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Va Police Chiefs Assn signs up for online training at PoliceCommunity.Net

Top Priority Sector: 
law_enforcement_first_responders

The Response Network, of Hanover, NH, a provider of online training programs for law enforcement and public safety professionals, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with The Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police (VACP) to develop customized in-service training courses that will be available to all Virginia law enforcement personnel on the company’s PoliceCommunity.net online training portal.

Narus 2010 RSA Conference


Greg Oslan, President and CEO of Narus corporation, say Narus’s software provides real-time traffic intelligence that helps carriers, service providers and governments around the world protect and manage large, complex networks. Although the Internet is still in its infancy,  Internet crime is a global issue, and it is time to set up a global ecosystem and  police force. Global criminal behavior and cyber warfare may be death by a thousand papercuts, he states, but it is still death.

DHS looking for vendors to perform ‘remote sensing’ airborne photography

Top Priority Sector: 
disaster_preparedness_emergency_response

DHS is planning to spend up to $50 million to hire as many as four contractors to provide “aerial remote sensing” services, that will include taking photos from airborne sensors of homeland security missions and emergency incidents, processing those images and disseminating them throughout the department.

The chosen vendors will be asked to collect aerial imagery using digital cameras in what are known as “vertical” or “oblique” renditions to support emergency and non-emergency incidents nationwide.

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Pivot3 names Mark Modica its vice president of business development

Top Priority Sector: 
video_surveillance_cctv
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Mark Modica

Pivot3 Inc., a supplier of IP SANs to the video surveillance market, announced on Feb. 8 that surveillance industry veteran Mark Modica has been appointed to the newly-created position of vice president of business development for video surveillance.

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USCIS to run annual focus groups with immigrants and stakeholders

Top Priority Sector: 
federal_agencies_legislative
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USCIS office
in New York City

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) wants to organize two different focus groups per year -- one involving 500 immigrants; the other involving 500 “stakeholders” -- in order to gain further insights and early warnings, and improve the delivery of its communications, training and overall operations.

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Pre Check program to expand to busiest U.S. airports during 2012

Top Priority Sector: 
airport_aviation_security
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Boston Logan

The TSA’s trusted traveler Pre Check program will expand to dozens more airports around the country in the coming months, including some of the busiest, such as Boston’s Logan, New York’s JFK and LaGuardia, Chicago’s O’Hare,  and Washington’s National and Dulles.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John Pistole unveiled on Feb. 8 a lengthy list of additional airports where the Pre Check passenger pre-screening program will expand in 2012 following the current pilot initiatives at seven airports.

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CBP rescue beacon helps save two in south Texas

Top Priority Sector: 
border_security
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Rescue beacon

CBP agents helped save two people trying to traverse the south Texas scrubland after the couple sounded a rescue beacon near an internal border checkpoint.

U.S. Border Patrol said agents assigned to the Kingsville Station, near Sarita, TX saved the lives of two illegal aliens who activated a rescue beacon after becoming lost in the brush on Feb. 4.

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Senate homeland security leader lambastes security privatization measure in FAA bill

Top Priority Sector: 
airport_aviation_security
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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)

A provision in the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill approved by Congress on Feb. 7, which would allow airports to privatize their security screeners and essentially opt-out of TSA’s program, is “troubling” and “regrettable,” said the leader of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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Stonesoft Firewall/VPN awarded Common Criteria EAL4+ certification

Top Priority Sector: 
it_security
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Stonesoft's firewall/VPN

Stonesoft announced on Feb. 8 that its firewall/VPN product family has received the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) certification, an international security standard for IT security products. The EAL4+ is the highest security standard for commercial products and indicates that the products are rigorously engineered to a high degree of quality, noted a company press release issued on Feb. 8.

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