The Coast Guard has awarded Vigor Marine LLC a potential $70.6 million contract for the structural enhancement drydock availability effort for the fist and second National Security Cutters. The initial increment is for $2.3 million, which will support the detail design and planning phase of the contract and long lead time material for the first vessel, the Bertholf. The structural enhancements are needed to ensure that the first two NSCs are able to achieve a 30-year design fatigue life.
Implant Sciences [IMSC] has shipped $1.3 million of its QS-220 desktop and QS-H150 handheld explosives trace detectors to customers worldwide since the start of 2016, the company says. These devices will be used in aviation security, critical infrastructure protection, and cargo security.
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded Trinity Technology Group a seven-month, $869,587.63 contract extension to continue supplying comprehensive passenger and baggage screening services at Sonoma County Airport in California. The agency is also considering a six-month $2.1 million extension to Trinity for the same services at Sioux Falls Regional Airport in South Dakota. The company provides the private screening services under TSA’s Screening Partnership Program.
TSA plans to award contracts to CEIA USA, Implant Sciences [IMSC], L-3 Communications [LLL], Safran Group’s Morpho Detection, OSI Systems [OSIS] Rapiscan Systems, Leidos [LDOS], and Smiths Detection using other than full and open competition for engineering and other support services for security technology the companies have provided to the agency. The contract will address TSA’s Office of Security Capabilities Electronic Baggage Screening Program and Passenger Screening Program in support of checked baggage and checkpoint screening operations.