Maritime and Ports

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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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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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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MDI wins Dominican port security contract
San Antonio-based company will provide system architecture for a biometrics port management system; one of “the largest deployments ever undertaken”
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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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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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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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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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SAIC settles dispute with Greek government
Installed for the 2004 Olympics, C4I system requires additional work; disagreement was headed for arbitration
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Coda Octapus raises $13 million
Securing ports and coastal waters has become a priority, and a specialist in underwater surveillance technology gets the nod from investors
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TWIC roll-out delayed again
Initial enrollment effort in Delaware runs into technical problems on its first day; authorities now estimate a further two month delay
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Northrop prepares new minesweeping technology
Laser-based system can both detect and destroy mines from the air
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Elbit to protect Lithuanian coastline
$10 million contract follows news that the Israeli company’s UAVs are active in Iraq
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Serco scores Navy port protection deal
Industry heavyweight wins a $64 million follow-on contract with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
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CBP to extend Remote Location Filing to overseas companies
System permits importers and brokers to file electronic manifests from locations other than the port of arrival; China, Brazil, and South Korea to be the first foreign countries to participate
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