Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: TacFLIR 380-HD image Customs and Border Protection agents will soon have a vehicle that gives them one-button set-up and steadier control of long range detection capabilities. In early October, CBP awarded a $26 million production contract to FLIR for Mobile Surveillance Capability…
Quintron installs DICES VoIP system at space station control center in Moscow
Top Priority Sector: communications Quintron Systems, of Santa Maria, CA, has announced the installation of its DICES VoIP mission critical voice switch for NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) support at the Mission Control Center-Moscow (MCC-M) in Korolev, Russia. The installation was completed under a contract signed by SAIC (Science Applications…
More secure operating system for ICS under development
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection A new operating system for besieged industrial control systems (ICS) is being developed by Kaspersky Systems that wouldn’t rely on traditional defenses against electronic assault. The new operating system, said Eugene Kaspersky, the co-founder of computer security giant, would allow ICS to be installed…
University team gets research money for large scale info system protection
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: it_security A team of four UCLA electrical engineering professors has received a seed contract from the government’s information security research arm to improve the safety of large-scale information systems Homepage position: 10 read more View full post on Government Security News View full post on…
Senstar delivers $3.4 million perimeter detection system to Latin American oil facilities
Top Priority Sector: perimeter_protection Image Caption: Senstar’s OmniTrax Senstar Andina announced on Oct. 4 the sale of more than $3.4 million worth of perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS) to protect oil facilities in Latin America. The project includes the protection of 125 oil wells and two operations centers. “Senstar Andina…
Rio de Janeiro metro system turns to IndigoVision for video surveillance
Top Priority Sector: video_surveillance_cctv Image Caption: MetroRio in Brazil MetrôRio, Rio de Janeiro’s metro system, has chosen IndigoVision to supply a complete IP video security solution to help protect the 700,000 people who travel daily on its network and to allow for future expansion of the metro service. Homepage position: …
IACP 2012: NC4 and Tampa PD have collaborated on SafeCop info-sharing system
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Tampa PD’s assist chief,John Bennett, laid thegroundwork for NC4′s SafeCop The Chief of Police for Tampa, FL, Jane Castor, was prepared to praise a new information collection and dissemination system that her department helped conceive — and is currently being offered by…
CBP transitions sea and rail manifests to new processing system
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection All rail and sea cargo manifests are now being processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) new electronic manifesting system a full day before a final transition deadline, the agency said on Oct. 1. CBP said it has successfully transferred 100 percent of…
Datron’s Guardian 2 VHF radio certified for use on WyoLink system
Top Priority Sector: communications Image Caption: Guardian 2 radiofrom Datron Datron World Communications, Inc., a supplier of tactical and public safety communications products, has announced that its Guardian 2 VHF radio is now certified for use on Wyoming’s Statewide Public-Safety Interoperable Radio Communications System, known as WyoLink. WyoLink is a…
DARPA detection system uses soldiers’ brain waves to help protect forces
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection Image Caption: CT2WS camera Researchers for the Defense Department are relying on the brainpower of soldiers in the field as a key ingredient for a new threat detection sensor system. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARP) is developing a Cognitive Technology Threat Warning…