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Government Security News<br />
JANUARY <strong>2016</strong> DIGITAL EDITION<br />
No silver lining in cloud-based mass notification solutions, says Desktop Alert<br />
CEO Howard Ryan – More on Page 12<br />
Also in this issue:<br />
Statement by DHS Secretary Johnson on southwest border immigration and security – Page 5<br />
Utility Associates unveils cameras embedded in clothing and video technology – Page 22<br />
HID Global looks ahead at top trends for secure identity in <strong>2016</strong> – Page 23<br />
House passes Visa Waiver program bill excluding nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan – Page 26
<strong>GSN</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2016</strong> <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Edition</strong><br />
Table of Contents<br />
<strong>GSN</strong> TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT<br />
Cloud-based Mass Notification comes with serious risks<br />
According to Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder of Desktop Alert, if a Mass<br />
Notification system used to notify affected personnel of an emergency is<br />
entirely cloud based, then emergency managers run the very real risk of<br />
having the message delayed, or even worse, never delivered by an overtaxed<br />
system that may have too many demands upon it to deliver an urgent<br />
message to thousands of people in a timely manner. That became evident<br />
in 2014, said Ryan, when a shooting took place at Ford Hood. Desktop Alert<br />
was deployed on site, notified over 30,000 people about the event and got<br />
the message out before a separate cloud-based system notified approximately<br />
10,000 members. When lives are at stake, said Ryan, every second<br />
counts. Read more on Page 12.<br />
Needed: Let’s Make <strong>2016</strong> the Year of Innovation in Aviation Security<br />
The flying public is threatened by terrorists not only ruthless in their willingness<br />
to attack Aviation, says Eric Zanin, Senior VP & General Manager,<br />
Security & Detection Business, Analogic Corporation, but willing and able to<br />
change tactics to exploit vulnerabilities in our Aviation system. The question<br />
is, can we move to an Aviation Security approach where we innovate at the<br />
“speed of the threat”. Zanin believes we can. There’s a heightened sense of<br />
urgency among lawmakers and the public; new leadership at the TSA; and<br />
an exciting pipeline of innovative technology. Read more of this thoughtful<br />
essay to learn about some of these new solutions. Page 29<br />
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NEWS AND FEATURES<br />
Cover Story: No silver lining in cloud-based<br />
mass notification, says Desktop Alert<br />
CEO Howard Ryan Page 12<br />
Statement by Secretary Johnson on southwest<br />
border immigration and security Page 5<br />
Swan Island software selected by N.Y.- N.J. Port<br />
Authority’s Metropolitan Resilience Network Page 8<br />
What increased security measures at French<br />
rail facilities mean for the explosives, weapons and<br />
contraband-detection equipment market Page 11<br />
Relations between police and their communities<br />
remain strong, but better communications can<br />
strengthen the bond Page 14<br />
Democratic House Leader Steny H. Hoyer visits<br />
McMurdo Readiness and Response Center Page 16<br />
Hikvision launches ‘Value Plus’ surveillance<br />
line for budget conscious customer Page 17<br />
Using Video Intelligence to protect critical<br />
public infrastructure Page 18<br />
Geofeedia, Mutualink among companies that<br />
helped law enforcement protect Pope Francis during<br />
U.S. visit Page 20<br />
Utility Associates unveils cameras that are<br />
embedded in clothing and video technology that<br />
protects bystanders’ privacy Page 22<br />
Access Control<br />
____________________________________<br />
HID Global looks ahead at top trends for secure<br />
identity in <strong>2016</strong> Page 23<br />
The continuing evolution of Access Control<br />
Page 24<br />
House passes Visa Waiver program bill that<br />
excludes nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran and Sudan<br />
Page 26<br />
Intellinet Sensors, Inc. announces the global<br />
launch of the Lynx3-A Detector to find individuals<br />
hiding inside a cargo container Page 27<br />
HID Global receives order to produce Next-Gen<br />
U.S. Permanent Resident “Green Cards” Page 28<br />
Airport/Aviation<br />
____________________________________<br />
Needed: Let’s make <strong>2016</strong> the Year of Innovation<br />
in Aviation Solution Page 29<br />
Air travel experts push situational awareness<br />
during the holiday rush Page 31<br />
50-plus European airports deploy Morph’s Itemiser<br />
4DX per new explosives screening mandates Page 32<br />
Block Engineering designs chemical detection<br />
products for use at ‘soft target’ sites Page 33<br />
Implant Sciences announces first shipment of<br />
ETD Systems for U.S. Airport Deployment Page 34<br />
Government Security News announces two<br />
major initiatives Page 37<br />
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Statement by Secretary Johnson on<br />
southwest border immigration and security<br />
JANUARY 4, <strong>2016</strong> -- As I have said<br />
repeatedly, our borders are not open<br />
to illegal migration; if you come<br />
here illegally, we will send you back<br />
consistent with our laws and values.<br />
In the spring and summer of 2014<br />
we faced a significant spike in families<br />
and unaccompanied children<br />
from Central America attempting<br />
to cross our southern border illegally.<br />
In response, we took a number<br />
of actions in collaboration with the<br />
governments of Mexico, Guatemala,<br />
Honduras, and El Salvador, and the<br />
numbers declined dramatically. In<br />
Fiscal Year 2015, the number of apprehensions<br />
by U.S. Border Patrol of<br />
those attempting to cross our southern<br />
border illegally -- an indicator of<br />
total attempts to cross the border illegally<br />
-- decreased to 331,333. With<br />
the exception of one year, this was<br />
the lowest number of apprehensions<br />
on our southern border since 1972.<br />
In recent months, however, the rate<br />
of apprehensions on our southern<br />
border has begun to climb again.<br />
In November 2014, I issued new<br />
priorities for immigration enforcement<br />
as part of the President’s immigration<br />
accountability executive<br />
actions. These new Departmentwide<br />
priorities focus our<br />
enforcement resources<br />
on convicted criminals<br />
and threats to public<br />
safety. These new enforcement<br />
priorities also<br />
focus on border security,<br />
namely the removal of<br />
those apprehended at the<br />
border or who came here<br />
illegally after <strong>January</strong> 1, 2014.<br />
We must enforce the law in accordance<br />
with these priorities, and<br />
secure our borders.<br />
Accordingly, the Department of<br />
Homeland Security, in conjunction<br />
with our domestic and international<br />
partners, is undertaking the following<br />
actions:<br />
Removals<br />
Since the summer of 2014 we have<br />
removed and repatriated migrants<br />
to Central America at an increased<br />
rate, averaging about 14 flights a<br />
week. Most of those returned have<br />
been single adults.<br />
This past weekend, Immigration<br />
and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<br />
engaged in concerted, nationwide<br />
enforcement operations to take into<br />
custody and return at a greater rate<br />
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DHS Secretary<br />
Jeh Johnson<br />
adults who entered this<br />
country illegally with<br />
children. This should<br />
come as no surprise. I<br />
have said publicly for<br />
months that individuals<br />
who constitute enforcement<br />
priorities, including<br />
families and unaccompanied<br />
children, will<br />
be removed.<br />
The focus of this weekend’s operations<br />
were adults and their children<br />
who (i) were apprehended after May<br />
1, 2014 crossing the southern border<br />
illegally, (ii) have been issued<br />
final orders of removal by an immigration<br />
court, and (iii) have exhausted<br />
appropriate legal remedies,<br />
and have no outstanding appeal or<br />
claim for asylum or other humanitarian<br />
relief under our laws. As part<br />
of these operations, 121 individuals<br />
were taken into custody, primarily<br />
from Georgia, Texas, and North<br />
Carolina, and they are now in the<br />
process of being repatriated. To effect<br />
removal, most families are first<br />
being transported to one of ICE’s<br />
family residential centers for temporary<br />
processing before being issued<br />
More on page 6
travel documents and boarding a return<br />
flight to their home countries.<br />
Given the sensitive nature of taking<br />
into custody and removing families<br />
with children, a number of precautions<br />
were taken as part of this<br />
weekend’s operations. ICE deployed<br />
from around the country a number<br />
of female agents and medical personnel<br />
to take part in the operations,<br />
and, in the course of the operations,<br />
ICE exercised prosecutorial discretion<br />
in a number of cases for health<br />
or other personal reasons.<br />
This enforcement action was overseen<br />
by Sarah Saldaña,<br />
the Director of ICE, and<br />
supported and executed<br />
by Thomas Homan, a career<br />
law enforcement official<br />
who leads ICE’s Enforcement<br />
and Removal<br />
Operations.<br />
At my direction, additional<br />
enforcement<br />
operations such as these<br />
will continue to occur as<br />
appropriate.<br />
Increasing border security<br />
We are continuing to enhance our<br />
border security resources and capabilities,<br />
working closely with state<br />
and local counterparts. As a result<br />
of our long-term investment in border<br />
security over the past 15 years,<br />
U.S. Customs and Border Protection<br />
(CBP) has greater capability to<br />
Sarah Saldaña, Director<br />
of U.S. Immigration &<br />
Customs Enforcement<br />
identify and interdict illegal crossings<br />
than at any time in our Nation’s<br />
history. This includes the largest deployment<br />
of vehicles, aircraft, boats,<br />
and equipment along the southwest<br />
border in the 90-year history of the<br />
Border Patrol. And through the<br />
Southern Border and Approaches<br />
Campaign Plan we launched in early<br />
2015, we are for the first time putting<br />
to use in a combined and strategic<br />
way the assets and personnel<br />
of CBP, ICE, Citizenship and Immigration<br />
Services, and the Coast<br />
Guard to better protect the border.<br />
In response to the recent<br />
increases in migrant<br />
flows along the<br />
southwest border, CBP<br />
has deployed additional<br />
permanent Border Patrol<br />
Agents to high-traffic<br />
areas, augmented operations<br />
in South Texas with<br />
Mobile Response Teams,<br />
and redirected support<br />
from other Border Patrol<br />
sectors including through remote<br />
interviewing technology. CBP has<br />
also increased surveillance capabilities<br />
by adding tethered aerostats<br />
(long-range radars) and other technology,<br />
along with additional aircraft.<br />
CBP will sustain these heightened<br />
border security efforts, along<br />
with the humanitarian aspects of its<br />
responsibilities, while the current<br />
migration levels persist.<br />
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Unaccompanied children<br />
As the number of unaccompanied<br />
children crossing our southern border<br />
has risen again in recent months,<br />
DHS has continued our close coordination<br />
with the Department of<br />
Health and Human Services (HHS),<br />
as it increases its capacity to care for<br />
unaccompanied minors and place<br />
them with sponsors. Our goal is to<br />
ensure that CBP has the continued<br />
capability to quickly and efficiently<br />
transfer unaccompanied minors<br />
after they are apprehended to HHS<br />
custody, as is required by U.S. law.<br />
In the past month, HHS added over<br />
1,000 beds for this purpose, and recently<br />
announced that another estimated<br />
1,800 beds will be available<br />
soon. HHS is continuing to explore<br />
options for additional beds if necessary.<br />
Cracking down<br />
on criminal smugglers<br />
In the summer of 2014, the Deputy<br />
Attorney General and I announced<br />
“Operation Coyote” to crack down<br />
on those involved in the criminal<br />
smuggling of migrants from Central<br />
America and elsewhere. Since then,<br />
1,022 smugglers and their associates<br />
have been arrested, and hundreds of<br />
bank accounts have been seized.<br />
With the Department of Justice, we<br />
are now doubling down on these efforts.<br />
