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Contracts: ICx wins $4.8 million robot bomb detector award

By Louis Chunovic, Senior Editor

Published May 12th, 2008

Fido

ICx Technologies was awarded a contract worth $4.8 million for explosives detectors and related technical services. The U.S. Army’s Robotics System Joint Program Office in Warren, MI, placed the order, calling for delivery of the Fido XT handheld detection systems for use in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. Fido is an advanced, ultra-sensitive explosives sensor with sensitivity levels comparable to specially trained canines. In addition to hardware, a portion of the award is for training services at the ICx test and training range -- a 40-acre facility in a remote and undisclosed location – which is fully licensed for controlled storage and use of explosives. The range is specially equipped for training troops and law enforcement personnel in advanced, trace-detection techniques.


The Transportation Security Administration intends to extend an existing contract it has with Accenture, to ensure the continuity of human resources services during the on-going procurement for a new contract for these same services. The extension is anticipated to be awarded as a base period of four months, with a single two and one half month option period. The anticipated value of the extension is approximately $37 million.


ICOP Digital, Inc., of Lanexa, KS, won a contract to equip a 60-car police department in Georgia with its Model 20/20-W In-car digital surveillance solution. The purchase order is valued at approximately $74,000. In the past three weeks, ICOP Model 20/20-W units have also been ordered by police departments or county sheriff offices in Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.


The Department of Homeland Security announced it intends to award a sole source purchase order to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Laboratories, to develop appropriate documents, publications and/or presentations to be used to inform relevant state and local governmental entities, emergency management officials, law enforcement agencies and the general public about its expanded role of providing laboratory support to remediation efforts in the event of a release of chemical warfare agent.


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