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Government Security News<br />
FEBRUARY 2016 DIGITAL EDITION<br />
Former Mexican President Calderon tells Trump: “We are not going to pay a single<br />
cent for such a stupid wall. It’s going to be completely useless.” – More on Page 15<br />
Also in this issue:<br />
Elbit Systems cyber subsidiary uncovers Dridex malware persistency and stealth mechanism – Page 6<br />
U.S./Canadian Governments announce phosphorus reduction of 40% in Lake Erie to improve water and<br />
reduce public health risk – Page 9<br />
Logos Technologies deploying aerostat-connected wide-area Simera motion imagery system for Rio De<br />
Janeiro Summer Olympics – Page 30
<strong>GSN</strong> <strong>February</strong> 2016 <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Edition</strong><br />
Table of Contents<br />
<strong>GSN</strong> TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT<br />
Energy industry veteran Stephen Trippe, Interim Chair, is ready to take<br />
Quantum Technology Science to next level in seismic-acoustic detection<br />
in oil, gas, utilities & critical infrastructure<br />
Quantum Technology Sciences is a perimeter intrusion detection provider, but an<br />
unusual one. The seismic-acoustic solution that it offers makes it the first security<br />
and surveillance company to maintain an awareness perimeter where threats in<br />
air, water, land are detected, tracked and classified in real time. As the former<br />
owner of Kimball/Trippe Energy Associates, partner in Saltwater Disposal of North<br />
Dakota, and managing partner of Longhorn Properties, LLC and ITAP, LLC, Interim<br />
Chairman Stephen Trippe has all the credentials to help the company reach the<br />
rapid growth stage that it is ready to enter following the infusion of $8M in venture<br />
funds. Read more on Page 34.<br />
U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx recommends $3.5 billion to expand<br />
access to transit jobs<br />
In keeping with the long-standing administration policy of funding new and expanded<br />
mass transit projects in metropolitan areas across the country, Transportation<br />
Secretary Foxx has recommended $3.5 billion to advance construction or<br />
completion of 31 rail, bus, rapid transit and streetcar projects in 18 states, with the<br />
goal of creating thousands of construction and operations-related jobs and helping<br />
communities expand opportunities and offer citizens to succeed in the 21st century<br />
economy. The 15 transit funding projects in 2016 include a downtown riverfront<br />
streetcar project in Sacramento, the reconstructing the four Chicago Transit Authority<br />
(CTA) stations and tracks and providing fast, reliable bus service for residents<br />
in a key corridor in downtown Indianapolis. FTA’s Capital Investment Grant<br />
(CIG) program is the federal government’s priminary grant program for funding<br />
major transit investments. Read more on Page 4.<br />
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NEWS AND FEATURES<br />
U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx recommends<br />
$3.5 Billion to expand access to transit jobs Page 4<br />
Elbit Systems’ cyber subsidiary uncovers Dridex<br />
malware persistency and stealth mechanism Page 6<br />
U.S./Canadian governments announce phosphorus<br />
reduction targets of 40% to improve Lake Erie water<br />
quality and reduce public health risk Page 8<br />
Convy on Netcentric: The emergence of SMR<br />
technology drastically reduces cost of massive data<br />
storage Page 12<br />
Oregon Senator Merkley lauds efforts of Newport<br />
Fisherman’s Wives and other Oregonians for helping<br />
to keep Newport Coast Guard Station on Oregon<br />
coast Page 14<br />
Former Mexican President says country not paying<br />
for a stupid, useless wall! Page 15<br />
Indiana using license plate campaign to discourage<br />
distracted drivers Page 16<br />
NTSB Chairman Hart to discuss Positive Train<br />
Control, transit safety at March SafeRail Congress<br />
Page 28<br />
Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection<br />
____________________________________<br />
Québec’s Jean-Lesage International Airport<br />
prepares for dramatic two-year growth Page 18<br />
Rapiscan MP100 Backpack radiation detection<br />
system allows detection of radioactive materials<br />
Page 22<br />
Extreme Perimeter Protection: The 22-Ton ‘Xtreme<br />
Facility Projector’ Booth has it all Page 26<br />
Oil, Gas, Electric Grid Monitoring<br />
____________________________________<br />
Energy industry veteran Stephen Trippe named<br />
Interim Chair of Quantum Technology Sciences<br />
Page 34<br />
Siemens and IBM team on next generation of<br />
cloud-based building energy management solutions<br />
Page 35<br />
Oil & Gas sector needs long-term thinking to<br />
achieve meaningful cost cuts, says industry technical<br />
advisor DNV GL Page 37<br />
Logos Technology going for the gold as Brazilian<br />
officials pick its sensor for the Rio Olympics Page 30<br />
Campbell on Crypto: Encryption Basics: Three<br />
Steps to Better Data Protection Page 32<br />
FAA announces nearly 300,000 operators sign on<br />
to online drone registry Page 39<br />
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx recommends<br />
$3.5 Billion to expand access to transit jobs<br />
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation<br />
Secretary Anthony Foxx today<br />
highlighted $3.5 billion recommended<br />
in President Obama’s Fiscal<br />
Year 2017 budget to advance the<br />
construction or completion of 31<br />
rail, bus rapid transit and streetcar<br />
projects in 18 states. These projects,<br />
competitively funded through<br />
the Federal Transit Administration’s<br />
(FTA) Capital Investment<br />
Grant (CIG) Program, would create<br />
thousands of construction and<br />
operations-related jobs and help<br />
communities expand transportation<br />
choices that offer new ladders<br />
of opportunity for residents.<br />
“Since 2009, the Obama Administration<br />
has funded nearly 100 new<br />
and expanded mass transit projects<br />
in numerous cities and metropolitan<br />
areas across the country,” said Secretary<br />
Foxx. “These projects transform<br />
communities, improving mobility<br />
and access to jobs, education<br />
and other important opportunities<br />
for millions of people. Public transit<br />
is an important ally in the effort to<br />
ensure that hard-working Americans<br />
are offered a chance to succeed<br />
in the 21st century economy.”<br />
The President’s budget includes<br />
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx<br />
4<br />
first-time funding recommendations<br />
for 15 transit projects. These<br />
include:<br />
• The Downtown Riverfront<br />
Streetcar Project in Sacramento,<br />
California, which would connect<br />
the urban cores of Sacramento and<br />
West Sacramento, serving major<br />
destinations in both cities, improving<br />
transit options for residents and<br />
encouraging transit-oriented development<br />
along the route;<br />
• The Red and Purple Line Modernization<br />
Project Phase One in<br />
Chicago, Illinois, which would reconstruct<br />
four Chicago Transit Authority<br />
(CTA) stations and track in<br />
order to relieve crowding and congestion<br />
in one of the transit system’s<br />
busiest corridors; and<br />
• The Red Line Bus Rapid Transit<br />
Project in Indianapolis, Indiana,<br />
which would provide fast, reliable<br />
bus service for residents in a key<br />
corridor serving downtown. Indianapolis<br />
was one of seven cities<br />
selected in 2015 to be part of the<br />
U.S. Department of Transportation’s<br />
LadderSTEP pilot program,<br />
an initiative designed to help foster<br />
sustainable economic development<br />
related to planned transportation<br />
projects.<br />
“FTA is proud to partner with<br />
communities across the country to<br />
bring more transportation options<br />
to residents and help accommodate<br />
our nation’s growing population,”<br />
said FTA Acting Administrator<br />
Therese McMillan. “These investments<br />
in public transportation will<br />
improve the mobility and quality of<br />
life for thousands of residents, provide<br />
an alternative to traffic congestion,<br />
and spur more economically<br />
vibrant communities.”<br />
FTA’s highly competitive CIG<br />
More on page 31
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Elbit Systems’ cyber subsidiary uncovers Dridex<br />
malware persistency and stealth mechanism<br />
CYBERBIT, Elbit Systems’ whollyowned<br />
subsidiary, announced today<br />
that it uncovered for the first time,<br />
the Dridex malware’s advanced and<br />
sophisticated persistency mechanism,<br />
allowing organizations to detect<br />
and remove the malware.<br />
The unique analysis was revealed<br />
by CYBERBIT’s dedicated malware<br />
research expert team, who managed<br />
to conduct a detailed dynamic<br />
behavioral analysis of the Dridex<br />
malware, fully revealing its infection<br />
process and persistency mechanism.<br />
Part of Dridex’ robustness is<br />
attributed to its ability to constantly<br />
generate new variants for each attack,<br />
thus going undetected under<br />
AV engines. CYBERBIT’s malware<br />
research team, a group of specialists<br />
who analyze malwares and security<br />
threats in order to enrich CYBER-<br />
BIT’s analyses methods and algorithms,<br />
managed to reveal Dridex’<br />
persistency<br />
mechanism,<br />
which allows<br />
it to<br />
remain<br />
uncovered<br />
and undetected<br />
due to its<br />
unique mode of operation.<br />
Since its appearance<br />
in late 2014, Dridex<br />
has been one of the<br />
most notable malware<br />
threats, designed to<br />
steal personal banking<br />
information and credentials<br />
mostly from<br />
small and mediumsized<br />
organizations.<br />
Dridex malware attacks<br />
are said to be responsible<br />
for the theft of over $50 million,<br />
out of which $30 million was<br />
stolen from UK accounts alone.<br />
The criminal forces behind Dridex<br />
are believed to have links to similar<br />
cybercrime gangs. CYBERBIT suspects<br />
that such criminal organizations<br />
experience from previous activities<br />
are those that allow Dridex<br />
authors and affiliates to keep their<br />
infrastructure alive and to stay active<br />
and dangerous.<br />
CYBERBIT will present and<br />
demonstrate its detection of<br />
advanced threats capabilities at<br />
the CYBERTECH 2016 Exhibition<br />
(booth F), January 26-27, 2016<br />
at the Israel Trade Fair and<br />
Convention Center.<br />
CYBERBIT’s products collect<br />
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and analyze information in greater<br />
depth and context over time and<br />
space and provide ad-hoc forensics<br />
and response capabilities, for both<br />
IT and SCADA networks, while<br />
assuring minimum time for mitigation,<br />
remediation and response.<br />
CYBERBIT’s technology is developed<br />
by skilled, updated and competent<br />
personnel, and it supplies<br />
live hands-on training that keeps its<br />
customers efficient and savvy.<br />
Security threats in the 21st century<br />
are more complex, more sophisticated,<br />
and stealthier than<br />
ever – with an estimated 70%-90%<br />
of malwares, which are unique to a<br />
specific targeted organization, managing<br />
to bypass traditional security<br />
tools.
Enterprises just can’t afford to<br />
keep using technologies and methods<br />
that don’t work. CYBERBIT understands<br />
that in order to detect and<br />
respond quickly and efficiently to<br />
advanced unknown threats, organizational<br />
security has to be changed.<br />
Detection and response cycles must<br />
become optimal and short, leveraging<br />
granular information pieces as<br />
well as past knowledge, automating<br />
processes and capabilities, and allowing<br />
the organization to be agile,<br />
alert and prompt. CYBERBIT’s solutions<br />
aim to empower its customers<br />
by providing them with a different<br />
level of detection, response,<br />
forensics and mitigation capabilities<br />
and allowing them to operate rapidly,<br />
efficiently and accurately.<br />
About Elbit Systems<br />
Elbit Systems Ltd. Is an international<br />
high technology company engaged<br />
in a wide range of defense, homeland<br />
security and commercial programs<br />
throughout the world. The<br />
Company, which includes Elbit Systems<br />
and its subsidiaries, operates<br />
in the areas of aerospace, land and<br />
naval systems, command, control,<br />
communications, computers, intelligence<br />
surveillance and reconnaissance<br />
(“C4ISR”), unmanned aircraft<br />
systems, advanced electro-optics,<br />
electro-optic space systems, EW<br />
suites, signal intelligence systems,<br />
data links and communications systems,<br />
radios and cyber-based systems.<br />
The Company also focuses on<br />
the upgrading of existing platforms,<br />
developing new technologies for defense,<br />
homeland security and commercial<br />
applications and providing<br />
a range of support services, including<br />
training and simulation systems.<br />
For additional information, visit:<br />
www.elbitsystems.com, follow us on<br />
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U.S./Canadian governments announce phosphorus<br />
reduction targets of 40% to improve Lake Erie water<br />
quality and reduce public health risk<br />
WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental<br />
Protection Agency Administrator<br />
Gina McCarthy and Canada’s<br />
Environment and Climate Change<br />
Minister Catherine McKenna have<br />
announced that Canada and the<br />
U.S. have adopted targets to reduce<br />
phosphorus entering affected areas<br />
of Lake Erie by 40 percent. The<br />
targets announced today will minimize<br />
the extent of low oxygen “dead<br />
zones” in the central basin of Lake<br />
Erie; maintain algae growth at a<br />
level consistent with healthy aquatic<br />
ecosystems; and maintain algae biomass<br />
at levels that do not produce<br />
toxins that pose a threat to human<br />
or ecosystem health.<br />
Through the Great Lakes Water<br />
Quality Agreement, Canada and the<br />
United States committed in 2012 to<br />
combat the growing threat of toxic<br />
and nuisance algae development in<br />
Lake Erie, and agreed to develop updated<br />
binational phosphorus reduction<br />
targets for Lake Erie by <strong>February</strong><br />
2016. The 40 percent reduction<br />
targets are based on 2008 loading<br />
levels. Canada and the United States<br />
have committed to develop domestic<br />
action plans, by no later than<br />
<strong>February</strong> 2018, to help meet the<br />
new targets.<br />
“To protect public health, we must<br />
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restore the Great Lakes for all those<br />
who depend on them,” said Gina<br />
McCarthy, Administrator, United<br />
States Environmental Protection<br />
Agency. “The first step in our urgent<br />
work together to protect Lake<br />
Erie from toxic algae, harmful algal<br />
blooms, and other effects of nutrient<br />
runoff, is to establish these important<br />
phosphorus limits. But, establishing<br />
these targets is not the end<br />
of our work together. We are already<br />
taking action to meet them.”<br />
The Honourable Catherine McKenna,<br />
Minister of Environment<br />
and Climate Change said, “Canada<br />
recognizes the urgency and magnitude<br />
of the threat to Lake Erie water<br />
quality and ecosystem health posed<br />
by toxic and nuisance algal blooms.<br />
By establishing these targets, we<br />
strengthen our resolve to work with<br />
our American neighbours, and Canadian<br />
and U.S. stakeholders who<br />
share these waters, to protect the<br />
tremendous natural resource that is<br />
Lake Erie.”<br />
Algae occur naturally in freshwater<br />
systems. They are essential to the<br />
aquatic food web and healthy ecosystems.<br />
However, too much algae,<br />
linked to high amounts of phosphorus,<br />
can lead to conditions that can
harm human health and the environment.<br />
Since the 1990s, Lake Erie<br />
has seen an increase in algal growth<br />
that has compromised water quality<br />
and threatens the Lake Erie region’s<br />
recreation-intensive economy. The<br />
targets were developed after extensive<br />
public input from a diversity of<br />
sectors.<br />
Quick Facts<br />
• The 2015 harmful algal bloom in<br />
Lake Erie was recorded as the largest<br />
bloom this century.<br />
• Modeling experts from the United<br />
States and Canada used nine different<br />
computer simulation models<br />
to correlate changes<br />
in phosphorus levels<br />
with levels of algal<br />
growth in order to<br />
determine phosphorus<br />
load reduction<br />
targets.<br />
• A binational public consultation<br />
process was held between June 30<br />
and August 31, 2015. Final targets<br />
were established following widespread<br />
support for the draft targets<br />
and the target setting process.<br />
• More than 40 Canadian and<br />
American experts formed a binational<br />
team under the leadership of<br />
Environment and Climate Change<br />
Canada and the United<br />
States Environmental<br />
Protection Agency to<br />
develop the targets.<br />
• In Canada, more<br />
than 50 individuals,<br />
groups and agencies representing<br />
Agricultural and other<br />
non-government organizations,<br />
Conservation Authorities, municipal<br />
governments, Ontario government<br />
agencies, First Nations, and<br />
Universities commented on the<br />
draft targets through an on-line tool<br />
and face-to-face discussions.<br />
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Join the hundreds of national and international security<br />
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Airport and Aviation Security, Maritime/Port Security,<br />
Border Security and Immigration.<br />
Important Dates:<br />
March 14 – Program opens for entries<br />
May 3 – Program closes for entries<br />
May 9 – Finalists Announced<br />
May 16 – Awards Dinner, Washington DC<br />
Past Awards Dinner Speakers have included Fran Townsend,<br />
who was Advisor to President George W. Bush after 9/11,<br />
Four Star General Barry McCaffrey (RET), the highly decorated<br />
General who also served as U.S. Drug Czar, and Coast Guard<br />
Admiral Thad Allen, who came out of retirement twice to serve<br />
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Convy on Netcentric Security<br />
The emergence of SMR technology<br />
drastically reduces cost of massive<br />
data storage<br />
By John Convy, Convy Associates, Washington, DC<br />
Analysts predict that the world will<br />
absorb somewhere between 20 and<br />
30 billion connected devices within<br />
the next five years. This rapid trend<br />
towards greater connectivity is also<br />
driving up demand for large volume<br />
data storage capacity.<br />
This is true in both government<br />
and commercial sectors, and as agencies<br />
and companies become more<br />
mobile-dependent, the demand for<br />
more and better information retention<br />
and protection will continue to<br />
increase.<br />
Vendors in the storage space have<br />
scrambled to meet the needs of enterprises<br />
for high capacity storage in<br />
a world brimming with near infinite<br />
digital creation and consumption.<br />
There are many viable options on<br />
the market for deep data storage and<br />
protection but, since most of these<br />
are designed for the large-scale,<br />
high-technology environments of<br />
modern organizations, costs can be<br />
prohibitive for some. The cost versus<br />
capability challenge is one that<br />
the government sector knows all too<br />
well.<br />
The Most Affordable Large Scale<br />
<strong>Digital</strong> Preservation<br />
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I recently had the privilege of collaborating<br />
on an industry presentation<br />
with Ray Heineman, Senior Vice<br />
President, Business Development,<br />
Video Security and Surveillance<br />
Products for Spectra Logic, based in<br />
Boulder, Colorado. I was intrigued<br />
by his company’s approach to efficient,<br />
yet affordable storage solutions,<br />
designed to meet the evolving<br />
needs of an increasingly connected<br />
world, and particularly how Spectra<br />
Logic’s technology can be useful in<br />
government security.<br />
Many agencies are following along<br />
the curve of global connectivity. As<br />
they expand their security and surveillance<br />
networking systems and<br />
bring on new devices that create digital<br />
information – each with its own<br />
software and management applications<br />
– they end up with multiple silos<br />
of systems within a diverse infrastructure.<br />
Each system tends to have<br />
its own retention scheme, which is<br />
not necessarily shared across applications<br />
or networks. This generates<br />
a tricky information retention challenge.<br />
Heineman’s colleagues at Spectra<br />
Logic describe themselves as Deep<br />
Storage Experts, and as such, are<br />
committed to addressing the expectations<br />
of the data protection market<br />
with intelligent, integrated, and<br />
easy-to-use backup and archive technologies.<br />
The company recently announced<br />
a new product, Verde DPE,<br />
a disk-based, networked attached<br />
