Infrastructure

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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N.Y. transit authority's radios swamped by interfercne
NYC transit authority spent $140 million on a new radio system; the system has not yet been turned on because flaws in it cause severe interference
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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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PatchLink merges with SecureWave
Merger of two Common Criteria certified companies will create comprehensive security platform for unified protection and control of all enterprise servers and endpoints
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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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Ten companies win government DAR contracts
More and more government employees carry more and more laptops; there is a need to secure the data — DAR, for data at rest —on the hard drives of these laptops in case they are lost or stole
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Identity theft victims to be compensated
ChoicePoint compiles and sells personal information, and in 2005 it sold information about many consumers to identity thieves; the FTC-ChoicePoint settlement may be a model for similar cases in the futrue
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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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