Bollinger Shipyards delivered to the Coast Guard the 25th 154-foot Fast Response Cutter, the USCGC Jacob Poroo, which will be the second FRC stationed in Pascagoula, Miss. The Poroo will be commissioned on Nov. 8. So far the Coast Guard has ordered 38 of the 58 FRCs it plans to buy.
The Critical Infrastructure Research Institute has received a $640,000 award from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate for research into prepositioned cyber-threats in mobile devices that originate in the supply chain. CIRI, a DHS S&T Center of Excellence led by the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is teaming with Kryptowire, LLC, for the research and development project. The team’s research will include examining for malware or questionable behavior built into mobile devices by design.
The Government Printing Office plans to award a non-competitive contract to Oberthur Technologies of America to provide the Transportation Security Administration with Transportation Worker Identification Credentials and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Identity Management with PIV cards.