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Smiths Detection awarded $23 million contract for mobile X-ray system
As worries grow about smuggling nuclear materials into U.S. ports, DHS buys mobile high-energy X-ray system that can be driven from one port to another
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Safety questions aside, government, business confidence in RFID remains strong
A Dutch university report shows that computer viruses may be carried by RFID tags and cause disruptions across some software systems; however, business and government RFID use remains strong
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JMAR and GMP in BioSentry distribution agreement
GMP systems will soon become the exclusive distributor of JMAR’s advanced laser technology throughout the northeastern U.S.
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Trango shows high-performance mesh solution
Trango’s new HD Mesh system is configurable to many critical infrastructure locations. Its most important feature: maintaining strength while growing and adapting to other network systems
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Brocade and Ciena Join Forces
The two companies are partnering and creating a SAN (Storage Area Network) to support organizations that have had business continuity disruptions
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Harris's STAT Scanner receives SAFETY certification
A solution scanning company’s networks and systems for security breaches receives SAFETY Act certification
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Cradle, InterAct in video analytic solution
There is a major trend toward video analytics — allowing ever more sophisticated software manage more and more cameras and help detect suspicious behavior and incidents
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View Systems unveils VFRM2
View Systems has been selling its monitoring systems to courts, prisons, and police stations, and now it expands its offerings to include a mobile camera and detection device
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OnScreen, ASP in LED signs distributions deal
Innovative LED sign maker raised more than $10 million a couple of weeks ago; it has just signed an important distribution deal
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EOIR tests remote chemical detection system
The move toward federal regulation of safety measures at the more than 15,000 U.S. chemical plants is inevitable, and companies begin to suggest their under-development products in support of the forthcoming measures
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mPhase says it will show a small, extra sensitive magnetometer
The border control service has a fleet of aging planes — many older than the pilots who fly them — and L-3 has been selected to maintain them after cracks have been found in them (a nice touch: L-3 appropriately describes its mission as “sustaining” the planes rather than “maintaining” them
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CCAT grants award to developer of robotics
Twenty years ago states sent representatives abroad to lure foreign automakers to build their plants in, say, Illinois or Tennessee; these days states send representatives abroad to lure foreign homeland security companies
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Growing number of foreign companies do defense- and DHS-related work
The U.S. government wants to make the flight restrictions around Washington, D.C. permanent; critics charge that these restrictions add little to security while doing much harm to local businesses
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The long view
Bans on Facial Recognition Are Naïve — Hold Law Enforcement Accountable for Its Abuse
The use of facial recognition technology has become a new target in the fight against racism and brutality in law enforcement. The current controversy over facial recognition purports to be about bias — inaccurate results related to race or gender. Osonde A. Osoba and Douglas Yeung write that “That could be fixed in the near future, but it wouldn’t repair the underlying dilemma: The imbalance of power between citizens and law enforcement. On this, facial recognition ups the ante. These tools can strip individuals of their privacy and enable mass surveillance.