State and Local Gov’t
FDA to issue grants to enhance state and local "food defense"
July 1st, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new grant program under which it plans to award up to $40,000 to each of six different state or local food regulatory agencies to develop innovative ways to integrate food defense strategies -- aimed at thwarting terrorist attacks on the food supply -- into more traditional food safety and inspection methodologies.
DHS announces $80 million REAL ID grants for state programs
June 20th, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security announced fiscal year 2008 REAL ID demonstration grant awards totaling nearly $80 million to assist states in improving the security of state-issued driver’s licenses (DL) and identification documents (ID).
Relieving traffic congestion at U.S. borders
June 1st, 2008
The pendulum at the U.S. southern and northern borders seems to swing regularly between tightening restrictions on vehicular and pedestrian border crossers in order to enhance security and loosening restrictions on the same border crossers in order to speed the flow of legitimate trade.
FCC is re-thinking its 700 MHz public safety network strategy
May 30th, 2008
It’s back to the drawing boards for the Federal Communications Commission, which tried and failed earlier this year to garner more than $1.33 billion in total bids for licenses to implement a nationwide public safety communications network in the 700 MHz band.
Video surveillance or "Community Safety Cameras"?
May 19th, 2008
Chris Fox knows a thing or two about police work, and how police can use video surveillance to fight crime.
In fact, his police work in the United Kingdom, during the course of his 34-year career in law enforcement, was impressive enough to earn him the Queen’s Police Medal in 1996 and the title of "Sir," when he was knighted in the New Years Honors list 10 years later.
DHS announces $844 million critical infrastructure grants
May 19th, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security plans to award more than $844 million in grants this year to help secure the nation’s critical infrastructure.
The awards are being made as part of the DHS Infrastructure Protection Activities (IPA) grant program.
Video surveillance in a different "City by the Bay"
May 19th, 2008
One by one, large and small cities across the United States are installing lots of video cameras to watch their citizens in public spaces, connecting those cameras to monitoring centers by fiber optic cable or wireless "mesh" networks; thereby attempting to decrease crime.
Report: Border security market to reach $14 billion by 2011
May 15th, 2008
Border security is expected to be one of the top growth markets in the homeland security sector in terms of expenditure over the next four years, reaching $13.98 billion by end of 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate of 19.5 percent.
