NEW YORK, NY August 24, 2005 —After months of being under fire for not moving fast enough to improve security in the city subways, the MTA has unveiled a $212 million dollar program it says will do just that.

REPORTER: The MTA turned to defense contractor Lockheed Martin. In the aftermath of 9-11 the company re-configured the nation's airports to accomodate tighter Federal security and designed the Coast Guard vessel monitoring system for the Port of New York. Lockheed Martin's Judy Marks.

MARKS: This thirty six month program, the work we will be completing for the MTA will provide enhanced monotoring, surveilance, access control, intrusion detection and response capablity.

REPORTER: The proposal calls for the integration of the MTA's communication system with the city's police and fire networks. With closed circuit cameras monitoring all of the MTA system's subway stops officials say they will have real time awareness of conditions system wide.

Currently only 276 of the subway system's 468 stations are monitored by close circuit video monitors. For WNYC I am Bob Hennelly