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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...
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: 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...
IACP Conference, 2012: Guy Page, Global Marketing Manager, Human Identification Systems, IntegenX
IntegenX makes products for life sciences research and other areas, says Guy Page, but the company is at the 2012 IACP show to introduce its flagship product for law enforcement, the RapidHIT DNA...
ASIS 2012: Steve Moore, Marketing Director, Garrett Metal Detectors
Garrett Metal Detectors started in the hobby business in 1964, according to Steve Moore, but has been in security for 30 years and is now a major national and international supplier of walk-through...
ASIS 2012: Dr Bob Banerjee, Senior Director, Consultants and A&E Firms, Security Group, Nice
Dr. Banerjee points out that the typical command and control center of an airport, seaport, mass transit hub, utility or city center is a place with input from a number of different silos. The silos...
ASIS 2012: John de Terlizzi, Marketing Director, American K-9 Interediction
Categories: Military/Force Protection, Border Security, Infrastructure Protection, Access Control, CBRNE/Detection, Perimeter Protection, Education/Training, Security ServicesJohn Terlizzi explains...
2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Monty B. Lutzner, Global Sales Leader, Morpho Detection
Monty Lutzker explains that Morpho Detection is Safran Industries’s detection division, offering explosives and substance detection, as part of a security group which includes detection, biometrics...
2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NY, Randall Foster, President/CEO of Vumii
Randall Foster indicates that Vumii specializes in nightvision, typically used at perimeters and borders. The company offers two families of surveillance – thermal imaging and LED and Infrared laser-...
2012 ISC West Conference, David Smith, President and CEO, Optellios
David Smith describes Optellios as being in the intrusion detection and perimeter protection business, using fiber optic cable above-ground or underground to protect military bases in Iraq and...
2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Steve Williams, CEO, Intellicheck-Mobilisa
Steve Williams explains that Intellicheck-Mobilisa, traditionally a supplier to the DoD and all four military services, specializes on Identity and Wireless solutions. Its identity products are...
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...
ASIS 2011: Brad Conway, Chairman and CEO, and Guy Couture, Technical Manager, Autoclear
Chairman and CEO Brad Conway explains that Autoclear is basically an anti-terrorist, anti-perpetrator company which is in the business of detecting contraband, explosives, weapons, metal, narcotics,...
ASIS 2011: Chris Peterson, Founder and Owner, Vector Firm
According to veteran technology sales executive Chris Peterson, Vector Firm is a management consulting business which specializes in the sales and business development departments of security...

News

Infrared sensors used along ‘entire border of the United State,’ says CBP
Mon, 2013-05-20 04:19 PM

CBP drawing
of PIR sensor
In a procurement document in which it disclosed its plans to purchase additional GS-100 Passive Infrared Sensors for use along the U.S.-Mexican border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...
IEEE lands DHS contract to offer online access to ANSI’s radiation detection standards
Mon, 2013-05-13 02:37 PM
The DHS chief procurement officer, on behalf of the Defense Nuclear Detection Office, has awarded a contract worth nearly $528,000 to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. to...
Industry Days on advanced trace detection set in Washington on July 25-26
Wed, 2013-05-08 04:36 PM

A hand-held
advanced trace
detection device
The Science and Technology Directorate at DHS is planning to hold a two-day technical industry meeting on July 25 and 26 at which it will lay out its requirements, future plans and research goals...
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...
About 400,000 sign petition calling for knives to remain prohibited from aircraft cabins
Tue, 2013-05-07 09:56 AM
Lawyers for nine organizations representing 400,000 aviation professionals, passengers and law enforcement officers on May 6 filed a legal petition with TSA Administrator John Pistole and...
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...
Secret Service to rely on CEIA USA, Ltd. to maintain and repair its metal detection equipment
Thu, 2013-05-02 06:40 PM

Metal detection
equipment from CEIA
The U.S. Secret Service intends to award a sole source contract to CEIA USA, Ltd., of Twinsburg, OH, which supplies a variety of metal detectors to the agency, to provide preventive and corrective...
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...
Interest grows in its BioCheck screening test since Ricin scares, says 20/20 BioResponse
Thu, 2013-05-02 08:50 AM

BioCheck screening test
Two weeks after the first mailings of powders confirmed to be bio-terrorism agents were sent to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge, 20/20 BioResponse reports a substantial...
Sen. Lautenberg’s bill calls for stiffer CFATS penalties
Tue, 2013-04-30 02:12 PM

Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) on April 25 introduced a bill in the Senate that would provide stronger penalties for violations of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, or CFATS.
DNDO wants detection devices to spot radiological or nuclear material onboard small vessels
Mon, 2013-04-29 04:17 PM

DNDO wants a detection device
to perform Small Vessel
Standoff Detection mission
In an effort to identify one or more commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) radiological/nuclear detection systems that could be used to detect neutron or gamma sources on small vessels, and eliminate the...
2013 Homeland Security Awards program opens for entries on May 1
Thu, 2013-04-25 04:59 PM
Following up on a record number of entries and a rousing awards dinner at the Washington, DC Convention Center in 2012, Government Security News has announced that its 2013 Homeland Security Awards...

Company News

Reveal Imaging to swap out two explosive trace detection systems at Killeen-Fort Hood Airport in Texas

TSA has announced that it intends to award a contract to Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), to decommission two of its CT-80DR explosive detection systems currently deployed at Killeen Fort Hood Regional Airport, and to replace them with two “redeployed” systems of the same make and model.

