Customs and Border Protection plans to purchase approximately 3,875 Colt M4A1 rifles from Colt Defense LLC for use by Border Patrol agents. The Colt M4 is the primarily duty rifle for CBP.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate will host a webinar on Thursday, April 9 at 1 p.m. EST related to its Apex Air Entry/Exit Re-engineering program. The webinar will explore a range of topics including biometric exit and improving the international arrivals process at airport of entry, allow the agency to brief the vendor community on the program’s progress and to solicit input from industry. Registration is at: http://go.usa.gov/34NdF.
Raytheon [RTN] has amicably settled a five-year old dispute with the United Kingdom Home Office related to the agency’s termination of a border security program the company had been delivering for Britain. The $223 million cash settlement in favor of Raytheon is less than the $392 million that a British arbitration panel ruled for last August.