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Administration to allow state to set chemical safety rules
Defeat for the chemical industry: States to be allowed more lattitude in setting chemical plant safety standards; DHS practically gives up on preemption
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Qwest, AT&T, and Verizon win deal of the decade
Three telecoms win the Networks Universal contract, worth up to $48 billion over ten years; Sprint Nextel big loser
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IT security firms ready for an IPO boom
Lackluster market shows signs of life with four large companies preparing to go public; “public exit opportunities” available for the right firms, say experts
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Feinstein cracks down on banking-related ID theft
Proposed law would require financial institutions to disclose all security breaches; American Bankers Association, fearful of regulation, calls measure a waste of time; synthetic identity theft at issue
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AlliedBarton offers chemical compliance training
Democratic takeover presents opportunities for those in the compliance industry; company offers coursework and certifications in vehicle inspection techniques, MARSEC, and CFATS procedures
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NICE Systems to protect Belgian railways
Video analytics deal with Siemens follows similar successes in China, France, and the United States
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New York City plans subway cameras (again)
After an aborted attempt in 2000, transit authorities ask two subway car manufacturers to propose ways of installing digital cameras
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IXEurope finishes strong at Data Centre Europe Awards 2007
Company recognized as best in disaster recovery service, datacenter management; Attenda and BladeLogic received much-deserved recognition
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Policymakers said unprepared for subduction earthquakes
A lack of historical data makes it impossible to predict when these rare disasters will occur; 2004 Indonesian tsunami an object lesson in being unprepared
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Orlando airport to spend $7 million on additional security measures
Faced with mounting criticism, aviation authorities only need three minutes to approve its biggest security overhaul since 9/11; baggage screening, vehicle inspection, and voice stress analysis under consideration
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Battle over allocation of the 700MHz band looms
TV operators will soon vacate the 700 MHz band, and the FCC is getting set to auction it; pressures grow to allocate portion of the band for public safety uses
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Democrats try to modify chemical plant safety bill
The chemical plant sfatey bill before Congress allows DHS to overrule (or “pre-empt”) states’ safety rules if these rules are more stringent than federal rules; Democrats try to change that
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Industry heavyweights share $500 million in Navy protection contracts
Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon all claim a slice of the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Ashore Program pie
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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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The long view
From Iron Dome to Cyber Dome: Defending Israel’s Cyberspace
In response to growing attacks against its infrastructure by formidable adversaries like Iran and its proxies, Israel recently announced that they are building a ‘cyber-dome’ or a digital ‘Iron Dome’ system to protect Israel’s cyberspace to defend against online attacks.
The Case for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Climate change is making weather harder to predict, and creating new risks in places that never faced them before. And as hurricanes, floods, extreme heat and wildfires intensify, most infrastructure will need to be retrofitted or designed and built anew for future climate resilience.
Nationwide Flood Models Poorly Reflect Risks to Households and Properties, Study Finds
Government agencies, insurance companies and disaster planners rely on national flood risk models from the private sector that aren’t reliable at smaller levels such as neighborhoods and individual properties.
Emerging Threats to the U.S. Financial System
In early 2021, a freewheeling, freethinking group of investors on Reddit plowed their money into GameStop, a video game retailer that several big hedge funds had bet against. The stock price shot up, some people made millions—and, to the delight of those on Reddit, the hedge funds had some very bad days. Researchers saw the GameStop story as a cautionary tale. If investors on Reddit could work together to move the markets like that, what could an adversary like China do?