This will build on existing initiatives<br />
such as ICE’s Human Smug-
gling Cell, which is working with<br />
the financial industry to target and<br />
disrupt the flow of funds to human<br />
smuggling organizations. DHS’s<br />
recently formed Joint Task Forces,<br />
JTF-West and JTF-Investigations,<br />
will coordinate the deployment of<br />
additional DHS investigative and<br />
prosecutorial resources and their<br />
integration into the Department of<br />
Justice’s ongoing law enforcement<br />
and prosecution operations.<br />
Cooperation with Mexico<br />
We are expanding our cooperation<br />
with Mexico in dealing with<br />
illicit migration. In particular, we<br />
are working with our Mexican partners<br />
to enhance joint efforts on our<br />
shared border, to support Mexico’s<br />
efforts on its southern border, and<br />
to shut down the criminal groups<br />
and illegal support networks that<br />
exploit vulnerable migrants. DHS<br />
and the Department of State will<br />
also continue to support the Merida<br />
Initiative, the longstanding partnership<br />
between the United States and<br />
Mexico to fight organized crime and<br />
associated violence.<br />
Expanding the public<br />
messaging campaign<br />
DHS and the Department of State<br />
are expanding our existing messaging<br />
campaign in Central America,<br />
Mexico, and the United States to<br />
educate those considering making<br />
the journey north, as well as their<br />
families abroad, about the dangerous<br />
realities of the journey. The<br />
messaging will also highlight the recent<br />
enforcement operations.<br />
The Flores case<br />
We continue to disagree with the<br />
District Court decision in the Flores<br />
case that a 1997 settlement of a case<br />
solely involving unaccompanied<br />
children now applies to children<br />
who arrive with a parent and their<br />
processing at today’s family residential<br />
centers. The decision, and the<br />
resulting injunction, significantly<br />
constrains our ability to respond to<br />
an increasing flow of illegal migration<br />
into the United States. We have<br />
appealed the decision, and the appellate<br />
court has agreed to hear the<br />
appeal on an expedited basis. Meanwhile,<br />
we have implemented significant<br />
reforms to how we operate our<br />
family residential centers to transition<br />
them to temporary processing<br />
facilities for these individuals, and<br />
have taken steps to ensure compliance<br />
with the District Court’s July<br />
24 and August 21 orders.<br />
Creating an alternative,<br />
safe and legal path<br />
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Finally, to effectively address this<br />
situation, we recognize that we must<br />
offer alternatives to those who are<br />
fleeing the poverty and violence in<br />
Central America. More border security<br />
and removals, by themselves,<br />
will not overcome the underlying<br />
conditions that currently exist in<br />
Central America. I am pleased that<br />
Congress, in the recently-enacted<br />
omnibus spending bill, included<br />
$750 million in aid for Central<br />
America.<br />
In the meantime, DHS and the<br />
Department of State are accelerating<br />
the development of new mechanisms<br />
to process and screen Central<br />
American refugees in the region,<br />
about which we hope to make a<br />
more formal announcement soon.<br />
We will expand access to the U.S.<br />
Refugee Admissions Program in<br />
the region and develop more legal<br />
alternatives to the dangerous and<br />
unlawful journey many are currently<br />
taking in the hands of human<br />
smugglers.<br />
These new refugee processing<br />
mechanisms will build upon the<br />
existing Central American Minors<br />
Program, which is already providing<br />
an in-country refugee processing<br />
option for certain children<br />
with parents lawfully in the United<br />
States. Thus far, we have received<br />
more than 6,000 applications for the<br />
Program, some children have begun<br />
to arrive in the United States as part<br />
of the Program, and we expect the<br />
pace of arrivals to increase steadily<br />
moving forward. We are also engaging<br />
other countries in the region,<br />
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Swan Island software selected by NY-NJ Port<br />
Authority’s Metropolitan Resilience Network<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
A public/private partnership being<br />
heralded by the Port Authority of<br />
New York and New Jersey has announced<br />
the selection of Swan Island<br />
Networks to provide a cloudbased<br />
solution that will allow the<br />
partners share and review information.<br />
Swan Island’s software will be<br />
the basis for the Metropolitan Resilience<br />
Network’s communication<br />
platform that will enable the members<br />
to review information in a realtime<br />
setting. It’s designed to help the<br />
members, which include the Port<br />
Authority, other government agencies,<br />
utility providers, businesses,<br />
colleges and response organizations,<br />
develop plans to respond to<br />
and recover from a crisis situation.<br />
The company used Pope Francis’<br />
visit to the Big Apple earlier this year<br />
as a pilot endeavor. Swan Island developers<br />
created 10 dashboards that<br />
provided up-to-date information<br />
on travel delays, criminal activity,<br />
breaking news, weather forecasts<br />
and social media trends occurring<br />
where the religious leader was visiting.<br />
“Our analysts worked around the<br />
clock to provide comprehensive,<br />
up-to-the-minute information on<br />
Pope Francis’ visit,” said Swan island<br />
CEO Charles Jennings. “Our<br />
dashboards were distributed to key<br />
stakeholders in the New York and<br />
New Jersey region, both public and<br />
private, and were displayed in the<br />
Emergency Operations Center at<br />
the Port Authority for the duration<br />
of the Pope’s stay.”<br />
The pilot proved to be a success.<br />
“We used the MRN Papal visit<br />
dashboards in our emergency operations<br />
center, at a time when the<br />
region was facing an unprecedented<br />
security challenge,” said Maybelle<br />
Jadotte, a spokeswoman for the<br />
8<br />
Port Authority’s Office of Emergency<br />
Management. “They helped<br />
us monitor our region in a new way,<br />
which was extremely useful.”<br />
The company will use its Trusted<br />
Information Exchange Service<br />
(TIES) for Microsoft City Next<br />
Threat Intelligence software-as-aservice<br />
platform to enable the sharing<br />
of resources and dissemination<br />
of information in a real-time,<br />
collaborative setting. It’s the same<br />
system that hundreds of large businesses<br />
– including 20 of the top 100<br />
publicly traded companies in the<br />
United States – use to help them<br />
with their situational awareness.<br />
Since its creation in 2002, Swan<br />
Island has worked with numerous<br />
government agencies – including<br />
the Department of Defense and the<br />
Department of Homeland Security.<br />
Company officials took the technology<br />
it developed for the federal<br />
agencies to roll out TIES to smaller<br />
government agencies and to the<br />
public sector.<br />
The Port Authority has led the effort<br />
to get the MRN off the ground,<br />
and New York University’s International<br />
Center for Enterprise Pre-<br />
More on page 36
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contraband-detection equipment market.<br />
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equipment on the Thalys highspeed<br />
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of passenger screening equip-<br />
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No silver lining in cloud-based mass<br />
notification solutions, says<br />
Desktop Alert CEO Howard Ryan<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
When it comes to setting up an<br />
emergency mass notification system,<br />
some people may use clouded<br />
judgment.<br />
If the system used to notify affected<br />
personnel of an emergency –<br />
such as an active shooter<br />
in the vicinity – is entirely<br />
cloud based, then<br />
emergency managers run<br />
the very real risk of having<br />
the message delayed,<br />
or even worse; never delivered<br />
by an overtaxed<br />
system that may have too<br />
many demands placed<br />
upon it to deliver an urgent<br />
message to thousands of people<br />
in a timely manner. That’s according<br />
to Howard Ryan, the CEO and<br />
founder of Desktop Alert, a mass<br />
notification system that can be implemented<br />
within an organization’s<br />
existing network infrastructure.<br />
That became evident in 2014, he<br />
said, when a shooting took place<br />
at Fort Hood. Desktop Alert which<br />
was deployed on site, notified over<br />
30,000 people about the event and<br />
Howard Ryan, CEO and<br />
founder, Desktop Alert<br />
got the message out before a separate<br />
cloud-based system notified approximately<br />
10,000 members.<br />
When lives are at stake every second<br />
counts, Ryan said. According<br />
to the Federal Bureau of Investigations,<br />
60 percent of active shooter<br />
incidents end before police arrived.<br />
More than a third of<br />
were over in two minutes<br />
or less. Even when law<br />
enforcement was present<br />
or able to respond within<br />
minutes, civilians often<br />
had to make life and<br />
death decisions and must<br />
be engaged with timely<br />
and accurate life-saving<br />
information.<br />
Mass notification isn’t just a job<br />
for Ryan. It’s a passion for him, and<br />
it shows as he talks about how product<br />
helps the military and other clients<br />
send urgent messages quickly.<br />
His voice commands attention as he<br />
speaks from authority. Ryan started<br />
Desktop Alert 14 years ago, but he’s<br />
been involved in programming for<br />
about 25 years.<br />
The cloud does have some benefits,<br />
Ryan said. In particular, the cloud is<br />
useful when you need overall situational<br />
awareness of what’s happening<br />
at numerous sites simultaneously.<br />
But while the cloud is creating a<br />
lot of buzz for uses in government<br />
and commercial sectors it’s not the<br />
cure-all for everything, Ryan said.<br />
Let’s say you have several geographically<br />
separated facilities. If<br />
you need to centrally push an alert<br />
to all those sites, each of which may<br />
have thousands of users, through<br />
the cloud, then you run the risk of<br />
having the message being delayed.<br />
Ryan, who before turning his attention<br />
to computer programing<br />
and network architecture became<br />
the youngest person in New York<br />
to receive his master plumber license,<br />
compared using the cloud in<br />
that manner to a building’s plumbing<br />
system. As people turn on more<br />
faucets – place more demands on<br />
finite resources - , it takes each of<br />
those faucets longer to provide the<br />
amount desired.<br />
Another critical problem with using<br />
the cloud, extending the plumbing<br />
metaphor, is what Ryan called<br />
friction loss – similar to what happens<br />
with water as it has to navigate<br />
12
pipes in a house. With each turn, a<br />
little bit of volume and velocity is<br />
lost. “The more turns in the delivery,<br />
the slower the delivery,” he said.<br />
With Desktop Alert, the heavy<br />
lifting happens on the existing network,<br />
which can relay the message<br />
to its users on a more-immediate<br />
basis, giving those on the network<br />
more time to respond to the alert.<br />
In most instances, the alert can go<br />
out in less than a minute. In fact,<br />
with its shot detection technology,<br />
Ryan said it can automatically send<br />
an alert the instant a shot is fired resulting<br />
in a lock down of an entire<br />
campus, hospital, or office building<br />
in under 60 seconds.<br />
Besides Fort Hood, the system is<br />
currently in use at hundreds of sites<br />
across the country and around the<br />
world. Those include key government<br />
entities like the Federal Emergency<br />
Management Agency, the U.S.<br />
Air Force, U.S. Northern Command<br />
and the Army and Air National<br />
Guards.<br />
With the Department of Defense<br />
taking a much closer look at how<br />
it sends mass notification alerts in<br />
wake of recent incidents both on<br />
and off military facilities, including<br />
recruiting and reserve facilities like<br />
those in Chattanooga, TN that was<br />
attacked last July. After five military<br />
personnel – four Marines and<br />
a Navy sailor – died after a gunman<br />
opened fire, the Department of Defense<br />
ordered a comprehensive re-<br />
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Relations between police and their communities<br />
