Surveillance

AirGATE to provide RFID-enabled wristbands to monitor inmates phone calls
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Jordanian company orders 1,000 Cyber Trackers
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Ohio company embeds RFID chips in employees
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Trend: U.S. domestic spying offers opportunities for niche players
While the debate over the NSA domestic spying rages on, niche companies emerge to offer compliance services to small telecoms and ISPs
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Northrop adapts to U.K. business climat
Northrop follows Raytheon and Lockheed Martin in creating a U.K.-based company; having lost to BAE on a big U.K. drone deal convinced the company that a U.K. presence was necessary — and it has already yielded results in law enforcement services the company provides in England and Wales
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President's budget shortchanges missile defense of airlines
The defense of commercial airlines from shoulder-mounted missiles appeared to be one of the biggest homeland security projects of the next three years, but you wouldn’t know it from Bush’s budget proposal: In fiscal 2006 the project received $108 million; in fiscal 2007, $5 million
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Homeland security company spins off commercial trace location service
Versatile Nebraska-based company developed GPS systems for homeland security but now wants to use the technology in other markets as well
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A4S shows rugged, survivable video surveillance device
It is not enough to have monitoring and surveillance devices installed in public places; to be of use, these devices and their recording must withstand the power of an explosion, and this is where A4S comes in
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GAO report slams Bush, Chertoff for Katrina lack of preparation, slow response
Michael Brown was the public face of the federal government’s failures before and during Katrina; new GAO report says President Bush and Secretary Chertoff should share more of the blame
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