Germany’s Desko GmbH has received a $9.8 million contract from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration for Boarding Pass Scanners and related support services.
The Transportation Security Administration has selected Mineta San Jose International Airport and Miami International Airport to test new perimeter intrusion detection and deterrence technologies. Mineta San Jose says that that for the testing, TSA will consider installing, testing and analyzing video cameras for remote surveillance, analytics to automate the detection of unauthorized personnel, radar, microwave and passive infrared sensors, laser sensors, fence sensors, unattended ground sensors, gunshot detectors, under vehicle screening at speed, and hailers. Congress appropriated $10 million in FY ’18 for TSA to spend on testing equipment.
The Coast Guard has awarded the ValidaTek-Citi joint venture a $1.3 million contract to provide a cloud engineering team that can provide turnkey capabilities to the Department of Homeland Security intelligence enterprise components. The award was made under the DHS EAGLE II contract.
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Leidos a contract to work on Phases III and IV of the development of global algorithms for detection of threats in radiography. The algorithms are for use in non-intrusive inspection systems.
Customs and Border Protection says its use of facial comparison technology for an evaluation in the pedestrian land environment at the San Luis, Ariz., port of entry resulted in the identification of two impostors earlier this month. In one instance, a 26-year old man presented a border crossing card to an agency officer during primary inspection and the biometric technology reported a mismatch to the travel document. In another instance, a 39-year old man presented a green card to an officer during primary inspection and the facial comparison technology reported a mismatch to the document. The agency says that “facial recognition technology virtually eliminates the ability for anyone to use someone else’s genuine document.”