Business Opportunities
Tracking detainees and vehicles by GPS and RFID
December 4th, 2007
The folks at Immigration & Custom Enforcement’s Office of Detention and Removal are thinking about installing satellite-based global positioning systems in the vehicles they use to transport ICE’s detainees, in order to keep better track of the detainees and the vehicles. Part of that tracking system might someday include RFID tags attached to individual prisoners.
Biz Opps: Air Force seeks security protection services
December 3rd, 2007
The U.S. Air Force is seeking sources to provide security services at the 45th Space Wing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), in Florida. Contractors sought must provide full security force services at CCAFS as well as its associated Eastern Range Florida Annexes. All security force members must be uniformed and maintain a Department of Defense secret security clearance. A long-term contract is anticipated, to include a base year and subsequent options. Contact , contract specialist, at 321-494-5229.
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Biz Opps: Navy seeks IED detection system information
November 26th, 2007
The directed energy technology office at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Dahlgren, VA, has issued a sources sought notice requesting information from prospective vendors about their abilities to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Dahlgren Division wants to identify systems that can detect IEDs at a minimum of 100 meters, which can be installed on or carried on vehicles, that are capable of being fielded in harsh environments and that have automated detection abilities. Respond by December 17. Contact at telephone 540-653-7765.
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DARPA envisions long-range "Rapid Eye" surveillance system
November 26th, 2007
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hoping to develop a state-of-the-art long-range unmanned surveillance and intelligence aircraft that could be carried by rocket from a launching pad in the U.S. to any location in the world, where it could gather vital imagery while loitering overhead for up to seven hours.
TSA seeks more information about general aviation flights
November 26th, 2007
As it focuses more and more of its attention on flights by privately-owned general aviation aircraft, the Transportation Security Administration has concluded that its needs better "situational awareness" of such flights as they occur within the National Airspace System.
Biz Opps: DHS seeks training experts in counter threat operations
November 16th, 2007
The Department of Homeland Security seeks qualified trainers to provide courses and seminars covering counter threat, dignitary protection, defensive driving, surveillance detection and other anti-terror subjects. The multi-faceted counter threat operations training will be conducted at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, in Glynco, GA, on behalf of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Contact: Patsy Adams-Santana at 912-267-2239. Respond by November 26.
SPAWAR, Los Alamos, Coast Guard and more...
Biz Opps: DHS seeks larger, lower cost WMD detection network
November 12th, 2007
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a broad agency announcement on behalf of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), calling for white papers on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) detection systems. The agency is seeking to accelerate advances in miniaturized biological and chemical sensing (e.g., laboratories on a chip) to expand coverage and realize greater WMD protection for the nation. White papers are due November 29. Contact: at 202-254-6778. Full proposals due by January 14, 2008.
FEMA, CBP and more...
Sophisticated surveillance planned for DC rail corridor
November 7th, 2007
The Department of Homeland Security, which has procured a slew of video surveillance and remote sensing equipment to monitor the miles of railroad tunnels and tracks leading into and out of Washington, DC, is now looking for a contractor to engineer and install that equipment.
