Military | Force 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.
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.
CBP designates first native American tribe’s Enhanced Tribal Card as acceptable travel document
Kootenai lands
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.
Homegrown extremist pleads guilty to attack plot on armed forces recruiting center
Antonio Martinez
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.
Accused Pentagon and Marine Museum shooter pleads guilty
Jonathan Melaku
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’ TACLANE-C100 encryptor certified by NSA
GDC4's new
Taclane-C100
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 debuts its new LRAD 2000X acoustic hailing system
LRAD's new
LRAD 2000X
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.
Rep. King calls for DoJ to identify journalists, lawyers in Kiriakou CIA leak case
John Kiriakou
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 delivers VoIP system to White Sands Missile Range
Quintron's new VoIP
main console
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).