Infrastructure protection

Feds offer to help cities map radioactive sites
Program is intended to create baseline readings in order to later detect dirty bomb attacks; DoE and DHS lend a hand with planes, helicopters, and detectors
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RAE expands its wireless detection offerings
AreaRAE systems, already a hit with the National Guard, receive a tune-up; new sensors can detect hydrogen chloride, hydrogen flouride, and carbon monoxide
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Lumenera unveils new high-end video analytic cameras
Relationships with Pixim, ObjectVideo, and Texas Instruments pays off; intelligent cameras will be shown at ISC West
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DHS's crazy decision
Agency plans to consolidate its offices in a $4 billion new complex at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; will the ghosts of Ezra Pound and Charles Guiteau manage to evade security?
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Talon receives patent on neutron absorbing material
High fuel costs and environmental concerns have engendered new interest in nuclear power, which makes the need to find a safe way to transoport and stroe such materials even more urgent
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Copper thieves behind steel bars
Roberts gang stole $100,000 in wiring from New York substations
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L-3 travels south
Mexico moves to comply with ICAO’s baggage screening requirements
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UAVs to protect US airports
DHS chooses an unexpected technology for its counter-MANPAD effort; but is it safe?
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States choose their own paths in regulating RFID
HID Global’s Kathleen Carroll takes on lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire; Golden State legislators want to force full technical disclosure to consumers
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IndigoVision cameras to protect new Canada light rail system
$2 billion effort to protect Vancouver’s Canada Line will deploy 400 analog cameras; signals will be converted into MPEG-4 format for transmission to an eighty screen command center
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Delta Scientific enters the secure mail sorting business
Company ships its first BioBooth to a U.S. embassy in Europe; prefabricated building offers ample space for storing and state of the art decontamination tools; if an attack occurs, booth can be quickly sealed and moved off premises
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UC Davis scientists use bacteria to fight earthquake liquification
Application of Bacillus pasteurii during or after construction creates a shell of calcium carbonate around sand grains; approach avoids use of dangerous chemicals; funding required for larger studies
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Duke students invent "wisdom door"
System uses nine sensors to measure height, weight, and girth; passing through the door can activate any number of responses, including home entertainment preferences; tandem use with RFID envisioned
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DHS to offer $1-2 million in tunnel-sensing technology
Concerned about illegal immigration, government asks private sector for a solution; sensors, IT, and geospatial imaging to play a role; temperature differences between soil within the tunnel and without may be a key indicator
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Delta to install vehicle barriers at U.S. embassies worldwide
Shallow foundation system to be deployed to China, Austria, Saudia Arabia, and various cities in Germany, among others; more than 1,000 have already been sold; U.S. Air Force plans to use same to protect all of its bases around the world
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