• LA sheriff department upgrading its 1980-era terminals

    The Los Angeles Sheriff Department is upgrading its 1980s-era terminals, for which it had become difficult for the largest sheriff’s agency in the United States to find parts; the upgrade – Raytheon’s Mobile Digital Computer System (MDCS); the MDCS project and major technology upgrade represents the largest-ever deployment of mobile digital computers to a sheriff’s department in the country

  • U.K. industry calls for more ambitious waste management strategy

    The U.K. manufacturers’ organization EEF calls for the U.K. government to launch a more ambitious waste management strategy as resource shortages threaten; the EEF says that out of date legislation, limited access to waste facilities, and looming resource crunch requires more radical approach from government

  • Protests spur sonic blaster sales boom

    With the spate of protests from the Occupy Wall Street movement sweeping across the country, there has been a surge of interest in non-lethal crowd control systems; in particular U.S. police and first responders have taken a keen interest in Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD)

  • Government contractors now required to have cybersecurity plans

    Based on a new General Services Administration (GSA) rule, all contractors and subcontractors that provide federal agencies with IT services, systems, or supplies are required to submit a cyberescurity plan that matches government regulations

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  • Web-based interactive solution for first responders

    DGI is adding a Web-based, interactive map drawing feature to its CoBRA WEB Mapping; the solution will initially target fire departments, EMS organizations, bomb squads, HAZMAT teams, and police departments as a situational awareness tool to assist in the collaboration of first responders and emergency operation centers

  • Texas drought – no end in sight

    Residents across Texas are continuing to struggle with one of the state’s worst natural disasters in history; far from a singular event, Texas is experiencing a crippling drought with record low rainfall for the 2011

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  • Thirty U.S. car dealers caught in Hezbollah terror-financing scheme

    Thirty used car dealerships in the United States are currently under investigation for their part in an international money laundering scheme that sent roughly $300 million to the known terrorist organization Hezbollah

  • Accenture to bolster capabilities of US-VISIT

    DHS has awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract further to enhance the capabilities of US-VISIT

  • VeriLook tracks faces in real-time

    Neurotechnology recently unveiled its VeriLook Surveillance 2.0, a software system that can track individuals in real-time using facial biometrics

  • Raytheon acquires cybersecurity specialist

    Large defense contractors are moving into cybersecurity; in its second cybersecurity acquisition in December 2011, and the tenth such acquisition since 2007, Raytheon acquires a Clumbia, Maryland-based company the solutions of which are key components of systems used by the U.S. intelligence community

  • TSA awards SpectraFluidics $1.3 million to validate detection technology

    TSA has awarded a contract to SpectraFluidics, the detection technology of which leverages two physical principles combined into a single system: free-surface microfluidics and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

  • U.S., Indian companies to form Indian homeland security joint venture

    Defense giant Raytheon is currently in talks with India’s Reliance Industries (RIL) to form a joint venture designed to capitalize on India’s rapidly expanding homeland security market

  • ShotSpotter expands to Midwest

    Three cities in the Midwest recently announced plans to install gun-shot detecting systems; ShotSpotter, manufactured by SST Inc., has enabled law enforcement agencies in more than sixty cities across the country to know exactly when a shot is fired, where it came from, and how many

  • FBI’s eGuardian integrated with Memex Patriarch

    Deployed over the last three years, FBI eGuardian is a nationwide Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) system focused on counterterrorism tips and leads; the agency has now integrated eGuardian with Patriarch Intelligence Management Platform from Memmex

  • Jell-O uses facial biometrics to dispense “adults only” desert

    As part of Jell-O’s new campaign to promote its latest desert the company is giving away free samples using a sophisticated vending machine that uses facial biometrics to keep children away