Transportation

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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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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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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Financial concerns stymie on-board cell phone calls
Airlines, cell phone companies, and the government see little to be gained from even studying the issue; “cultivating uncertainty to maintain the existing ban”
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Hoosiers join Japanese in subway sensor system
Distributed sensor network is capable of learning from human instruction; “a large-scale practical system that incorporates learning”
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Few interested in Registered Traveler
Deloitte & Touche survey finds few Americans have even heard of program, even though most respondents listed long security lines as a top complaint
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Australian airports remain vulnerable
Government has failed to solve problems with unscreened domestic fliers; travellers at Adelaide disembark on the tarmac
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Israeli gambling tycoon bets long on UAVs
Avi Shaked buys a large share of Aeronautics Defense Systems, maker of the Aerostar; company has clients in U.S., Nepal, Spain, and even Nigeria
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TSA issues RFI for airport tracking system
Proposals are expected to include a combination of RFID, biometrics, and sensoer technology; non-proprietary systems preferred
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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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Tyco wins Iceland airport security contract
Company’s CEM AC2000 access control system is already deployed in Hong Kong, England, Hawaii, and Athens; card readers offer “Schengen mode” option
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