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New Announcements from GOVERNMENT SECURITY magazine
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Hirsch Electronics Delivers Reliability and High Security
Hirsch's Velocity Security Management System provides access control,
alarm monitoring, video, badging, and interoperability in a single,
integrated solution. Please contact Hirsch today to learn why Velocity
won SIA's Product Achievement Award a remarkable five times.
1-949-250-8888 x140 or www.WeSecureBuildings.com
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In the News
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DHS asks private sector for
border help
Department of Homeland Security officials are open to
ideas from the private sector on improving the nation's border security,
including outsourcing work currently done by government employees and
using satellites to monitor remote regions.
Representatives from private companies met in late January for a
presentation on the department's multibillion-dollar Secure Border
Initiative.
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for the rest of the article
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DHS budget up
6 percent for 2007
President Bush's fiscal year 2007 budget request for
the Department of Homeland (DHS) Security represents $42.7 billion in
funding, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year.
Central to the department's budget are five themes: increasing overall
preparedness, and strengthening the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA); strengthening border security and reforming immigration;
enhancing transportation security through more efficient and secure
system controls; improving information sharing; and strengthening the
department's organization in order to maximize performance.
Here are some of the budget particulars:
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rest of the article
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Scientists test dirty bomb
sensors in Nevada
During a recent test at the Radiological-Nuclear
Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Complex in the Nevada desert,
scientists waited for a read-out from a hand-held Geiger counter-type
machine placed next to a large corrugated metal shipping container. It
failed to identify the plutonium in the container, but on a second try,
it worked.
Beyond the checkpoints, fences and armed guards, Homeland Security
scientists are working on a $33 million program to perfect devices that
can more accurately detect such nuclear devices and "dirty bombs,"
reports The Associated Press.
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Local response
key to pandemic emergencies
The United States has a federal pandemic plan. But in
an emergency, it will be the local response that matters the most, says
Jeffrey Levi, senior policy adviser at the Trust for America's
Health.
"The basic day-to-day, where the rubber hits the road for pandemic
preparedness is being left to state and local governments," he tells USA
Today.
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NIST finalizes biometric
specification for HSPD-12
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has
issued the final biometric specifications for Federal Information
Processing Standard-201.
The specifications come about seven weeks after NIST called for agencies
to use minutia as the acceptable way to store fingerprint biometric data
on smart cards to meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12
(HSPD-12).
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Procurement Watch
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- New Hampshire has purchased portable radios
and accessories that include GPS capabilities from Thales
Communications Inc., Clarksburg, Md.
- The U.S. State Department has awarded a contract for Management and
Operation of the National Visa Center (NVC) and Kentucky Consular Center
(KCC) to SI Intl. Inc., Reston, Va. Under the contract, SI Intl.
will perform more than 20 million immigrant visa transactions each year
at the NVC in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and at the Kentucky Consular
Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
- One week after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the Louisiana
State SWAT unit received three thermal imaging cameras from L-3
Communications, New York, and was dispatched to New Orleans in an
effort to restore order in the city. SWAT units sent out "black-out
patrols," which used both night vision and thermal imaging units to
locate threats long before subjects knew the patrols were
there.
- The city of Corpus Christi, Texas has selected Northrop Grumman
Corp., McLean, Va., to provide a city-wide broadband wireless
infrastructure.
- The U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Service Command in Alameda, Calif.,
has installed a Small Craft Intrusion Barrier from Wave Dispersion
Technologies Inc., Sylvan Lake, Mich. The floating marine barrier
encloses a security zone of 2400 feet and incorporates two swinging
gates of 725 feet and 825 feet to allow for movement of U.S. Coast Guard
Cutters into and out of the exclusion zone.
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Events
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Feb. 16-17
5th Annual Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) & Infrastructure
Security for the Built Environment (ISBE) Congress and Expo
Washington, D.C. Washington Convention Center
www.protectinfrastructure.com
Feb. 22-24
ACC/AAAE Airport Planning, Design and Construction Symposium
Reno, Nev.
Organizer: American Association of Airport Executives
www.airportnet.org
Feb. 27-March 1
Crisis Management: Introductory
Newport Beach, CA
Sponsor: ASIS International
Information: (703) 519-6200
asisonline.org
asis@asisonline.org
Feb. 28-March 2
Winter 2006 Biometrics Summit
Miami, FL
Organizer: Advanced Learning Institute
Information: 312-362-9100
www.aliconferences.com
Feb. 28-March 3
Department of Defense / Department of Homeland Security's 7th Security
Seal Symposium
Santa Barbara, CA
security seal
symposium Web site
March 1-2
Protecting Government and Private Buildings against Terror
Washington D.C.
The
sponsor
March 7-9
FOSE 2006
Washington Convention Center Washington D.C.
www.fose.com
March 7-9
National Facilities Management Technology 2006
Baltimore Conference Center, MD
www.nfmt.com/exhibitor
March 7-9
First Radiological Device and Nuclear Event Symposium
Crown Plaza Hotel, Richmond, Va.
www.radandnuke.com
jroehl@scentczar.com
March 13-16
Asset Protection Concepts and Methods
Toronto, ON
Sponsor: ASIS International
Information: (703) 519-6200
asisonline.org
asis@asisonline.org
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New Announcements from GOVERNMENT SECURITY
magazine
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Now available on www.govtsecurity.com:
December 2005 issue
Cover story: Government Security Technology Roundtable
Coming to GOVERNMENT SECURITY in February:
Securing Critical Infrastructure
What is the federal government's role?
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