Security Services
Axis, Bosch and Sony to create open forum for network video interface
May 14th, 2008
Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corp. announced that they will be cooperating to create an open forum aimed at developing an interface standard for network video products.
Electronic snooping planned at U.S./Mexican border
April 15th, 2008
The Drug Enforcement Agency wants to find a small business with a Top Secret security clearance that can snoop on Spanish language conversations transmitted over foreign communications systems and "instantaneously" translate those conversations from Spanish into English.
Massachusetts company to protect JFK birthplace in Brookline
April 15th, 2008
The house in Brookline, MA, in which John F. Kennedy was born in 1917, now administered as a National Historic Site, will be protected by a burglar and fire alarm system maintained by Special Agent Systems, Inc., of Watertown, MA.
Biz Opps: Coast Guard wants armed guards in Alameda, CA
April 14th, 2008
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Integrated Support Command in Alameda, CA, is planning to award a small business set-aside contract to a HUBZone small business to provide armed guard services in Alameda, CA. The Coast Guard envisions a one-year base contract, running from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009, plus four one-year options. Contact , contracting officer, at 510-437-3026. Respond by May 8.
Paragon wins $50 million DHS guard contract
April 10th, 2008
Paragon Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Tri-S Security Corp., has been awarded a new contract valued at $56 million to provide security services for the Department of the Homeland Security in Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
Monitoring Osama bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists
April 10th, 2008
More than 50 companies have expressed interest in displacing the incumbent contractor, Detica DFI International, when DHS awards a new contract to monitor Web sites and chat rooms frequented by Islamic terrorists, and to translate those sites’ Arabic content into English.
National Guard may outsource its aviation surveillance duties
March 27th, 2008
The National Guard Bureau has maintained its own fixed wing aircraft to perform its required domestic homeland defense responsibilities since 1994, but it is now thinking about outsourcing many of its aviation surveillance services to a commercial company.
Who will process terrorism insurance claims?
March 5th, 2008
The Department of the Treasury is thinking about the unthinkable.
To prepare itself for another terrorist attack, Treasury is seeking a capable small business that can develop and operate the management system that would process claims from insurance companies for the federal government’s share of compensation under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP) if another terrorism event occurs.
