The Transportation Security Administration has awarded Smiths Detection a 30-month contract for additional IONSCAN 600 explosive trace detectors to recapitalize the existing ETD test bed. The value of the award, which includes a two-year warranty period, wasn’t disclosed. TSA says there are currently 165 ETDs in the air cargo test bed that are reaching their end-of-life, have critical maintenance issues and that only fully meet its old detection standard. The agency wants to incrementally replace all 165 ETDs by 2021. TSA says the IONSCAN 6000 was the first unit approved under the new detection standard. Morpho Detection, which is now part of OSI Systems, has a candidate system but it won’t be ready for testing until FY ’18.
Integrated Consulting Services has received a 25-day contract extension to continue to provide analyst support under the Biometric Enabled Intelligence contract vehicle for the National Ground Intelligence Center for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, and other U.S. forces and agencies. NGIC’s Identity Intelligence Division is the Defense Department’s leader in biometric enabled intelligence. Services to be provided under the extension include program management, watchlist management, all-source identity and biometric intelligence research, analysis and production, and identity intelligence tradecraft enhancement and dissemination. Integrated Consulting Services is working under a contract awarded in 2012 that was originally valued at $49.7 million although the current ceiling is $74.6 million. The value of the extension was redacted.