*The Jackson Hole Airport Board last week received a $25.6 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to continue to provide private security screening services at the Jackson Hole Airport, Wyo. The airport board currently provides those services under the Screening Partnership Program (SPP), which allows the nation’s airports to opt-out from using the TSA’s screeners at checkpoints and at the checked baggage areas.
*Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) last week criticized TSA Administrator John Pistole’s decision not to expand the agency’s SPP program behind the current 16 airports that are participating. “It’s unimaginable that TSA would suspend the most successfully performing passenger screening program we’ve had over the last decade,” Mica says. Mica, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, says he plans “to launch a full investigation and review of the matter.” Pistole, in announcing his decision, says there is no “clear or substantial advantage to expanding SPP.
*Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] has received a $1.2 million contract from a national digital infrastructure company to provide a range of physical security and surveillance products, solutions and services. Under the contract, Kratos’ Public Safety & Security Division will design, engineer and deploy a surveillance and security system that includes access control with biometrics, smart cards, extensive interior and exterior IP-based CCTV, alarm monitoring, photo ID and biometric enrollment, and a fiber optic system.