Homeland Security

The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded contracts worth $56.1 million to four companies for advanced development of anthrax antitoxins, as well as therapeutics and antibiotics […]

In an effort to get suppliers of millimeter wave security sensors and potential government buyers on the same page, industry officials from companies in the U.S. and the United Kingdom […]

OSI Systems [OSIS] received contracts worth about $30 million from two U.S. government agencies for its Rapiscan Eagle Mobile, Rapiscan Eagle Gantry and Rapiscan Gamma Radiographic Detection Systems (GaRDS) Gantry […]

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 […]

Aion Technologies, a subsidiary of Taiwan Secom Co., Ltd., has begun to market its vein recognition reader, company officials tell TR2 at the recent ASIS security conference in Las Vegas. […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a Request for Information seeking comment and potential bidders related to a comprehensive examination of anti- terrorism awareness campaigns currently in place for […]

Catcher Holdings, Inc. [CTHH] has agreed to acquire Vivato Networks, Inc., a provider of indoor and outdoor extended-range wireless network infrastructure equipment and services. The deal, which is expected to […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement under the Hyperadsorptive Atmospheric Sampling Technology (HAST) program that seeks to develop systems that permit exhaustive, accurate, […]