Welcome to the GSN 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program Dinner Seat Reservation!

2010 Awards Ceremony Photo

Time and Place:

The GSN Awards Dinner will take place on Monday evening, November 14 at the JW Marriott Hotel at 1331 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC.

To reserve a table for ten or individual seats:

The cost for a Table for Ten at the Awards Dinner is $2600.

Individual seats are priced at $290 per seat.

Room Reservations at the Marriott:

For JW Marriott Reservations, call 1-800-393-2603 or go to www.JWMarriottdc.com

Group code: GSNGSNA

Dress code:

Formal Business Attire – Black Tie Acceptable but not Required

GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Program:

6:30 – 7:15 Cocktail Reception

7:15 – 7:30 Honor Guard and Pledge of Allegiance

7:30 – 9:00 Awards Dinner

8:15 – 10:00 Presentation of 2011 Awards

10:15 – 10:45 Presentation of First Annual GSN/Raytheon Award for Distinguished Leadership and Innovation in Public Safety and Security

11:00 -- Farewell

For questions, contact:

Ed Tyler, Publisher
GSN: Government Security News
etyler@gsnmagazine.com
212-344-0759, ext. 2001

PRESENT SPONSORS OF THE GSN 2011 HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS

Videos of 2010 Award Finalists and Winners

GSN 2010 Awards: Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office

Captain David Baisden recounts the story of how the Sheriff’s Office was first advised by the Department of Justice to hire an additional 200 officers, which would have cost the taxpayers $10 million per year. Instead, they explored replacing their antiquated PTZ camera system with a system of Avigilon high-definition megapixel cameras, which they ultimately installed themselves. In the first 30 days after the installation, the Sheriff’s Office was able to take 30 cases to the DA’s office, and 90% of the violence disappeared from the facility.

GSN 2010 Awards: Geri Castaldo, CEO, Codebench

Ms. Castaldo describes Codebench as a software development company that focuses exclusively on physical security applications. Its PIVCheck product, which is deployed in the VA, seven seaports and a number of petrochemical companies, won the GSN Award for the second time in two years, as “Best Integrated Solution for HSPD-12 and FIPS-201 Compliance.”

GSN 2010 Awards: Dave Fowler, SVP Product Development and Marketing, Vidsys

Vidsys specializes in Physical Security Information Management (PSIM), according to Dave Fowler, and thus its software is designed to integrate all physical security into one technology, and to bring together multiple technologies as well as multiple agencies. Because of the success of its PSIM software, the company has been “growing like gangbusters” in recent years.

GSN 2010 Awards: Everette “Reid” Hilliard, Assistant Director, Justice Protective Services, Emergency and Planning Services, Department of Justice (DOJ)

Mr Hilliard and his team received their Trophy for work on the DHS Interagency Security Committee in completing the Physical Security Criteria for Federal Facilities document, and sister document, the Design-Basis Threat Report. He describes how risk management comes into the equation, as federal leadership has to decide if evolving site specific needs for their respective agencies determine they must exceed the baseline requirement, or if conditions permit them to deviate downward.

GSN 2010 Awards: Lorraine Cope, Marketing Director, Intelagard, Inc

Intelagard was Winner of GSN’s 2010 Homeland Security Award for “Best Decontamination Products and Solutions”. In this interview at the company’s headquarters in Lafayette, CO, Ms Cope describes the H1 Intercept, a multi-asset vehicle that can change from fire suppression to decontamination to hazmat remediation in less than 5 minutes. She also demonstrates the McCaw Backpack, the company’s first product, which uses compressed air foam in dryer or wetter form depending on the nature of the danger.