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  • Report sees double-digit growth for CCTV market

    The world-wide CCTV market is expected to grow by 13 percent year-on-year until 2011; global demand for conventional CCTV systems is trending downward, while demand for IP-based CCTV surveillance grows

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  • Cernium raises $10 million

    Virginia-based video analytic specialist raises $10 million from Chicago investor

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  • British Army orders additional Desert Hawk III

    Lockheed Martin’s Desert Hawk III unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is capable of operating in high-wind environments, such as those prevailing in deserts, and is less detectable by ground-based foes; the UK wants more of them

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  • Inexpensive sensors could capture your every move

    A system of cheap and small sensors is similar to, but much simpler than, bats’ ultrasonic echolocation, and together with the motion sensors provides a more accurate overall picture of body movement

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  • NSA may have put secret back door in new encryption protocol

    The U.S. government released NIST Special Publication 800-90 — a new official standard for random-number generators — earlier this year; the document contains four different approved techniques (Deterministic Random Bit Generators); one of those generators — the one based on elliptic curves and championed by the NSA — is three orders of magnitude slower than its peers; Why?

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  • Border Web cameras along Texas-Mexico border go online again

    Texas governor Rick Perry found the funds to have virtual watch up and running — again — as early as January; Texans can register to have 200 border cameras feed images to their home PCs; if they see people crossing the border, the can call or e-mail authorities

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  • Frost & Sullivan to make UAV presentation

    UAVs play an ever-growing role in defense and homeland security missions; Frost & Sullivan will brief interested investors on the potential of the European market for UAVs

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  • GeoEye's technology monitors endangered gorilla population

    Specialist in satellite, aerial, and geospatial information donates high-duality maps of Africa’s Virunga National Park to help in mapping mountain gorilla habitat

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  • Using visualization to see through fuzzy data

    Finding method in the madness: DHS’s S&T Directorate supports efforts, building on Edward Tufte’s work, to use visualization to find patterns in and make sense of fuzzy data

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  • Carbon fiber UAV sets flight duration record

    QinetiQ Group’s Zephyr breaks record for the longest duration unmanned flight — 54 hours — nearly doubling Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4A Global Hawk 2001 record of 30 hours, 24 minutes

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  • More opposition in Europe to Galileo

    Growing opposition in Europe to the Galileo Project, Europe’s response to the U.S. GPS network; behind schedule and over budget, many ask whether the benefits of the system would outweigh its costs

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  • Former spooks run intelligence gathering and analysis outfit

    Erik Prince’s security empire has an outfit called Total Intelligence Solutions which collects intelligence about natural disasters, business-friendly governments, overseas regulations, and global political developments for clients in industry and government

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  • UAV-fired missile kills five militants in Pakistan's North-West territory

    U.S. deployed weapons-carrying UAVs to Iraq and Afghanistan; the administration plans to rely more heavily on these systems in hunting down and killing al Qaeda operatives now operating freely in Pakistan’s lawless North-West Territories

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  • Combining RFID tags with sensors

    RFID tags are also in use to track the location of items to which they are attached; a German research institute develops RFID sensors to continuously monitor moisture, temperature, light, and acceleration; new tags will keep a closer eye items throughout the supply chain, and may be used to secure cargo containers

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  • Wilkes-Barre installs CCTVs

    This is not yet U.K.-like CCTV coverage, but more and more American cities install CCTVs to monitor their streets

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More headlines

  • DOD to deploy counter-drone capabilities at US-Mexico border as cartels surveil troops
  • Trump’s Homeland Security Ramps Up Surveillance of Legal Immigrants
  • Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump’s promised crackdown on immigration
  • Congress aims to strip 'Trojan horse' Chinese drones from all levels of government
  • Spy agencies acquire commercial data with little coordination and few controls
  • States push back against Chinese drones
  • New records reportedly show Homeland Security buying smartphone data to track you
  • New documents reveal 'huge' scale of US government's cell phone location data tracking
  • DHS Opens Counter-Drone Testbed in Richmond
  • National Space Intelligence Center became the 18 member of the U.S. Intelligence Community in January 2021
  • 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
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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  • How DHS Laid the Groundwork for More Intelligence Abuse

    I&A, the lead intelligence unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) —long plagued by politicized targeting, permissive rules, and a toxic culture —has undergone a transformation over the last two years. Spencer Reynolds writes that this effort falls short. “Ultimately, Congress must rein in I&A,” he adds.

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