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Government Operations committee Thank you, committee members. My name is Sime Buric, and I am the vice-president of K'(Prime) Technologies. K'(Prime) Technologies is a Canadian-based company based in Calgary, Alberta. We employ approximately 40 people across the country. Our CEO, Kham Lin, and our CFO, Amanda
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee In my opinion, when it comes to security, anything when it comes to the embassy has to be taken into the same account as any other high-risk area—for instance, the airports that we work at. Information is travel. People are travel. People go through. All of these, whether the ris
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee I can't respond on whether or not it was tailored toward a specific provider. What I can say is that, based on hypothetical numbers and the quantities that were being requested by specific regions, it was not realistic based on how many embassies are in those specific regions. Wh
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee I'm not an expert in government policy, especially foreign government policy, so I can't comment on that.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee Millimetre wave technology is a complementary technique. It's meant for body screening. It allows for screening of anything through clothing material. It doesn't penetrate your skin, so it's not meant for packages. This technology we are bidding on right now is a human screening
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee Currently, it's not connected to 5G in any way in terms of how the technology is being used.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee We put our concerns on three different areas. In one area we spoke about the technology itself and how the technology that they were trying to apply outreached its capabilities in terms of the likelihood of differentiating between different types of threats, whether a gun or knif
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee We are not in agreement, but we are accepting the outcome currently.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee Not at this time, thank you very much.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee We have a relationship with L3Harris, but it's no longer with L3Harris—it's with Leidos—where we are their service arm for the airports. We provide the servicing of the X-ray equipment for multiple airports across the country.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee Depending on the region, if it's in the U.S. we've seen it on some private ones. Obviously price is usually the winning factor on a lot of these because everybody wants the lowest bid.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee We were not on the standing offer. We were not in that final group.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee That is correct.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee We have not at this time. We wanted to see where this went first.
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric
Government Operations committee One of the questions I believe should be asked is “Should the hardware or any type of equipment be examined before going out into the field, as is done by some other Canadian entities?” CATSA, some of the transportation safety authorities and CBSA do examinations of hardware befo
December 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Sime Buric