Smiths Detection Receives India Order for EDS Systems
Smiths Detection has received an order from the Airports Authority of India for multiple CTX 9800 DSiTM explosive detection systems (EDS) valued at more than $50 million. The high-speed EDS systems will be deployed at 11 sites across nine airports for inline hold baggage screening. Smiths says it won a competitive bid for its EDS systems. “The Indian market is forecast to be the third-largest aviation market in the world by 2026, so security is a mission-critical factor in enabling India’s airports to be future-ready,” says Jerome de Chassey, general manager of Smits Detection in India. He says the deployments will allow airports to be “fully compliant with regulatory requirements.” The airports authority manages 125 airports in India. The CTX 9800 systems can be configured to scan up to 1,800 bags per hour.
Tauri Group Nabs Task Orders to Support JPEO-CBD
The Tauri Group says it has been awarded two task orders in support of the Defense Department’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD). Under the one award, Tauri won a recompete to provide bioengineers and scientists to support the JPEO-CBD Joint Project Manager Medical Countermeasures Systems, JPM Protection and JPM Guardian. The second order is new work for the company and provides non-clinical advisors, process advisors, and regulatory affairs managers. The awards were made under the JPEO-CBD Omnibus Program Engineering and Technical Support Medical Domain. The company says it is the primary provider of medical specialists to the JPEO-CBD.
DHS S&T Awards $6M for Cyber Security Research
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has awarded $5.6 million across seven organizations for cyber security research under the Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) project. IMPACT supports the global cyber-risk research community by coordinating and developing real-world data and information-sharing capabilities, including tools, models and methodologies. The awardees are: Galois, Inc., $792,268 to develop a disclosure control system for sensitive IMPACT datasets; Georgia Institute of Technology, $497,561 to create threat intelligence datasets; Massachusetts General Hospital, $950,000 to develop a medical device cyber security data repository; Parsons Government Services, Inc., $749,989 to develop a system to enable organizations to understand their level of exposure to attacks on Internet infrastructure due to interconnectedness with other systems; Univ. of California San Diego Center for Applied Data Analysis, $1.5 million for “Advancing Scientific Study of Internet Security and Topological Stability;” Univ. of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, $653,933 to develop new cyber-attack datasets; and Univ. of Wisconsin, $499,716 to create new capabilities to collect and fuse data to support decision analytics for the Homeland Security Enterprise.