Military | Force Protection

On Jan. 31, the Idaho Kootenai tribe’s identification document officially became a valid form of identification to enter the U.S.

The tribe, whose lands straddle the U.S./Canadian border in Idaho, was the first Native American tribe to sign a memorandum of agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2009 to begin the process of creating a secure travel document denoting identity, tribal membership and citizenship. Production of the cards began in May 2011, said CBP.

A Baltimore man pleaded guilty to charges of trying to bomb a military recruiting center in a failed plot aimed at killing U.S. service members in late 2010.

Antonio Martinez, who also goes by the name Muhammad Hussain, 22, pleaded guilty on Jan. 26 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, MD. Martinez was arrested on Dec. 8, 2010, after he tried to detonate what he thought were explosives at the recruiting facility during an FBI sting operation.

The former Marine reservist who was accused of conducting a shooting spree of government and military buildings in the Washington, DC, area in the autumn of 2010 pleaded guilty to property damage and firearms violations in a federal court on Jan. 26.

General Dynamics C4 Systems’ TACLANE-C100 encryptor has been certified by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a Suite B device to secure network communications at the Secret level and below.

The certification makes the C100 a non-Controlled Cryptographic Item (CCI), enabling users to operate the encryptor in environments where there is a high risk of equipment loss. General Dynamics C4 Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics Corp.

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.

As the Department of Justice moves to prosecute an ex-Central Intelligence Agency officer for leaking the identities of fellow CIA operatives to the press and to terror detainees’ lawyers, the leader of the House Homeland Security Committee wants the identities of the journalists and lawyers involved made public.

Quintron Systems, Inc., a supplier of advanced interoperable voice, physical access control and intrusion detection systems, announced on Jan. 20 that it has completed the initial delivery of a major DICES VoIP system to the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR).