• Harding Security Associates of McLean, Va. was awarded a $17,948,020 contract to  "provide for the analysis and forensic service support to the Biometrics Intelligence Program" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Charlottesville, Va..
• Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. was awarded a $12,255,663 contract to "provide for the modification of an existing contract to provide for the installation of sense and warn capabilities at four sites, and the reconfiguration of sense and warn at five current sites. Work will be performed in Bagram, Afghanistan; Baghdad, Iraq; and Huntsville, Ala.." Bagram is the site of a secret US prison where over 2,000 people are detained.
• Verint, which manufactures surveillance technologies in use by the NSA, has been awarded a contract to provide video surveillance and analytics for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority's new World Trade Center transportation hub. 
• Members of Congress are asking the Government Accountability Office to closely examine the effectiveness of DHS data mining programs. 
• Fresh off of news that the CIA is working with the NYPD to surveil Muslims, and that the FBI has trained its analysts at Quantico using extremely ignorant and racist, Islamophobic materials, we learn that the Chicago police department is establishing a counterterrorism unit in advance of the upcoming G8 and NATO summits, to be held in the city in 2012.