storage solution, which means it is<br />
file-based instead of block-based.<br />
The designers have applied cuttingedge<br />
Shingled Magnetic Recording<br />
(SMR) technology as a way to increase<br />
storage density and overall<br />
per-drive storage capacity.<br />
In the early days of hard disk recording,<br />
information was formatted<br />
in longitudinal files. As technology<br />
changed, the files were flipped vertically,<br />
creating Perpendicular Magnetic<br />
Recording (PMR), and thus<br />
increasing capacity.<br />
“The SMR technology we are now<br />
utilizing exploits the capability of
PMR even further, by ‘shingling’ the<br />
data. Overlapping shingles eliminate<br />
the wasted space of a PMR drive<br />
and increase capacity by 25 percent,”<br />
Heineman explained.<br />
“This technology allows disk companies<br />
to turn a six terabyte drive into<br />
an eight terabyte drive with fewer<br />
parts and lower cost to produce and<br />
manufacture, effectively affording us<br />
the ability to offer greater capacity<br />
for about half the cost of comparable<br />
industry solutions,” he added.<br />
In terms of overall cost effectiveness,<br />
Spectra Logic’s offering is one<br />
the best in the business, I believe.<br />
Their marketing materials mention a<br />
cost as low as nine cents per gigabyte<br />
on an 800 terabyte expansion node.<br />
This should be welcome news for<br />
agencies that need large amounts of<br />
instantly accessible storage at an affordable<br />
price – maybe not as low as<br />
the cost of tape storage, but faster to<br />
access.<br />
Typical Use Cases<br />
Law enforcement, for example, can<br />
benefit from the SMR technology<br />
and lower storage costs.<br />
When you think about the workflow<br />
of a law enforcement agency,<br />
you realize there is a lot of information<br />
being created that must be retained.<br />
Officers may be dealing with<br />
a case management system, an evidence<br />
management system, and a records<br />
management system. And, as<br />
Heineman pointed out to me, even<br />
computer-aided dispatch is a source<br />
of data and digital information, since<br />
many two-way radios used by law<br />
enforcement are now digital transmissions,<br />
rather than traditional analog<br />
radio signals.<br />
Also within the scope of government<br />
are critical surveillance and<br />
video management systems – most<br />
notably, systems employed to secure<br />
the power grid and critical infrastructure.<br />
For regulatory compliance, organizations<br />
must also consider the<br />
requirements for retaining key data<br />
for a specified period of time. In the<br />
state of Texas, independent and charter<br />
school districts are now required<br />
to save video from schools with children<br />
in special education programs.<br />
Heineman said that one of the school<br />
districts he is working with has a requirement<br />
for four petabytes of storage<br />
for each of their schools. That<br />
amount of storage may sound like a<br />
scary number for some, but it is the<br />
hard reality in today’s marketplace.<br />
The way in which various users interact<br />
with large volumes of data is<br />
fluid and variable. If the data is active<br />
– meaning people are accessing the<br />
files and editing or adding to the data<br />
– there is a huge demand for bandwidth.<br />
However, as the information<br />
gets older and is not being touched<br />
every day, it can be transitioned to an<br />
archive storage system. These varied<br />
13<br />
needs demand massively scalable solutions<br />
that are available and reliable.<br />
Spectra Logic deploys open platform<br />
file storage systems with a<br />
high-end Unix-type OS, which<br />
makes them high-performance,<br />
high-value solutions with low latency<br />
and high reliability. They also<br />
offer configurability and customization<br />
through the use of expansion<br />
nodes and varying drive capacity<br />
options. While they certainly are not<br />
the only deep storage option on the<br />
market, they currently appear to be<br />
one of the most cost-effective and a<br />
good choice for government use.<br />
Seagate has also rolled out SMR offerings,<br />
and as this technology continues<br />
to evolve, I predict we will see<br />
acquisition costs come down further.<br />
As other players in the enterprise<br />
storage industry begin to implement<br />
and perfect SMR technology, it will<br />
become even more accessible across<br />
a broader market.<br />
John Convy and Convy Associates<br />
provide strategic alliance, A&E consultant,<br />
technology ecosystem, and<br />
lead generation programs to monetize<br />
relationships and accelerate demand<br />
for leading security industry manufacturers.<br />
John is the Founder and<br />
Managing Director of the Open Standards<br />
Security Alliance and the IP<br />
Security Academy, and a speaker at<br />
many global industry events. Email:<br />
John@ConvyAssociates.com
Oregon Senator Merkley lauds efforts of Newport<br />
Fisherman’s Wives and other Oregonians for<br />
helping to keep Newport Coast Guard Station on<br />
Oregon coast.<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
The U.S. Coast Guard helicopter facility in Newport<br />
has helped save many lives over the years.<br />
Recently, we took a big step forward to ensure that<br />
this invaluable resource is ready to assist when the<br />
distress call comes. A provision in the Coast Guard<br />
Authorization Act of 2015 that passed the Senate in<br />
December and is now on its way to the President’s<br />
desk to be signed into law will keep the Newport<br />
Coast Guard facility open for at least two more years,<br />
and make it much more difficult for East Coast bureaucrats<br />
to close it thereafter.<br />
Since 2014 when news came out that the Coast<br />
Guard wanted to remove air rescue from the Newport<br />
Coast Guard station, I and so many others in Oregon<br />
– including the Newport Fishermen’s Wives – have<br />
been fighting to keep the helicopter to make sure Oregonians<br />
and visitors are safe.<br />
Learn more about my work to save the helo:<br />
Merkley.senate.gov<br />
Newport is home to Oregon’s largest grossing commercial<br />
fishing fleet, a deep draft port, numerous<br />
science and research vessels from Oregon State University,<br />
and a robust recreational and sport fishing industry<br />
that is critical to the local economy.<br />
Losing the Newport Coast Guard helicopter would<br />
Photo from visit to the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station at Newport<br />
put lives at risk all along the Oregon coast. In the cold<br />
waters off our shores, people in harm’s way don’t have<br />
the luxury of waiting an hour or more for rescue.<br />
It’s crucial that we are keeping this lifesaving facility<br />
operating on Oregon’s central coast.<br />
I’ll keep fighting to ensure Oregon’s coastal communities<br />
always have the resources they need and so we<br />
never have to worry about this crucial facility closing<br />
again.<br />
All my best,<br />
Jeff Merkley<br />
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Former Mexican President says country<br />
not paying for a stupid, useless wall!<br />
By Wendy Feliz<br />
For the past several months, GOP<br />
presidential candidate Donald<br />
Trump has taken a harsh stance<br />
on immigration, stating more than<br />
once that he would finish the wall<br />
between the U.S. and Mexico and<br />
ensure that Mexico pays for it.<br />
For the first time, according<br />
to NBC News, a Mexican official<br />
has pushed back. Over the<br />
weekend, at a business summit<br />
in Egypt, former Mexican President<br />
Felipe Calderon (2006-<br />
2012) said, “We are not going<br />
to pay any single cent for such a<br />
stupid wall! And it’s going to be<br />
completely useless.”<br />
Calderon noted the drop in net<br />
migration from Mexico, which<br />
according to the Pew Research<br />
Center has been on the decline for<br />
years. The number of Mexicans<br />
coming to the United States each<br />
year is now lower than the number<br />
leaving. However, the other critical<br />
point Calderon made was that sealing<br />
yourself off from one of your<br />
largest trading partners is bad for<br />
business. Calderon said:<br />
“The first loser of such a policy<br />
would be the United States. If this<br />
guy pretends that closing the borders<br />
to anywhere either for trade<br />
[or] for people is going to provide<br />
prosperity to the United States, he is<br />
completely crazy.”<br />
Calderon makes an important<br />
point. Mexico is the United States’<br />
third largest trading partner, after<br />
Canada and China, in terms of total<br />
trade in goods, while the U.S. is<br />
Mexico’s largest trading partner. It<br />
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon<br />
seems a bad policy position coming<br />
from Trump, who prides himself on<br />
his business acumen.<br />
Related Content: The Important Economic<br />
Relationship of Mexico and<br />
the United States<br />
Consider this. In calendar year 2011,<br />
the two nations had a total trade in<br />
goods of $460.6 billion and, in 2012,<br />
the total amount of goods traded<br />
was $494 billion. Combined, trade in<br />
goods and services between Mexico<br />
and the United States totaled more<br />
15<br />
than $500 billion in 2011. And in<br />
2012, that number was up to $535.9<br />
billion. As such, six million American<br />
jobs depend upon the U.S. trade<br />
relationship with Mexico. Also in<br />
2012, in terms of imports, Mexico<br />
was the United States third largest<br />
supplier of goods, with the U.S. receiving<br />
$277.7 billion worth of<br />
goods from Mexico.<br />
Rather than building a wall,<br />
perhaps the billionaire businessman<br />
should focus on policies<br />
that improve the flow of trade<br />
between the two countries by<br />
devising plans to upgrade the 47<br />
