GSN Homeland Security Awards 2011

2011 Homeland Security Awards

Welcome to the GSN 2011

Homeland Security Awards Program!

It's not going to be easy to top the memorable 2010 Awards Program, which culminated in a spectacular dinner at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, and a riveting Keynote speech by four-star general Barry McCaffrey. But we're going to try! If you'd like to see photos of the 2010 reception and dinner, and videos of the Keynote speech and interviews with some of the winners, links are available below.

• Awards Dinner Photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44536438@N06/

• Video Interviews. Awards Dinner and Winners' Interviews: http://www.gsnmagazine.com/category/video_types/conferences_conventions_and_events/gsn_2010_home

As in previous years, the GSN Homeland Security Awards will celebrate the ongoing public-private partnership between all branches of federal, state and local government in the United States and the private sector vendors of IT security and physical security products, solutions and technologies, whose combined efforts successfully defend and protect the nation's people, property and way of life.

The GSN 2011 Homeland Security Awards will once again be divided into three categories:

Outstanding Vendors of IT Security Products and Solutions
Outstanding Vendors of Physical Security Products and Solutions
The Most Effective Federal, State and Local Government Agency Programs, Projects and Initiatives

The cost of each entry in the 2011 Awards Program is $300 for Vendors of IT Security Products and Solutions and for Vendors of Physical Security Products and Solutions. There is no charge for entries by Government Agencies.

Winners in the 2011 Awards Program will be presented their Trophies at a festive and elegant Awards Dinner in early November, at a venue to be announced shortly.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15 – Opening of Awards Entries

April 30 – Judging Panel Announced

August 30 – Deadline for Awards Entries

September 15 – Finalists Named by Judges

First Week of November – Awards Dinner and Presentations to Trophies

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.