector from Global CFS, Inc., a full service trucking company providing air and ocean freight delivery service of import and export cargo arriving at the Port of Chicago by air or railroad. Global CFS is a Transportation Security Administration Certified Cargo Screening Facility and is the home of the Customs and Border Protection’s Centralized Examination Station for cargo inspections. In a separate announcement, Implant says it has received orders from multiple U.S. air cargo screeners totaling over $600,000 for its QS-B220.
Leidos [LDOS] says third quarter sales in its Health and Engineering segment fell 20 percent in part due to fewer deliveries of Explosive Detection Systems to the Transportation Security Administration. Shipments to TSA slipped to the right for various contracting reasons, Mark Sopp, the company’s chief financial officer, says on the earnings call. He says orders for the company’s VACIS cargo inspection systems continue to track on schedule and there are some opportunities for additional sales.
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs (OHA) has awarded Epidemico, Inc., a $480,000 contract to provide a biosurveillance data feed to the National Biosurveillance Integration Center to support mission objectives of providing earlier warning and enhanced situational awareness for biological threats of national concern. Through the NBIC, OHA conducts biosurveillance activities to enable early warning and situational awareness of acute biological events and support decisions through rapid identification, characterization, localization and tracking.
Cross Match Technologies has named Michael Kohlsdorf as interim CEO while it conducts a selection process to replace David Buckley who is leaving to pursue other interests. Kohlsdorf sits on the company’s board of directors and is an operating partner with Francisco Partners, the private equity firm that owns Cross Match. “We appreciate David’s leadership as the business transitioned ownership, and are now focused on positioning Cross Match for strategic growth through continued innovation and solution development that meets the needs of our global customers.”
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction have awarded $1 million to a team of three scientists for new techniques for rapid characterization of pathogens under the DTRA Algorithm Challenge. The scientists, who are from Germany and Singapore, developed an algorithm which can rapidly and accurately characterize a complex clinical sample based solely on raw DNA sequence data, reducing the current time of up to a week to tens of minutes in the field.