remain strong, but better communication can<br />
strengthen the bonds<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
CHICAGO, IL – Law enforcement<br />
officials from all across the world<br />
came here for the annual International<br />
Association of Chiefs of Police<br />
conference, and as part of the<br />
annual convention, there was a focus<br />
on how agencies can improve<br />
their relationships with their local<br />
communities.<br />
The conference occurred at the<br />
same time the latest video of an officer’s<br />
questionable use of force –<br />
footage from a resource officer at a<br />
South Carolina school throwing a<br />
teenage girl out of her desk –became<br />
viral. While that video was making<br />
headlines and leading newscasts,<br />
President Barack Obama told those<br />
in attendance that he supports their<br />
efforts fully.<br />
“I reject any narrative that seeks to<br />
divide police and the communities<br />
they serve,” Obama said to applause<br />
during his remarks concluding the<br />
conference. “I reject a storyline that<br />
says when it comes to public safety,<br />
there’s an us and a them. A narrative<br />
that too often gets served up to us<br />
by news stations seeking ratings or<br />
tweets seeking retweets or political<br />
candidates seeking some attention.”<br />
While it may seem that the relationship<br />
between law enforcement<br />
agencies and the people they’re<br />
sworn to protect and serve may be<br />
fraying, a recent survey conducted<br />
by the University of Phoenix College<br />
of Security and Criminal Justice<br />
indicates the opposite. The online<br />
questionnaire conducted among<br />
2,030 Americans by Harris Poll reports<br />
86 percent of have some level<br />
of satisfaction with their local police<br />
agency.<br />
But more than three-quarters of<br />
those polled also believe police officers<br />
can do more to improve relationships.<br />
Mark Logan, a retired<br />
law enforcement official who serves<br />
as the assistant dean at the Univer-<br />
14<br />
sity of Phoenix, said<br />
agencies can do a<br />
better job of promoting<br />
communicating<br />
and sharing their<br />
perceptions with the<br />
communities they<br />
serve.<br />
Law enforcement<br />
agencies need “to really<br />
promote transparency<br />
and what we<br />
do, what law enforcement does, as<br />
far as enforcement practices, with<br />
the community so they can have a<br />
better understanding of what’s going<br />
on.” Logan said.<br />
While the overwhelming majority<br />
of the public backs their police<br />
officers, 65 percent said they did<br />
not know if the agencies serving<br />
them had a liaison for community<br />
relations and half said they feel resources<br />
are available so they can get<br />
information from police.<br />
Logan said it’s vital for agencies to<br />
practice community policing techniques<br />
and involve the communities<br />
in discussions to address and deter<br />
criminal activity. One way that can<br />
be done is through the use of social<br />
media sites, like Facebook and Twit-
ter, so that officers can reach the entire<br />
community, Logan said.<br />
“It’s important that we, law enforcement<br />
professionals, practitioners,<br />
educators, embrace this technology,<br />
these changes… We need to<br />
be in there and embrace that so that<br />
we can communicate on the same<br />
level, communicate with one another<br />
more efficiently,”<br />
The public places high expectations<br />
on law enforcement officers,<br />
Obama said, who thanked those in<br />
attendance for protecting the nation.<br />
And he said the work of police<br />
across the country have made the<br />
safest it has been in decades<br />
“Every day, your risk your lives,<br />
so that the rest of us don’t have to,”<br />
Obama said.<br />
This was the first time the university<br />
conducted a national survey on<br />
law enforcement and community<br />
relations. Logan said they wanted to<br />
get the public’s opinion to help the<br />
school, which offers law enforcement<br />
and security classes at 13 campuses<br />
and through its online portal,<br />
develop course content to help its<br />
students better serve their communities.<br />
“Sure, there are some opportunities<br />
for change, for improvement,”<br />
Logan said. “But, for the most part,<br />
our law enforcement is trusted.”<br />
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Democratic House Leader Steny H. Hoyer visits<br />
McMurdo Readiness and Response Center<br />
LANHAM, MD, December 18 -<br />
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Maryland),<br />
second ranking member of the US<br />
House of Representatives Democratic<br />
leadership, recently visited<br />
the McMurdo Emergency Readiness<br />
and Response Experience<br />
Center, which is located at Mc-<br />
Murdo’s Americas headquarters in<br />
the Washington, DC suburb of Lanham,<br />
Maryland.<br />
The unique, state-of-the-art Mc-<br />
Murdo center, which is located in<br />
Rep. Hoyer’s Congressional District,<br />
showcases the latest innovations and<br />
technology developments for search<br />
and rescue (SAR) in an immersive<br />
experience with real-time demonstrations<br />
of the entire SAR process<br />
– from distress beacon activation to<br />
satellite-based location detection to<br />
emergency response coordination.<br />
“I was pleased to visit McMurdo<br />
to see firsthand the work they are<br />
doing to design, develop and test<br />
new search and rescue and maritime<br />
coastal surveillance systems<br />
that are sold to countries around the<br />
world,” Congressman Hoyer said.<br />
“I’m proud that McMurdo has had<br />
the opportunity to expand its markets<br />
and create good jobs here at<br />
home in Maryland. I look forward<br />
to continuing to be a strong supporter<br />
of McMurdo and other small<br />
businesses in the Fifth District so<br />
they can compete on a level playing<br />
field in overseas markets,” he added.<br />
As the industry’s first, single-vendor<br />
provider of end-to-end life-saving<br />
and tracking solutions, McMurdo<br />
provides its Experience Center<br />
visitors (which include key customers,<br />
partners and press in government,<br />
maritime, aviation and other<br />
industries), an understanding of the<br />
different search and rescue technologies<br />
by taking part in various<br />
emergency scenarios. Participants<br />
also have the opportunity to sit at<br />
16<br />
the controls of Mission Control<br />
Center and Rescue Coordination<br />
Center systems, similar to the Mc-<br />
Murdo solutions used around the<br />
world by NASA, National Oceanic<br />
and Atmospheric Administration<br />
(NOAA), Australia Maritime Safety<br />
Authority (AMSA), Maritime New<br />
Zealand (MNZ) and other leading<br />
SAR authorities.<br />
The Experience Center also features<br />
a working MEOSAR (Medium<br />
Earth Orbit Search and Rescue)<br />
satellite-based search and rescue<br />
system, the next generation version<br />
of the current Cospas-Sarsat satellite<br />
system that has saved more than<br />
37,000 lives since 1982. When fully<br />
deployed in the next 3 to 5 years,<br />
MEOSAR will greatly improve the<br />
existing SAR process with global<br />
coverage, near-instantaneous distress<br />
beacon detection and a unique<br />
Return Link Service feature that acknowledges<br />
distress signal receipt.<br />
MEOSAR’s advanced technologies,<br />
for example, will be able to accurately<br />
detect and locate a distress<br />
beacon signal almost instantaneously<br />
- instead of taking up to 30<br />
minutes today.<br />
For more information and to sign<br />
up for a tour of the McMurdo Experience<br />
Center, click here.
For more information about Mc-<br />
Murdo, visit the McMurdo web site.<br />
About McMurdo<br />
McMurdo is a global leader in<br />
emergency readiness and response<br />
including search and rescue and<br />
maritime domain awareness solutions.<br />
At the core of these solutions<br />
are resilient positioning, navigation<br />
and tracking products, technologies<br />
and applications that have helped to<br />
save over 37,000 lives since 1982. A<br />
division of Orolia, McMurdo brings<br />
together nearly 150 combined years<br />
of experience by consolidating<br />
proven Boatracs, Kannad, McMurdo,<br />
SARBE and Techno-Sciences,<br />
Inc. brands into the industry’s first<br />
end-to-end emergency readiness<br />
and response ecosystem (distress<br />
beacons, satellite connectivity infrastructure,<br />
monitoring/positioning<br />
software and emergency response<br />
management solutions). Airbus,<br />
Boeing, the British Royal Navy, the<br />
U.S. Coast Guard, NASA and others<br />
are among the hundreds of aviation,<br />
fishing, and government, marine<br />
and military customers around the<br />
world that trust McMurdo to prevent<br />
emergencies, protect assets and<br />
save lives. Established in <strong>January</strong><br />
2014, has offices in France (Guidel<br />
and Sophia Antipolis), the U.K.<br />
(Portsmouth) and the U.S. (San Diego<br />
and Washington D.C.).<br />
Hikvision launches ‘Value Plus’<br />
surveillance line for budget<br />
conscious customers<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
Looking to provide some innovative<br />
products for customers who have financial<br />
constraints, Hikvision USA<br />
has unveiled a new line of cameras<br />
designed to fit their clients’ technical<br />
and financial needs.<br />
The Value Plus line comes on the<br />
heels of the company’s successful<br />
Value products, a company release<br />
said. The new<br />
line of indoor/<br />
outdoor video<br />
cameras incorporates<br />
some of the technology<br />
from Hikvision’s higher end Smart<br />
series. The 2 and 4 mega pixel cameras<br />
come available in domes, compact<br />
domes, turrets and bullets.<br />
The cameras are ideally suited<br />
for customers who need a more<br />
advanced camera but have limited<br />
budgets, such as small businesses<br />
and schools.<br />
“The Value Plus line provides an<br />
unprecedented features-to-cost ratio<br />
for customers looking to benefit<br />
from high performing IP video surveillance,”<br />
explained Bob Germain,<br />
director of product management for<br />
Hikvision USA.<br />
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The company’s equipment is currently<br />
used by in such cities as Lawrence,<br />
MA and Philadelphia to help<br />
police and other civic officials, such<br />
as parks and recreation staff, monitor<br />
their communities and keep<br />
people safe. School districts across<br />
the country ranging in size from<br />
large metropolitan systems to an<br />
11-school Texas charter system also<br />
use Hikvision’s equipment to monitor<br />
public areas,<br />
including<br />
hallways, stairwells,<br />
doorways,<br />
parking lots and other gathering<br />
places.<br />
The Value Plus 2 MP camera offers<br />
1080p high-definition resolution<br />
at a speed of 30 frames per<br />
second, while the 4 MP camera offers<br />
2688-by-1520 resolution at 20<br />
frames per second. Both cameras<br />
can capture high quality images in<br />
either extremely bright or dark environments,<br />
and they feature infrared<br />
options at ranges of up to 150<br />
feet. In addition, the cameras work<br />
easily with Hikvision’s line of plug<br />
and play Network Video Recorders.<br />
In addition to the cameras, Hikvi-<br />
More on page 36
Using Video Intelligence to Protect<br />
Critical Public Infrastructure<br />
By Kimbry McClure<br />
Solutions Architect in the<br />
Office of the CTO at Hitachi<br />
Data Systems Federal<br />
Law enforcement and other<br />
entities charged with protecting<br />
national security are<br />
spending more time than<br />
ever planning and implementing<br />
security measures that ensure national<br />
security and improve public<br />
safety. This is for good reason: from<br />
the energy grid to sporting events to<br />
airports, security personnel know<br />
these venues are enticing targets<br />
for terrorist attacks due to the large<br />
amount of people and resources<br />
clustered together in one place.<br />
In a world of heightened extremism,<br />
lone wolf attacks, and general<br />
global instability, it is not beyond<br />
imagination to foresee a scenario<br />
where a small team of terrorists seizes<br />
a U.S. airport. With the prospect<br />
of hostage taking and hijackings<br />
looming large, the response time<br />
for emergency personnel and law<br />
enforcement becomes critical. First<br />
responders must locate the terrorists<br />
and their hostages quickly to coordinate<br />
an effective response. This<br />
requires enhanced<br />
detection capabilities<br />
that can seamlessly<br />
distribute information<br />