land ports of entry which facilitate<br />
hundreds of billions of dollars<br />
in U.S.-Mexico trade every<br />
year. Things like improved infrastructure<br />
at the land ports of entry<br />
along the southern border, including<br />
additional traffic lanes and<br />
processing personnel, would allow<br />
more efficient and secure trade and<br />
border crossing. These improvements<br />
translate into direct economic<br />
benefits to border communities<br />
and states.<br />
Sensible and practical policies that<br />
ensure security, but also improve<br />
trade, may not make for exciting<br />
political slogans or talking points.<br />
They’re just good for the economy.<br />
Photo by José Daniel Ojeda Rojas
Indiana using license plate campaign<br />
to discourage distracted drivers<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
Beginning at the start of the year,<br />
the state of Indiana unveiled a new<br />
campaign to discourage people<br />
from driving while distracted.<br />
State officials are partnering with<br />
the Indiana Motor Truck Association<br />
to keep people<br />
from using their<br />
phones while they’re<br />
behind the wheel.<br />
They’re hopeful to<br />
catch the drivers’ attention<br />
with a new<br />
specialty license plate<br />
as well as use the proceeds<br />
from the plate<br />
to further the association’s<br />
educational<br />
initiatives.<br />
“The Indiana Motor<br />
Truck Association<br />
exists to represent<br />
and promote highway safety for<br />
not only the trucking industry but<br />
for all drivers,” said Gary Langston,<br />
president of the IMTA. “Our industry<br />
has come to witness firsthand<br />
the dire consequences of distracted<br />
driving — and so have decided to<br />
confront it by selling a plate that<br />
alerts others of this issue and funds<br />
programs that help keep Indiana<br />
drivers safe on the road.”<br />
The license plate reads put “Put<br />
the Phone Down” and is available<br />
for purchase at any state Bureau of<br />
Motor Vehicle. It can be registered<br />
to any passenger car, motorcycle,<br />
recreational vehicle or truck under<br />
11,000 pounds. Of the $40 fee, the<br />
association receives $25 toward the<br />
IMTA’s educational efforts.<br />
One of the programs the IMTA<br />
employs is the “Save a Life” tour,<br />
which is a multimedia event that<br />
includes driving simulators, an intense<br />
video and educational presentations.<br />
The tour has visited more<br />
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than 1,500 colleges, 600 high schools<br />
and 150 military installations.<br />
The IMTA isn’t the only organization<br />
that’s been seeking to reduce<br />
the number of accidents tied to texting<br />
and driving. Four years ago, Attorney<br />
General Greg Zoeller created<br />
a partnership with AT&T to raise<br />
awareness of the issue.<br />
“The rise of technology<br />
continues to<br />
present new dangers,<br />
particular to young<br />
people,” Zoeller said.<br />
“With this new license<br />
plate and the<br />
continued education<br />
and awareness efforts<br />
conducted by the Indiana<br />
Motor Truck<br />
Association, I grow<br />
more confident that<br />
drivers, young and<br />
old, will be safer on Indiana’s roads.”<br />
Studies indicate distracted drivers<br />
cause nearly 80 percent of all automobile<br />
accidents. That not only includes<br />
drivers who text, but drivers<br />
under the influence of alcohol or illegal<br />
substances.<br />
In many cases, those accidents<br />
turn tragic. In Indiana alone, nearly
800 people die each year in accidents<br />
on Hoosier roads. Doug Carter, the<br />
superintendent for the Indiana State<br />
Police says that accidents caused by<br />
distracted drivers are the most preventable.<br />
“We’re proud to support the IM-<br />
TA’s ongoing efforts, and we’ll continue<br />
doing our part to keep Hoosiers<br />
safe on Indiana roads and<br />
highways,” he added.<br />
Officials hope the message especially<br />
catches on with younger drivers,<br />
as they are both the newest on<br />
the streets and the ones most likely<br />
to use their cell phones or other<br />
smart devices while behind the<br />
wheel.<br />
“To ensure the current and future<br />
safety of all Hoosier motorists, we<br />
must educate our younger drivers<br />
about the real dangers of driving<br />
while distracted,” BMV Commissioner<br />
Kent Abernathy said. “This<br />
program goes a long way toward accomplishing<br />
this goal, and the Indiana<br />
BMV is wholly supportive.”<br />
Besides the Attorney General’s office,<br />
the BMV and the state police,<br />
other state agencies participating in<br />
the campaign include the Department<br />
of Revenue and the Department<br />
of Transportation.<br />
For additional information visit<br />
http://www.intrucking.org/licenseplate.<br />
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Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection<br />
Québec’s Jean-Lesage International Airpo<br />
JANUARY 8, 2016 – Its first hangers<br />
were constructed by the Royal Canadian<br />
Aviation Corps in 1941, it was<br />
taken over by the Ministry of Transportation<br />
from National Defense in<br />
1945, and it was privatized on November<br />
1, 2000. Today the Québec<br />
Jean-Lesage International Airport is<br />
the 12th largest in Canada, serving<br />
Canada, the United States, the Caribbean<br />
and South American, with<br />
seasonal flights to Europe.<br />
In a comprehensive presentation<br />
and tour of the airport by David<br />
Robin, Manager Security and Safety,<br />
and Christian Labrosse, Director<br />
Security and Operational Control<br />
Center, a group of security industry<br />
journalists from the U.S. and Canada<br />
learned of preparations for another<br />
dramatic step forward in the<br />
evolution of the 12th largest airport<br />
in Canada.<br />
The event was hosted by Genetec<br />
Inc. of Montréal and its CEO Pierre<br />
Racz as part of the company’s annual<br />
Press Summit. Genetec is a provider<br />
of IP security solutions that<br />
pioneered the first-ever IP video<br />
management software and is today<br />
a global provider of IP video<br />
surveillance, access control and<br />
automatic license plate recognition<br />
(ALPR) in a unified platform<br />
called Security Center, now in<br />
use by the Aéroport International<br />
Jean-Lesage de Québec.<br />
In 2015 the airport welcomed 1.6<br />
million passengers, a figure that<br />
is expected to grow to 2-million<br />
passengers by 2018. All revenues<br />
from the airport are dedicated<br />
to growth, and with a construction<br />
budget of $277-million, terminal<br />
expansion is projected to<br />
double from 270,000 square feet<br />
to 540,000 square feet. The planning<br />
also includes a lot of smaller<br />
projects that are not visible to visitors<br />
and passengers but accommodate<br />
airport parking and internal<br />
needs, said Robin, who added that<br />
the goals are to develop efficient and<br />
safe facilities for the airport’s anticipated<br />
growth.<br />
The Airport’s development path<br />
also includes U.S. pre-clearance, according<br />
to Christian Labrosse, following<br />
a visit on April 29, 2015 to<br />
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the Airport by officials from the U.S.<br />
Department of Homeland Security.<br />
The benefits from this update include<br />
ending the need for aircrafts<br />
to be moved from international to<br />
domestic gates and new terminals<br />
as well as plans for additional connections<br />
with Europe in the next 5<br />
or 10 years.<br />
Canadian airports must deal<br />
with multiple entities, according to<br />
Labrosse. These include Transport
t prepares for dramatic two-year growth<br />
Canada, the Airport Authority and<br />
CATSA (Canadian Air Transport<br />
Security Authority), which is the<br />
Canadian equivalent of the TSA in<br />
the United States. CATSA makes<br />
extensive background checks on<br />
all employees and service providers<br />
that interact on the property at<br />
Jean-Lesage Airport. Hence the airport<br />
uses biometrics and ID cards<br />
provided by HID to manage access<br />
to restricted areas.<br />
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The Airport Authority is responsible<br />
for the public side, while the<br />
airport side is completely restricted<br />
to the public and only open to aircraft<br />
and authorized vehicles. Security<br />
for the airport is handled by<br />
the private company Garda, which<br />
is responsible for guard personnel,<br />
patrol officers and terminal officers.<br />
Duties of the airport terminal officers<br />
include; identity checks, access<br />
control, incident and alarms<br />
response, crowd control, emergency<br />
response and evacuation, international<br />
arrivers, behavior observation<br />
and threat alert and terminal<br />
patrols. Patrol officers are generally<br />
more experienced experts on security<br />
procedures who patrol the land<br />
side and airline side and can give<br />
tickets. A special driver’s permit is<br />
required for access to the airport<br />
apron, which feeds the taxi-ways for<br />
aircraft. Patrol officers also provide<br />
checks on vehicles, access control,<br />
alarm systems emergency protocols,<br />
incident reports and unusual behavior.<br />
For their part, Surveillance and<br />
Dispatch officers in the operations<br />
control center (OCC) deal with<br />
communication dispatches, information<br />
gathering, cameras and access<br />
control investigations, information<br />
reports and incident reports.<br />
There are about 2,500 people in<br />
all who work for --or provide services<br />
in the airport, and must have<br />
federal and local clearance to access<br />
secured areas of the terminal. Approximately<br />
260 cameras are presently<br />
deployed, but this number will<br />
doubled in the next years.<br />
Access control systems and video<br />
