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ISC West Conference 2013: Peter Boriskin, ASSA ABLOY

Peter Boriskin, Director of Product Management for Assay Abloy’s Commecial/Electronic/Access Control Products, indicates that he would like to describe the features and benefits of the Sargent...

ISC West Conference 2013: David Murphy, Zebra Technologies

Zebra’s extensive portfolio of barcode, receipt, card, kiosk and UHF RFID printers and supplies, as well as real-time location solutions, are used by 90% of the Fortune 500 and many federal, state...

Border Security Awards 2013: Tamir Aluma, Vidisco

Vidisco received the Platinum Award in the “Best Explosives/ID/Contraband Detection” category of GSN’s 2013 Border Security Awards. The company has been focusing exclusively on portable X-ray systems...

Border Security Awards 2013: Joe Valenzuela, Director of Border Security Solutions, EADS North America

EADS North America, recipient of GSN’s 2013 Platinum Award for “Best Wide Area Persistent Surveillance”, is one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the world, as Joe Venezuela points...

Border Security Awards 2013: Ali Lebaschi, E-Seek Incorporated

Border Security Awards 2013: Patti Shaffner, Textron Defense Systems

Border Security Awards 2013: John Procacci, Business Development Manager, Integrated Microwave Technologies

John Procaccio, Business Development Manager of Integrated Microwave Technologies, reveals that the company is a designer and manufacturer of mission critical transmitters and receivers used in...

Border Security Awards 2013: Bobby Brown, VP Marketing, Telephonics Corporation

According to Bobby Brown, VP for Homeland Security, Telephonics business units include a Maritime Surveillance unit, a Communications unit and an Integrated Surveillance Group, which produces a...

Border Security Expo 2013: Paul Macker, President Eagle Eye Expositions

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Dubhe Beinhorn, VP Public Sector, AtHoc, Inc

Dubhe Beinhorn describes AtHoc, Inc, winner of GSN’s 2012 award for “Best Mass Notification Solutions,” as a company that operates in one sector only: critical communications for crisis management....

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Drew Morin, Chief Technology Officer, TeleCommunication Systems

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), which entered its “Commercial Mobile Alerts System” in the 2012 Awards Program, was named a Finalist in the “Best Mass Notification Systems” category. Drew Morin, who...

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Randall Foster, President/CEO, Vumii, Inc

Vumii, the Atlanta, GA manufacturer of thermal imaging and illuminated IR cameras, was awarded a Winner’s trophy for “Best Thermal/Night Vision/Infrared Cameras” at the 2012 awards dinner. Primary...

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: David Luber, Deputy Divison Director, Persistent Surveillance, Logos Technologies, Inc

In the GSN awards category of “Most Notable Federal Government Security Program, Project or Initiative”, the 2012 plaque went to the Naval Air Systems Command for its successful deployment of Logos...

IACP Conference, 2012: Kris Pearson, Director of Sales, VIEVU, Inc

Kris Pearson describes VIEVU as the world leader in body-worn video technology, with 23,000 customers worldwide. One of the reasons that police officers are now wearing surveillance devices, he...

News

U.S. and Canada report progress on Phase I of entry/exit project

Wed, 2013-05-15 06:55 PM

Tom Winkowski

DHS and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on May 14 released a joint report on Phase I of the entry/exit proof of concept, a commitment of the Beyond the Border Action Plan, which outlines...

House panels to markup two important homeland security bills this week

Mon, 2013-05-13 01:24 PM

Rep. Michael McCaul

The next few days will be important ones for homeland security, as two different panels on the House side of Capitol Hill wrestle with appropriations for homeland security in the fiscal year 2014...

Automated Passport Control debuts at Vancouver International Airport

Fri, 2013-05-10 06:09 PM

Automated Passport Control

CBP and Vancouver Airport Authority announced on May 8 a new program, Automated Passport Control, an expedited customs entry process that will allow eligible passengers traveling from Vancouver...

State Dept. will be printing many thousands of new Passport and Border Crossing Cards

Fri, 2013-05-10 02:25 PM

U.S. Border Crossing Card

The U.S. State Department wants to gather technical and capabilities information from prospective vendors that can provide the hardware, equipment, maintenance and, possibly, the printing of many...

DHS witnesses describe border security efforts to Senate panel

Tue, 2013-05-07 04:58 PM

David Heyman

A handful of senior DHS officials testified on May 7 in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to describe what they see as the significant strides their department...

Obama touts secure borders and pushes immigration reform

Mon, 2013-05-06 12:02 PM

President Obama and
President Enrique Peña Nieto
of Mexico offer a toast
in Mexico City

Following his meetings last week with the new president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, President Obama used his weekly radio address on May 4 to brag about recent security improvements at the U.S.-...

ICE arrests 13 in connection international sex trafficking and prostitution charges

Sat, 2013-05-04 11:00 AM

James Hayes, Jr.

More than a dozen members of an alleged international sex trafficking ring were taken into custody on May 1 to face charges for sex trafficking. The arrests are a result of an investigation by U.S....

