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The use of Blackwater and other private security contractors in Iraq and other war zones has been controversial for years, but what has usually been left out of the debate is the “comparative cost of using civilian employees or military members versus the cost of using contractors, particularly private security contractors,” during operations such as Operation Iraqi Freedom, as a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study examining just that narrow issue put it.

Vancouver-based Avigilon reports that Airberg, a UK specialist food exporter, has deployed the Avigilon HD surveillance system.

Airberg now can meet the security, health and conformance requirements to be certified as a 'known shipper' and can ship goods by air more quickly and at a lower cost than before, saving £700,000 each year, according to Avigilon.

Houston-based Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs) reports the release of the latest version of AISight, which it calls the “first and only” behavioral analytics solution.  

The company says that AISight 2.1 addresses two of the industry’s most difficult problems; namely, accurately classifying objects such as humans, animals and vehicles, and efficiently recognizing and tracking large numbers of moving objects in the camera’s view.

Pearl River, NY-based On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. (OnSSI) has named Yoav Millet as its new COO / CFO.

Millet’s prior positions included tours as COO at IncentOne, managing partner at M-CAM and managing director for Juno Investments, LLC.

He also previously co-led the investment banking activities of Clali & Associates Financial Management (LCF Edmond de Rothschild Group) and held other management positions within various institutional investment companies, OnSSI says.

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, which provides advice on federal government information systems, will hold three days of public meetings in Washington, DC, April 7-9, which will focus on the implementation of cloud computing, pending cyber-security legislation in Congress, and other topics.

The U.S. Intelligence Community is eager to develop tools that would enable its analysts to determine whom they can trust under certain conditions, even in the presence of stress or deception.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a relatively new organization that reports to the Director of National Intelligence, has issued a broad agency announcement that seeks to develop a methodology that can “detect and validate one’s own ‘useful’ signals for accurately assessing another’s trustworthiness.”

The Minneapolis, MN-based Gradient Financial Group, a financial services firm, and Afterburner, a specialist in team building events and corporate training workshops, are seeking up to 50 transitioning military veterans to earn a place at one of three Veteran Transition Assistance Boot Camps.  

Agiliance Inc., a provider of integrated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, has unveiled RiskVision 5.0, which the company calls an “industry-first” GRC solution, giving organizations a continuous link between enterprise compliance and risk objectives and security threats in cloud, mobile and on-premise environments.

McLean, VA-based Science Applications International Corporation reports that it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office (PEO) of Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) to develop Department of Defense command and control (C2) software, as well as modify and enhance existing C2 systems.