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New Announcements from GOVERNMENT SECURITY magazine
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Trust the FIPS 201 Specialists: Hirsch
HSPD-12, FIPS 201, PIV questions? Hirsch Electronics has your answers.
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Unisys
Security Index Pinpoints Consumer Fears
Americans feel fairly safe overall, but the Unisys
Security Index reveals that many are anxious about national security, ID
fraud and financial health. Unisys Corp. has unveiled the first U.S.
results from its ongoing, global survey of consumer opinion on security
issues. Key findings include:
* A majority of respondents (62 percent) are very concerned about
national security threats;
* Women and blacks, more so than other respondents, want tougher
anti-terrorism efforts from the U.S. government;
* College graduates and city dwellers are less concerned about national
security than people with less education and those who live outside
cities;
* Four in 10 Americans are extremely concerned over their financial
security; and
* Seven in 10 Americans fear identity fraud; senior citizens are less
worried about identity fraud than younger Americans.
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Preparation
Against Anthrax Attacks Not Strong Enough?
The United States has done too little to prepare for
another potential domestic anthrax attack six years after spore-laden
mail killed five people, a former CIA director and other experts tell
Reuters.
"I think we're very poorly prepared," James Woolsey, who headed the CIA
from 1993 to 1995, said at a news conference to unveil a report by a
security consulting firm warning of U.S. vulnerability to another
anthrax attack.
Anthrax is a sometimes fatal disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a
bacterium that forms spores. The spores can be used as a biological
weapon and are most deadly when inhaled into the lungs. Experts have
worried particularly about the possible release of an anthrax weapon in
an urban setting.
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enrollment, verification and issuance, as dictated by HSPD-12 and FIPS
201. Lenel is on the GSA Approved Product List for FIPS 201. www.lenel.com
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Auditors Find
Nuclear Site Security Upgrades Are Lagging
More than a year after Congress told the Energy
Department to harden the nation's nuclear bomb factories and
laboratories against terrorist raids, at least 5 of the 11 sites are
certain to miss their deadlines, some by many years, reports The New
York Times.
The Energy Department has put off security improvements at some sites
that store plutonium because it plans to consolidate the material at
central locations, but the Government Accountability Office said in a
Senate briefing that that project was also likely to lag. A copy of the
briefing materials was provided to The New York Times by a private
group, the Project on Government Oversight, which has long been pushing
for better security at the weapons sites.
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Lack Of
Supervision At Biodefense Labs Stirs Debate
Since Sept. 11, the federal government has spent
billions of dollars on research to protect the public from an invisible
but devastating threat: biological attack.
But a lack of supervision over the hundreds of labs and thousands of
scientists now handling deadly germs -- as demonstrated by recent
problems at Texas A&M University -- has put the country at higher risk
for dangerous disease outbreaks than before 2001, federal investigators
told The Dallas Morning News.
"The labs are pretty much overseeing themselves at this point," Keith
Rhodes, an investigator with the Government Accountability Office, said
this month. "I would have to say we are at greater risk today" of an
infectious disease epidemic.
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Procurement Watch
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- Penn State's Institute of Non-Lethal
Defense Technologies has been awarded a one-year agreement funded at
$3.2 million by the U.S. Department of Justice to create a national
Weapons and Protective Systems Technologies Center of Excellence.
- 3e Technologies International, Irving, Texas, a provider of
security servers and mesh networking, has received contracts totaling
more than $2.3 million from the U.S. Navy to provide secure wireless
communications for shipboard applications.
- Mobilisa Inc., Port Townsend, Wash., a developer of wireless
technology, has received a $3.3 million contract, over a period of two
years, to extend its Floating Area Network (FAN) project supported by
the U.S. Navy's research facility.
- Polimatrix Inc., Arlington, Va., a systems integrator of
radiation and nuclear detection, has received a state-wide law
enforcement and first responder procurement from the Illinois Law
Enforcement Alarm System (ILEAS) that would put 20,000 portable
radiation detectors throughout the state of Illinois over a four-year
planning cycle.
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