Border Patrol catches three in Arizona trying to smuggle in heroin

Fri, 2013-05-03 04:35 PM

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents working at the I-19 checkpoint in Arizona apprehended two juveniles and one adult attempting to smuggle heroin on their bodies in three separate incidents on May 1...

Sen. Carper sends 9-page letter to appropriations honchos supporting higher DHS budget levels

Thu, 2013-05-02 02:51 PM

Sen. Tom Carper

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has written a 9-page letter to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on homeland...

USCIS to buy security ink for its official documents from a Swiss-based company

Thu, 2013-05-02 11:04 AM

SICPA Securink Corp., a Swiss-based company with a North American headquarters in Springfield, VA, has been awarded a contract worth more than $671,000 to provide a “unique blue hue” security ink and...

CBP moves forward with solicitation for mobile video surveillance systems

Wed, 2013-05-01 10:08 AM

Mobile Video
Surveillance System

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a formal solicitation calling for the purchase of a minimum of two Mobile Video Surveillance Systems -- and perhaps hundreds more -- which are a...

FCC hopes to eliminate radio interference along the U.S.-Mexico border

Fri, 2013-04-26 11:34 AM

An FCC rebanding plan

Following nine years of deliberations inside the U.S. Government, and an international agreement signed by U.S. and Mexican officials, the Federal Communications Commission has issued a final rule...

Company News

Forest Service prepares NASA-developed imaging technology for wildfire season

The U.S. Forest Service is testing airborne imaging technology it got from NASA in 2012 that can be mounted to unmanned and manned aircraft to prepare for this year's wildfire season in the western U.S.

Sirius Integrator launches low-maintenance methanol EFOY fuel cells

Massachusetts-based Sirius Integrator unveiled off-grid mission-critical methanol fuel cells that can power mission-critical covert vehicles and outdoor surveillance configurations.

Textron Defense Systems wins GSN’s border security award for its ground sensor

Textron Defense Systems announced on March 14 that its MicroObserver Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) system has been named “Best Outdoor/Ground Sensor” by GSN: Government Security News as part of the publication’s inaugural Border Security Awards program.

IMT debuts DropCam video surveillance kit

Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT), a business unit within the Vitec Group’s videocom division, introduced its DropCam (DTx) COFDM Video Surveillance Kit at Border Security Expo 2013 in Phoenix, AZ.

Lockheed Martin delivers another upgraded P-3 Orion to CBP

Bethesda, MD-based Lockheed Martin has delivered a P-3 Orion with new Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) modifications to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The company said on March 8 that the aircraft is the seventh CBP P-3 it has delivered ahead of or on schedule from its production facility in Greenville, SC, since July 2010.

Telephonics mobile platform named GSN Platinum winner

Telephonics Corporation’s Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC) was named the Platinum Winner in the Best Integrated Perimeter Protection System category at Government Security News’ 2013 Border Security Awards program.

The MSC truck, on display March 12-13 at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, AZ, showed successful integration and demonstration of multiple sensors using intuitive, user-friendly mission control and monitoring software, said Telephonics, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation.

Unmanned aircraft systems industry becomes job creation engine beyond 2015

Once unmanned aerial vehicles are integrated into U.S. airspace plans, the unmanned aircraft industry will generate 70,000 - 100,000 new jobs, according to a study released by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)

Cincinnati, Chicago and Milwaukee open Global Entry enrollment centers

The Port of Cincinnati is the home of the latest Global Entry enrollment center opened by Customs and Border Protection, but two others in Chicago and Milwaukee have also begun operating.

The newest facility, housed at CBP Port of Cincinnati’s Olympic Blvd. building in Erlanger, KY, opened on Feb. 26, said CBP. Cincinnati is located on the north bank of the Ohio River at the Ohio–Kentucky border, near Indiana.

Commentary and Opinions

A unique solution for U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Acquisition cost versus life-cycle cost has always been a trade-off, often difficult to assess, usually very subjective, and frequently leaving U.S. Government procurement agencies to assume higher risk than necessary in their supplier selection process.

For U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Telephonics Corp.’s solution for the Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC) and the Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT) network solves this dilemma by providing both low acquisition costs and low life-cycle cost.

Calculating wait times for commercial vehicles at the U.S.-Mexico border

To take a tour of a port of entry connecting the U.S. and Canada or the U.S. and Mexico is to get a glimpse of the latest in cutting-edge technology.

Immigration and customs enforcement

By John Morton

[Editor’s note: John Morton, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, delivered the following statement on Oct. 12, 2011 before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, at a hearing entitled, "Oversight Hearing on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Priorities and the Rule of Law."]

Introduction

Lockheed Martin debuts a wireless intrusion detection network of 'rocks’

A wireless sensor network system developed by Lockheed Martin can revolutionize the way users obtain discreet persistent situational awareness and characterization of their surroundings, says the company in an Oct. 12 news release.

The Self-Powered Ad-hoc Network (SPAN) system, a network of "Field-and Forget" ground sensors, provides unobtrusive, continuous surveillance supporting multiple missions and applications.

Smart effective border security and immigration enforcement

Smart effective border security and immigration enforcement

By Janet Napolitano

[Editor’s note: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered the following speech at American University in Washington, DC, on Oct. 5.]

