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ISC West Conference 2013: Peter Boriskin, ASSA ABLOY

Peter Boriskin, Director of Product Management for ASSA ABLOY'S Commerical Electronic Access Control Products, indicates that he would like to describe the features and benefits of the SARGENT SE...

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...

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...

ISC West Conference 2013: Pan Kamal, AlertEnterprise

Pan Kamal, VP of Marketing for Alert Enterprise, a security software company headquartered in Fremont, CA, explains in his opening remarks that he is going to describe Alert Enterprise’s award-...

Border Security Awards 2013: Tamir Aluma, Vidisco

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

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...

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: John D. Clark, Sr, President/CEO, The Whitestone Group

John D. Clark, Sr. and the Whitestone Group, which he founded in 2000, returned to the GSN Awards Dinner in 2012 to pick up their second trophy in two years, this time for the “Best Facility Security...

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: Chris Runde, VP Transportation and Government Solutions, Alert Enterprise

Alert Enterprise, a multiple award winner in GSN’s 2011 Awards Program, returned in 2012 to win the categories of “Best Platform for Identity Management” and “Best Platform for Physical and Logical...

News

FBI doggedly tracked Somali pirate boss in Quest murders

Thu, 2013-03-28 08:15 AM

Mohammad Saaili Shibin

The man who was the chief negotiator for a group of Somali pirates who kidnapped and ultimately killed four U.S. citizens in attacks in the Gulf of Aden was tracked and finally arrested by members of...

Public meeting on Coast Guard’s plan to require electronic TWIC readers

Wed, 2013-03-27 06:18 PM

Coast Guard personnel
examine TWIC reader

Following up its announcement on March 22 that owners of certain vessels and maritime facilities might be required to install electronic TWIC card readers under proposed new regulations, the U.S....

CBP’s Chicago Shadow knows his job

Mon, 2013-03-25 11:36 AM

Shadow

A Customs and Border Protection drug sniffing Belgian Malinois named Shadow is a canine whiz at finding drugs in mail coming into Chicago O’Hare’s facilities. On March 18, Shadow and Chicago CBP...

CBP provides emergency care to migrants battered by the sea

Thu, 2013-03-21 11:48 AM

Migrants on
Desecheo

An emergency medical technician with U.S. Customs and Border Protection worked intensely on March 8 to treat over 70 Haitian migrants stranded on a remote island near Puerto Rico as they tried to...

Coast Guard, Oregon first responders, oil company practice large oil spill response

Tue, 2013-03-19 08:51 AM

Lower Columbia River
near Astoria

A gathering of Oregon first responders, the Coast Guard and an oil company conducted a major tabletop drill on oil spill response in the lower Columbia River on March 14. A real oil spill disaster in...

Cuts will worsen understaffing at CBP facilities, union says

Mon, 2013-03-18 07:52 AM

NTEU's Kelley

The union that represents thousands of federal workers said short-term and long-term mandatory U.S. government budgets cuts will worsen the effects of understaffing in Customs and Border Protection (...

Coast Guard anti-pirate detachment returns from middle east deployment

Tue, 2013-03-12 10:48 AM

A Coast Guard
MSRT

The Coast Guard welcomed a Maritime Security Response Team detachment home from counter-piracy deployment on March 8. The Chesapeake, VA-based advanced interdiction team (AIT) from the Coast Guard...

Coast Guard cutter and armed helicopter stop millions in cocaine

Tue, 2013-03-05 09:11 AM

Cutter Legare

Coast Guard crews on cutters, helicopters and C-130 patrol aircraft stopped a “go-fast” boat off the coast of Florida carrying almost 40 bales of cocaine. Coast Guard cutter Legare on March 4 off-...

DARPA wants UAV systems that can be based on small ships

Mon, 2013-03-04 02:13 PM

DARPA TERN

Government researchers are looking for ways to convert small ships into mobile bases from which long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles could perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...

