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DHS is planning to spend up to $50 million to hire as many as four contractors to provide “aerial remote sensing” services, that will include taking photos from airborne sensors of homeland security missions and emergency incidents, processing those images and disseminating them throughout the department.

The chosen vendors will be asked to collect aerial imagery using digital cameras in what are known as “vertical” or “oblique” renditions to support emergency and non-emergency incidents nationwide.

Pivot3 Inc., a supplier of IP SANs to the video surveillance market, announced on Feb. 8 that surveillance industry veteran Mark Modica has been appointed to the newly-created position of vice president of business development for video surveillance.

IMS Research forecasts that despite police department budgets coming under increasing pressure across the U.S., the High Definition (HD) camera market onboard police cars is set to grow at more than 20 percent over the next four years.

This is just one of the findings from IMS Research’s latest report on the mobile video surveillance equipment market.

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.

ObjectVideo, a software company that has developed numerous video analytic tools which have been protected by more than 40 patents granted worldwide, has launched a sweeping patent enforcement program which employs both the carrot and the stick.

It employed the stick last April when it launched a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia against Bosch, Samsung and Sony for allegedly infringing on some of its video analytic patents.

MicroPower Technologies, Inc., a provider of surveillance solutions, announced on Jan. 31 that it has appointed Jim Brailean, currently the CEO of PacketVideo, and Kevin Hell, currently the chairman of EvoNexus, to MicroPower’s Board of Directors.

Hell will assume the role of chairman of MicroPower Technologies. The addition of the new Board members follows the closing of the company’s $6.5-million Series C funding round, which was led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and an undisclosed private fund. 

The agency responsible for developing new technology for the Department of Defense is looking to the public for new ideas on how to power computers that control reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence operations.

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) said computer power limitations, said are beginning to cramp computational capabilities that enable military systems. It said computational capabilities are increasingly limited by power requirements and constraints on heat dissipation.