Implant Sciences [IMSC] has shipped about $1 million in previously unannounced orders fort its QS-B220 desktop explosives and drugs trace detectors and QS-H150 handheld explosives trace detectors, mainly to fulfill additional demand for aviation security in European nations. In the past year the company has deployed over 1,000 of its units to support aviation security in line with new European regulations.
The Department of Homeland Security expects to make awards during the third quarter of FY ‘16 under the recompete of the Program Management, Administrative, Clerical, and Technical Services (PACTS) vehicle. DHS says it continues to evaluate proposals under the PACTS II solicitation.
Transportation Security Administrator Peter Neffenger says that Huban Gowadia, the current director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, will become deputy administrator of TSA on May 1, Peter Neffenger. Gowadia has led DNDO since Sept. 2013 and before that served as the acting director for a year. Prior to joining DNDO in 2005, she spent two years at the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology branch leading the Countermeasures Test Bed, evaluating threat detection technologies. After 9/11 Gowadia began working at TSA as the checkpoint program manager, leading the initiative to replace all walk-through metal detectors at airports with enhanced systems in nine months.