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CompuDyne acquires SigInt specialist Signami
Signal intelligence is becoming big business, and versatile security solutions provider bolsters its offerings by acquiring a sigint specialist
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BlastGard blast mitigation products earn SAFETY Act designation, certification
A manufacturer of blast mitigation products wins SAFETY Act designation, certification
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Cognitive radio for homeland security applications
Cognitive radio, a form of software-defined radio, should be very useful in first response and emergency response missions; two companies are going to join forces in order to look into this
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Different countries offer different approaches to fuel cell R&D
Fuel cell technology is controversial, with some viewing it as holding the promise of a clean, abundant energy source, while others think of it as not much more than charade fooling no one but the uninitiated; different countries have different approaches to the issue
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PMR: Through a wall, clearly
Seeing through walls is a capability the military and homeland security forces could clearly use; more companies are offering this capability, and one of them, relying on multipath COFDM, has been spotted and funded by the keen-eyed CCAT
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ObjectVideo to offer new scanning technology to CBP
This leader in video analytics already has many contracts in government and the private sector, and is now about to deploy its latest technology to help the U.S. border patrol monitor U.S. borders more effectively
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mPhase breakthrough MEMS-based magnetometer
An innovative Connecticut company uses MEMS technology to develop tiny magnetometers which could be used as metal detectors and more
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Enabler of first responders information sharing receive $12.5 million
Few problems hobble first responders more than communication interoperability; a company developing an interoperability solution catches the eyes of investors, and rightly so
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Authentix wins Nano 50 award
Authentix wins recognition for a process it developed for the synthesis of nanomaterials for security applications
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AS&E's SmartCheck wins R&D Magazine’sTop 100 award
AS&E receives an award for developing SmartCheck, a non-intrusive personnel screening system
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EPA studies IGCC, a method for burning coal cleanly
More than 50 percent of U.S. electricity is produced from coal; there is no alternative to coal in the near future, so we had better work to make coals cleaner; the EPS discusses a new method for clean-burning coal
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Lockheed Martin’s solution receives GSA approval for HSPD-12 compliance
Another large defense contractor gets GSA approval for HSPD-12 compliance solution
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U.S. Department of Energy pushes for cellulosic ethanol as an alternative to gasoline
Many experts doubt the scientific validity of the effort to create useable fuel for transportation from cellulosic ethanol (they suggest that a much quicker, cheaper, and more effective way to produce ethanol for cars would be, first, to produce it from sugar rather than corn and, second, to reduce dramatically the tariffs on Brazilian ethanol) – nonetheless the Department of Energy issues an ambitious roadmap for ethanol production from biomass
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BIO-Key fingerprint solution successfully passes NIST SDK test
The standard organization NIST runs pretty tough tests, so it is good news for BIO-Key that its fingerprint solution has passed the NIST SDK test with flying colors
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Moore’s Law lives: UCLA researchers solve power dissipation problem in chip design
Moore’s Law states that complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months; the very advances depicted by the law, however, threatened to invalidate it at some point (the point is here, in fact), owing to the power dissipation in traditional silicon semiconductors; an innovative team of UCLA researchers found a way around the problem, and in the process also brought closer the day of convergence of photonics and electronics
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