to decision makers<br />
and emergency<br />
personnel to identify<br />
and respond to threats<br />
in real time.<br />
To stay a step ahead of attackers,<br />
security and emergency personnel<br />
need a common operational picture<br />
to communicate with civil and federal<br />
agency authorities. This picture<br />
is not only essential in coordinating<br />
a rescue, but also in securing additional<br />
areas of the airport facility<br />
that the terrorists have yet to seize<br />
as well as collect evidence for both<br />
investigative and legal purposes.<br />
With many entities tasked with<br />
restoring airport security, organizations<br />
need the right technology<br />
to assist them. An important tool<br />
emerging in security today is a video<br />
intelligence system that assists<br />
emergency responders and officials<br />
in reaching their security objectives.<br />
Not Your Old-School<br />
CC-TV Cameras<br />
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Many people imagine video surveillance<br />
cameras to be a single camera<br />
mounted on a wall pointing in a<br />
particular direction and transmitting<br />
video to a single television. In<br />
this scenario, multiple cameras in<br />
different locations within the same<br />
building work in isolation and only<br />
detect motion and images.<br />
Most people do not realize that<br />
video intelligence has evolved tremendously<br />
in recent years. Today’s<br />
video intelligence system consists<br />
of a wide range of disparate sensor<br />
data combined into a single portal.<br />
The integration of sensor data into<br />
one place is a critical development<br />
for law enforcement working in<br />
time sensitive situations.<br />
Back in our besieged airport, authorities<br />
do not have time to monitor<br />
separate video camera, alarm<br />
systems, GPS, and other audio, visual,<br />
and social media monitoring<br />
systems separately. Officials need<br />
data from these sensors to be organized<br />
in such a way that patterns<br />
can be quickly detected to ensure<br />
rapid decision-making.<br />
As law enforcement officials analyze<br />
the data received from multiple<br />
sensors, a video intelligence system<br />
triages the data received. During
the airport terrorist attack, law enforcement<br />
is able to discern that the<br />
screaming coming from an airport<br />
personnel-only hallway is more important<br />
to respond to than the traveling<br />
high school band playing their<br />
instruments in the airport concourse.<br />
First responders have the<br />
ability to triage behaviors because<br />
the video intelligence system has<br />
automated the monitoring process<br />
on a scale much larger than manpower<br />
can provide.<br />
Automating data collection, organization<br />
and storage gives law enforcement<br />
attempting to prevent or<br />
respond to a terrorist attack a more<br />
speedy, meticulous and effective<br />
overall security strategy. Authorities<br />
no longer have to allocate manpower<br />
to spending time searching<br />
and investigating each person who<br />
is in a facility. Since different people<br />
present various behaviors, some that<br />
indicate a higher security risk than<br />
others, video intelligence systems<br />
flag these behaviors for law enforcement<br />
and give them the knowledge<br />
needed to make critical decisions.<br />
Overcoming the Unknown<br />
Adding automation to data collection<br />
and analysis provides other<br />
benefits. Criminals and terrorists<br />
are constantly changing their tactics.<br />
As a result, law enforcement<br />
does not always know the behavior<br />
profile to match the changing<br />
tactics. The integration of a video<br />
intelligence system provides law enforcement<br />
flexibility to quickly and<br />
easily input into the system new behaviors<br />
for the sensors to monitor.<br />
Without unified data management,<br />
authorities would need to take more<br />
time and manpower to update the<br />
sensors on what new behaviors to<br />
track.<br />
Authorities may also face uncertainty<br />
over which agencies, groups<br />
and decision makers need access to<br />
which data points. Today’s homeland<br />
security and emergency response<br />
strategies involve multiple<br />
agencies, organizations and decision<br />
makers. These groups require<br />
that data be shared in real-time to<br />
establish a common operating picture.<br />
The video intelligence system<br />
overcomes data sharing challenges<br />
by creating a single portal to store<br />
and view information. As a result,<br />
information can be shared with ease<br />
between various coordinating entities.<br />
How to Implement a Modern<br />
Video Intelligence System<br />
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Many in government are concerned<br />
about how much value they will receive<br />
when implementing new technology<br />
systems. The good news is<br />
a modern video intelligence system<br />
is not only effective, but also simple<br />
to implement. The system’s design<br />
focuses on an interface that is integrated<br />
into an organization’s current<br />
IT systems, including legacy<br />
IT. Therefore, the video intelligence<br />
system is built based on customization<br />
and flexibility. Additionally, the<br />
video intelligence system includes<br />
sensors, compute power and onboard<br />
storage that can be installed<br />
and implemented rapidly.<br />
Deploying a video intelligence<br />
platform gives law enforcement a<br />
technological asset that keeps pace<br />
with terrorists and criminals today<br />
and in the future. By placing these<br />
tools under a single management<br />
layer, law enforcement can devote<br />
more resources to what truly matters:<br />
ensuring public safety.<br />
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Geofeedia, Mutualink among companies that helped<br />
law enforcement protect Pope Francis during U.S. visit<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
CHICAGO, IL – By all accounts,<br />
Pope Francis’ visit to the United<br />
States in September was a huge undertaking.<br />
Millions of people came out to<br />
see the pope during his six-day<br />
visit to the states. Because of the<br />
large crowds and the pope’s stature<br />
as a global leader, the Department<br />
of Homeland Security designated<br />
the entire visit as a national special<br />
security event, putting it on par<br />
with such events as previous Super<br />
Bowls, State of the Union addresses<br />
and the 2002 Winter Olympics.<br />
James Yacone, the assistant director<br />
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s<br />
Critical Incident Response<br />
Group, said the event was going to<br />
be one of the largest security endeavors<br />
in the country’s history.<br />
Local, state and federal organizations<br />
coordinated their efforts for<br />
months and held drills in each of<br />
the cities in the weeks leading up to<br />
the trip.<br />
“Preparations for events such as<br />
this are a cooperative effort,” said<br />
Diego Rodriguez, assistant director<br />
in charge of the FBI’s New York<br />
Field Office. “No one federal, state,<br />
or local agency alone can carry out<br />
the measures necessary to secure<br />
the event.”<br />
And those agencies must rely on<br />
contractors and vendors, who provide<br />
essential equipment and services<br />
to ensure security for the pope’s<br />
visit – or any event that requires the<br />
presence of law enforcement – goes<br />
smoothly.<br />
The Pennsylvania State Police relied<br />
on Geofeedia to help it monitor<br />
social media while Pope Francis and<br />
the throngs he attracted during his<br />
visit to Philadelphia. The company,<br />
which was founded four years ago,<br />
offers social media monitoring to<br />
law enforcement agencies so they<br />
can better monitor large events and<br />
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crime scenes for possible criminal<br />
activity or evidence.<br />
One of the things authorities had<br />
Geofeedia help them set up was a<br />
search for emojis, which are images<br />
often placed in social media posts to<br />
communicate feelings. Specifically,<br />
Geofeedia helped the state police set<br />
up a search for any post that included<br />
a law enforcement-related emoji,<br />
such as a police shield, followed by a<br />
weapon pointed at it.<br />
The state police’s analysts were using<br />
Geofeedia inside the Intelligence<br />
Operations Center set up for the<br />
pope’s visit, said Melissa Mumma,<br />
an intelligence analyst supervisor<br />
with the state police. That allowed<br />
state police to share any alerts they<br />
received instantly with their law enforcement<br />
partners to determine if<br />
it was a credible threat.<br />
“If we got an alert, if we saw…<br />
a term came through of concern,<br />
we actually could pull that up,” she<br />
said. “We could click on that, and<br />
it would show up where that was”<br />
posted geographically.<br />
When people go to major events,<br />
they will not just bring their smartphone<br />
with them, but they’ll also<br />
post on Facebook, Twitter and In-
stagram from their location. That<br />
information, including the images<br />
they share can sometimes be valuable<br />
to law enforcement in trying to<br />
track down suspects and possible<br />
threats.<br />
“We actually aggregate eight platforms,”<br />
Geofeedia co-founder Mike<br />
Mulroy said. “People are not only<br />
sharing their location, they’re also<br />
sharing what they’re seeing, what<br />
they’re doing. This is a time in history<br />
that is unlike any other.”<br />
Another company aiding in the<br />
pope’s visit to Philadelphia was<br />
Mutualink, which helped bring together<br />
50 agencies across the Mid-<br />
Atlantic and Northeast regions so<br />
they could communicate and share<br />
data securely. For example, when a<br />
Pennsylvania State Police helicopter<br />
would take video of the crowd at an<br />
event, Mutualink’s system allowed<br />
officials in New Jersey.<br />
“That whole ecosystem everybody<br />
talks about, we’re out there doing<br />
that,” Mutualink President Colin<br />
McWay said.<br />
Besides the Philadelphia area,<br />
dozens of agencies around the New<br />
York area also used Mutualink to<br />
help them coordinate security during<br />
the pope’s visit to the nation’s<br />
largest city.<br />
Mutualink creates interoperable<br />
platforms that can bring together<br />
agencies that may not use the same<br />
equipment or communicate on the<br />
same frequency. It offers a plug-andplay<br />
secured solution that allows<br />
agencies to decide when to bring in<br />
other agencies.<br />
“What we’re able to do is take<br />
whatever media any agency has –<br />
radio, video, data – secure it and put<br />
it on whatever pipe they have available,”<br />
McWay said. “So whether it’s<br />
terrestrial IP or commercial 4G or<br />
the new FirstNet, which were running<br />
on where it exists, and allow<br />
that to be shared with any other organization<br />
anywhere in the country.<br />
Having these types of resources<br />
for local and state agencies is important,<br />
especially for major events,<br />
because of the number of officers<br />
and troopers they can provide, Yacone<br />
said.<br />
“Neither the FBI nor the Secret<br />
Service could do our jobs effectively<br />
without them because they are<br />
bringing the capacity.”<br />
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Cloud-based Mass Notification<br />
comes with serious risks –<br />
Desktop Alert’s Ryan<br />
Continued from page 13<br />
view of all mass notification capabilities<br />
across the department.<br />
“I direct the Services to implement<br />
additional physical security<br />
enhancements at off-installation facilities<br />
and to put in place improved<br />
mass warning and alert notification<br />
capabilities to help safeguard<br />
DoD personnel,” Defense Secretary<br />
Ash Carter said in an October 2015<br />
memo.<br />
The capabilities Carter seeks includes<br />
alerting sites like recruiting<br />
centers that are not located on military<br />
installations. These sites need<br />
to have the ability to notify local first<br />
responders and other nearby military<br />
facilities. Carter wants those<br />
sites to start using the new systems<br />
by this spring.<br />
Ryan believes his system can provide<br />
what Carter wants for all facets<br />
of the Defense Department.<br />
“I’ve always taken a very direct<br />
path toward creating the best software,<br />
the fastest software, the most<br />
reliable software, the most redundant<br />
software (and) the more competitively<br />
priced software,” he said.<br />
Desktop Alert offers more detail on its<br />
website at: https://www.desktopalert.<br />
net/Solutions/the-cloud-and-emns/.
