Security Services
GSN 2011 Awards Program opens for entries on April 26
Government Security News has announced that its 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program will officially open for business and start accepting entries in the program’s 45 awards categories on Tuesday, April 26.
T3 Motion
Gary Joubert, VP of Sales and Marketing, reports that T3 provides electric vehicles for law enforcement that are used in almost every police department in the U.S., as well as in government agencies around the world. Other markets for the made-in-the-USA T3 series include the military, general transport and the private security business. Recent improvements have been well received, and business is great!
FEMA awards ambulance support contract worth nearly half a billion dollars
Ambulance
team with AMR
FEMA has awarded a follow-on contract that could be worth almost half a billion dollars to American Medical Response Ambulance Service, Inc. (AMR) to provide ground and air ambulances, medical personnel and operational support in 11 Western states and 16 Central states.
DARPA looks for new ways to power computing in recon, surveillance systems
The agency responsible for developing new technology for the Department of Defense is looking to the public for new ideas on how to power computers that control reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence operations.
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) said computer power limitations, said are beginning to cramp computational capabilities that enable military systems. It said computational capabilities are increasingly limited by power requirements and constraints on heat dissipation.
CBP will continue transporting illegal immigrants back to Mexico by bus
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it plans to issue a Request For Proposal (RFP), under “full and open competition,” for a commercial company to supply secure bus transportation, medical escort and guard services for the hundreds of detainees who are picked up along the U.S.-Mexican border by Border Patrol agents each day and transported either back to Mexico, another home country, or to a nearby U.S. medical facility.
Volpe Center in Cambridge, MA, hires Comprehensive Security’s armed guards
The Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, which is located in Cambridge, MA, has awarded an 8(a) small business set-aside contract valued at $4.3 million to Comprehensive Security Services, Inc., of Sacramento, CA, to provide armed guard services at the Center.
The contract award, which was announced by DoT on Jan. 28, envisions a one-year base period and four one-year option periods.
Secret Service will acquire hardware to forensically image hard drives
The U.S. Secret Service is planning to procure dozens of UltraKits, which contain a complete family of UltraBlock hardware “write blockers,” along with adapters and connectors, which can be used to acquire a forensically sound image of virtually any hard drive or storage device.
Watchdog group says security at nuclear site has ‘egregious’ gaps
An independent government watchdog group alleges nuclear material at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could be at high risk because of lax security at the facility.
Future Fibre Technologies opens local office and signals its long term commitment to India
A manufacturer and installer of fiber-optic intrusion detection systems, Future Fibre Technologies (FFT) has opened a new office in Delhi, India, to service and support the company’s growing activity in that country.
India’s development, rapid population growth and the increased security risks combine to present special challenges to the suppliers and operators responsible for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure sites.
SIA’s Securing New Ground Annual Report now available
The Security Industry Association (SIA) announced on Jan. 19 that the Securing New Ground Annual Report is now available through the SIA online bookstore.