management systems (VMS) are<br />
integrated through the Genetec<br />
Security Center to ensure that all<br />
passengers and staff accessing the<br />
airport are secure and validated for<br />
the appropriate level of access, monitored<br />
by cameras that can zoom<br />
in to get details from long-range<br />
cameras and new high-definition<br />
(HD) cameras on curb-side that
Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection<br />
can clearly identify license plates.<br />
AXIS Communications and Panasonic<br />
have provided fixed and PTZ<br />
cameras, and the airport has plans<br />
to have all IP cameras when the new<br />
expansion is completed in 2018.<br />
Additional cameras and video<br />
surveillance/access control are managed<br />
by the Canadian Air Transport<br />
Security Authority (CATSA), a Federal<br />
Canadian organization based in<br />
Ottawa, ON.<br />
During a walking tour of the airport,<br />
Messrs. Robin and Labrosse<br />
included a visit to the new baggage<br />
management facility under the terminal,<br />
and its<br />
first in North<br />
America<br />
direct coded<br />
vehicle<br />
technology,<br />
which can<br />
track a bag<br />
anywhere so<br />
that no bags<br />
are lost as they go through the various<br />
levels of threat detection. If the<br />
threat is serious, the next stop is the<br />
Emergency Control Center operated<br />
by the Duty Manager, who calls<br />
in the police if necessary.<br />
In special baggage transportation<br />
technology from Provectus Robotics<br />
solutions (PRS), a Canadian robotics<br />
company, suspicious bags are<br />
automatically evacuated to the other<br />
end of the airport for police investigation.<br />
Prior to this technology’s<br />
deployment, the entire airport had<br />
to be evacuated while waiting hours<br />
for police to arrive. With the help of<br />
a radio-guided vehicle, suspicious<br />
bags can now be safely and immediately<br />
removed from the airport and<br />
no evacuations of passengers or airport<br />
staff are necessary.<br />
Will the Jean-Lesage de Quebec<br />
International Airport meet its goal<br />
of 2-million passengers by 2018?<br />
The answer is not yet known of<br />
course, but the Airport has continued<br />
to grow and evolve its unified<br />
security and operations with the<br />
Genetec Security Center over the<br />
past ten years. Combine that with<br />
a security team in charge of day-today<br />
security operations that must<br />
constantly scale to meet the needs<br />
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of expanding access control and increasing<br />
video surveillance cameras,<br />
and it starts to look very much like<br />
a prospect that we wouldn’t want to<br />
bet against.<br />
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Rapiscan MP100 Backpack radiation<br />
detection system allows detection of<br />
radioactive materials<br />
FEBRUARY 10, 2016, Rapiscan<br />
Systems, a leading global supplier<br />
of security inspection systems, today<br />
announced the expansion of its<br />
radiation detection product line to<br />
include the Rapiscan MP100 Backpack<br />
radiation detection system.<br />
The MP100 is a lightweight, high<br />
performance<br />
solution that<br />
can detect radiological<br />
and<br />
nuclear materials<br />
and is<br />
housed within<br />
a compact<br />
commercial<br />
backpack,<br />
making it ideal for covert radiation<br />
inspection.<br />
President Obama has cited the<br />
danger of a terrorist acquiring nuclear<br />
weapons as “the most immediate<br />
and extreme threat to global<br />
security,” and U.S. Customs and<br />
Border Protection has indicated<br />
that “nuclear and radiological materials<br />
are of particular concern<br />
because of their potential to harm<br />
large numbers of people and disrupt<br />
the U.S. economy.” In fact, over the<br />
last two decades more than 2,500<br />
incidents of trafficking radioactive<br />
material have been reported to the<br />
International Atomic Energy Agency<br />
(IAEA) by member states.<br />
The MP100 Backpack radiation<br />
detection system is designed for<br />
ease of operation<br />
and<br />
makes radiation<br />
detection<br />
as easy as simply<br />
walking<br />
around. It includes<br />
a long<br />
battery life<br />
that supports<br />
extended deployment, as well as the<br />
following additional features:<br />
• Gamma and optional neutron<br />
radiation detection. The MP100’s<br />
PVT gamma radiation detectors<br />
detect gamma radiation emitted<br />
by medical and industrial isotopes,<br />
which can be used in a dirty bomb.<br />
They also detect Special Nuclear<br />
Materials, such as uranium and<br />
plutonium, which are needed for<br />
a nuclear weapon. The addition of<br />
optional Boron-10 neutron radiation<br />
detectors enables the MP100<br />
to detect Special Nuclear Materials<br />
that are shielded, such as in a dense<br />
metal container.<br />
• Meets U.S. and international<br />
standards. The radiation detection<br />
performance of the MP100 meets<br />
the requirements of U.S. and international<br />
standards for backpack radiation<br />
monitors. The U.S. standard,<br />
ANSI N42.53, and its international<br />
equivalent, IEC 62694, address<br />
homeland security concerns and illicit<br />
trafficking inspection applications.<br />
• Integrates with Android mobile<br />
devices. The MP100 can be operated<br />
as a standalone radiation monitor<br />
with alarms signaled audibly in the<br />
operator’s earpiece. Alternatively,<br />
the MP100 can connect wirelessly<br />
to a mobile Android device, such as<br />
a smartphone or tablet, running the<br />
free Rapiscan RadViewer app. With<br />
its intuitive graphical user interface,<br />
Rapiscan’s RadViewer presents a<br />
wealth of information about radiation<br />
measurements and alarms and<br />
helps direct the operator to a radiation<br />
source.<br />
“Today’s terrorists don’t need<br />
special nuclear materials, such as<br />
uranium and plutonium, to create<br />
chaos. A small quantity of radioactive<br />
material that is routinely and<br />
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SecuGen Unveils Ultra-Low Cost<br />
Hamster Pro Fingerprint Reader and<br />
UPx OEM Sensor at RSA Conference 2016<br />
print readers include PIV and FAP<br />
20 certified models and now includes<br />
the Hamster Pro for circumstances<br />
where PIV certification is<br />
not required but a low cost option is<br />
mandatory. SecuGen’s product line<br />
also includes dual mode products<br />
that combine contact and contactless<br />
smartcard readers together with<br />
SecuGen’s rugged and accurate fingerprint<br />
sensors.<br />
The Hamster Pro fingerprint<br />
reader and the companion UPx<br />
OEM sensor will both be released in<br />
March of this year and will be compatible<br />
with SecuGen’s software development<br />
kits for Windows, Linux,<br />
and Android.<br />
VP of Engineering Dan Riley stated,<br />
“The SecuGen engineering team<br />
keeps coming up with new ways to<br />
reduce costs. The Hamster Pro fingerprint<br />
reader and UPx sensor are<br />
remarkable in that they combine the<br />
ability to capture a high contrast,<br />
high quality image with rock bottom<br />
prices. These truly are amazing<br />
products!”<br />
Won Lee, CEO of SecuGen, said,<br />
“Our focus is always to deliver the<br />
high quality products and tools that<br />
SANTA CLARA, CA, <strong>February</strong> 15<br />
- SecuGen, a world leading optical<br />
fingerprint device and technology<br />
vendor, is pleased to announce that<br />
they will be unveiling a new, lower<br />
cost fingerprint reader, the Hamster<br />
Pro, at the RSA Conference 2016 in<br />
San Francisco’s Moscone Center.<br />
Developers are invited to come<br />
by SecuGen’s booth, number 4615<br />
in the North Hall of Moscone Center<br />
in San Francisco to see a demonstration<br />
of the new, low cost fingerprint<br />
reader and accompanying<br />
OEM sensor.<br />
The Hamster Pro is a compact, accurate,<br />
and robust fingerprint reader,<br />
being offered at an incredibly<br />
low price. SecuGen is well known<br />
around the world and throughout<br />
the biometrics industry for providing<br />
high quality fingerprint products<br />
at prices suitable for large<br />
deployments. The Hamster Pro is<br />
SecuGen’s lowest price fingerprint<br />
reader to date.<br />
The UPx is the OEM version of<br />
the same product. The UPx is compact<br />
for easy integration and very<br />
low priced for large deployments.<br />
SecuGen’s complete line of fingerour<br />
reseller partners require. Our<br />
engineering team had done it again<br />
with the UPx sensor and the Hamster<br />
Pro. These are exactly the products<br />
that our partners have been<br />
asking for.”<br />
About SecuGen<br />
SecuGen Corporation (www.secugen.com)<br />
is the world’s leading<br />
provider of advanced, optical fingerprint<br />
recognition technology,<br />
products, tools and platforms for<br />
physical and information security.<br />
SecuGen designs and develops<br />
FBI-certified fingerprint readers<br />
and OEM components, developer<br />
kits and software, including NIST/<br />
MINEX-compliant algorithms.<br />
Known for high quality, ruggedness,<br />
and performance in a wide variety<br />
of applications and environmental<br />
conditions, SecuGen products are<br />
used by world-leading financial,<br />
medical, government, educational<br />
and corporate institutions and are<br />
sold through an extensive partner<br />
network of reseller partners including<br />
original equipment manufacturers,<br />
independent software vendors<br />
and system integrators around the<br />
world.<br />
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Rapiscan MP100 Backpack<br />
radiation detection system<br />
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safely employed in medical and industrial<br />
applications can cause significant<br />
radiation contamination<br />
to a wide area when<br />
