TSA Awards CACI $20M to Continue Safety Management Support
CACI International [CACI] has received a potential five-year, $20 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to continue to provide program management support services to help develop, implement, and maintain Occupational Safety and Health support services at the agency’s headquarters, five regional offices and 450 airports and field operations. The contract was awarded late last summer. The company has been providing OSH support services to TSA since 2006.
CGI Receives $18M Visa Support Contract from State Department
The Department of State has awarded CGI Federal’s [GIB] Stanley Associates subsidiary a potential five-year, $17.9 million task order to provide business process support services to assist with the processing of non-immigrant and immigrant visa applications, including providing information to applicants about the visa application process as well as fee collection, appointment services, and document delivery at U.S. embassies and consulates located in Central America. The award was made under an existing 10-year multiple award contract that Stanley has with the State Department under the Global Support Strategy for visa support services. With the award Stanley now supports visa processing operations in 25 countries.
Cubic gets OAS Contract to Provide Port Security Assessments, Training
Cubic Corp. [CUB] says its Cubic Applications subsidiary has received its fourth contract from the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism of the Organization of American States (OAS) to provide seaport security assessments and training. The new contract covers security services for the Mexican ports of Ensenada, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Salina Cruz, and the Colombian port of Turbo and is a follow-on to an award received last year for assessments and training for several other Mexican and Colombian ports. In the first phase of the new contract, Cubic will examine physical security, cargo and access controls, customs procedures, critical infrastructure, screening techniques for passengers and crews, passenger and cargo security, and emergency consequence management capabilities at each of the ports. That work will be followed up with mitigation strategies and a training need analysis.
Kratos Nabs $8M for Critical Infrastructure Security Project
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] says its Public Safety & Security business has received an $8 million contract to design, engineer and deploy a specialized security and surveillance system at a critical infrastructure site in a major metropolitan location in the U.S. The system will include cameras, with analytics technology, access control and protection assets, communication infrastructure and other security elements, which will all be integrated into a command and control center and network to provide situational awareness. The name of the customer was not disclosed.
Implant to Provide ETDs to Chinese Airport
Implant Sciences [IMSC] has sold seven of its handheld Quantum Sniffer QS-H150 explosives trace detectors (ETDs) to an airport in China, a small sale that demonstrates its continuing penetration of the Chinese security market. The sale was made through the company’s Beijing-based distributor JingAnLanDun Science and Technology Development Co. “Aviation security continues to be an important market for us in China,” says Glenn Bolduc, Implant’s president and CEO. “The QS-H150’s quality, functionality, performance and low cost-of-use consistently win contracts even when going up against companies that are larger than us with far greater resources.”
ARINC Reaches 50 Deployments with Security Management System
ARINC says it completed four deployments last year of its AIM security management system, marking 50 deployments of the security platform to protect critical infrastructure across North America. ARINC, which is a portfolio company of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, says the AIM technology is being used to manage on-site security at all the Gulf Coast storage facilities of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and at more than half the nuclear electric power generating plans in the U.S. and Canada. “To date, more than 10,000 cameras and 5,000 other security devices at these important sites have been successfully integrated with our powerful and flexible AIM platform,” says David Morrissey, vice president of Security and Transportation at ARINC.