GSNMagazine Security Services Market Segments Feed http://www.gsnmagazine.com en Johnson Controls plans big push in systems integration niche http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/1033.html September 19, 2008 Johnson Controls Inc. threw down the gauntlet at the ASIS show in Atlanta, declaring that it plans to ™triple™ its global market share in the systems integration space. ™We can go toe-to-toe with any systems integrator in the world,™ declared Lisa Roy, vice president of global security strategy. ™It is in our DNA to do systems integration.™ FBI needs to convert millions of fingerprint cards to electronic records http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/968.html August 19, 2008 The FBI is looking for one or more vendors who can continue scanning millions of hard-copy fingerprint cards stored in West Virginia and convert the fingerprints and accompanying text data into electronic format. Roundtable in Seattle slated to establish VoIP interoperability http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/944.html August 12, 2008 On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a public working group in Seattle, WA, to discuss ways to develop a common technical protocol that would enable different brands of public safety radios that utilize VoIP technology to communicate with each other. DHS unveils four topics for next round of SBIR awards http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/872.html July 1, 2008 The Science and Technology Directorate of DHS has issued its latest round of topics for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for fiscal year 2008, which seeks faster ways to perform DNA sequencing to detect bio-threats, better ways to protect buildings from blast attacks, and more. Biz Opps: Warning to drug users: We can see it in your eyes http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/863.html June 30, 2008 The D.C. Pretrial Services Agency, a federal agency that likes to boast that it is ™widely recognized as a leader in the pretrial field,™ plans to begin using an innovative technique called ™ocular testing™ to determine if a defendant awaiting trial has been using cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, PCP or marijuana. DHS infrastructure office plans a 20-minute high definition video http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/862.html June 25, 2008 Lights. Action. Camera. The Infrastructure Information Collection Division at DHS is going Hollywood.The division, a unit of the departmentâ€s Office of Infrastructure Protection, under Assistant Secretary Robert Stephan, plans to produce a 20-minute high definition video that explains its overall role in collecting, protecting and sharing infrastructure data, as well of the roles of three of its key programs: Aon Risk to advance DOE first $100 million in aviation insurance claims http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/861.html June 25, 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 DOEâ€s National Nuclear Security Administration. Brazil wants U.S. assistance to improve its seaport cargo monitoring http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/security-services/860.html June 25, 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.™