part of a dirty bomb,”<br />
said Pak Chin, president<br />
of Rapiscan Systems.<br />
“The MP100<br />
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lightest and easiest to use systems<br />
available today.”<br />
The MP100 was designed for<br />
many different applications. Operators<br />
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areas where crowds have gathered<br />
for an event, such as stadiums or<br />
arenas; to detect radioactive material<br />
at mass transit stations and vehicle<br />
checkpoints; and to protect<br />
critical infrastructure and measure<br />
radiation around a facility, such as a<br />
nuclear power plant.<br />
About Rapiscan Systems<br />
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NTSB Chairman Hart to discuss Positive Train<br />
Control, transit safety at March SafeRail Congress<br />
The recent release of the National<br />
Transportation Safety Board’s<br />
(NTSB) annual Most Wanted List<br />
has once again shone a spotlight<br />
upon rail safety in the United States.<br />
The list, described as a ‘road map<br />
from lessons learned to lives saved’<br />
this year has a major focus on technology<br />
and its role in improving<br />
safety.<br />
The top ten includes several rail<br />
specific requests including<br />
a renewed push for the<br />
implementation of Positive<br />
Train Control (PTC),<br />
an improvement of rail<br />
transit safety oversight<br />
and changes to rail tank<br />
car management. These are all key<br />
themes at the upcoming SafeRail<br />
(incorporating the 6th annual PTC<br />
World Congress), coming to Washington<br />
on March 22-23 2016 where<br />
Christopher A. Hart, Chairman of<br />
the NTSB is lead speaker and will be<br />
discussing in further detail the key<br />
priorities for transit safety in the<br />
USA.<br />
As the NTSB Most Wanted list<br />
has shown, safety on US railroads<br />
remains a key concern for all stakeholders.<br />
Increasingly, operators are<br />
looking for whole-system reliability<br />
but to achieve this, key financial,<br />
strategic and technical challenges<br />
must be overcome. Whilst the extension<br />
of the PTC mandate gives<br />
operators breathing space on their<br />
deployment, it also offers more time<br />
to take advantage of rapidly evolving<br />
IT that provide and the extra opportunities<br />
this makes available.<br />
A unique blend of keynotes, masterclasses,<br />
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Logos Technology going for the gold as Brazilian<br />
officials pick its sensor for the Rio Olympics<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
This summer, the eyes of the world<br />
will descend upon Rio de Janeiro<br />
for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and<br />
an American company will have its<br />
eyes over the Brazilian city helping<br />
to protect the athletes, officials<br />
and spectators participating in the<br />
world’s biggest sporting event.<br />
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice<br />
will deploy four of Logos Technologies’<br />
Simera wide-area motion imagery<br />
systems to watch over sections<br />
of the city where competitions are<br />
taking place. Simera is a 40-pound<br />
system that can be attached to an<br />
aerostat, which is a blimp-like balloon<br />
that’s tethered to the ground.<br />
That gives the lightweight Simera<br />
rapid deployment capabilities, as security<br />
personnel can get a unit operational<br />
in just a couple of hours.<br />
“Until now, WAMI sensors have<br />
been used either to protect U.S.<br />
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan or<br />
have been tested for domestic law<br />
enforcement<br />
and border security,”<br />
says<br />
John Marion,<br />
president of Logos<br />
Technologies.<br />
“This will<br />
be the first time<br />
that this sophisticated<br />
technology has been exported<br />
abroad.”<br />
The Simera units will allow officials<br />
in the Brazilian Ministry of<br />
Justice to have a 360-degree view<br />
of key sites during the day, Marion<br />
added.<br />
Founded 20 years ago, Logos<br />
Technologies specializes in developing<br />
sensors, processing the images<br />
acquired from them and properly<br />
securing the large files – as well as<br />
providing training and support for<br />
the companies that use Logos products,<br />
like Brazil’s ALTAVE whose<br />
aerostats will keep the Simera units<br />
hovering 1,000-feet in the air.<br />
Marion has been working with the<br />
technology for about two decades.<br />
Initially, he was trying to find a way<br />
to produce images from sensors in<br />
weather balloons.<br />
“Then 9/11 happened,” said Marion,<br />
who holds a doctorate in materials<br />
science from the University of<br />
California-Berkeley.<br />
It’s then that he shifted his fo-<br />
30<br />
cus to security and defense issues.<br />
While working at the Lawrence<br />
Livermore National Laboratory, he<br />
led the effort to develop the first<br />
wide-area motion imagery system.<br />
That system, called Constant Hawk,<br />
eventually made its way to Iraq and<br />
Afghanistan. But the electro-optic<br />
sensor’s heft, coming in at 1,500<br />
pounds, required an airplane to carry<br />
it. Still, Constant Hawk helped<br />
the U.S. Army identify some of the<br />
biggest producers of improvised<br />
explosive devices in the war-torn<br />
countries.<br />
How that happens is an approach<br />
Marion called “find the bomb maker,<br />
find the bomb.” If, for example,<br />
an IED goes off in the field of view<br />
for a Logos sensor, one operator<br />
would continue observing the feed<br />
and observing developments in<br />
real-time. Another operator would<br />
take the captured footage and go<br />
back in time to identify the trigger<br />
man as well as anyone responsible<br />
for placing the device and tracking
their whereabouts before the explosion.<br />
“It’s really the way of finding the<br />
people who are doing the bad behavior,”<br />
said Marion.<br />
In Afghanistan, Constant Hawk<br />
worked with a unit that was trying<br />
to track 25 bomb makers who had<br />
attacked troops over a three-year<br />
period. In less than a year, the intelligence<br />
gathered from Constant<br />
Hawk allowed soldiers to take out<br />
20 of them from the battlefields,<br />
Marion added.<br />
Marion and his associates later<br />
took the technology from Constant<br />
Hawk and derived Kestrel, a significantly<br />
lighter sensor (approximately<br />
150 pounds) that added infrared<br />
sensing capabilities. That led into<br />
the development of Simera, and Logos<br />
researchers are also working on<br />
another lightweight sensor. At 35<br />
pounds, Redkite can be deployed on<br />
helicopters and drones. It’s already<br />
available on with an electro-optic<br />
sensor, and an infrared version is in<br />
the works.<br />
Besides, the Army, Logos is a subcontractor<br />
to such companies as<br />
CACI and Booz Allen Hamilton on<br />
contracts with the Department of<br />
Defense and Department of Homeland<br />
Security. However, Logos officials<br />
say the technology can be used<br />
not just to provide security at events<br />
or installations but it also can be<br />
used to monitor ports, railroads and<br />
logistics hubs and during disaster<br />
recovery missions.<br />
U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx<br />
recommends $3.5 Billion to expand<br />
access to transit jobs<br />
Continued from page 4<br />
Program is the federal government’s<br />
primary grant program for funding<br />
major transit capital investments<br />
that are locally planned, implemented<br />
and operated. It provides funding<br />
for investments such as new<br />
and expanded heavy rail, commuter<br />
rail, light rail, bus rapid transit and<br />
streetcar projects. The program includes<br />
funding for three categories<br />
of eligible projects, as defined by<br />
the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation<br />
(FAST) Act: New Starts,<br />
Small Starts and Core Capacity.<br />
Funding recommendations for<br />
Fiscal Year 2017 include:<br />
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• $1.4 billion for 10 New Starts<br />
projects already under construction<br />
in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San<br />
Jose, Denver, Orlando, Honolulu,<br />
Boston, Charlotte and Portland,<br />
with additional funds recommended<br />
to accelerate completion of these<br />
projects;<br />
• $950 million for seven New<br />
Starts projects not yet under construction<br />
in Los Angeles, San Diego,<br />
Santa Ana, National Capital Area in<br />
Maryland, Minneapolis, Fort Worth<br />
and Seattle;<br />
• $458 million for 10 Small Starts<br />
projects not yet under construction<br />
in Tempe, Sacramento, Fort Lauderdale,<br />
Jacksonville, Indianapolis,<br />
Grand Rapids, Kansas City (Missouri),<br />
Albuquerque, Everett and<br />
Seattle, Washington;<br />
• $599 million for four Core Capacity<br />
projects to improve capacity<br />
on existing, heavily used transit<br />
lines in the San Francisco Bay Area,<br />
Chicago, New York City and Dallas;<br />
and<br />
• $75 million for the Expedited<br />
Project Delivery for Capital Investment<br />
Grants Pilot Program — a<br />
new pilot program outlined in FAST<br />
that allows FTA to select up to eight<br />
projects seeking 25 percent or less in<br />
Federal funding and using a publicprivate<br />
partnership approach.<br />
FTA’s Annual Report on Funding<br />
Recommendations for the Fiscal<br />
Year 2017 CIG Program, including<br />
links to individual project profiles,<br />
is available on FTA’s website.<br />
In addition to the Fiscal Year<br />
2017 funding recommendations<br />
announced today, FTA also announced<br />
Fiscal Year 2016 apportionments<br />
and allocations, which<br />
include ongoing funding for existing<br />
CIG projects. The latest Apportionment<br />
Tables are now available<br />
on FTA’s website.
