Customs and Border Protection has ordered a single body scanner from Tek84 for deployment to Miami International Airport for contraband detection. The company will provide its Intercept weapons and contraband detection system, which it markets for prisons, jails and border applications. The Intercept uses a low level of X-Rays that are transmitted through a body and provides a high-resolution scan of the full body, including the abdomen, in a single image.
Teel Technologies
has received a contract from Customs and Border Protection to provide forensic imaging devices for the agency’s Office of Air and Marine Cyber Investigations team. The team will use the Covert Forensic Imaging Device system to extract data from small unmanned aircraft systems for intelligence and investigative purposes. Teel says the CFID devices uses SkySafe technology to support a large number of commercial UAS products and supports the extraction and processing of GPS and metadata within moments of capture.
Drone Aviation has named David Aguilar, the former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, as its new chairman, following the death on Aug. 31 of the company’s previous Chairman and CEO Jay Nussbaum. Aguilar has been a director of the company since Jan. 2017. Drone Aviation also named its current President Dan Erdberg as CEO. Drone Aviation makes the WASP family of tethered surveillance aerostats.
Black Sage Technologies, which develops and makes counter unmanned aircraft systems, has named Rick Schmidt as its new president. Black Sage is a portfolio company of Acorn Growth Companies. Rick Nagel, managing partner at Acorn Growth, says that Schmidt, a 38-year veteran of the aerospace and defense industry and most recently senior vice president and general manager of Vertex Aerospace, provides Black Sage with the necessary experience given that it “faces a highly competitive, yet fragmented marketplace.”
Giant Oak, a developer of artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled technology, has joined the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council. The company’s technology is used for security-related screening and continuous vetting processes. “We look forward to engaging Giant Oak and our new members in our efforts to build and strengthen relationships between industry and government,” says Marc Pearl, president and CEO of the HSBDC.
The Department of Homeland Security is establishing a new advisory committee to address aviation security issues for cross Atlantic travel. The Transatlantic Aviation Industry Roundtable, or TAIR, will consist of officials from DHS, the United Kingdom Home Office, the private sector and aviation stakeholders, DHS says in a Sept. 11 Federal Register notice. “Members of the TAIR will engage and collaborate on matters and issues affecting transatlantic aviation security including global security improvement, information sharing, insider threat and cybersecurity and may provide policy advance and recommendations on such matters,” the notice says.