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ISC West Conference 2013: Joe Troiano, EverFocus

Joe Troiano, General Manager and Senior VP of Everfocus Electronics, stresses in his opening remarks that Everfocus is a global supplier of video security surveillance equipment and is proud to...

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: 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...

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...

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 Expo 2013: Paul Macker, President Eagle Eye Expositions

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

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Covia Labs, David Kahn, CEO

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; Jim Montagnino, CEO/President, NC4

El Segundo, CA based NC4 specializes in situational awareness, emergency response and event planning, according to Jim Montagnino. Its crime fighting solution “Situational Awareness for Enforcement’s...

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Detective Robert Shilling, Seattle Police Departmen

Detective Bob Shilling describes the Seattle PD’s winning entry in the category of “Most Notable Municipal/County Security Program” for its “Common Operating Program (COP)” that took five different...

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...

IACP Conference, 2012: Eric Ivers, “The Robot Guy”, RoboteX, Inc

Eric Ivers gives a demonstration of the RoboteX robot and indicates that they are sold mainly to law enforcement agencies, the military, SWAT teams, Army rangers and the company is presently...

IACP Conference, 2012: Dr. Frank Trocki, Aspen University, Denver, CO

Categories: Education/Training, Law Enforcement, Military/Force Protection, State/Local Security, Federal Agencies, CommunicationsAspen University was founded in 1987 and is the oldest virtual...

News

Secret Service wants software vendor for its wiretaps, ‘pen registers’ and ‘trap & trace’ devices

Fri, 2013-05-17 01:00 PM

Screen shots from
Pen-Link Ltd

In an effort to manage its wire taps, “pen registers,” “trap & trace devices” and other forms of electronic communications intercepts, the U.S. Secret Service is seeking a contractor that can...

FBI sees cyber-attacks as threats to national security

Thu, 2013-05-16 04:07 PM

Even as traditional crime -- from mortgage originations to healthcare to child exploitation -- has migrated online, the range and scope of the FBI’s investigations into cyber-crimes has continued to...

Retrieving human remains buried beneath 40 feet of ice in arctic Greenland

Thu, 2013-05-16 03:54 PM

A Grumman Duck aircraft

The U.S. Coast Guard wants to hear from companies that could mount an expedition to a frigid part of arctic Greenland, excavate a downed J2F-4 Grumman Duck aircraft which crashed at the site during...

Firearm background checks doubled in week following Sandy Hook school shootings, says FBI

Thu, 2013-05-16 02:24 PM

Robert Mueller, III

In testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee on May 16, FBI Director Robert Mueller, III revealed that the busiest week in the history of the instant criminal background check program for...

FBI deploys its Next Generation Identification Increment 3

Wed, 2013-05-15 08:19 PM

The FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Increment 3, a state-of-the-art biometric identification system, was deployed on May 5, providing significant improvement in latent fingerprint search...

Lt. Col. Grossman warns the country to prepare itself for deadly violence

Tue, 2013-05-14 11:19 PM

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman does not deal in subtleties. He has strong views about the current state of American society, and he pulls no punches when he lays out his provocative views, as he did to a...

During decontamination, first responders can use DQE’s new ‘Decon Stability Cane’

Mon, 2013-05-13 10:25 PM

Decon
Stability
Cane

Wearing a bulky HazMat suit during responder decontamination makes it difficult to maneuver, leading to slips and falls. After watching emergency responders resort to using walkers, traffic cones and...

Obama hails heroic cops at the White House

Mon, 2013-05-13 12:18 PM

Obama praises
"Top Cops"

At a “Top Cops” ceremony in the East Room of the White House on May 11, President Obama took a few moments to recall the heroics of some of America’s best police officers, and used the occasion to...

Witnesses debate role of Muslim-American community before a key House panel

Fri, 2013-05-10 09:52 AM

Erroll Southers

As policy makers, scholars and law enforcement officials begin to sort out the facts behind the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, a common theme has begun to emerge: the greatest current threat to...

Catalyst and Harris demonstrate P25 Console Sub-System Interface

Thu, 2013-05-09 06:49 AM

Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc. and Harris Corp. demonstrated the Project 25 (P25) Console Sub-System Interface (CSSI) at the 2013 International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas....

Internet Complaint Center warns of phishing attacks posing as telecom carriers

Wed, 2013-05-08 03:48 PM

The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, announced on May 8 that it has received numerous reports of phishing attacks targeting...