Utility Associates unveils cameras that are<br />
embedded in clothing and video technology<br />
that protects bystanders’ privacy<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
CHICAGO, IL – A Georgia-based<br />
company has unveiled a new solution<br />
it says will help law enforcement<br />
agencies respond to media<br />
and public requests for information<br />
in a more time-effective manner<br />
while protecting the identity of innocent<br />
bystanders.<br />
Utility Associates, Inc., unveiled<br />
its Smart Redaction technology at<br />
the International Association of<br />
Chiefs of Police conference. The<br />
company showcased its new products,<br />
which can be used with bodyworn<br />
or in-car video systems.<br />
With more law enforcement agencies<br />
opting to have their officers wear<br />
body cameras, company officials<br />
expect that will lead to an increase<br />
in Freedom of Information Act requests<br />
for the footage captured on<br />
those devices. Protecting bystanders’<br />
identities can be a cumbersome<br />
task, taking up to 10 hours to manually<br />
redact one hour of video.<br />
With Smart Redaction, though,<br />
agencies can automatically redact<br />
all faces and other identifiable information,<br />
such as tattoos, from an<br />
image, or users can opt to reveal one<br />
or more individuals as they move<br />
around and redact the remainder.<br />
Utility’s solution also can mute audio<br />
to protect victims and bystanders<br />
as well as keeping confidential<br />
information private.<br />
“Until now Police Departments<br />
have been in a tough spot between<br />
accountability, transparency and<br />
cost”, said CEO Robert McKeeman.<br />
“However, Smart Redaction resolves<br />
this dilemma. Police Departments<br />
can now reliably and quickly<br />
redact body-worn video at low cost<br />
to respond to a rapidly rising tide<br />
of body-worn video FOIA requests.<br />
The public will have confidence<br />
their police department is accountable<br />
and transparent in citizen interactions<br />
when body-worn video<br />
FOIA requests are fulfilled on a<br />
timely basis.”<br />
In addition to the redaction solution,<br />
Utility Associates also showcased<br />
its body camera solution that<br />
is embedded in an officer’s clothing.<br />
The cameras can be turned on automatically<br />
when the officer turns on<br />
his lights for a stop, or the camera<br />
can be turned on remotely.<br />
By putting the camera inside a<br />
shirt, it can keep the equipment<br />
from being inadvertently moved<br />
or knocked off, said Kelli Worley,<br />
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an account manager with Utility.<br />
A visible camera also can lead to a<br />
confrontation with a criminal believes<br />
the camera caught them doing<br />
something illegal.<br />
The integrated camera can be<br />
placed into either a vest or the officer’s<br />
shirt.<br />
“We work with all the major manufacturers<br />
that are out there for uniforms,”<br />
she said.<br />
Beyond capturing video, the camera<br />
also can detect if an officer is<br />
down or unresponsive. If an officer<br />
does not get up or speak, it will send<br />
a notice to dispatch with the officer’s<br />
location and begin recording automatically.<br />
Among the law enforcement<br />
agencies Utility works with include:<br />
the Atlanta Police Department, the<br />
Dallas County (Texas) Sheriff ’s Office<br />
and the New York Metropolitan<br />
Transit Authority Police.<br />
Founded in 2001, Utility is based<br />
in Decatur, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.<br />
Funded by venture capitalists,<br />
the company produces solutions<br />
for locating, tracking and supporting<br />
mobile field operations. Besides<br />
working with law enforcement, the<br />
company has experience working<br />
with water, power and other infrastructure<br />
companies as well as public<br />
transit agencies.
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HID Global looks ahead at top trends for<br />
secure identity in <strong>2016</strong><br />
AUSTIN, Texas, <strong>January</strong> 13, <strong>2016</strong> –<br />
HID Global®, a worldwide leader in<br />
secure identity solutions, has identified<br />
security <strong>2016</strong> trends to watch<br />
based on its deep insights gained<br />
from top customers across numerous<br />
markets, along with pilots and<br />
deployments of the company’s latest<br />
solutions with forward-looking<br />
partners and end-user organizations<br />
worldwide. HID Global’s broad industry<br />
perspective has positioned<br />
the company to pinpoint five key<br />
developments that it believes will<br />
have the greatest impact during this<br />
year on identity and access management,<br />
citizen identification and the<br />
Internet of Things (IoT).<br />
“We’re watching several developing<br />
trends in the new year, including<br />
growing demand for a more<br />
mobile-centric and satisfying user<br />
experience that HID Global believes<br />
will be the primary driver for security<br />
technology innovation in <strong>2016</strong>,”<br />
said Stefan Widing, HID Global<br />
President and CEO. “Customers<br />
will increasingly aspire to a comprehensive<br />
secure identity experience<br />
for their users that can provide the<br />
foundation for more flexible, adaptable<br />
solutions in a new era of interconnected<br />
digital identities and the<br />
Internet of Things.”<br />
HID Global’s <strong>2016</strong> trends point<br />
to a more mobile and connected<br />
experience, ongoing advancements<br />
in privacy protection and broader<br />
adoption of best practices for solution<br />
deployment. The trends include:<br />
<br />
will make it more pervasive and<br />
a new, more secure<br />
identity lifestyle will be built around<br />
the convenience of ever-present<br />
mobile devices. Computer and<br />
network logon, driver licenses and<br />
other applications will more seamlessly<br />
join physical security functions<br />
on phones, tablets and laptops.<br />
Wearables will be the next step, and<br />
phones will also work with RFID<br />
tags to add security and trust to the<br />
IoT for proof-of-presence applications.<br />
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<br />
a much greater focus on the user<br />
This will help close the<br />
gap between planning and compliance,<br />
while ensuring that security<br />
adapts to rather than defines enduser<br />
habits and lifestyles. Old ways<br />
of authenticating will be replaced by<br />
more satisfying alternatives.<br />
<br />
identities will fuel safety and innovation<br />
in how we work, shop and<br />
The industry will enter its next<br />
new chapter of connected identities,<br />
employing multi-layered security<br />
strategies that also include biometrics<br />
in order to bind these identities<br />
to their legitimate owners.<br />
tention<br />
on privacy in an increasingly<br />
connected and mobile-first<br />
Identity will expand beyond<br />
More on page 36
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The continuing evolution of Access Control<br />
technologies<br />
By Robert Laughlin, President<br />
Galaxy Control Systems<br />
In the last year, the role of access<br />
control has grown and expanded,<br />
due in large part to the<br />
continued evolution of network<br />
technologies and solutions. We<br />
live in a connected world where<br />
more and more devices of all<br />
types are being added to networks,<br />
so it makes sense that networked<br />
and software-based access control<br />
solutions have been key drivers of<br />
growth within this segment. Enhanced<br />
features and functions have<br />
enabled advanced systems that improve<br />
both security and operations<br />
while fitting within the often tight<br />
budgetary restrictions nearly all<br />
governments and agencies face today.<br />
The evolution of access control<br />
systems and applications is interesting<br />
to watch, and as these systems<br />
become more advanced, they will<br />
change the way government agencies<br />
choose, install, deploy and use<br />
these solutions. With that in mind,<br />
there are a number of trends to<br />
watch that will have the greatest impact<br />
in <strong>2016</strong> and beyond.<br />
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Integration<br />
The network has<br />
transformed access<br />
control systems<br />
from standalone<br />
solutions<br />
into a vital part<br />
of a more robust,<br />
highly integrated<br />
system that allows<br />
users to utilize a single control<br />
platform to monitor the state<br />
of a location or facility. Today’s advanced<br />
access control solutions can<br />
be integrated with human resources,<br />
identity management, video surveillance,<br />
parking and other security<br />
and non-security systems, all<br />
of which provide information and<br />
intelligence in the form of data that<br />
contributes to the emerging model<br />
of predictive analytics. The actionable<br />
intelligence that results from<br />
this analysis helps move security<br />
from a reactive to a more proactive<br />
function.<br />
With more complete information,<br />
advanced access control solutions<br />
enable better management of<br />
access control policies and procedures.<br />
By integrating these solutions<br />
with human resources, agencies can<br />
use personnel data to automatically<br />
populate and program identity card<br />
data fields to create access credentials.<br />
Compatibility<br />
As access control technologies<br />
evolve, end users must protect their<br />
previous investments while ensuring<br />
that they can implement more<br />
advanced solutions in the future.<br />
This is especially important for government<br />
applications, which can<br />
comprise a large number and variety<br />
of security and non-security<br />
systems across multiple locations<br />
and buildings. Additionally, a single<br />
system, such as access control, may<br />
include both new and legacy solutions<br />
from a variety of manufacturers,<br />
which may or may not be able to<br />
communicate with each other.<br />
Software-based controllers and<br />
other technologies excel at providing<br />
backward compatibility and enabling<br />
best-of-breed systems, allowing<br />
for uniformity in new or existing<br />
deployments. By making it possible<br />
for legacy and new solutions to coexist<br />
within the same system, these<br />
technologies enable custom systems<br />
that standardize an array of diverse<br />
solutions into a single system that
provides multiple upgrade options<br />
to ensure government agencies can<br />
meet their security needs while<br />
remaining within budgetary constraints.<br />
Beyond Security<br />
Today’s software-based access control<br />
systems offer capabilities that<br />
go outside of the traditional security<br />
realm to contribute to overall<br />
operations. In one example, a school<br />
system needed a better way to manage<br />
student traffic between modular<br />
temporary classrooms in use during<br />
construction of a new facility and<br />
the main school building. A main<br />
concern was with children from<br />
the modular classrooms using restrooms<br />
and other facilities located in<br />
the main building throughout the<br />
school day. Administrators seeking<br />
a more efficient means to track student<br />
movements beyond conventional<br />
hall passes issued proximity<br />
devices for use in access readers in<br />
the portable classrooms and at all<br />
entrances to the main school building.<br />
This enabled monitoring of<br />
students’ locations, with a predetermined<br />
amount of time allotted for<br />
both ways between their classroom<br />
and the main building. If a student<br />
failed to report back within that<br />
timeframe, the system issued a general<br />
alert. This is just one example<br />
of how access control solutions can<br />
expanded to address requirements<br />
beyond security.<br />
Mobile and Wireless<br />
Today it seems as if everyone has a<br />
mobile device of some kind, so it’s<br />
no surprise that wireless and Wi-<br />
Fi technology have made their way<br />
into access control, as evidenced by<br />
the number of wireless readers that<br />
have emerged. For government applications,<br />
this allows wireless access<br />
control solutions to be deployed at<br />
remote locations, as well as to protect<br />
moving locations such as trains<br />
or buses. Near field communication<br />
(NFC) and other location-based<br />
data also<br />
present interesting<br />
opportunities<br />
for<br />
access control,<br />
although<br />
adoption and<br />
evolution of<br />
these technologies<br />
will<br />
25<br />
take time. Both wired and wireless<br />
technologies will have a place in<br />
the future, so it is important to consider<br />
how these technologies will<br />
interface and/or integrate, particularly<br />
given the growth of the BYOD<br />
(bring your own device) model.<br />
For government applications, the<br />
advanced technologies behind today’s<br />
access control solutions enable<br />
users to monitor facilities and<br />
share data across multiple systems,<br />
expanding the capabilities of access<br />
control. As a result, networked systems<br />
offer the potential for innovative<br />
applications that deliver heightened<br />
situational awareness and<br />
greater overall security. As these<br />
solutions and technologies evolve,<br />
they will offer even greater functionality<br />
and the flexibility to address<br />
the unique security and budgetary<br />
requirements of each specific<br />
government application.
