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GSN Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors: Tony Wilder, Incident Commander, Southern Agency Type 1 Red Team

The Bastrop County, TX Unified Command was named Winner of GSN’s 2011 Award for “Most Notable Emergency Response – Federal, State or Local.”. Trophies were awarded to the Incident Commanders of...

GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors: Elizabeth Cavasso, Type 1 Planning Section Chief, US Forest Service, National Incident Management Organization (NIMO)

GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors: Mike Fisher, Emergency Management Coordinator, Bastrop County, TX

GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors: Dan Kleinman, Incident Commander, National Incident Management Organization (NIMO)

News

CBP rescue beacon helps save two in south Texas

Wed, 2012-02-08 10:28 AM

Rescue beacon

CBP agents helped save two people trying to traverse the south Texas scrubland after the couple sounded a rescue beacon near an internal border checkpoint. U.S. Border Patrol said agents assigned to...

GPO provided secure credentials for FBI at Super Bowl in Indianapolis

Tue, 2012-02-07 02:46 PM

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) used security design and printing techniques to produce the FBI’s special events credential that was used at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, IN, by public...

HSI Nogales special agent pleads guilty to leaking classified documents

Tue, 2012-02-07 10:31 AM

Nogales POE

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent pleaded guilty to all 21 counts accusing her of leaking sensitive government information to relatives...

First ICE public advocate on enforcement issues begins job

Tue, 2012-02-07 09:32 AM

ICE Washington D.C. headquarters

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s first public advocate -- the point of contact at the organization for the public, including individuals, public advocacy and community groups with...

Liberian deported in first ICE child soldier recruitment case

Tue, 2012-02-07 08:55 AM

A federal immigration judge in New York ordered a Liberian man deported back to his home country under Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s first invocation of child soldier recruitment and use...

Global Entry program permanent fixture for CBP

Tue, 2012-02-07 07:53 AM

Global Entry kiosk

The Department of Homeland Security moved to make its voluntary, trusted traveler Global Entry program a permanent part of the U.S. entry process. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Feb. 6 that...

HD cameras steal market share in the in-car police video surveillance market, says IMS

Mon, 2012-02-06 04:25 PM

IMS Research forecasts that despite police department budgets coming under increasing pressure across the U.S., the High Definition (HD) camera market onboard police cars is set to grow at more than...

Federal, state and local agencies seize 500 pounds of drugs in ACTT operation

Mon, 2012-02-06 08:40 AM

Operation Silverbell

A multi-agency enforcement operation organized under a U.S. interagency effort to combat trans-border threats netted nine suspects, an AK-47 assault rifle and 498 pounds of marijuana on Feb. 1 near...

Mexican nationals get 10 years for marijuana growing operations in Wisconsin forest

Mon, 2012-02-06 08:05 AM

Chequemegon forest

Three Mexican nationals were sentenced on Feb. 3 to 10 years in federal prison for a marijuana growing operation based in the sprawling, thickly-wooded Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern...

Live cannonball in luggage forces evacuation at Florida airport

Mon, 2012-02-06 07:42 AM

Florida cannonball

An old coral-covered cannonball forced the evacuation of the checked baggage area at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the week of Jan. 30, said TSA, after its discovery in a diver’s...

If suspended or denied, federal firearm licensees or applicants can submit arguments in an ‘informal setting,’ says ATF

Fri, 2012-02-03 11:57 AM

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, known as the ATF, has proposed a new federal rule that intends to clarify that an applicant for a firearms license whose application has been...

FEMA awards ambulance support contract worth nearly half a billion dollars

Fri, 2012-02-03 10:22 AM

Ambulance
team with AMR

FEMA has awarded a follow-on contract that could be worth almost half a billion dollars to American Medical Response Ambulance Service, Inc. (AMR) to provide ground and air ambulances, medical...

Company News

Physical Optics gets HECAD emergency responder contract from HSARPA

Homeland security systems integrator Physical Optics Corp. received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for Phase II of the Helmet Embedded Conformal Augmented Display (HECAD) system.

In collaboration with the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), said the company, the HECAD Phase II award will provide two-year funding for continued work on an embedded "heads-up" display to increase personal situation awareness for emergency responder, said the company.

LRAD debuts its new LRAD 2000X acoustic hailing system

LRAD Corp. has announced that its new LRAD 2000X acoustic hailing system broadcasts highly intelligible voice communication that can be clearly heard and understood over five miles away.

Walden University offers online masters in emergency management

Minneapolis-based Walden University is offering an online emergency management degree program aimed at developing skills to handle situations from natural disasters to man-made catastrophes to terrorist acts.

