Maritime and Ports

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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Coast Guard cancels Northrop and Lockheed's Deepwater contract
Cost overruns and quality control cited as reasons to bring project in-house
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K-9's trained to detect pirated music
Motion Picture Association teams up with Malaysia to train the first pooches capable of identifying polycarbonate
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Germans publish rogue wave atlas
Sensor-based instraments prove incapable of measuring these unpredictable forces; near-sinking of the Bremen may have spurred interest in SAR satelite approach; high risk zones identified
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Hitachi unveils world's smallest RFID tags
Shipping companies and private detectives have much to marvel at; Treasury department considers embedding them in paper bills, but the technology is not entirelty mature; “like powder”
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Universal Guardian teams up with CIBER
Companies sign a deal intended to conquer the global shipping and tracking market; agreement follows Universal’s recent purchase of MeiDa Information Technology; risk analysis for asset protection and anti-counterfeiting investigation among other improved capabilities
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Navy PLUSNet system to revolutionize underwater warfare
Networked UUVs will operate independently and adjust to ocean currents; system relies on a series of surface and underwater sensors, as well various gliders
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Technical committee advises against TWIC encryption
National Maritime Security Advisory Committee says encryption would lead to higher costs, increased processing times, and roll-out delays, with little added security value; unencrypted fingerprint template offered as alternative
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Fast Track announces improved amphibious vehicle
Unlike other such machines, Fast Track’s uses only a single method of propulsion regardless of environments; tracks pull the vehicle along at 39 mph on water and 55 mph on land
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Illinois scientists use sensors to mimic fish navigation system
Micro-fabricated flow sensors detect the hydrodynamic wake formed by the craft’s propeller; applications in the UUV and submarine markets; system supplements sonar
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CommerceGuard deployed to Port of Portland
Installation is first on the west coast; success follows introduction of version 3.0 of this popular container security system and sale of minorty share to Samsung
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Industry heavyweights come out for NAIS briefing
Nationwide Automatic Identification System contract may eventually be worth as much as $165 million, but executives suspect that the project will lead into work on the Command 2010 project; Boeing, L-3, SAIC, and others attend a briefing
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Senate to clash with House over container 100% inspection provision
The House voted to mandate 100% inspection of U.S.-bound frieght containers; a Senate panel agrees with the Bush administration that the measure would be too costly
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Navy to deploy dolphins and sea lions to Washington naval base
Puget Sound gets ready to accept a flotilla of marine mammals; dolphins use sonar to swiftly locate maritime intruders; versitile sea lions capture them with a rope; military hopes to eventually replace them with machines
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Deepwater under continued fire
Henry Waxman charges Coast Guard with misleading DHS auditors and vows to get to the bottom of it; an independent DoD assessment finds the Deepwater project in trouble and wonders in Lockheed and Northrop should be stripped of their favored position; opportunities beckon for others
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