Campbell on Crypto<br />
Encryption Basics: Three Steps<br />
to Better Data Protection<br />
By Shawn Campbell<br />
In previous columns for Government<br />
Security News, I’ve said that<br />
security professionals need to accept<br />
the fact that security breaches<br />
will happen.<br />
Perimeter security isn’t sufficient<br />
for protecting your<br />
organization from<br />
breaches. For overall<br />
protection of sensitive<br />
data, you have to<br />
focus on safeguarding<br />
your data, not just<br />
your network. That<br />
means encryption.<br />
Encryption is the hot topic in cybersecurity.<br />
It’s at the core of many<br />
security tools we use for everyday<br />
transactions and communications.<br />
And because it protects data in<br />
motion and data at rest, it’s often<br />
thought to be the holy grail of data<br />
protection.<br />
During the encryption process,<br />
plaintext (data in its original format)<br />
is encrypted through an algorithm<br />
into unreadable ciphertext<br />
(the result of applying a cryptographic<br />
cipher to plaintext). The<br />
encryption process generates cryptographic<br />
keys that can be used to<br />
lock (encrypt) and unlock (decrypt)<br />
the ciphertext.<br />
Effectively protecting your data<br />
boils down to three steps, and at<br />
The growth of huge volumes of often-sensitive<br />
data transmitted across networks presents<br />
real risks ranging from malicious attacks to<br />
unintentional transmission errors.<br />
their core they all involve encryption:<br />
• Know your data. You have to<br />
know what you need to protect.<br />
• Protect your data. Once you’ve<br />
identified the data you need to protect,<br />
you have to encrypt the data to<br />
keep it safe.<br />
• Manage your protection. Encrypted<br />
data requires encryption<br />
keys to lock and unlock data, and<br />
you have to be sure your keys are all<br />
securely stored and managed.<br />
It’s important to remember that<br />
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encryption inherently applies protection<br />
to the data itself. Even if<br />
your perimeters are breached, your<br />
data is still protected. That should<br />
offer some relief in these days of<br />
more frequent network security<br />
breaches, and it underscores<br />
the reason<br />
you should extend<br />
your controls from<br />
protecting the perimeter<br />
to protecting<br />
the data.<br />
Now let’s take a<br />
closer look at each<br />
of the three steps for effective data<br />
encryption.<br />
Know your data<br />
First, you need to catalog the data<br />
you have, and determine its level of<br />
sensitivity. Then you must assess<br />
where it resides, and what protections<br />
are in place for the sensitive<br />
data. Some key questions to ask are:<br />
• Is it in a physically secure environment?<br />
• It is accessible only to people<br />
who need to see it?
• It is accessible if is it accidentally<br />
or deliberately released?<br />
As you catalog your data, start<br />
with your data centers on-premise<br />
and then move to your cloud and<br />
virtual environments. Examine data<br />
in storage, file servers, applications,<br />
databases, and even removable media.<br />
Don’t forget data that travels<br />
across your network. Remember,<br />
when data leaves your organization’s<br />
borders, you lose control of it.<br />
Protect your data<br />
The place to start here is data in<br />
motion. The availability of greater<br />
bandwidth has allowed us all to<br />
exchange information faster and<br />
more frequently. Unfortunately, the<br />
growth of huge volumes of oftensensitive<br />
data transmitted across<br />
networks presents real risks ranging<br />
from malicious attacks to unintentional<br />
transmission errors. Therefore<br />
sensitive data in motion—<br />
whether it’s moving across your<br />
network or traveling between your<br />
data centers—must be encrypted.<br />
There are two main types of network<br />
encryption for Ethernet networks:<br />
integrated or dedicated.<br />
Integrated encryption capability<br />
within routers is sometimes called<br />
‘onboard encryption’ or Layer 3 (Internet<br />
Protocol Security – IPSec)<br />
encryption. Dedicated encryption is<br />
hardware-based and is referred to as<br />
Layer 2 encryption.<br />
In general, dedicated encryption<br />
is the preferred way to protect data<br />
in motion. Compared to Layer 3<br />
(IPSec) encryption, Layer 2 networks<br />
can be secured and encrypted<br />
with dedicated appliances without<br />
any loss of speed and performance,<br />
minimal management, and greater<br />
reliability. This results in a comparatively<br />
lower cost per gigabyte.<br />
But data in motion is only part of<br />
an effective data protection strategy.<br />
After all, data is not only at risk<br />
when in motion, but also when at<br />
rest on your servers or in storage.<br />
For storage and media, the choices<br />
are generally straightforward – usually<br />
an “encrypt all or nothing“ approach.<br />
For servers, there are many<br />
different options that enable you to<br />
encrypt dynamically. You can encrypt<br />
specific files or folders, have<br />
applications that make custom encryption<br />
decisions, encrypt specific<br />
columns of structured data, or encrypt<br />
entire disks. These choices,<br />
and the rules that can be applied<br />
along with them, are a vital part of<br />
your in-depth data defense.<br />
Manage your protection<br />
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In addition to employing strong<br />
encryption, it’s vital that your cryptographic<br />
keys are treated with the<br />
same level of care. Remember, the<br />
only way to decrypt or unlock encrypted<br />
data is through the accompanying<br />
keys.<br />
Indiscriminately protecting these<br />
keys counteracts the entire process<br />
of encryption and creates a false<br />
sense of security. Therefore, the security<br />
deployment should utilize<br />
best practices for both encryption,<br />
as well as key management.<br />
For maximum security, dedicated<br />
hardware key management protects<br />
sensitive cryptographic keys from<br />
attack. Its high security design ensures<br />
the integrity and protection of<br />
encryption keys throughout their<br />
lifecycle. Storing cryptographic keys<br />
and certificates in hardware that<br />
wraps multiple levels of security<br />
eliminates the risk of loss or theft,<br />
and is the only definitive method<br />
of ensuring and enforcing trusted,<br />
granular security policies.<br />
By thoroughly understanding<br />
these three steps to encrypting data,<br />
you have the foundation for any<br />
successful data protection strategy.<br />
Shawn Campbell is VP of Product<br />
Management, SafeNet Assured Technologies.<br />
He can be reached at<br />
Shawn.Campbell@safenetat.com
Oil, Gas, Electric Grid Monitoring<br />
Energy industry veteran Stephen Trippe named<br />
Interim Chair of Quantum Technology Sciences<br />
Stephen Trippe, Interim Chair,<br />
Quantum Technology Sciences<br />
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COCOA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 24,<br />
2016 /PRNewswire/ – Quantum<br />
Technology Sciences, a perimeter<br />
intrusion detection solution provider,<br />
announces the board appointment<br />
and interim chairmanship<br />
of Stephen Trippe. Trippe assumes<br />
the chairmanship from Company<br />
Founder Freddie “Chick” Garcia<br />
who will remain as a director.<br />
Trippe, an energy industry veteran,<br />
made a career of successfully<br />
launching and selling entities in<br />
various industry segments including<br />
upstream oil and gas, midstream<br />
services, and energy marketing.<br />
Trippe was president and owner of<br />
Kimball/Trippe Energy Associates,<br />
a natural gas marketing company,<br />
which was sold to Dominion Energy,<br />
Inc. He also served as a partner<br />
in Saltwater Disposal of North Dakota,<br />
which was sold to Basic Energy<br />
Services, Inc. Additionally, Trippe<br />
continues as the managing member<br />
of both Longhorn Properties LLC,<br />
which originates oil and gas projects<br />
as well as ITAP, LLC which invests<br />
with Heritage Sustainable Energy in<br />
wind and solar energy projects.<br />
“His instinct, passion and talent<br />
for driving entrepreneurial ventures,<br />
which are ahead of the curve,<br />
will help push Quantum to the next<br />
level,” says Garcia. “His knowledge<br />
and connections within multiple<br />
segments of the energy industry will<br />
prove beneficial to our expansion of<br />
security and safety solutions in the<br />
oil & gas, utility, and critical infrastructure<br />
marketplaces.”<br />
“To succeed, a new venture needs<br />
a few things going for it. They require<br />
something an order of magnitude<br />
ahead of the pack. Quantum’s<br />
seismic-acoustic solution is disruptive<br />
technology to the security and<br />
safety marketplace. Also, leadership<br />
is crucial. Quantum CEO Mark<br />
Tinker takes his tactical seismology<br />
background and invents ideas beyond<br />
what seems possible. His talent<br />
and inspirational management<br />
style get his team to deliver the impossible,”<br />
says Trippe.<br />
Trippe becomes interim chairman<br />
at an important time for Quantum<br />
as the company seeks to push passed<br />
the early adoption curve on their<br />
technology to reach a rapid growth<br />
stage. While the company has been<br />
in business since 1991, the transition<br />
from solely government business<br />
to commercial sales has gone<br />
much like a start-up including the<br />
infusion of $8M in venture funds in<br />
early 2015. The company recently<br />
released a gunshot detection feature<br />
for its Vector product line adding to<br />
the existing pedestrian, vehicle, and<br />
digging/tunneling capabilities.<br />
“Chick and Mark built a solid<br />
foundation for Quantum as a defense<br />
contractor with significant<br />
relationships in Lockheed Martin,<br />
Northrop Grumman, DOD, the US<br />
