Detection
Smiths Detection's HI-SCAN 100100T-2is is added to TSA's candidate air cargo screening technologies
June 29th, 2009
Pine Brook, NJ-based Smiths Detection reports that its HI-SCAN 100100T-2is X-ray system has been placed on the Transportation Security Administration’s list of candidate air cargo screening technologies.
It is one of seven systems on the list that also includes explosives trace detectors and other X-ray systems.
Risk Control Strategies expands TSCM services
June 29th, 2009
New York, NY-based Risk Control Strategies (RCS) is now offering Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) services from its New York office.
According to the company, RCS TSCM practice leaders have combined more than 200 years of technical investigative experience and have conducted over 4,000 TSCM services for government, corporate and private clients.
Criminal Record Lookup launches site to consolidates U.S. public record searches
June 29th, 2009
Sydney, Australia-based Criminal Record Lookup has launched a new Web site where members can search a large range of U.S. public records, including death records, marital records, most wanted and criminal mug shots.
OPINION / Transmission X-ray: Clear advantages for homeland and force protection
June 29th, 2009
National security issues are top priorities for governments around the world today. Terrorism threats, weapons of mass destruction, and explosives and narcotics smuggling are ubiquitous and ever-evolving. Coupled with today’s flow of commerce, cargo and vehicle screening needs to happen around the clock. Such intensity requires advanced technology that readily moves goods through borders and check points, both on land and at sea.
At the center of mitigating these threats are two X-ray inspection technologies: Backscatter and Transmission X-ray. While both can help address security threats, I believe, as someone who provides both technologies to the U.S. Government and appreciates the benefits of both, that transmission X-ray is clearly the better choice for screening cars, trucks and cargo containers for narcotics, weapons, contraband and other potential threats.
IDenta Corp. going marketing in U.S. and France
June 22nd, 2009
Jerusalem, Israel-based IDenta Corp. is sending its top executives to New York and Paris on a trip, expected to last sev-eral weeks, to attend what the company calls "important strategic meetings re-lated to future growth of the company."
Making the marketing journey are Yaacov Shoham, CEO; Baruch Glattstein, chief scientist; and Jacob Weiss, legal and business consultant.
Law Enforcement Associates awarded two orders collectively valued at $200,000
June 22nd, 2009
Raleigh, NC-based Law Enforcement Asso-ciates Corp., an electronic surveillance equipment specialist, reports that it has received two contracts with a combined value of $200,000.
The larger of the orders was placed by the U.S. Army for crime control and inves-tigative equipment. The second order was for LEA's Birddog GPS tracking devices and was placed by a state police agency in the western U.S
Monitronics taps Glen Guldbeck as West Coast regional sales manager
June 22nd, 2009
Dallas, TX-based alarm-monitoring specialist Monitronics has appointed security sales vet-eran Glen Guldbeck as its West Coast regional sales manager.
Guldbeck, who has focused on security alarm sales for more than two decades, will be based in California. His region will also cover Arizona and Nevada, the company re-ports.
FLIR Systems acquires Salvador Imaging
June 15th, 2009
Portland, OR-based FLIR Systems, Inc., a thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems specialist, has acquired Colorado Springs, CO-based Salvador Imaging, Inc., a provider of visible and low light imaging systems, for $13 million in cash.
The acquisition will enhance and differentiate FLIR's multi-sensor systems for military customers and expand its security and surveillance product offerings to commercial customers, the company said in a statement.
