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  • Have you heard the latest from the Acoustical Society?

    Protecting harbors from ships and terrorist frogmen; researchers gather in Salt Lake to discuss acoustic trip-wires

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  • GSA slams contracting for Navy boat protection barriers

    $100 million project was larded up with contractors of dubious value; leaks and other technical problems mar this critical program

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  • Ridge calls for private sector to do more about port security

    Seaports have received much less money from DHS than airports, and former DHS chief calls on private industry to do more on the security front

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  • GAO criticizes CBP's in-bond program

    Long-standing system allows importers to bypass initial duties and inspections, but it only works if agents reconcile the transactions

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  • Coast Guard seeks Deepwater refund

    Service hopes to recoup major losses and admits that performance-based acquisition requirements failed

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  • Successful trials for Secured by CargoTrax

    A joint German-Finnish container security system passes tests in the South China Sea

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  • Florida congressman asks for a reprieve on compliance

    Gus Bilirakis complains that the buggy system conflicts with a state-issued maritime identification card

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  • Card reader problems continue

    Saltwater corrosion leads DHS to move forward with eyeball inspections; problems in Delaware force a reevaluation

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  • Australia buys Hydroid's AUVs

    Massachusetts company has sold its autonomous underwater vehicles to the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, and Germany

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  • Justice Department investigates Deepwater fraud

    Days after Coast Guard pulls the plug on the Northrop-Lockheed effort, companies admit that DoJ opened an investigation back in 2006

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  • DoE to send radiation dectectors to Mexico

    Move comes as Mexican officials worry about recent al Qaeda threats; portal detectors will be installed in country’s four largest ports

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  • Digital angel buys Chemring's McMurdo

    $7.5 million deal expected to pay dividends in 2009 when COSPAS-SARSAT equipment is replaced

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  • Port radiation detectors catch GAO heat

    Recent tests of three next generation advanced spectroscopic portals find that none comes close to meeting 95 percent sensitivity; one proposed model detects enriched uranium only 17 percent of the time

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  • Hawley expects TWIC to miss July deadline

    Ongoing technical and enrollment problems raise the ire of senators across the aisle; “congressional tolerance in waning,” says Ted Stevens

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  • Air transport industry forms new task force

    IATA and FIATA launch the Global Industry Task Force to challenge congress on cargo screening plans

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  • GAO Finds Cargo Screening Weaknesses as TSA Plans Covert Testing at Foreign Airports
  • UK Government releases new cyber security guidance for ports
  • Homeland Security could sink proposed Ogdensburg-Prescott Ferry before it gets on the water
  • New Budget Forces Tough Funding Choices for Coast Guard
  • FBI not properly assessing potential U.S. maritime terrorism threats: report
  • Coast Guard commandant sounds alarm about aging fleet
  • Coast Guard sees surge of migrant intercepts on West Coast
  • Experts warn of growing maritime cyber-security threats
  • Port of San Diego and U.S. Navy Make Plans for Sea Level Rise
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • 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
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
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  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
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