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Contracts: Tiburon wins $3.1 million Florida police dispatch contract

By Louis Chunovic, Senior Editor

Published April 25th, 2008

Tiburon

Tiburon, Inc., of Pleasanton, CA, has signed a $3.1 million contract to provide an integrated public safety system for Polk County in Florida. This comprehensive system includes new computer aided dispatch (CAD), law enforcement records management, jail management, civil process and mobile reporting systems to support the public safety and justice agencies of Polk County. Tiburon, headquartered in Pleasanton, CA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of CompuDyne Corp., providing automated public safety and justice systems to meet the needs of law enforcement, fire, rescue, corrections and justice agencies. In addition to serving Polk County, Tiburon provides automated public safety and justice operations for several other Florida jurisdictions, including the counties of Orange, Volusia, Brevard, Pasco, Hernando, Marion and Nassau, as well as the cities of Miami and Melbourne.


LaserCard Corp., of Mountain View, CA, announced it has received a follow-on purchase order to supply secure identity cards for the national ID program of an unspecified Middle Eastern nation. The $1.9 million order calls for the continued supply of optical smart cards to be issued via approximately 40 issuance offices in cities throughout the country. This order is a follow-on to an earlier $11 million contract under which LaserCard Corp. supplied cards, installed the first 20 issuance sites and provided services including the development, integration and supply of the personalization systems and operator training. Deliveries are expected to be completed in the June quarter of this year.


Global Security Systems (GSS), of Jackson, MS, announced that the Memphis/ Shelby Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) has purchased ALERT FM, an FM radio-based emergency alert and messaging system. This new system will benefit Crittenden County, AR; DeSoto County, MS; and Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby and Tipton counties in Tennessee. With this system, targeted alerts and messages are delivered by satellite to the data sub-carrier of FM transmission towers and can be received on ALERT FM receivers and other mobile devices, including PDAs, cell phones and other specialized receivers equipped with FM chips.


Digital Ally, Inc., of Oakland Park, KS, has signed a statewide contract with the Utah General Services Department for its DVM-500 in-car video rearview mirror systems. The contract will allow all state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies to purchase Digital Ally's DVM-500 systems under the same terms and prices. The company also reports that the West Virginia State Police, which placed an initial order for 124 DVM-500 systems in early 2007 and ordered an additional 50 systems in September 2007, placed a third order for an additional 100 systems during the first quarter of 2008. The agency has indicated that it plans to order another 200 systems later this year.


The Department of Homeland Security has signed a contract with AdBrite Inc., of San Francisco, CA, to develop an Internet advertising capability for Customs and Border Protection. AdBrite will be expected to tap into at least 38,000 sites, which generate billions of pageviews each month, during the next six months. The contract is valued at $257,000.


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