Winners of GSN’s 2013 border security awards to be announced on March 11

Mon, 2013-03-04 09:40 AM

After receiving word from border security awards program chief judge Chuck Brooks that final judging decisions have been completed, Government Security News has announced that the names of the...

Five convicted in pirate attack on USS Ashland

Thu, 2013-02-28 11:33 AM

Ashland team
recovers pirates

Five men were convicted on Feb. 27 for acts of piracy in a 2010 attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Somalia. The men were found guilty by a federal jury in Norfolk, VA, of engaging in piracy...

Northcom formally adds new maritime and special ops components

Thu, 2013-02-28 09:42 AM

The U.S. Northern Command has formally added new naval and special operations components to its command structure in the last month, according to the Department of Defense. A Feb. 28 Armed Forces...

Company News

Tyco International completes Visonic acquisition

Tyco International Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Visonic Ltd. a global developer and manufacturer of electronic security systems and components, for approximately $100 million in cash. The acquisition was first announced on September 15, 2011.

Tyco said Visonic is a leader in advanced wireless technology for the security industry. The company’s portfolio includes wireless communications technologies that offer increased range and secure communications, said Tyco and its technologies are used in more than one million wireless installations around the world.

Chertoff Group opens new office in San Francisco, focuses on cyber and border security

The Chertoff Group, the global security advisory firm founded by former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, said it has opened a new office in San Francisco.

The Chertoff Group provides consulting, business development and merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory services for clients in the security, defense and government services industries.

Asian customer places $12.3 million order for underwater surveillance gear

An unnamed Asian company placed a $12.3 million order with Israeli DSIT Solutions Ltd’s sonar and diver detection systems for use on offshore oil platforms and other seagoing petroleum systems.

Sonardyne International Ltd acquires Marine and Remote Sensing Solutions Ltd.

Sonardyne announced on Nov. 29 its acquisition of MARSS Ltd., a high technology marine company with operations in the UK, Monaco and Italy.

CNL Software and AJAR-tec to offer integrated PSIM solutions

CNL Software, a supplier of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, announced on Nov. 23 its partnership with AJAR-tec, which will offer IPSecurityCenter, CNL Software’s Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, as part of its digital security and IPCCTV solutions.

Telephonics and Mahindra & Mahindra to form surveillance and security joint venture in India

Telephonics Corp., a subsidiary of Griffon Corp., and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., a $12.5 billion multi-national group based in Mumbai, India, announced on Nov. 17 the signing of a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture (JV) to provide the Indian Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Indian civil sector with radar and surveillance systems, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) devices and communication systems.

BSI to develop new system for DHS to screen cargo

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded a contract to BSI Group’s Supply Chain Solutions business unit to create a protocol to aid the screening of cargo at U.S. ports, the company said.

BSI will work with DHS S&T-sponsored engineers in a project designed to integrate data from new detection systems, along with BSI’s proprietary intelligence on cargo disruption and anti-western terrorism, to better identify high-risk containers, said the company.

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.

Commentary and Opinions

Admiral Thad Allen’s final State of the Coast Guard Address

Editor’s note: The following speech was delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2010 by Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Thad W. Allen, who is completing his four-year term as the Coast Guard’s 23^rd Commandant.

OPINION / Two years later, where are we?

By Jim Giermanski

In 2007, I wrote two articles on why 100 percent scanning was not doable. I laid out four fundamental reasons why 100 percent scanning would not work: its foreign acceptance, its limitation to seaports only, the non-existence of required technology, and the non-inclusion of land ports within the concept of critical infrastructure.

Two years later, where are we?

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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 since its creation, according to Tamir Aluma, and its products have been developed by military and police end users who know what is needed in the field. The company’s CCD technology is based on a high-resolution camera that captures an image from an X-ray source, and is described by Mr.

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 out. Having been involved in border security and maritime security for over 20 years, the company has developed software and hardware solutions that run the gamut from turn-key solutions to individual sensors and custom-tailored solutions for clients in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Asia.

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.

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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