Morpho In UAE Deal for Multi-Biometric e-Border Contract
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Interior has awarded Safran Group’s Morpho division a contract for a multi-biometric e-Border solution. Safran says the e-Border project is setting the standard for the future of border control in the world. The contract covers installation of 94 e-Gates and 94 e-Counters in five airports across the UAE, beginning with Abu Dhabi airport this spring. The system features Morpho’s Finger-on-the-Fly touchless fingerprint system and will include the company’s Iris-at-a-Distance cameras for face and iris recognition. The e-Gates can be used by travelers for both entry to and exit from the UAE. The e-Borders system will integrate with the UAE’s existing systems such as the Visa Enrollment Centers. “This contract solidifies our long-standing working relationship with the police and border authorities of the UAE,” says Philippe Petitcolin, chairman and CEO of Morpho.
FEMA Awards Resilience Action Partners $130M for Community Engagement
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded Resilience Action Partners a potential $130.3 million contract to provide community engagement risk communications in support of the agency’s Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning Risk program. The Risk MAP program combines flood hazard mapping, risk assessment tools, and hazard mitigation planning into one program. The community engagement effort will support Risk MAP through responsiveness to stakeholders, raising awareness among citizens and communities, responding effectively to natural disasters, and delivering regulatory and non-regulatory risk identification and assessment data.
TSA Awards CSC Task Order Bridge for IT Network Support
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded CSC [CSC] a potential 27-month contract extension to continue operating and maintaining a single information technology network infrastructure to enable 65,000 end users to execute the agency’s operational and mission support requirements. The task order extension was awarded under the EAGLE II contract. The value of the extension was not disclosed by TSA. The task order extension will serve as a bridge between the Federal Air Marshal Services and TSA for the merge, consolidation and transition of information security management and technology support services and maintenance. CSC is the incumbent on the Information Technology Infrastructure Program, which spends about $8.2 million per month, the agency says. TSA also acquires IT support services from Leidos [LDOS]. The agency plans to execute a competitive managed services strategy for its IT network and end user support.
TSA Awards L-3 Task Orders for Integration of EDS Systems
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded L-3 Communications [LLL] a $528,876 task order for the integration, installation and networking of two eXaminer 6700 medium-speed explosive detection systems (EDS) at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.