Homeland Security

TEL AVIV, Israel–Israel will become the first nation in the world to try to safeguard its commercial airline fleet against missile attacks after the Security Cabinet met here last week […]

The risk consulting firm Kroll received a potential $30 million contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to conduct security clearance background checks on current and prospective employees and contractors. […]

L-3 Communications [LLL] last month introduced a new desktop Explosives Trace Detection (ETD) called OptEX that is based on energetic material detection and is currently going through a round of […]

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has awarded General Electric’s [GE] Global Research Center, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] a combined potential $33 million […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) awarded $52.3 million in recent contracts for various new security equipment, most of which is headed to airport security checkpoints, including awards to OSI Systems […]

ICF International [ICFI] received a potential $15 million contract over five years to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implement new Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards. The initial award is […]

SRI International received a $9.5 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to lead a drug discovery and development program to identify approved drugs that could also be […]

American Science & Engineering [ASEI] received a follow-on order from a Middle Eastern customer for Gemini parcel inspection systems worth $3.4 million. The order includes service, parts and warranty. Separately, […]

The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] a $28.5 million contract modification to provide for an increase in identiFINDER quantities from 160 to 362. Work will […]

Police in Stockton, Calif., would like to expand the use of a mobile fingerprint identification system supplied by Cogent Systems [COGT] that they began using earlier this year under a […]