TSA pointed out in an official notice is released on May 20 that it wasn’t putting this procurement up for competition because it had done so four years ago when it awarded the original order to Reveal Imaging in 2009.

Robert Schueren named CEO of IntegenX, a DNA identification company

IntegenX Inc., a privately held company and developer of rapid human DNA identification technology, announced on April 17 the appointment of Robert Schueren as its Chief Executive Officer. 

Schueren has nearly 30 years of commercial and operational experience, and has held leadership positions in life science companies for more than two decades. Most recently, he was

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.

Architectural Testing’s Security Research Center featured on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet

Following two days of filming and interviews at Architectural Testing, Inc’s (ATI) York, PA, headquarters, the Discovery Channel aired two segments showcasing ATI’s threat resistance assessment services on the science news show, Daily Planet.

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)

L-3’s eXaminer EDS earns new certification from TSA

L-3 Security & Detection Systems (SDS) announced on March 5 that its eXaminer 3DX and 3DX-ES explosives detection systems (EDS) have been certified by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). These are the first systems to pass the TSA’s rigorous new certification standard, said the company in a March 5 news release. 

Commentary and Opinions

It’s time to get serious about chemical and biological preparedness

In Washington, attention has shifted from the daily grind towards a hyper-partisan presidential campaign. Battle lines are sharply cast between Republican challenger, Governor Mitt Romney, and the incumbent, President Barack Obama.

While all eyes are on the economy, national security challenges abound. Obama’s killing of Bin Laden and targeting terrorists with Predator strikes argues his prowess on terrorism. Iran’s nuclear weapon pursuits are hindered by cyber-sabotage.

Five things you need to know about using high-purity germanium detectors for homeland security

High-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are the recognized gold standard for detection and identification of characteristic gamma rays from nuclear or radiological sources. No other detector comes close to matching their extremely high resolution and sensitivity. However, until recently, their use outside the laboratory has been limited. A number of challenges had to be overcome before they could be deployed routinely in the field.

National security and the counterfeit economy

Counterfeiting has become a problem too big and too serious to ignore. Its impact is now felt directly throughout the world economy -- even in the United States military supply chain where we now know that “military capable” technologies have been counterfeited. Counterfeiting was easier to overlook, despite the enormous economic and security implications, when it was seen as a luxury problem, an affliction affecting the manufacturers of designer handbags and outfits. Luxury or not, it is clear that it is a problem that we cannot ignore.

Disaster Preparedness 2011: The “layered” cake -- Preparing for port and cargo disasters

Port security seems to be the forgotten child when it comes to preparing for disasters, at least in the public eye. Potential threats to aviation and mass transit generate many more conversations, and for good reason, but the risks posed to ports, primarily from cargo, cannot be ignored. 

A cargo container looks innocuous, just a square, metal box loaded with goods…right? This impression could not be further from the truth. 

HHS readiness to respond to a biological or other emergency

By Nicole Lurie, MD

[Editor’s note: Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H., Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), delivered on Oct. 18, 2011 the following testimony to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, entitled, “Safeguarding our Nation: HHS Readiness to Respond to a Biological or Other Emergency.”]

 

 

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ASIS 2012: Steve Moore, Marketing Director, Garrett Metal Detectors

Garrett Metal Detectors started in the hobby business in 1964, according to Steve Moore, but has been in security for 30 years and is now a major national and international supplier of walk-through metal detectors, ground search detectors for crime scene investigations and handheld scanners used at sporting events and other venues involving large crowds. Major clients in the U.S. and 170 other countries include governments, corporations, loss prevention, prisons, airports, mass transit and law enforcement.

ASIS 2012: Dr Bob Banerjee, Senior Director, Consultants and A&E Firms, Security Group, Nice

Dr. Banerjee points out that the typical command and control center of an airport, seaport, mass transit hub, utility or city center is a place with input from a number of different silos. The silos must be joined together, he says, so that management can first achieve situational awareness, then move on to situation management and situation reconstruction. That is what Physical Security Information (PSIM) is all about, he says, and it is what Nice’s Situator software offers to security personnel. It’s the ability to pull the silos together and know what to do next.

ASIS 2012: John de Terlizzi, Marketing Director, American K-9 Interediction

Categories: Military/Force Protection, Border Security, Infrastructure Protection, Access Control, CBRNE/Detection, Perimeter Protection, Education/Training, Security Services

2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Monty B. Lutzner, Global Sales Leader, Morpho Detection

Monty Lutzker explains that Morpho Detection is Safran Industries’s detection division, offering explosives and substance detection, as part of a security group which includes detection, biometrics and documentation. His interview includes a demonstration of the ITEMISER DX, a portable explosives detection and narcotics detection tool which he describes as the “gold standard in identification at security check points”.

2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NY, Randall Foster, President/CEO of Vumii

Randall Foster indicates that Vumii specializes in nightvision, typically used at perimeters and borders. The company offers two families of surveillance – thermal imaging and LED and Infrared laser-illuminated camera systems that are used for detection, recognition and identification.

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Critical Security Controls International Summit 2013 Apr 26 - May 2
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GovSec Conference & Expo May 14 - 15
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Transport and Logistics of Hazardous Material May 27 - 28
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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
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SANS Malaysia @ MCMC 2013 Jun 3 - 8
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NCT: CBRNe Israel, 4 - 6 June 2013, Tel Aviv Jun 4 - 6
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Biodetection Technologies 2013 Jun 18 - 19
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TiaLinx announces launch of ultra wideband concealed weapon detector

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