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OzVision

Alan Avidan, President, indicates that OzVision is pushing the forefront of hosted video services for dealers and users. The company’s government market includes military bases, government facilities, and national monuments such as the Washington Monument, the State of Liberty and Ford’s Theater. Avidan calls for dealers and central services to join in the hosted video movement, which he describes as the future of the industry.

VideoIQ

Scott Schnell, CEO, describes Video IQ’s next generation of video surveillance, where each of its high-definition cameras has video analytics plus half a year of storage with the camera itself, thus eliminating the high cost of storage and networking. According to Schnell, VideoIQ’s cameras with high-definition sensors can track up to 24 objects simultaneously and have 3X the field of view of conventional high-definition cameras with analytics.

Obama seeks three percent hike in discretionary budget at DHS

Despite official murmurings a few months ago that the fiscal year 2011 budget request for DHS might decline slightly, the budget package unveiled on February 1 actually shows a three percent increase in “discretionary spending” by DHS in 2011, versus the prior year, and modest growth, at approximately the predicted rate of inflation, in the outer years.

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

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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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Senate homeland security leader lambastes security privatization measure in FAA bill

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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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Newly-permanent Global Entry program can cut wait times by 70 percent, says CBP

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Pleased with the results of its pilot program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has decided to establish its Global Entry trusted traveler program as a permanent program. Global Entry allows U.S. citizens – as well as citizens of The Netherlands and Mexico – to undergo background checks in advance, and then receive expedited treatment when the arrive at selected ports of entry into the United States.

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Live cannonball in luggage forces evacuation at Florida airport

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An old coral-covered cannonball forced the evacuation of the checked baggage area at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the week of Jan. 30, said TSA, after its discovery in a diver’s baggage.

The weapon’s discovery resulted in an evacuation of the airport’s checked baggage area and flight delays for almost 300 people, said the agency. The owner of the cannonball didn’t have any malicious intent, TSA said, and had collected it as a souvenir during a diving trip on a shipwreck.

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TSA expects heaviest Super Bowl traveler volume on Feb. 6

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Indianapolis International

The Transportation Security Administration is set to deal with tens of thousands more passengers travelling through Indianapolis International Airport before and after Super Bowl XLVI with additional screening lanes.

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Privacy group calls for moratorium on facial recognition technology

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A privacy rights group told the Federal Trade Commission that the FTC should suspend facial recognition technology’s deployment by commercial users until privacy and other safeguard standards are developed.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, in comments to the FTC on Feb. 1, recommended the delayed deployment because it said facial recognition technologies can be used by strangers to determine a person's actual identity. The group said that “poses a risk to privacy and personal security.”

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