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  • Water-striding robot to help in monitoring water quality

    Carnegie Mellon researchers develop water-striding robot; equipped with wireless communication and sensors, these robots could monitor sprawling water systems for contamination

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  • Mexico oil and gas distribution system targeted by rebels

    Hundreds of companies in Mexico shuttered operations temporarily yesterday after a shadowy rebel group bombs key petroleum pipelines

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  • Floods, oil contamination force Oklahoma evacuation

    Heavy rains caused wide-scale flooding in northeastern Oklahoma — with spilled crude from breahced refinery adding to the misery of people, wildlife

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  • Saudis to give additional protection to oil fields

    Saudis to create and train a force of 35,000 men to protect oil and industrial installations

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  • Illinois Emergency Alert System activated by mistake

    Hundreds of radio stations in and around Chicago were sent the Emergency Alert System by mistake, disrupting broadcasts for a few anxious moments

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  • Free markets and the future of energy supplies

    Heritage Foundation authors offer a twelve-principle plan to secure abundant, affordable energy supplies

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  • India elaborates new rules for protecting critical infrastructure

    India is worried about the safety if its critical infrastructure, especially the vulnerability of the infrastructure to terorist and suicide attacks; new protection rules formulated

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  • Security agencies raise alarm over commercial mapping

    Security experts have long been uncomfortable with commercial mapping services such as Google Earth; more alrarms are raised

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  • Ituran to acquire Mapa Group

    Location-based applications company receives approval to proceed with acquisition of tion and Control Ltd. Announces the Approval of the Israeli Commissioner for Trade for the Acquisition of Mapa Group

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  • OSI Geospatial in first DHS contract

    A new business unit of a Canadian geospatial information specialist signs its first conterat with DHS

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  • Not your father's trash can

    DoE releases final performance requirements for Yucca Mountain canister system

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  • Dealing with rising sea levels: I

    Who knows better than the Dutch how to deal with the rising sea levels? One solution they contemplate: Designing amphibious cities

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  • Visualization of simulated attack to benefit structural engineers

    Purdue University researchers develop detailed visualization application of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers for the purpose of developing structures that can withstand a terrorist attack

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  • Autonomous see-shoot systems drawing interest

    Remotely controlled weapon systems are deployed in the DMZ and around the Gaza strip; we may soon see humans taken out of the see-shoot chain, and such systems deployed around critical infrastructure facilities

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  • New York legislators to mandate tighter pipeline security

    The plot to blow up fuel pipeline at Kennedy Airport moves legislators to contemplate stricter pipeline security

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  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
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  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
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  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
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  • Concerns About Extremists Targeting U.S. Power Stations

    Attacks on four power stations in Washington State over the weekend added to concerns of a possible nationwide campaign by far-right extremists to stir fears and spark civil conflict. Violent extremists “have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target given its interdependency with other infrastructure sectors,” the DHS said in a January.

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