Corporate News
TruePosition wins injunction and damages against Andrew Corp.
August 11th, 2008
The U.S. Delaware District Court has awarded Berwyn, PA-based TruePosition, Inc. $18.6 million in damages in a patent dispute case pitting the Liberty Media Corp. subsidiary against Hickory, NC-based Andrew Corp., a division of CommScope, Inc.
Coast Guard commissions first national security cutter
August 11th, 2008
The U.S. Coast Guard has commissioned the 418-foot USCGC Bertholf, the first in a class of technologically advanced, multi-mission vessels known as national security cutters.
The ship was built by Los Angeles, CA-based Northrop Grumman and equipped by Bethesda, MD-based Lockheed Martin.
Bosch Security promotes van Iperen and Ribinski
August 1st, 2008
Leadership changes have been announced at the top of Bosch Security Systems, Inc., which have Gert van Iperen replacing Uwe Glock as chairman, and Peter Ribinski moving up to replace van Iperen and overseeing the global business units responsible for security system product development.
Show-biz attorneys go homeland security
August 1st, 2008
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, a venerable Los Angeles law firm perhaps best known for its entertainment industry practice and particularly for its Hollywood talent attorneys, has formed an interdisciplinary practice group to counsel clients on transactional and regulatory issues created by recent homeland security legislation.
How’re we doin?
July 28th, 2008
With the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks fast approaching, an urgent question looms: Why isn’t the country better defended along the most obvious and fundamental lines of future attacks?
Passenger aircraft? Sure, luggage is well-examined and it’s a fair certainty that your fellow passengers don’t have a bomb in their shoes. But the millions of pounds of cargo that travel every day in the holds of passenger aircraft? Not yet secure, not by a long shot. All that is still being debated and studied.
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Louisiana Governor takes a shine to ArcMail for e-mail security
July 17th, 2008
The Governor of Louisiana has tapped a local company, Shreveport-based ArcMail Technology, to ensure that the state’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (OHSEP)is prepared for the increase in e-mail traffic during and after disasters, and can better respond to legal discovery orders and requests for information during emergencies.
NitroSecurity acquires RippleTech
July 15th, 2008
NitroSecurity, Inc., of Portsmouth, NH, has acquired RippleTech,, of Conshohocken, PA. Both companies provide information security systems.
Corporate News: Vigilant merges with BATM
July 14th, 2008
The board of directors of Vigilant Technology, with offices in New York, Tel Aviv and the U.K., has recommended accepting an acquisition offer from BATM Advanced Communications Limited, of Kfar Netter, Israel, a designer and manufacturer of equipment used to manage, control and switch traffic over computer networks. Vigilant is a developer and manufacturer of high-frame-rate video recording and surveillance solutions meant to add value to video captured by customers’ CCTV networks. BATM products include fiber optic networking, multi-service transport, access solutions and integrated IP voice, data and video services. BATM currently employ more than 500 people, according to a Vigilant statement.
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