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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
Are We Ready for a ‘DeepSeek for Bioweapons’?
Anthropic’s Claude 4 is a warning sign: AI that can help build bioweapons is coming, and could be widely available soon. Steven Adler writes that we need to be prepared for the consequences: “like a freely downloadable ‘DeepSeek for bioweapons,’ available across the internet, loadable to the computer of any amateur scientist who wishes to cause mass harm. With Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 having finally triggered this level of safety risk, the clock is now ticking.”
A Brief History of Federal Funding for Basic Science
Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. For 75 years, the federal government has partnered with academic institutions, fueling discoveries that have transformed medicine and saved lives. Recent moves by the Trump administration — including funding cuts and proposed changes to how research support is allocated — now threaten this legacy.
Bookshelf: Preserving the U.S. Technological Republic
The United States since its founding has always been a technological republic, one whose place in the world has been made possible and advanced by its capacity for innovation. But our present advantage cannot be taken for granted.
Autonomous Weapon Systems: No Human-in-the-Loop Required, and Other Myths Dispelled
“The United States has a strong policy on autonomy in weapon systems that simultaneously enables their development and deployment and ensures they could be used in an effective manner, meaning the systems work as intended, with the same minimal risk of accidents or errors that all weapon systems have,” Michael Horowitz writes.
Ukraine Drone Strikes on Russian Airbase Reveal Any Country Is Vulnerable to the Same Kind of Attack
Air defense systems are built on the assumption that threats come from above and from beyond national borders. But Ukraine’s coordinated drone strike on 1 June on five airbases deep inside Russian territory exposed what happens when states are attacked from below and from within. In low-level airspace, visibility drops, responsibility fragments, and detection tools lose their edge. Drones arrive unannounced, response times lag, coordination breaks.
Shots to the Dome—Why We Can’t Model US Missile Defense on Israel’s “Iron Dome”
Starting an arms race where the costs are stacked against you at a time when debt-to-GDP is approaching an all-time high seems reckless. All in all, the idea behind Golden Dome is still quite undercooked.