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Recent Border Security Videos

Border Security Awards 2013: Ali Lebaschi, E-Seek Incorporated

E-Seek Inc, which designs and manufactures bar code readers for verifying drivers’ licenses, was platinum winner in GSN’s 2013 Border Security Awards in the category of “Best Identification Document Verification Solution”. With barcodes now being used in drivers licenses issued by all 50 states, E-Seek produces desktop readers as well as a line of compact, portable and wireless readers that are widely used in law enforcement patrol cars, banks, casinos and hospitals. In a major announcement at the Border Security Expo, Mr.

Border Security Awards 2013: Patti Shaffner, Textron Defense Systems

Textron Defense Systems has a wide range of products for the security market, according to Patti Shaffner, including its aerial ISR system, unmanned aerial systems and iCommand, which brings them all together. But the system that won the platinum award in GSN’s 2013 Border Security Awards Program for Best Outdoor Ground Sensors was the MicroObserver® Unattended Ground Sensor System, a complete solution containing sensor node, gateway and camera repeater.

Border Security Awards 2013: John Procacci, Business Development Manager, Integrated Microwave Technologies

John Procaccio, Business Development Manager of Integrated Microwave Technologies, reveals that the company is a designer and manufacturer of mission critical transmitters and receivers used in wireless transmission of videos, and was a platinum winner of the platinum award for “Best Covert Surveillance Solution” in GSN’s 2013 Border Security Awards Program for its “DropCam” product. IMT is a prime contractor for the DHS in Tech-Ops and offers a range of products described by Mr.

Border Security Awards 2013: Bobby Brown, VP Marketing, Telephonics Corporation

According to Bobby Brown, VP for Homeland Security, Telephonics business units include a Maritime Surveillance unit, a Communications unit and an Integrated Surveillance Group, which produces a ground-based Advanced Radar System (ARSS), with 1,600 systems deployed globally. In recent years, Telephonics has collaborated with Customs and Border Protection to develop a package called the Mobile Surveillance System (MSS) that includes ground radar, pan-tilt cameras and a C2 system, with 44 systems presently in CBP’s inventory.

Border Security Expo 2013: Paul Macker, President Eagle Eye Expositions

Paul Mackler, President of Eagle Eye Expositions, expresses great satisfaction with exhibitor turn-out and quality of the sessions in the 2013 Expo. He gives a lot of credit for the event’s success to his Advisory Board, which included Jason P. Ahern and many other former high-ranking officials in CBP, DEA, ICE and other government agencies. Mackler also announces that the first annual U.S.- Canada Cross Border Conference will take place in Detroit, MI on September 12-13, to help advance the Beyond Border agreement signed by U.S.

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Upcoming Events

Event Details	Dates of Event
Critical Security Controls International Summit 2013	Apr 26 - May 2
Secure India @Bangalore 2013	Apr 29 - May 4
Cloud Security Alliance CCSK Certification Training	May 6 - 7
SANS Security West 2013	May 9 - 19
SANS Brisbane 2013	May 13 - 18
GovSec Conference & Expo	May 14 - 15
CPM East Conference & Expo	May 14 - 15
TREXPO - The Law Enforcement Expo	May 14 - 15
SANS Austin 2013	May 19 - 24
DoD VA Healthcare Training Forum	May 20 - 23
ISSA-LA Fifth Annual Information Security Summit	May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Perimeter Defense Seminar	May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 22 - 22
Transport and Logistics of Hazardous Material	May 27 - 28
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 28 - 28
Border Management Southwest Summit	May 29 - 31
Cyber Security Conference & Expo	May 30 - 30
Mobile Device Security Summit 2013	May 30 - Jun 6
Security Analytics Summit 2013	May 30 - Jun 6
Cyber Security Conference & Expo	May 30 - 30
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 30 - 30
SANS Malaysia @ MCMC 2013	Jun 3 - 8
2013 SIA Government Summit	Jun 4 - 5
Southwest Microwave Seminar	Jun 4 - 4
NCT: CBRNe Israel, 4 - 6 June 2013, Tel Aviv	Jun 4 - 6
SEL Modern Solutions Power Systems Conference	Jun 5 - 7
Mission Command	Jun 10 - 12
Cyber Securty Brainstorm	Jun 11 - 11
EDGE Summit 2013	Jun 11 - 11
IPv6 Summit 2013	Jun 14 - 16
SANSFIRE 2013	Jun 15 - 22
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 2nd Biosurveillance Symposium	Jun 17
Biodetection Technologies 2013	Jun 18 - 19
Southwest Microwave Seminar	Jun 18 - 18

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Deposition Sciences offers durable, wide-angle broadband anti-reflective coatings

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI), a manufacturer of durable thin film optical coatings, announced on June 16 the design of a...

ICx introduces ClearPoint bottled liquid screener

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Bosch GVS1000 sees far in the dark

Fairport, NY-based Bosch Security Systems, Inc. has introduced the GVS1000, which the company describes as the industry's l...

IDenta says explosives ID kits identify underwear bomber’s PETN

Add Jerusalem-based Identa Corp. to the handful of companies that issued statements in the wake of the failed...