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HID Global's iCLASS smart card technology enables U.S. Bank's PayID
Irvine, CA- based HID Global reports that its iClass contactless smart card technology is a key component in U.S. Bank’s award-winning PayID card program.
TSA testing Iscon 1000D
Woburn, MA-based Iscon Video Imaging reports that TSA is testing its newly introduced airport passenger scanners.The scanners employ a patented thermal-boosted infrared detection system that only...
Valley Forge Composite Technologies begins shipping Its full body scanner
Covington, KY-based Valley Forge Composite Technologies reports that it has begun shipping Odin, its full body scanner.  The company describes Odin as based on ultra-low dose imaging technology...
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OPINION / Security convergence: federal government is leading the way with PIV credentials
By Chris Broderick Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), is a “policy for a common identification standard for federal employees and contractors,” and was issued on August 24,...
TSA awarding no-bid ‘bridge’ accounting contract
The Transportation Security Administration has announced its intent to acquire, “using other than full and open competition,” accounting services from to AOC Solutions, of Chantilly, VA.The firm will...

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Starcom Task Force: Winner – Most Effective Municipal/County Security Program, Project or Agency

Denis Monette, Assistant Commissioner of the Nassau County, L.I. Police Department, describes how the Starcom Task Force is a collaborative effort among Nassau and Suffolk County Police, U.S. Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service, Customs, Bay Constables and private security firms to strengthen Homeland Security, Joint Law Enforcement, Search and Rescue, and Information and Intelligence Sharing.

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Two GOP congressmen describe three security-related earmarks
Two Republican congressmen have disclosed the details of three different homeland security-related earmarks they have had included in the Defense Department’s appropriation bill for fiscal year 2010...
DOE wants ‘second generation’ radiation detectors at seaports
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued a solicitation for a second generation mobile radiation detection system that can screen cargo containers at seaports for nuclear or radiological...
DHS promotes ‘Open Government’ with its new online participation tool
Here are a few of the ideas that have been posted on the new DHS “online participation tool,” which DHS is making available as part of President Obama’s push for more “open government”:

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TSA explosives detection procurement plan 'practical, thorough, and comprehensive,' says OIG report issued before Fl
The narrowly averted tragedy of Flight 253 has forced a wide-ranging reexamination of DHS' anti-terrorist activities, and it has reordered airport explosives-detection-equipment acquisition priorities. A report by the DHS Office of Inspector...
Booz Allen Hamilton names five new EVPs
McLean, VA-based Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., the strategy and technology consulting firm, has named five new Washington, D.C.-area executive vice presidents. They are Mark Herman,  Joe Logue,  Jack Mayer,  Horacio Rozanski  and...
DHS wants to monitor states' progress on interoperable communications
The Office of Emergency Communications within DHS wants to ensure that the 50 state governments are spending their interoperable emergency communications grant monies in ways that comply with their approved statewide interoperability plans.To that...

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OPINION / Security convergence: federal government is leading the way with PIV credentials

By Chris Broderick
 
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), is a “policy for a common identification standard for federal employees and contractors,” and was issued on August 24, 2004.  Under the HSPD-12 mandate, all federal employees and contractors must be issued a Personal Identity...

OPINION / Shedding light on the dark cyber-world
Dr. Antonio Nucci

The Internet has become the central nervous system for our networked life. As a global network of loosely connected IP-based networks, it reaches into every country, and provides governments, businesses and consumers worldwide with a common platform for communication. And now, a new kind of criminal has emerged.

OPINION / Two years later, where are we?

By Jim Giermanski

    In 2007, I wrote two articles on why 100 percent scanning was not doable. I laid out four fundamental reasons why 100 percent scanning would not work: its foreign acceptance, its limitation to seaports only, the non-existence of required technology, and the non-inclusion of...

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