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  • MorphoTrust Identity Verification Systems Get DHS SAFETY Act Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MorphoTrust Identity Verification Systems Get DHS SAFETY Act Certification

    MorphoTrust USA has achieved the Department of Homeland Security‘s SAFETY Act Certification on two of the company’s identity verification platforms: Universal Enrollment Services and Automated Biometric Identification System. The company said Tuesday the certification authorizes UES and ABIS as anti-terrorism systems for use by DHS component agencies. UES is deployed across 360 MorphoTrust IdentoGO centers under the Transportation Security Administration‘s […] More

  • DHS Federal Protective Service Signs X-Ray Inspection Tech Deal With Smiths Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Federal Protective Service Signs X-Ray Inspection Tech Deal With Smiths Detection

    Smiths Detection has signed a five-year, $65 million deal with the Department of Homeland Security‘s Federal Protective Service to provide x-ray inspection systems in government buildings across the U.S. FPS will use the x-ray systems to detect potential threats at more than 9,000 government facilities under its responsibility, the company said Wednesday. SDI aims to complete deliveries and installations of the x-ray systems by 2021 and […] More

  • Executive Profile: Greg Resutek, ASRC Federal Chief Operating Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Greg Resutek, ASRC Federal Chief Operating Officer

    Greg Resutek serves as chief operating officer at ASRC Federal, where he is responsible for all enterprise operations and integration of functional departments. Resutek previously served as vice president of business operations for the federal systems division of URS Corp. between January 2007 and March 2010, and later as VP of finance for the company. […] More

  • TSA Seeks IT Engineering, Application Architecture Support for Customer Engagement Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TSA Seeks IT Engineering, Application Architecture Support for Customer Engagement Division

    The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration has requested information on potential vendors that can provide information technology consulting, engineering and application architecture services for the office of information technology’s customer engagement and development division. TSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Friday potential contractors will work to support efforts to update application systems […] More

  • Telos ID, Carillon Federal Services Partner on Gov't Channeling Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos ID, Carillon Federal Services Partner on Gov’t Channeling Programs

    Telos‘ identity management solutions company has partnered with Carillon Federal Services for the use of  interoperable Personal Identity Verification credentials with Telos ID’s channeling programs with the FBI and Transportation Security Administration. Telos said Tuesday Carillon will issue PIV-I credentials, which Telos ID will use for authentication functions with TSA Designated Aviation Channeling and FBI’s IDVetting. Telos’ TSA and FBI programs […] More

  • OGSystems Appoints John Sanders to Board of Directors; Omar Balkissoon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems Appoints John Sanders to Board of Directors; Omar Balkissoon Comments

    John Sanders, former chief technology officer and assistant administrator for the Office of Security Capabilities at the Transportation Security Administration, has joined the board of directors of OGSystems. During his tenure at TSA, he led the development, assessment, implementation and maintenance of transportation security systems, OGSystems said Monday. The co-founder of Reveal Imaging Technologies also […] More

  • Raytheon Picks Duos Technologies’ Railway Undercarriage Screening System for TSA; Felix Krupczynski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks Duos Technologies’ Railway Undercarriage Screening System for TSA; Felix Krupczynski Comments

    Raytheon has tapped Duos Technologies to supply a railway undercarriage screening system for the Transportation Security Administration’s intermodal security modernization programs at several transportation focal points in the U.S. The Information Systems Associates subsidiary will deliver the company’s vehicle undercarriage examiner vue system to be deployed at a test site within the Amtrak Rail system, […] More

  • DHS Picks Woman-Owned Small Business for $30M Transportation Program Mgmt Contract; Melissa Jezior Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Picks Woman-Owned Small Business for $30M Transportation Program Mgmt Contract; Melissa Jezior Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security has selected woman-owned small business Eagle Hill Consulting to manage the Transportation Security Administration’s programs and train TSA personnel under a $30 million, five year contract. Eagle Hill will work to handle TSA’s intermodal security training and exercise program and perform risk-based security planning for the client, Eagle Hill said […] More

  • Executive Profile: Barbara Humpton, SVP and COO at Siemens Government Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Barbara Humpton, SVP and COO at Siemens Government Technologies

    Barbara Humpton serves as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Siemens Government Technologies, the U.S. federal business organization of the German industrial conglomerate. She elevated to the COO post in December 2014 after three years as the business’ SVP of business development. In that role, she led work to bring Siemens’ offerings in energy, infrastructure and […] More

  • TSA Certifies Eid Passport ID Mgmt Offering; Steve Larson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TSA Certifies Eid Passport ID Mgmt Offering; Steve Larson Comments

    Eid Passport has obtained a certification from the Transportation Security Administration for the company’s identity management tool following tests and demonstrations. TSA has placed Eid Passport’s RAPID-RCx program on the agency’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential Qualified Technology List, Eid Passport said Tuesday. “We now offer maritime terminal operators a unique, portable solution through our RAPID-RCx program and […] More

  • Leidos Orders Smiths Detection-Built Airport Security Supplies for TSA; Terry Gibson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Orders Smiths Detection-Built Airport Security Supplies for TSA; Terry Gibson Comments

    Leidos has awarded a multi-million dollar order to Smiths Detection for airport security tools and support services to support a contract Leidos holds with the Transportation Security Administration. Smiths Detection will supply trained field support and parts for X-ray and explosives trace detection technology for four years to approximately 400 airports across the U.S., Smiths Detection […] More

  • Milwaukee Airport Adopts Telos ID Tool to Vet Employees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Milwaukee Airport Adopts Telos ID Tool to Vet Employees

    Telos‘ identity management solutions unit will provide aviation channeling services for Milwaukee, Wis.-based General Mitchell International Airport to process background checks on airport workers. The company said Tuesday its web-based DAC tool is designed to comply with Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security policies on the processing of personally identifiable information for background checks and badging […] More