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Atlanta high school scores ASIS $20k for security upgrade

Henry W. Grady High School, located in midtown Atlanta, GA, not far from where ASIS International held its recent annual convention, has installed a network of surveillance cameras with $20,000 awarded to it by the security organization. Grady was given $20,000 for security improvements after winning the association’s School Security Funding competition. With its money, the school purchased four exterior cameras and six interior cameras. The exterior cameras can monitor two miles out, according to ASIS. Grady's safety and security team will monitor the cameras via two new flat-screen monitors, their individual laptops and their cell phones. The ASIS School Security Funding Competition was open to all high schools in the Atlanta public school system. In a series of essays, school administrators were asked to assess the level of security on their campuses, discuss how particular security concerns impacted their educational goals for students and suggest how they would use the prize money to address those concerns and improve their school's overall security. A committee comprised of security management professionals from the ASIS Atlanta chapter judged the competition and selected Grady as the winner.

XeDAR virtual trainer and more

Englewood, CO-based XeDAR Corp., which provides homeland security consulting and IT services to the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, the national intelligence agencies and the U.S. military, has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force to create three heavy weapons virtual task trainers (VTTs) for the Basic Aerial Gunner course. Work under the contract will be performed by XeDAR's Point One subsidiary in Arlington, VA, and is expected to be completed within six months. XeDAR's technology uses 3-D digital models and virtual trainers to animate real training procedures, including disassembling/assembling parts, rotating, moving, cross-sectioning, X-ray/context view and zooming -- all rendered in real-time in virtual reality. According to the company, its VTTs address a critical component of homeland security; namely, preparation, and “effective training is the key to readiness.”

Ashburn, VA-based Telos Corp. has completed the installation phase of $1.7 million in task orders recently awarded for the Navy Regional Enterprise Messaging System (NREMS), which will support the Navy’s ashore organizational messaging capability. Telos received the NREMS task orders from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command under the NETCENTS contract. Telos serves as a prime contractor on the five-year, $9 billion Network Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) contract vehicle.

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