Perimeter 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!
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.
Building in Midwest installs BPSI’s air monitoring technology
BPSI's Alpha
Sentry One
Building Protection Systems, Inc. (BPSI), of San Francisco, CA, announced on Feb. 1 that another building owner has chosen BPSI’s next generation Alpha Sentry One toxin detection system to protect critical executives and employees at an undisclosed headquarters building in the Midwest.
Watchdog group says security at nuclear site has ‘egregious’ gaps
An independent government watchdog group alleges nuclear material at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could be at high risk because of lax security at the facility.
IDO Security installs MagShoe devices in Geneva, Switzerland’s Central Prison
MagShoe shoe scanner
IDO Security, Inc., developer of the MagShoe shoe-scanning device (SSD), announced on Jan. 20 that following a successful trial period which concluded last December in the Geneva Central Prison in Switzerland, Swiss Prison Authorities have purchased and installed the first operational units of the MagShoe in that prison.
Future Fibre Technologies opens local office and signals its long term commitment to India
A manufacturer and installer of fiber-optic intrusion detection systems, Future Fibre Technologies (FFT) has opened a new office in Delhi, India, to service and support the company’s growing activity in that country.
India’s development, rapid population growth and the increased security risks combine to present special challenges to the suppliers and operators responsible for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure sites.
GSN Exclusive – With SBInet behind it, CBP develops a new procurement strategy
Mark Borkowski
U.S. Customs and Border Protection thinks it has learned a few important lessons from its ill-fated SBInet program, and has conceived of a brand-new approach to using technology to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.