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House passes Visa Waiver<br />
program bill that excludes<br />
nationals of Syria, Iraq,<br />
Iran and Sudan<br />
By Joshua Breisblatt<br />
While Congress may be backing<br />
away from targeting the refugee<br />
resettlement program in reaction<br />
to recent terrorist attacks, lawmakers<br />
appear to have found a new<br />
target: the Visa Waiver Program<br />
(VWP). The VWP allows travelers<br />
from certain countries to enter the<br />
United States without obtaining a<br />
visa in advance. Currently, 38 countries,<br />
including France, the United<br />
Kingdom and Taiwan, are part of<br />
this program, with over 20 million<br />
visitors utilizing it each year. It was<br />
created to facilitate more efficient<br />
inbound travel to the U.S. and requires<br />
pre-screening of travelers<br />
who are pre-approved through the<br />
program. In designating a country<br />
to participate, the Department of<br />
Homeland Security, in consultation<br />
with the Secretary of State, considers<br />
only those the U.S. holds “the<br />
best law-enforcement and security<br />
relationships with.”<br />
At the end of November, the<br />
White House announced new security<br />
enhancements for the VWP and<br />
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a willingness to work with Congress<br />
to make additional improvements.<br />
Tuesday, the House of Representatives<br />
overwhelmingly passed, H.R.<br />
158, the Visa Waiver Improvement<br />
and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act<br />
of 2015 by a vote of 407 to 19. The<br />
text of this bill, like the refugee bill<br />
passed in November, was rushed<br />
to the floor with little review (no<br />
committee markup or hearings<br />
on the legislation). The bill terminates<br />
VWP travel privileges for all<br />
citizens of VWP countries who are<br />
also nationals of Iraq, Syria, Iran, or<br />
Sudan, essentially singling out and<br />
discriminating based on nationality<br />
and national origin. It also excludes<br />
all individuals who have traveled<br />
since March 1, 2011 to certain<br />
countries– including Syria, Iraq and<br />
other designated countries. The bill<br />
also establishes additional reporting<br />
and eligibility requirements for<br />
VWP countries and enhancements<br />
to the Electronic System for Travel<br />
Authorization (ESTA).<br />
Many organizations expressed<br />
concern over the language, saying<br />
it is overbroad and will have unintended<br />
consequences, with one example<br />
being making it potentially<br />
more difficult for journalists and<br />
humanitarian aid workers to travel.<br />
And, according to media reports<br />
the European Union is concerned<br />
as well. David O’Sullivan, the European<br />
Union ambassador to the U.S.,<br />
said visa-waiver members are “really<br />
quite concerned about what is<br />
happening and fear that this could<br />
be extremely counterproductive.”<br />
Despite the criticism, and partly<br />
due to the lopsided vote in the<br />
House Tuesday, there is a great deal<br />
of discussion about including this<br />
bill in the Omnibus spending bill, a<br />
must pass bill that will keep the government<br />
from shutting down. The<br />
current spending bill is set to expire<br />
this Friday, December 11, 2015.<br />
Those discussions, however, are still<br />
ongoing, and for now, the VWP bill<br />
heads over to the Senate, which has<br />
a variety of its own VWP proposals.<br />
In the wake of several recent tragedies,<br />
the rush is on in Congress<br />
to take steps to keep America safe.<br />
Hopefully, in the process, Congress<br />
does not make careless and hurried
IntelliNet Sensors, Inc. announces the global<br />
launch of the Lynx3-A Detector to find<br />
individuals hiding inside a cargo container<br />
IRVINE, CA, December 14 - IntelliNet<br />
Sensors, Inc., a developer of<br />
multi-sensor breathing and heartbeat<br />
detectors, announced the<br />
launch of its Lynx3-A Mountable<br />
Breathing Detector System for the<br />
detection of live persons inside cargo<br />
containers.<br />
The networked and advanced sensors<br />
are designed to detect the existence<br />
of live persons hiding inside<br />
a container or a vessel, while an integrated<br />
video camera system and<br />
other sensors capture the information<br />
of the vehicle. Unmatched in the<br />
industry, the Lynx family’s patented<br />
Sense-Through-The-Air Technology<br />
enables networking between<br />
the various units of the Lynx3-A to<br />
identify multiple hiding individuals<br />
inside a compartment.<br />
decisions that discriminate against<br />
particular nationalities and dismantle<br />
useful programs.<br />
See more at: http://immigrationimpact.com/2015/12/09/<br />
house-passes-visa-waiver-programbill-that-excludes-nationals-of-syria-iraq-iran-and-sudan/#sthash.<br />
k4YqDcHC.dpuf<br />
The system is superior to existing<br />
carbon dioxide detectors, sniffing<br />
dogs and X-ray or other heavily radiating<br />
systems in many ways: traditional<br />
solutions of using carbon<br />
dioxide detection is time consuming<br />
and erroneous at certain occasions,<br />
X-ray and other radiation<br />
sources need to be in high doses<br />
which poses numerous health risks<br />
for operators and hiding persons,<br />
and K-9s are inefficient in windy<br />
conditions and can be deceived.<br />
The ultra-wideband radio frequency<br />
system searches for changes in<br />
the electro-magnetic signature of<br />
a confined volume and registers its<br />
minuscule perturbations. The rapid<br />
deployment of the system across<br />
borders, loading docks of airplanes,<br />
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and vessels allows authorities to expeditiously<br />
detect and prevent human<br />
trafficking and illegal entry - a<br />
factor that traditional sensors are<br />
lacking.<br />
“By remotely using the sensors in<br />
multiple points spatially, hiding individuals<br />
are detected in real-time<br />
at the fraction of capital expenditure<br />
and operating cost,” commented Dr.<br />
Fred Mohamadi, Founder and President<br />
of IntelliNet Sensors.<br />
About IntelliNet Sensors, Inc.<br />
IntelliNet Sensors, Inc. (INS) is a<br />
privately held U.S. company that<br />
develops advanced electronic modules<br />
with very small form factors,<br />
highly integrated functionality, and<br />
advanced performance for a wide<br />
range of commercial applications.<br />
INS has more than twenty granted<br />
patents, as well as numerous pending<br />
patent applications. Because<br />
each is specifically related to breathing<br />
and heartbeat detection technology<br />
at extended ranges, INS is<br />
uniquely positioned to serve port<br />
authorities, border protection agencies,<br />
local, state, and federal law<br />
enforcement agencies, and first responder<br />
communities in spreading<br />
their life-saving and security efforts<br />
globally.<br />
For further information, please<br />
visit the Company’s website at www.<br />
IntelliNetSensors.com
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HID Global receives order to produce Next-Gen<br />
U.S. Permanent Resident “Green Cards”<br />
AUSTIN, TX, December 8 - HID<br />
Global®, a worldwide leader in secure<br />
identity solutions, has received<br />
an order from the U.S. government<br />
for the redesign, manufacture and<br />
supply of the country’s Permanent<br />
Resident Card – commonly known<br />
as the “Green Card.” The $88.3 million<br />
agreement marks the company’s<br />
largest government contract to<br />
date, extending a nearly two-decade<br />
relationship for another five years.<br />
The agreement expands production<br />
to include the manufacture and<br />
supply of additional government<br />
documents that will be enhanced<br />
with RFID technology for improved<br />
fraud protection.<br />
“We are proud of our long-standing<br />
relationship with the U.S. government<br />
and are committed<br />
to delivering a<br />
new generation of the<br />
U.S. Green Card along<br />
with new high-security<br />
employment documents<br />
for them in the years to<br />
come,” said Rob Haslam,<br />
vice president of Government ID<br />
Solutions with HID Global. “This<br />
contract award proves anew that<br />
HID Global has been and will continue<br />
to be the country’s preeminent<br />
supplier of secure government ID<br />
document solutions through four<br />
successive generations of U.S. Green<br />
Cards and beyond.”<br />
HID Global will be responsible<br />
for the secure production, delivery<br />
and storage of up to 34 million<br />
identity cards over the next five<br />
years. More than 10 million of HID<br />
Global’s first-generation multi-technology<br />
eID cards have been issued<br />
as Green Cards since 2010, with<br />
more than 32 million of the company’s<br />
first-generation Green Cards<br />
issued since 1997. HID Global will<br />
also play a pivotal role in helping to<br />
upgrade today’s U.S. Employment<br />
Authorization Documents (EAD)<br />
by supplying cards featuring RFID<br />
technology and new, fraud-resistant<br />
security features. These advanced<br />
d o c u m e n t s ,<br />
which serve as<br />
evidence of authorization<br />
to be<br />
employed in the<br />
United States,<br />
will be issued to<br />
individuals as<br />
they apply for new, renewal or replacement<br />
PRC and EAD cards.<br />
For more information on HID<br />
Global Government-to-Citizen ID<br />
Solutions, click here.<br />
For more HID Global news, visit<br />
Rob Haslam, VP Gov ID Solutions<br />
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About HID Global<br />
HID Global is the trusted source<br />
for innovative products, services,<br />
solutions, and know-how related to<br />
the creation, management, and use<br />
of secure identities for millions of<br />
customers around the world. The<br />
company’s served markets include<br />
physical and logical access control,<br />
including strong authentication<br />
and credential management;<br />
card printing and personalization;<br />
visitor management systems; highly<br />
secure government and citizen ID;<br />
and identification RFID technologies<br />
used in animal ID and industry<br />
and logistics applications. The<br />
company’s primary brands include<br />
ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FARGO®,<br />
IdenTrust®, LaserCard®, Lumidigm®,<br />
Quantum Secure, and HID®. Headquartered<br />
in Austin, Texas, HID<br />
Global has over 2,200 employees<br />
worldwide and operates international<br />
offices that support more<br />
than 100 countries. HID Global® is<br />
an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. For<br />
more information, visit http://www.<br />
hidglobal.com.
