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S&T Wants Concepts for Kiosks that Validate Credentials, Check for Trace Explosives

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement that aims to develop, build and evaluate prototype kiosks that integrate credential authentication and explosives trace detection technology for use at security checkpoints. If vendors submit viable proposals, the agency hopes to award at least one, and possibly up to three, contracts for the Kiosk Access Control Point (KACP) technology development effort, S&T says in a recent FedBizOpps announcement. But S&T doesn’t expect to…

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