Walden University said its new online M.S. in Emergency Management program helps prepare professionals with the advanced skills they need to lead emergency response efforts, improve public policy and protect communities from natural disasters and other hazardous events.

Applied DNA Sciences helps convict major European drug ring

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (APDN), a provider of DNA-based security, announced on Jan. 13 that its SigNature DNA anti-crime technology has played a key role in the dismantling of a major drug ring in the United Kingdom, where 11 drug cartel members were sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison.

A massive police operation, conducted over a period of three years, resulted in seizures totaling more than $400,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and cannabis, along with the equivaqlent of nearly $75,000 in cash.

In-vehicle laptops for police cars to debut at Consumer Electronics Show

For the first time in the 45-year history of the Consumer Electronics Show, a patrol car from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), equipped with Raytheon Company's integration of the latest generation of public safety communications technology, will be on display.

The car will be shown at the invitation-only ShowStoppers event that runs from 6 – 10 PM on January 10 in the Lafite Ballroom of the Wynn Hotel, located on the Las Vegas strip.

View Systems installs additional checkpoint gear in Philadelphia’s schools

View Systems, Inc., a security solutions provider, announced on Dec. 28 the installation of four more View Scans in the Philadelphia, PA, school system. The company has recently delivered the systems to the Western High School in Philadelphia. These systems were purchased by Security Data Technology, a security dealer in Pennsylvania.

In a previous product sales update, View Systems reported that it had delivered 50 units of a 60 unit View Scan order from the Detroit, MI, public school system.

GammaTech introduces fully-rugged Durabook R13C convertible computer

GammaTech Computer Corp., a manufacturer and supplier of notebook and tablet computers, has added another model to its line of fully rugged convertible computers.

Brevard County gets IP emergency network

Brevard County, FL, recently signed an agreement with AT&T to roll-out an IP network-based, next-generation 911 services network.

Brevard County and the roughly 540,000 residents in the county will use a variety of AT&T Emergency Services IP network (ESInet) capabilities, according to the company.

The new network completely overhauled and re-built the county’s aging pre-existing 911 network, it said, with three AT&T-managed facilities spread across the state hosting the capabilities.

Commentary and Opinions

Intelligence platform integration with the FBI eGuardian system

A widely held belief in the law enforcement community is that the more information sharing that takes place among different agencies, the better opportunities law enforcement officials have to connect the dots on possible criminal activity. Tips and leads, or Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) from citizens, can help piece together what otherwise might remain silos of pertinent clues or data -- never a connection to be made.

Disaster Preparedness 2011: Ensuring Cloud service continuity during disasters

It’s a distressing feeling when you’re in the middle of an unfolding disaster, and suddenly it hits you -- your plans and resources are being overwhelmed by the event. At this point or soon thereafter, you’ll likely ask yourself a series of questions: How and when will we re-establish services for customers and employees? What will this disaster cost us in terms of revenue, reputation and recovery expenses? How can we avoid being in this position again?

Disaster Preparedness 2011: New wind-damage-resistant windows

The word tornado came from the Spanish word "tronada" which means a thunderstorm. Also known as a twister, a tornado is a violent spiral-shaped storm with a rapidly rotating column of air rising upward, forming a vortex. The vortex has relatively low pressure at the center and is shaped like a funnel.

Virginia Tech shooting shows campus security has come a long way

When reports emerged from Blacksburg, VA, last Thursday afternoon that a shooter had descended upon Virginia Tech’s campus, confirmation that a campus police officer had been killed and headlines of a possible second victim overwhelmed news channels, Websites and every social media outlet.

Throughout the day, there was a jarring litany of that old cliché by anyone that remembers the unspeakable tragedies of April 2007, which claimed 33 lives on Virginia Tech’s campus:

History really does repeat itself.

Disaster Preparedness 2011: Using wirelessly connected monitoring equipment to protect HazMat teams

From the time it capsized at a refinery dock in Texas City, the listing barge -- loaded with 235,000 gallons of sulfuric acid -- began seeping its toxic, corrosive load into the 30-foot-deep waterway.

The water mixing with sulfuric acid inside the hull had begun to corrode the steel. This process reduced the barge’s structural integrity and created reactions inside the sealed compartment that generated a cloud of highly-flammable, highly-pressurized hydrogen gas -- just one spark away from a calamitous blast.

It was time for new plan.

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GSN Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors Interviews: Scott Paul, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sarix Line, Pelco by Schneider Electric:

Scott Paul describes Pelco by Schneider Electric – 2011 winner in “Best Network IP Cameras” -- as a leading provider of video surveillance equipment sold around the world. Products range from analog to IP cameras and include the Spectra and Sarix lines. Among the markets served are new building and construction, highway and transportation infrastructure, casinos, banks, education, airports, seaports and government buildings.

GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors Interviews: Bill Eckerd, Director of Sales for Strategic Account Group, Verint Video Solutions

Verint Video Solutions was a 2011 Winner of “Best Intelligent Video Surveillance Solution” for its Nextiva Physical Security Information Management System (PSIM). According to Bill Eckerd, the PSIM technology allows users to integrate subsystems with a four-phase incident management system which includes personnel training plus planning, monitoring and debriefing. Major markets include state and local government, petro chemicals, critical infrastructure protection and airports.

GSN 2011 Awards Winners and Sponsor Interviews: Tom Harada, Managing Director, Security Systems, Pentax Ricoh Imaging of America

A few moments after Pentax Ricoh accepted its 2001 Award for “Best Specialized CCTV Lens,” Tom Harada sat down with GSN to talk about his engineers’ strategy of getting back to the basics in optical technology. “When it comes to long-range zoom lenses,” he points out, “the longer the distance, the more difficult everything gets.

GSN 2011 Awards Winners and Sponsor Interview: Travis Scott, VP of Agency Relations, Nixle, Inc

Rapidly growing Nixle, which has signed up 4500-plus municipal, county, state and federal agencies in all 50 states – mainly law enforcement and public safety agencies -- and developed an opt-in membership of more than 700,000 local residents, received its Winner’s Trophy in the “Best Mass Notification System” category of GSN’s 2011 Awards Program. According to Travis Scott, Nixle does not require additional personnel at the agency level, because it is a one-way communications service.

ASIS 2011: Jim Viscardi, VP Trace Detection and Millimeter Wave Sales, Smiths Detection

Jim Viscardi reports that Smiths Detection is a world leader in the manufacturing of detection and imaging products that detect chemical weapons, toxic industrial materials, biological warfare agents, narcotics, radiation, nuclear materials and explosives. The company provides multiple technologies to multiple markets, he claims, segmenting by application and customer rather than by technology, a practice which gives Smiths Detection a competitive advantage because of its depth and breadth of products.

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Upcoming Events

Event Details	Dates of Event
SANS Phoenix 2012	Feb 13 - 18
Gov TechTalks Lunch & Learn Session 7: Application Security	Feb 15 - 15
SANS Secure India 2012	Feb 20 - 25
The Airport Law Enforcement Symposium Feb 23-24, 2012	Feb 23 - 24
Learn How to Simplify Data Management and Reduce Storage Costs - with Steak & Eggs	Feb 23 - 23
Physical Security: Introductory Applications and Technology	Feb 27 - Mar 1
Conducting Corporate Investigations	Feb 27 - 28
ISC CHINA 2012 (International Security Conference & Exposition CHINA)	Feb 27 - 29
RSA Conference 2012	Feb 27 - Mar 2
SAP Public Sector Partner Exchange	Feb 28 - 28
SANS Secure Singapore 2012	Mar 5 - 17
SANS Germany 2012	Mar 5 - 10
Homeland Security Finance Forum 2012	Mar 6 - 6
Basic Hands-On CAMEO Training	Mar 12 - 14
ASIS Assets Protection Course: Principles of Security (APC I)	Mar 12 - 15
SANS Mobile Device Security Summit 2012	Mar 12 - 15
Aviation Week's Innovation Challenge Showcase	Mar 13 - 14
Symantec Government Technology Summit	Mar 20 - 20
STI at SANS 2012	Mar 23 - 30
SANS 2012	Mar 23 - 30
The 9th Two Day Conference On Indian Medical Devices & Plastics Disposables Industry 2012	Mar 23 - 24
SANS Northern Virginia 2012	Apr 15 - 20
Active Shooter	Apr 18 - 19
SANS AppSec 2012	Apr 24 - May 2
SANS Cyber Guardian 2012	Apr 30 - May 7
Telework Exchange Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting	May 2 - 2
5th Sample Prep - Sample Preparation for Virus, Toxin, & Pathogen Detection & Identification	May 3 - 4
SANS Security West 2012	May 10 - 18
SANS Toronto 2012	May 14 - 19
Counter Terror Expo US	May 16 - 17
CEIC 2012 (Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference)	May 21 - 24
SANS Rocky Mountain 2012	Jun 4 - 9
Data Center Brainstorm 2012	Jun 19 - 19
SANS Forensics and Incident Response Summit 2012	Jun 21 - 27
Vanguard Security & Compliance 2012	Jun 25 - 28
SANS Canberra 2012	Jul 2 - 10

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