News / Analysis
America’s quest for homeland security includes the development of federal programs to protect our aviation, maritime and ground transportation sectors, efforts to detect a “dirty bomb” before it can emit deadly radiation, the search by the FBI for Muslim terrorists and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, his Al Qaeda followers and Islamic extremists pursuing jihad.
Brazil wants U.S. assistance to improve its seaport cargo monitoring
June 25th, 2008
Thanks to a $523,500 grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Government of Brazil seeks technical assistance from a U.S. firm to help it improve its cargo monitoring capabilities at its seaports and develop what it calls an "Intelligent Cargo and Intelligent Network Port Logistics Chain."
CheckPoint building RFID base: Strategic purchases seen
June 24th, 2008
Checkpoint Systems Inc. has been building its presence in the RFID market with a series of strategic purchases. The most recent deal involves the acquisition of RFID pioneer,
OATSystems Inc. of Waltham, MA.
SEC to survey execs on compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
June 24th, 2008
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is trying to determine if small publicly-traded companies must adhere to the costly auditing requirements spelled out in Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, plans to invite 10,000 company executives to answer a Web-based survey and 500 of those respondents to participate in follow-up interviews.
Aon Risk to advance DOE first $100 million in aviation insurance claims
June 24th, 2008
The Department of Energy has just awarded a contract valued at $484,097 to Aon Risk Services, Inc. to provide aviation liability insurance for aircraft flown from Nevada and New Mexico by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
R&D award in covert cyber communications to upstate New York firm
June 24th, 2008
The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY, has awarded a contract valued at $453,443 to Assured Information Security, Inc., also of Rome, NY, to provide what the Air Force calls "concepts for advancing covert communications in computer network environments."
NGA to hire sign language interpreters for its deaf employees
June 24th, 2008
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency wants to hire about a dozen people with Top Secret security clearances who can serve as interpreters for the agency’s full-time employees and visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Guest Column: Infrastructure Protection v.2.0 – Forward to the Past?
June 23rd, 2008
For most of a decade, the federal approach to protecting critical infrastructure was almost entirely voluntary. It is now clear that last year’s legislation to implement recommendations of the 9/11 Commission – H.R. 1 – marked a philosophical turning point toward regulation.
