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New York Awards Contract to Boost Transit Security
New York City yesterday awarded a group of contractors led by Lockheed Martin a three-year, $212 million contract to improve security in city subways, the New York Times reported (see GSN, Aug. 5). Lockheed and its subcontractors are expected to install 1,000 video cameras and 3,000 motion sensors in the transit system. Cell phone coverage is also expected to be available at 277 stations but not on trains, according to the Times. “We will try everything, and deploy all technologies possible, to prevent an attack from happening,” said Katherine Lapp, executive director of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The system is expected to be placed in the subway, two commuter railroads, nine bridges and tunnels and in Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station and Times Square, the Times reported. Cameras that can focus on vulnerable areas while transmitting and recording would be the center of the security effort. Each camera costs $1,200 and can capture images up to 300 feet away. Trains and buses would not have cameras, according to the Times. “Obviously, this system, we hope, will detect a terrorist before an incident happens — not just be able, for forensic purposes after an incident happens, to identify who the terrorist is,” Lapp said. Details are expected by the end of the year on a second contract for equipment that can detect WMD agents (Sewell Chan, New York Times, Aug. 24).
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