Airport/Aviation Security<br />
Needed: Let’s Make <strong>2016</strong> The Year of<br />
Innovation in Aviation Security<br />
By Eric Zanin,<br />
Senior Vice President and<br />
General Manager, Security<br />
and Detection Business for<br />
Analogic Corporation<br />
As recent events have made<br />
clear, the flying public is<br />
threatened by terrorists who<br />
are not only ruthless in their<br />
willingness to attack aviation, but<br />
who are willing and able to change<br />
tactics to exploit potential vulnerabilities<br />
in our aviation security system.<br />
From liquid explosives to shoe bombs<br />
to homemade explosives, terrorists<br />
have demonstrated a chilling capacity<br />
for rapid innovation to fool detection.<br />
The critical question is: can we, “the<br />
good guys”, keep up? Can we move to<br />
an aviation security approach where<br />
we innovate at the “speed of the<br />
threat”?<br />
I believe we can. Although serious<br />
challenges remain, there is a real window<br />
of opportunity in <strong>2016</strong>. There is<br />
a heightened sense of urgency among<br />
lawmakers and the public; new leadership<br />
at the TSA; and an exciting<br />
pipeline of innovative technology<br />
coming from the security industry. If<br />
we can create ways to align and channel<br />
these forces for change, real progress<br />
is possible.<br />
Consider how much<br />
the mindset of the<br />
public and lawmakers<br />
have evolved in<br />
the last year. With the<br />
rise of ISIS and terrorist<br />
attacks in San<br />
Bernardino, Paris and<br />
Sharm El Shaik, there<br />
is very little glib talk of “aviation security<br />
theater”. Instead, there is broad,<br />
bi-partisan recognition and public<br />
support for common sense improvements<br />
to aviation security, such as<br />
improving the screening of airport<br />
employees and expanding the pool of<br />
“known and trusted travelers” in the<br />
TSA pre-check program. While these<br />
initiatives are worthwhile on their<br />
own, they also show, in my opinion,<br />
that there is public support for even<br />
broader innovation – provided it results<br />
in more effective security.<br />
What about TSA? For all of the<br />
challenges and constraints it has, it<br />
is worth pointing out its Pre-Check<br />
program was and is an important innovation<br />
in aviation security because,<br />
for the first time, passengers were given<br />
an opportunity to become “trusted<br />
travelers” through a vetting process.<br />
From a security standpoint, the<br />
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more passengers that move into the<br />
“trusted traveler” category, the more<br />
resources can be focused on higher<br />
priority risks. Although Pre-Check<br />
needs to be expanded and improved,<br />
it is encouraging because it shows<br />
that, under the right circumstances,<br />
system-wide innovation is feasible. I<br />
believe pre-check, as an interim measure,<br />
is a really positive move to flex<br />
the security checkpoint to optimize<br />
throughput, however it is not the optimal<br />
end state. Driving innovation<br />
in screening systems that will improve<br />
passenger throughput and increase<br />
security is the desired end state. All<br />
indications are that TSA’s new director,<br />
Admiral Peter Neffenger, wants to<br />
innovate and optimize.<br />
Finally, as leading international airports<br />
have demonstrated, there is no<br />
shortage of exciting solutions available<br />
from industry. For example,<br />
several leading security technology<br />
firms, including my own, Analogic<br />
Corporation, have developed a new<br />
type of checkpoint screening system<br />
that leverages the gold standard<br />
in checked baggage inspection- 3D<br />
computed tomography (CT) imaging<br />
technology. These 3D CT systems<br />
are far better than current fixed 2D<br />
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x-ray systems at detecting potential<br />
threats such as homemade explosives<br />
(HMEs), and they allow passengers to<br />
keep their liquids and electronics in<br />
their carry-on bags. This drives dramatic<br />
improvement in a process that<br />
is aligned with the TSA’s stated goals<br />
of efficiency, security effectiveness,<br />
and passenger experience. If combined<br />
with other innovations, such as<br />
automated tray return systems, these<br />
innovations could dramatically increase<br />
throughput at the checkpoint<br />
while allowing TSA operators to<br />
spend more time detecting potential<br />
threats and less time “managing traffic”-<br />
meeting Admiral Neffenger’s<br />
goal of “screening at the speed of life.”<br />
<br />
Aviation Security Innovation<br />
<strong>2016</strong> could be a year of innovation in<br />
aviation security. But as we all know,<br />
the window of opportunity could<br />
close quickly. A new crisis unrelated<br />
to aviation security could absorb public<br />
attention. Election year politics<br />
could make lawmakers cautious.<br />
So what can industry, lawmakers<br />
and the TSA do together– with limited<br />
resources -- to accelerate the pace<br />
of aviation security innovation?<br />
<br />
at<br />
Of the hundreds of US<br />
airports and thousands of US checkpoint<br />
lanes for passengers, crew and<br />
airport employees, it should be possible<br />
to establish some as operational<br />
test environments for new processes<br />
and technologies. My company,<br />
Analogic, has worked successfully<br />
with airports such as Schiphol in the<br />
Netherlands and London’s Luton, to<br />
demonstrate the effectiveness of new<br />
checkpoint screening technologies.<br />
<br />
Just as Silicon Valley firms<br />
such as Apple and Google will invite<br />
entrepreneurs to pitch them on new<br />
concepts, TSA could partner with the<br />
Aviation Security Advisory Committee<br />
(ASAC) to provide a regular venue<br />
for companies, organizations or local<br />
airports to present their ideas on how<br />
to improve security.<br />
-<br />
<br />
To be effective, each major component<br />
of aviation security – strategy,<br />
people, process, systems and technology<br />
needs to be as “future proof ” as<br />
possible. In other words, they need to<br />
be able to respond to the likely threats<br />
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of today and tomorrow, not just yesterday.<br />
And just as the Department<br />
of Defense issues a regular review and<br />
assessment of its capabilities in light<br />
of current threats facing the nation,<br />
TSA could provide its own public assessment<br />
of the “future proof ” capability<br />
of its assets.<br />
I believe these ideas, together with<br />
contributions from others in government<br />
and industry, will help build a<br />
culture of innovation within aviation<br />
security. The momentum and<br />
opportunity is there for us in <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Innovation has long been a strength<br />
and advantage of American society.<br />
It lifted us into the air at Kitty Hawk<br />
and landed us on the moon. It’s time<br />
to put it to use to make air travel more<br />
secure.<br />
Eric Zanin is Senior Vice President and<br />
General Manager for Analogic Corporation’s<br />
Security Systems Business.<br />
Eric holds the rank of captain and has<br />
spent over 25 years in the service of the<br />
U.S. Navy.
Air travel experts push situational<br />
awareness during the holiday rush<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
As the Holiday travel season is coming<br />
down to its final week, the Transportation<br />
Security Administration<br />
expects to screen nearly 3 million<br />
passengers daily at airports across the<br />
country.<br />
Because of the increase in traffic,<br />
extra attention is paid to airline travel,<br />
which are already considered high<br />
profile targets for terrorist attacks. It<br />
was during this period 14 years ago<br />
when Richard Reid, better known as<br />
the “Shoe Bomber” unsuccessfully<br />
tried to detonate an explosive device<br />
on a plane bound for Miami. His attempt<br />
was thwarted by passengers<br />
on the flight, which originated from<br />
Paris.<br />
Recently, ExpertFlyer.com conducted<br />
a conversation with several<br />
airline and travel safety experts, who<br />
all noted that the chance of an incident<br />
or accident remains highly remote.<br />
The Website provides its subscribers,<br />
namely business travelers<br />
and corporate travel managers, with<br />
updated travel information.<br />
“Despite events recently covered in<br />
the news, air travel remains the safest<br />
means of travel,” explains Chris<br />
Lopinto, president and co-founder<br />
of ExpertFlyer.com. “We are glad we<br />
had an opportunity to speak with<br />
these security and safety experts before<br />
the holidays to hopefully help<br />
travelers minimize their anxiety and<br />
focus more on the joy of spending<br />
time with friends and family this holiday<br />
season.”<br />
One of the steps experts recommend<br />
is for foreign travelers to sign<br />
up for the State Department’s Smart<br />
Traveler Enrollment Program, which<br />
allows them to receive safety updates<br />
and other bulletins regarding<br />
their destination. They also echo the<br />
comments of Homeland Security<br />
and other government officials, who<br />
have created a campaign around the<br />
phrase: “If you see something, say<br />
something.”<br />
Phil Dernier, founder of<br />
the industry news organization<br />
NYCAviation.com,<br />
said: “For passengers, maintaining<br />
good situational<br />
awareness is something that<br />
should be exercised at all<br />
times, whether you’re flying<br />
or not.”<br />
Stephen Lloyd, a former<br />
Federal Aviation Administration<br />
safety director, concurred.<br />
“Your life and the lives of others depend<br />
on all of us as travelers reporting<br />
suspicious objects, packages or<br />
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bags without an owner,” said Lloyd,<br />
who is president of SJL and Associates,<br />
an aviation consulting firm.<br />
“This includes suspicious activity or<br />
behavior by any person.”<br />
While the TSA is often seen as the<br />
primary agency to deter and detect<br />
threats against airlines, the experts<br />
noted that the effort to combat airline<br />
terrorism goes well beyond the airport<br />
terminals.<br />
“It’s important to recognize that the<br />
real nuts-and-bolts of keeping terrorists<br />
away from planes don’t belong<br />
solely to the TSA screeners on the<br />
concourse,” explains Patrick Smith,<br />
an airline piloted and noted blogger<br />
and author. “It’s the combined efforts<br />
of law enforcement, FBI, CIA,<br />
Interpol and the TSA, all working<br />
together. From inspecting checked<br />
luggage and cargo to reviewing passenger<br />
data, any plotters<br />
are foiled long before they<br />
reach the airport.”<br />
Just how remote are<br />
your chances from dying<br />
in a plane crash? A study<br />
from Harvard University<br />
stated the odds are about<br />
Stephen Lloyd, 1 in 11 million. That’s<br />
SJL Associates – Former more than three times the<br />
FAA Safety Director risk of being attacked by<br />
a shark and significantly<br />
higher than dying in an automobile<br />
accident, which is 1 in 5,000.
Airport/Aviation Security<br />
50-plus European airports deploy<br />
Morpho’s Itemiser 4DX per new explosives<br />
screening mandates<br />
LONDON, UK, December 2 - Morpho<br />
(Safran), through its subsidiary<br />
Morpho Detection, today announced<br />
that more than 50 airports<br />
throughout Europe deployed<br />
Itemiser® 4DX explosives trace<br />
detectors (ETD) in 2015.<br />
The next-generation of the<br />
industry-leading Itemiser family<br />
of desktop ETD, Itemiser<br />
4DX was the most selected ETD<br />
system by airports to meet EU<br />
legislation for enhanced passenger<br />
screening effective September<br />
2015. With more than 900<br />
shipped worldwide this year,<br />
Morpho has deployed Itemiser<br />
4DX to leading European aviation<br />
hubs including in Austria,<br />
Denmark, Germany, Italy, Portugal,<br />
Spain, Switzerland and the UK. A<br />
lightweight, portable desktop system,<br />
Itemiser 4DX quickly detects<br />
and identifies trace amounts of explosives<br />
on skin, clothing, carried<br />
items, bags, vehicles and other surfaces.<br />
“By investing in localized sales and<br />
service support, Morpho Detection<br />
was able to offer airports a comprehensive<br />
solutions partner to meet<br />
the new regulations and we have<br />
been thrilled by the response of our<br />
Itemiser 4DX: Non-Radioactive-Based<br />
Explosives and Narcotics Detection<br />
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customers and partners,” said Karen<br />
Bomba, president and CEO, Morpho<br />
Detection. “Morpho Detection<br />
takes great pride in and thanks our<br />
customers for making us the leading<br />
supplier of European Civil Aviation<br />
Conference (ECAC)-approved<br />
ETD to airports in Europe. We will<br />
continue working tirelessly to serve<br />
our customers and grow this momentum<br />
in Europe and around the<br />
world.”<br />
Currently approved for passenger<br />
and cargo screening throughout<br />
ECAC’s 44 member nations,<br />
Itemiser 4DX delivers advanced<br />
explosives and narcotics detection<br />
and screening capabilities<br />
powered by a non-radioactive<br />
ITMS source. Designed for<br />
easy physical access to maintenance<br />
areas, Itemiser 4DX<br />
leverages long-life consumables<br />
and internal calibration to<br />
minimize operational costs for<br />
airports and air cargo facilities,<br />
law enforcement agencies and<br />
government and critical infrastructure<br />
installations.<br />
For more information on Morpho’s<br />
detection products, visit www.morphodetection.com.
