Infrastructure Protection
GSN 2011 Awards Program opens for entries on April 26
Government Security News has announced that its 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program will officially open for business and start accepting entries in the program’s 45 awards categories on Tuesday, April 26.
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.
T3 Motion
Gary Joubert, VP of Sales and Marketing, reports that T3 provides electric vehicles for law enforcement that are used in almost every police department in the U.S., as well as in government agencies around the world. Other markets for the made-in-the-USA T3 series include the military, general transport and the private security business. Recent improvements have been well received, and business is great!
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.
TSA expects heaviest Super Bowl traveler volume on Feb. 6
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.
Conway cameras doing time ‘Down Under’
UK-based manufacturer Conway Security Products has supplied a large number of its custodial corner-mounted cameras as part of a refurbishment and updating project at a high-security correctional facility in New South Wales, Australia.
Senators say Iran trade sanctions working to reduce terror and nuclear activities
Sens. Lieberman (I-CT), Collins (R-ME)
The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security Committee welcomed news from the GAO that trade sanctions against Iran seem to be working to limit that country’s ability to support nuclear and terror activities.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT), ranking member Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) hailed a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office on Feb. 1, which they said showed progress in isolating Iran through trade sanctions.
Energy Department and NRC release new seismic study for nuclear plants in eastern U.S.
North Anna nuclear power station
The agencies in charge of regulating the safety of nuclear power plants in the U.S. released a new study of seismic activity in the eastern and central U.S. aimed at updating a 20-year-old seismic model.
Creation of next-gen public safety comms net should be managed by non-profit, says study
The next generation public safety communications network should be managed by a non-governmental, non-profit organization that could impartially reconcile the myriad standards and procedures affecting emergency responders nationwide, said a report by an independent government advisory committee.
