Bastille Networks, Inc. has received a $199,000 award from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate for final testing of the Atlanta-based company’s Internet of Things security solution that will enable system administrators to gain real-time situational awareness of threats on connected devices. The Phase 4 award was made under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program Security for the Internet of Things solicitation. “We are excited to see the final development of Bastille’s technology to provide security by monitoring the RF and cellular spectrum and identifying potential IoT-related threats,” says Anil John, SVIP Technical Director.
Customs and Border Protection
has awarded a five-year, $878,000 contract to C Speed LLC to maintain the company’s lightwave radar system used by the agency’s Air and Marine Operations Center. C Speed provided the radar to CBP in 2018 to fill a critical coverage gap in AMO’s southern border surveillance network. The contract is for life-cycle support.
Biospatial, Inc. has received a $1.9 million award from the Department of Homeland Security Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction Office under the program Rapid Response. The award notice doesn’t describe the work but the North Carolina-based company says on its website that it “was founded to commercialize a research and development program” that was sponsored by one of the CWMD Office’s predecessor organizations, the Office of Health Affairs, and is managed by the Univ. of North Carolina, The program is the National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness and is focused on identifying health-related data sources that could prove early warning of biological weapon attacks and infectious disease outbreaks.
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded Attain, LLC a $576,228 ceiling increase on a contract for computer network defense in support of the agency’s security operations command. The modification of the task order allows for continuous monitoring and risk mitigation services. Attain provides support services and engineering for the computer network defense and cyber security tool set used by TSA’s Office of Information Technology Focused Operations branch for forensic investigations associated with the agency’s information technology defenses. The task order value remains at $60.2 million.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has made two new awards under its Silicon Valley Innovation Program, including $200,000 to Texas-based QED Secure Solutions to field test a secure trust anchor for the Internet of Things. S&T says that one form of attack against an IoT device is to insert malware into an IoT network through a system update and QED’s Framework for Analysis and Coordinated Trust validates system upgrades for IoT devices.
…Kickview received the other award, $147,413, to adapt its multi-sensor artificial intelligence software platform to provide real-time data analysis of passenger flow in the international customs processing areas of airports. The Colorado-based company will adapt its kvSonata software platform to analyze queue lengths and wait times by leveraging multiple sensors and delivering the outputs into a dashboard with real-time and historical analysis and alerts. The work is in support of Customs and Border Protection.