Company News

The Ralph Carr Judicial Center in Denver, CO, which is on track for completion in the Spring of 2013, has selected AMAG Technology’s Symmetry Homeland V7 Security Management System.

Homeland security systems integrator Physical Optics Corp. received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for Phase II of the Helmet Embedded Conformal Augmented Display (HECAD) system.

In collaboration with the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), said the company, the HECAD Phase II award will provide two-year funding for continued work on an embedded "heads-up" display to increase personal situation awareness for emergency responder, said the company.

MicroPower Technologies, Inc., a provider of surveillance solutions, announced on Jan. 31 that it has appointed Jim Brailean, currently the CEO of PacketVideo, and Kevin Hell, currently the chairman of EvoNexus, to MicroPower’s Board of Directors.

Hell will assume the role of chairman of MicroPower Technologies. The addition of the new Board members follows the closing of the company’s $6.5-million Series C funding round, which was led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and an undisclosed private fund. 

Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc., a provider of radio control over IP solutions to the push-to-talk marketplace, announced on Jan. 23 enhanced interoperability with broadband push-to-talk (PTT).

Pelco by Schneider Electric announced on Jan. 25 the release of its DS NVs version 7.3.54 software. With added support for Pelco analytics as one of the key new features, the growing audience of Sarix customers can now use any of eight analytic behaviors to trigger soft alarms in ControlPoint, the client software for DS.

The DS supported analytics include abandoned object, adaptive motion, camera sabotage, loitering detection, and more. There are no additional fees for the analytic behaviors; either for Sarix or DS NVs customers.

Passengers on the Santiago Metro system can travel more safely to their destinations due to a new security monitoring system from IndigoVision.

More than two million passengers a day travel on the Santiago metro, the backbone of the Chilean capital’s public transport system. Metro system management was keen to ensure the security of passengers -- both in the sense of safer travel and reduced crime -- and worked with IndigoVision’s partner, Diebold Bitelco Chile, to find the ideal solution.

LRAD Corp. has announced that its new LRAD 2000X acoustic hailing system broadcasts highly intelligible voice communication that can be clearly heard and understood over five miles away.

The National Nuclear Security Administration said Sandia Site Office Manager Patty Wagner will retire on Feb. 3 after 31 years of federal service.

As Sandia Site Office manager, NNSA said Wagner was responsible for overseeing the $2.5 billion contract for Sandia National Laboratories and ensuring the safe and secure operations of the laboratories.

Creative Computing Solutions (CCSi), a provider of program management services to the federal government, announced on Jan. 23 the appointment of Suzanne Petrie Liscouski to be its director of homeland security. In this role, Liscouski will build on the company's solid program management experience in DHS to secure more advanced security and enterprise systems architecture projects.

IQinVision, a supplier of high-performance HD megapixel IP cameras, announced on Jan 18 that the University of Miami in Florida continues to expand its IP video surveillance system by increasing the deployment of IQeye HD megapixel cameras. The University of Miami is a private university with more than 15,000 students.