Maritime and Ports

GSA slams contracting for Navy boat protection barriers
$100 million project was larded up with contractors of dubious value; leaks and other technical problems mar this critical program
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Ridge calls for private sector to do more about port security
Seaports have received much less money from DHS than airports, and former DHS chief calls on private industry to do more on the security front
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GAO criticizes CBP's in-bond program
Long-standing system allows importers to bypass initial duties and inspections, but it only works if agents reconcile the transactions
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Coast Guard seeks Deepwater refund
Service hopes to recoup major losses and admits that performance-based acquisition requirements failed
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Successful trials for Secured by CargoTrax
A joint German-Finnish container security system passes tests in the South China Sea
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Card reader problems continue
Saltwater corrosion leads DHS to move forward with eyeball inspections; problems in Delaware force a reevaluation
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Florida congressman asks for a reprieve on compliance
Gus Bilirakis complains that the buggy system conflicts with a state-issued maritime identification card
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Australia buys Hydroid's AUVs
Massachusetts company has sold its autonomous underwater vehicles to the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, and Germany
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Justice Department investigates Deepwater fraud
Days after Coast Guard pulls the plug on the Northrop-Lockheed effort, companies admit that DoJ opened an investigation back in 2006
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DoE to send radiation dectectors to Mexico
Move comes as Mexican officials worry about recent al Qaeda threats; portal detectors will be installed in country’s four largest ports
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Digital angel buys Chemring's McMurdo
$7.5 million deal expected to pay dividends in 2009 when COSPAS-SARSAT equipment is replaced
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Port radiation detectors catch GAO heat
Recent tests of three next generation advanced spectroscopic portals find that none comes close to meeting 95 percent sensitivity; one proposed model detects enriched uranium only 17 percent of the time
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Hawley expects TWIC to miss July deadline
Ongoing technical and enrollment problems raise the ire of senators across the aisle; “congressional tolerance in waning,” says Ted Stevens
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Air transport industry forms new task force
IATA and FIATA launch the Global Industry Task Force to challenge congress on cargo screening plans
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Navy cancels Lockheed's LCS 3 contract
After a failure to come to terms on cost overruns, Navy backs out of the project; other LCSs remain uneffected but under scrutiny; deal follows cancellation of Lockheed’s National Security Cutter deal
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