DNDO to host first ‘National Radiological and Nuclear Detection Challenge’ in August

Wed, 2013-05-08 02:25 PM

In an effort to spur competition and spread best practices among state and local law enforcement officers, first responders and public safety officials, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office is...

Company News

Following its acquisition, Segway names Rod Keller its new president

Segway Inc., a leading provider of electric personal transportation, announced on May 6 that it has named Rod Keller as its president.

Keller is a veteran executive with an extensive sales and marketing background. He will lead the revitalization of the company, as it focuses on driving innovation in personal transportation products; designing and delivering new Segway quality, value-priced solutions; and expanding its worldwide network and earning additional market share, said the company in a May 6 news release.

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.

Inovio gets rapid vaccination technology grant

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will receive a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to advance the development of its next generation DNA vaccine delivery device capable of simultaneously administering multiple synthetic vaccines via skin surface electroporation.

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)

O’Gara Group buys BAE armored vehicle group

Security and defense systems provider The O'Gara Group, Inc., completed its $10 million purchase of BAE Systems Commercial Armored Vehicles LLC and renamed the business O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company LLC.

Mutualink demos multi-agency interoperability

Interoperable communications platform provider Mutualink, Inc. said it participated in a multi-agency collaboration demonstration Jan. 29 – 31 in San Diego that linked first responders and critical infrastructure providers.

The company said its demonstration showed the capabilities of real-time, anywhere, anytime multimedia collaboration between first responders and critical infrastructure agencies –like utilities – across wired, commercial broadband, satellite, and public safety LTE networks.

DMI wins ICE operations and maintenance contract

Bethesda, MD-based IT solutions and business strategy consulting firm DMI won a two-year task order to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) Support for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) legacy Alien Criminal Response Information Management (ACRIMe) System.

American Military University signs MOA with Coast Guard

American Military University signed a memorandum of agreement on Jan. 24 with the U.S. Coast Guard to support research projects involving maritime homeland security issues.

American Military University is part of the American Public University System, a private for-profit, online learning institution of higher education. American Public University is the other APUS constituent school. APUS maintains corporate and academic offices in Charles Town, WV, and administrative offices in Manassas, VA,

Commentary and Opinions

Preventing the Boston Bombings with a ‘predictive security system’

The disastrous results of the Boston Marathon bombings are testimony to the ineffectiveness of current security systems to predict and help avert devastating attacks. Although Boston’s security infrastructure was quite effective at post-disaster forensics, enabling the identification and neutralization of two suspects only days after the bombings, the community still had to suffer hundreds of injuries, loss of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in collateral damage.

Mobile County, AL, bolsters first responder communications with broadband mobile application

Setting the stage for LTE in Mobile County

Mobile County, Alabama, was looking for ways to expand its public safety communications footprint. At the same time, it wanted to tap into the power of LTE broadband to ensure the highest levels of interoperability and connectivity for its senior leadership, regardless of their physical location.

Facing up to fraud in 2013

IRS estimates put the 2012 tax gap at almost $350 billion, and a recent audit indicated that the IRS may lose $21 billion over the next five years due to identity theft alone -- one of the fastest growing areas of losses to the agency.

Dialogue between public, private and nonprofit sectors can ensure swift deployment of disaster recovery resources

When a disaster strikes, the pre-existing relationships between government and the private sector must be leveraged to launch an effective response and recovery effort. The objective for community crisis response is to support and bolster the capabilities that function effectively in the normal state to function with the same level of success in the emergency state.

Beyond the bars: Envisioning a new ecosystem of virtual incarceration

By Michael Gelles , Alan Holden and Kara Shuler

At this moment, 1 out of every 100 adult Americans is behind bars. That’s 2.3 million convicted offenders, more than 60 percent of whom were sentenced for non-violent offenses.

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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 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.

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. But it is in this business in a big way, with 50% of the U.S. federal government using the AtHoc System, including U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, both on an enterprise level, the U.S. Patent Office and TSA.

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Covia Labs, David Kahn, CEO

Covia Labs received the award for “Best Interoperable First Responder Communications” in the 2012 Awards Program for its “Alert & Respond” software platform and application that provides voice/data interoperability across a variety of platforms ranging from smart phones to police and fire department radios, embedded devices and drones. The top two markets for the company, according to CEO David Kahn, are the military and public safety.

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.

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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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