Block Engineering designs<br />
chemical detection products<br />
for use at ‘soft target’ sites<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
A Massachusetts company that specializes<br />
in chemical detection devices<br />
has announced that it is making<br />
its products available for such<br />
public facilities as shopping centers,<br />
transportation hubs and stadiums.<br />
These types of facilities are often<br />
called “soft target” sites because they<br />
do not offer the same level of protection<br />
as highly defensed government<br />
facilities. They also were the types<br />
of targets hit by terrorists in France<br />
last month in a series of attacks that<br />
led to 130 deaths and hundreds of<br />
others injured.<br />
Block Engineering says its sensors<br />
can be used to pick up chemicals<br />
that are known to be used in explosive<br />
devices. That includes Triacetone<br />
Triperoxide, better known<br />
as TATP, used in the suicide bomb<br />
vests terrorists wore in the Paris attacks.<br />
“Block Engineering is uniquely<br />
positioned to provide these sensors<br />
to US and foreign governments for<br />
chemical security against terrorism,”<br />
said Dr. Petros Kotidis, Block’s<br />
CEO. “Advances in laser technology<br />
and signal processing algorithms<br />
have enabled detection of dangerous<br />
chemicals, such as chemical<br />
warfare agents and toxic industrial<br />
gases, at very low concentrations.<br />
We are very excited to offer these<br />
life-saving products during the current<br />
difficult times.”<br />
Kotidis holds a master’s and a doctorate<br />
degree in aeronautics from<br />
M.I.T. and has received 18 patents<br />
for his work in developing laser, ultrasonic<br />
and spectroscopic devices<br />
and applications.<br />
Block’s systems include Laser-<br />
Warn, which uses a laser beam as a<br />
trip wire. Once a chemical crosses<br />
the wire, LaserWarn can alert authorities<br />
in less than second. It can<br />
detect trace amounts – down to<br />
parts per 1 billion or more – in areas<br />
larger than 1,000 square feet. It<br />
also be used on an around-the-clock<br />
basis either in enclosed facilities or<br />
open air environments. The senor’s<br />
laser is safe to human eyes and can<br />
use mirrors and other reflectors to<br />
cover large open areas.<br />
Block’s PORTHOS device, a<br />
standalone infrared sensor, is able<br />
to identify a released chemical<br />
from as far away as five kilometers.<br />
PORTHOS sensors can be used as<br />
portable devices or installed at a<br />
fixed location, which company officials<br />
said gives it the flexibility to<br />
be used at such large public gatherings<br />
as football games or celebration<br />
events. All detection is done within<br />
the unit itself and the system needs<br />
only a low broadband signal to send<br />
information to a command center.<br />
Both types of devices come with<br />
chemical libraries, but they also can<br />
be updated to include new threats as<br />
they emerge.<br />
The company has provided chemical<br />
detectors to government agencies,<br />
including defense and intelligence<br />
organizations, for nearly 50<br />
years. Its sensors are currently in<br />
use at numerous facilities worldwide,<br />
including the Pentagon.<br />
“Since 1956, Block has been a<br />
leader in standoff chemical detection,”<br />
said Dr. Daniel Cavicchio,<br />
Block Engineering’s Chairman. “For<br />
decades, our systems have been<br />
used to protect critical installations<br />
and our new product offerings, including<br />
the new class of QCLs, are<br />
now enabling even more capabilities<br />
to protect the public against terrorist<br />
threats.”<br />
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Implant Sciences announces first shipment of<br />
ETD Systems for U.S. Airport Deployment<br />
WILMINGTON, MA, December<br />
8 - Implant Sciences Corporation, a<br />
leading manufacturer of explosives<br />
trace detection (ETD) solutions for<br />
Department of Homeland Security<br />
(DHS) applications, today reported<br />
that the Company has delivered its<br />
first shipment of QS-B220 desktop<br />
Explosives Trace Detectors (ETDs)<br />
to airports across the United States.<br />
These units are a part of the 1,170<br />
unit order that was placed by the<br />
Transportation Security Administration<br />
(TSA) in November, 2014.<br />
The entirety of the 1,170 units is expected<br />
to be delivered across more<br />
than 40% of airports in the United<br />
States within Implant Sciences’ fiscal<br />
year <strong>2016</strong>, which began July 1,<br />
2015.<br />
“We are pleased to accommodate<br />
TSA’s preferred delivery schedule<br />
for this shipment. As an American<br />
company, the fact that our QS-B220<br />
ETDs are being deployed across the<br />
United States and will provide valuable<br />
protection to passengers represents<br />
the accomplishment of a major<br />
milestone,” stated Todd Swearingen,<br />
General Manager, Americas. “Implant<br />
Sciences is honored to have<br />
been selected by TSA and we look<br />
forward to enhancing security operations<br />
across U.S. airports. This<br />
has been an important goal for the<br />
company for many years now, and<br />
we are extremely proud of this success.”<br />
<br />
Explosives Trace Detector<br />
The QS-B220 uses Ion Mobility<br />
Spectrometry (IMS) to rapidly detect<br />
and identify trace amounts of a<br />
wide variety of military, commercial,<br />
and homemade explosives. Featuring<br />
a radioactive material-free design,<br />
push-button maintenance and<br />
diagnostics, and a patented inCal<br />
internal automatic calibration system,<br />
the QS-B220 brings new levels<br />
of performance and convenience to<br />
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desktop trace detection users with<br />
unsurpassed ease of use.<br />
About Implant Sciences<br />
Implant Sciences is a leader in developing<br />
and manufacturing advanced<br />
detection capabilities to<br />
counter and eliminate the everevolving<br />
threats from explosives<br />
and drugs. The Company’s team of<br />
dedicated trace detection experts<br />
has developed proprietary technologies<br />
used in its commercial products,<br />
thousands of which have been<br />
sold across more than 60 countries<br />
worldwide. The Company’s ETDs<br />
have received approvals and certifications<br />
from several international<br />
regulatory agencies including the<br />
TSA in the U.S., ECAC in Europe,<br />
CAAC and the Ministry of Public<br />
Safety in China, Russia FSB, STAC<br />
in France, and the German Ministry<br />
of the Interior. It has also received<br />
the 2015 <strong>GSN</strong> Airport/Seaport/Border<br />
Security Award for “Best Security<br />
Checkpoint”. For further details<br />
on the Company and its products,<br />
please visit the Company’s website<br />
at www.implantsciences.com.
Increased security measures at<br />
French rail facilities<br />
Continued from page 11<br />
ment within the Schengen Zone<br />
countries to date. Currently the only<br />
rail service requiring passengers and<br />
their baggage to be screened is the<br />
United Kingdom’s Eurostar system,<br />
which lies outside the Schengen<br />
Zone, but provides regular service<br />
to member countries.<br />
This does not appear to be the<br />
beginning of “airport-style” security<br />
at rail stations, and Europe’s rail<br />
stations will not adopt this style of<br />
screening, for the following reasons:<br />
gers<br />
travelled by rail in Germany,<br />
France, and Belgium in 2014, compared<br />
to more than 1.7 billion traveling<br />
by aircraft throughout Europe.<br />
The sheer number of rail passengers<br />
makes it difficult to impose airportstyle<br />
security in the rail industry.<br />
<br />
exceeds the number of airports in<br />
Europe. In Germany for example,<br />
there are only 33 large airports, but<br />
there are 122 main rail stations. The<br />
cost to install, maintain, and monitor<br />
checkpoint screening equipment<br />
at the major German airports is immense<br />
and the cost to provide the<br />
same level of security at German rail<br />
stations would be higher still.<br />
<br />
in Germany, ranging from large international<br />
hubs to small, rural platforms.<br />
The prospect of installing security<br />
screening equipment at only<br />
category-one rail stations, which<br />
are central hubs or intersections of<br />
important railway lines, is a daunting<br />
prospect. Based on the average<br />
selling price of baggage and parcels<br />
x-ray equipment ($99,775.00)<br />
and walk through metal detectors<br />
($2,164.00), if the 21 largest stations<br />
in Germany each had five<br />
security checkpoints with one baggage<br />
and parcels x-ray machine and<br />
one walk-through metal detector,<br />
the total cost for equipment alone<br />
would be $10.7 million.<br />
Although the recent installation<br />
of screening equipment in France<br />
addresses the threat of possible attacks<br />
against the Eurostar and other<br />
high-speed trains, the majority of<br />
rail passengers travel via commuter<br />
trains, with thousands of unoccupied<br />
platforms. Furthermore,<br />
the current deployment format of<br />
screening equipment at rail stations<br />
only addresses the threat of an attack<br />
on the train itself and not the<br />
railway station. There are few secure<br />
areas at rail stations, and creating<br />
such areas would require significant<br />
reconstruction of most main stations,<br />
which makes the large-scale<br />
adoption of security checkpoint<br />
equipment at European rail stations<br />
an unlikely prospect.<br />
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Statement by Secretary Johnson<br />
on southwest border immigration<br />
and security<br />
Continued from page 7<br />
encouraging them to join us in<br />
broadening access to protection for<br />
refugees from Central America.<br />
I know there are many who loudly<br />
condemn our enforcement efforts<br />
as far too harsh, while there will be<br />
others who say these actions don’t<br />
go far enough. I also recognize the<br />
reality of the pain that deportations<br />
do in fact cause. But, we must enforce<br />
the law consistent with our<br />
priorities. At all times, we endeavor<br />
to do this consistent with American<br />
values, and basic principles of decency,<br />
fairness, and humanity.
Swan Island software selected by<br />
NY-NJ Port Authority<br />
Continued from page 8<br />
paredness is serving as the network’s<br />
host. InterCEP seeks to help communities<br />
and organizations better prepare<br />
for disasters and other crises.<br />
The selection of Swan Island fulfills<br />
one of the goals the network established<br />
during its first year. Other goals<br />
include developing plans that will<br />
foster better business-to-government<br />
and business-to-business cooperation<br />
during emergencies and devising<br />
a strategy based on established best<br />
practices to improve the Port Authority’s<br />
resiliency.<br />
“Working with Swan Island to build<br />
a new and dynamic kind of public/private<br />
collaboration has been exciting,”<br />
said Bill Raisch, Executive Director of<br />
the MRN. “Organizational agility and<br />
resilience are vital to both the public<br />
and private sectors going forward as<br />
increasing disruptions impact global<br />
cities and their metropolitan areas.<br />
We are confident that we are breaking<br />
new ground in establishing a global<br />
prototype for all cities committed to<br />
a resilient future.”<br />
Hikvision launches ‘Value Plus’<br />
surveillance line<br />
Continued from page 17<br />
sion also has released a suite of other<br />
products that add intelligence gathering<br />
solutions to customers using the<br />
new camera systems. The solutions<br />
include line crossing and intrusion<br />
detection zones.<br />
“Our great success in North America<br />
is due in part to our understanding<br />
of what our customers want and<br />
need,” stated Jeffrey He, president of<br />
Hikvision USA and Hikvision Canada.<br />
“The Value Plus line of products<br />
will bring our cutting-edge technology<br />
to a broader range of customers<br />
and ensure the safety of a greater<br />
number of citizens.”<br />
Hikvision supplies video surveillance<br />
solutions to public- and private-sector<br />
clients across the country.<br />
Created nearly 15 years ago, the company’s<br />
products have been installed in<br />
more than 100 countries. Bolstered<br />
by a strong research and development<br />
workforce, the company uses its<br />
high-tech manufacturing facilities to<br />
produce high quality standard- and<br />
high-definition cameras to monitor<br />
government and healthcare facilities,<br />
transportation networks, casinos,<br />
banks and neighborhoods. Hikvision<br />
also offers includes digital video recording<br />
solutions that include servers,<br />
hybrid and standalone DVRs and<br />
NVRs.<br />
The company will be showcasing its<br />
product lines – including the Value<br />
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HID Global looks ahead at top<br />
trends for secure identity<br />
Continued from page 23<br />
people and their personal identity to<br />
the identity of objects and their authenticity,<br />
accentuating the need to<br />
protect personal information across<br />
increasingly interconnected devices,<br />
services and applications.<br />
<br />
best practices will become as impor-<br />
The<br />
industry will sharpen its focus on not<br />
only what to deploy, but how – from<br />
the first U.S. mobile driver licenses<br />
to unified credential management<br />
systems that enable organizations to<br />
more holistically address both facility<br />
and information security. Rather<br />
than focus exclusively on preventing<br />
breaches, the industry will also adopt<br />
best practices for controlling what<br />
happens afterwards, so stolen identities<br />
are useless to thieves.<br />
HID Global’s Seos® technology provides<br />
the foundation for advancing<br />
these trends, making it possible for<br />
organizations to confidently incorporate<br />
mobile solutions and empower<br />
their users with more application<br />
than ever before.<br />
Plus line – at the TechSec Conference,<br />
which will be held Feb. 2-3 in Delray<br />
Beach, FL.<br />
For more information about the<br />
company, go to: http://overseas.hikvision.com/us/.
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HID Global is the trusted source for<br />
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and know-how related to the<br />
creation, management, and use of<br />
secure identities for millions of customers<br />
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and logical access control, including<br />
strong authentication and credential<br />
management; card printing and personalization;<br />
visitor management systems;<br />
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citizen ID; and identification RFID<br />
technologies used in animal ID and<br />
industry and logistics applications.<br />
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