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Contracts: Lockheed Martin wins tunnel detection contract

By Louis Chunovic, Senior Editor

Published February 25th, 2008

Tunnel-Web

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a $1.5 million contract under its Tunnel Detection Technologies Project. The program, managed by the DHS science and technology directorate, aims to develop and demonstrate technologies which can rapidly detect tunnels, leading to wide area surveillance capabilities. Demonstration models must utilize GPS tagged data to enable more sensitive ground validation and simple long-term deterrence. Measurements will be processed to detect and locate near-surface tunnels, infrastructure and geologic heterogeneity in depths ranging from 0 to 100 feet. Such tunnel detection capability is sought by several federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.


The U.S. State Department has awarded Hewlett-Packard a contract valued at $740,000 to acquire smart servers to enhance security on the department’s systems. A "smart" server will learn during its operation and subsequently adapt its components and behavior to optimize many of its functions and modes of operation.


The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, NM, intends to issue a contract to Basic Contracting Services, Inc., also of Artesia, for security and patrol services covering a six-month period from April 1 to September 30, 2008. The contract represents an extension of an earlier contract, intended to provide such services until performance commences under a consolidated FLETC security contract to be awarded.


The U.S. Secret Service intends to issue a sole source contract to James E. Winand & Associates for forensic document examination services.


The Transportation Security Administration plans to enter into a sole source contract with ID Solutions to obtain additional licenses for the company’s AFIS software, which is used to perform alias checking to eliminate fraudulent enrollments in TSA’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program.


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