Air Force, and the US Navy. Then,<br />
Mark developed the commercial<br />
security side of the business. I look<br />
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Siemens and IBM team on next<br />
generation of cloud-based building<br />
energy management solutions<br />
LAS VEGAS, NV, <strong>February</strong> 23 – Today,<br />
the Siemens Building Technologies<br />
Division and IBM announced<br />
cloud-based solutions that will leverage<br />
Siemens’ building expertise<br />
and IBM Internet of Things (IoT)<br />
capabilities to maximize<br />
the potential of connected<br />
buildings and the<br />
data they create, helping<br />
corporate real estate<br />
owners across multiple<br />
industries drive business<br />
results and meet energy<br />
efficiency goals.<br />
Building intelligence is<br />
evolving through emerging technologies<br />
in cloud computing, data analytics,<br />
and intelligent field devices<br />
– effectively merging the virtual and<br />
real worlds within the built environment.<br />
This shift provides an opportunity<br />
to transform real estate assets<br />
into active contributors to business<br />
success. The solution addresses this<br />
opportunity by delivering greater<br />
transparency and flexibility to support<br />
the decision making process<br />
while creating greater efficiency and<br />
cost savings to help impact the bottom<br />
line.<br />
Siemens is integrating software<br />
from IBM’s Watson IoT Business<br />
Unit, including analytics and asset<br />
management, into its cloud-based<br />
Navigator energy and sustainability<br />
management platform. This combination<br />
will help benefit corporate<br />
real estate customers in many ways,<br />
including:<br />
• Corporate real estate owners<br />
and operators will now be able to<br />
leverage internal and external data<br />
on Siemens’ Navigator platform to<br />
benchmark building performance<br />
and forecast operational budgets.<br />
• Predictive analytics can be applied<br />
for fault detection and diagnosis<br />
so potential issues can be addressed<br />
before anything happens.<br />
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• Text recognition and analytics<br />
for utility invoice validation can<br />
identify billing errors and enhance<br />
data quality.<br />
• Mobile applications can enable<br />
energy audits and creation of audit<br />
reports from anywhere.<br />
“Of all the software solutions available<br />
to corporate real estate owners<br />
today, none leverage facility optimization<br />
solutions from a service<br />
provider like Siemens,” explained<br />
Matthias Rebellius, CEO,<br />
Siemens Building Technologies<br />
Division. “By<br />
interfacing our Navigator<br />
platform with IBM’s<br />
software, we can bring<br />
Siemens’ proven expertise<br />
in energy optimization<br />
and building performance<br />
together with<br />
IBM’s real estate and asset management<br />
systems to create an unrivaled<br />
combination that will dramatically<br />
improve the productivity of buildings.”<br />
The Siemens Navigator platform<br />
provides a customizable suite of<br />
services that enables monitoring of<br />
building system performance, energy<br />
demand, and energy supply more<br />
effectively and efficiently across a<br />
single building, a campus, or an entire<br />
real estate portfolio. With IBM’s<br />
IoT technologies integrated into the
Oil, Gas, Electric Grid Monitoring<br />
new Navigator platform, customers<br />
will experience a user-friendly interface<br />
and will benefit from more<br />
advanced analytics capabilities as<br />
well as the ability to process more<br />
robust data sets from their real estate<br />
portfolios. The Navigator platform<br />
can also integrate with any system,<br />
including the Siemens Desigo<br />
CC building management system<br />
and third party technologies. The<br />
new Navigator functionality will<br />
be rolled out in packages over the<br />
coming years starting this year,<br />
with releases in May and October.<br />
“Connected ‘things’ – everything<br />
from hospital beds, train<br />
tracks, cars, buildings and more<br />
– are generating massive amounts<br />
of data that can be analyzed to<br />
provide quick, actionable insights,”<br />
said Harriet Green, General<br />
Manager, Watson IoT, Education<br />
& Commerce, IBM. “Siemens and<br />
IBM are bringing together deep<br />
knowledge of new efficiencies for<br />
smarter buildings with advances in<br />
cloud-based IoT to transform business<br />
and society alike.”<br />
“Our collaboration will form a<br />
strong foundation for the development<br />
of a greater ecosystem that will<br />
support other providers to bring<br />
improved functionality and innovations<br />
to the services and solutions<br />
we offer to our shared clients,” said<br />
Matthias Rebellius.<br />
The corporate real estate industry<br />
is just beginning to scratch the surface<br />
of advanced data analytics for<br />
the purpose of producing consistent<br />
results and enabling easier decisionmaking.<br />
Operating costs account<br />
for 71 percent of the total cost of<br />
owning a building and real estate<br />
is often the second largest expense<br />
on the income statement for large<br />
enterprise organizations. Building<br />
owners and operators can now leverage<br />
solutions across the entire<br />
lifecycle of their real estate assets<br />
to predict energy efficiency trends<br />
and equipment availability issues in<br />
advance, so that building operation<br />
can be as reliable, cost-effective, and<br />
sustainable as possible.<br />
Siemens is making further significant<br />
investments in <strong>Digital</strong>ization<br />
and has developed the Sinalytics<br />
platform for advanced, predictive<br />
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data analytics across its various<br />
businesses. Siemens Building Technologies<br />
is combining its analytics<br />
capabilities and IBM software tools<br />
for a next generation software platform<br />
for energy management and<br />
sustainability – Navigator, powered<br />
by Sinalytics.<br />
About Siemens Building Technologies<br />
The Siemens Building Technologies<br />
Division (Zug, Switzerland)<br />
is the world leader in the market<br />
for safe and secure, energy-efficient<br />
and environment-friendly<br />
buildings and infrastructures. As<br />
technology partner, service provider,<br />
system integrator and product<br />
vendor, Building Technologies<br />
has offerings for safety and<br />
security as well as building automation,<br />
heating, ventilation and air<br />
conditioning (HVAC) and energy<br />
management. With around 27,000<br />
employees worldwide, Building<br />
Technologies generated revenue of<br />
approx. 6.0 billion Euro.<br />
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich)<br />
is a global technology powerhouse<br />
that has stood for engineering excellence,<br />
innovation, quality, reliability<br />
and internationality for more<br />
than 165 years. The company is active<br />
in more than 200 countries,<br />
focusing on the areas of electrifica-<br />
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Oil & Gas sector needs long-term thinking to<br />
achieve meaningful cost cuts, says industry<br />
technical advisor DNV GL<br />
JANUARY 25, 2016 – A majority<br />
of senior oil and gas professionals<br />
(56%) believe that the industry is<br />
repeating the mistakes of previous<br />
downturns and have concerns over<br />
the loss of jobs and experience and<br />
lack of efficiency, according to a new<br />
report published today by DNV GL,<br />
the leading technical advisor to the<br />
oil and gas industry. A new phase<br />
of cost management is needed, as<br />
nearly three quarters (73%) of senior<br />
oil and gas professionals globally<br />
are preparing their company for<br />
a sustained period of low oil prices.<br />
According to A New Reality: the<br />
outlook for the oil and gas industry<br />
in 2016, a DNV GL report based on<br />
a global survey of 921 senior sector<br />
players1, cost management is the<br />
top priority for 41% of respondents<br />
in 2016. The top three measures prioritized<br />
to impose stricter cost controls<br />
are:<br />
• Tougher decisions on<br />
capex, down from 44% in<br />
2015 to 31% in 2016, suggesting<br />
that opportunities<br />
for further capex reductions<br />
are limited.<br />
• Prioritizing headcount<br />
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Elisabeth Tørstad,<br />
CEO of DNV GL<br />
reductions, up from 25%<br />
last year to 31% in 2016,<br />
signaling further job losses;<br />
and<br />
• Increasing pressure on the supply<br />
chain, down from 31% in 2015<br />
to 27% in 2016, indicating that suppliers<br />
have been squeezed as much<br />
as possible.<br />
Elisabeth Tørstad, CEO of DNV<br />
GL – Oil & Gas, says: “With the low<br />
oil price, the industry has<br />
taken painful short-term<br />
cost-cutting measures by<br />
reducing the capex and<br />
headcount and squeezing<br />
the supply chain.<br />
Although 74% say they<br />
achieved their cost-efficiency<br />
targets last year and<br />
65% believe the industry<br />
will be successful in cutting costs<br />
in 2016, not all parts of the sector<br />
have been able to achieve lasting<br />
lower cost levels during downturns.<br />
To prevent repeating past mistakes,<br />
real change is needed now - cutting<br />
complexity, increasing collaboration<br />
and driving standardization.<br />
These measures will enable the industry<br />
to adjust to the new reality<br />
and put it on a sustainable growth<br />
path for the long-term.”<br />
There are some promising signs<br />
that the industry is adopting longerterm<br />
thinking on cost management:
Oil, Gas, Electric Grid Monitoring<br />
six in ten (61%) respondents agree<br />
that operators will increasingly<br />
push to standardize their delivery<br />
globally, up from 55% in 2015 and<br />
52% in 2014.<br />
Even in the current price environment,<br />
49% say their company is<br />
taking a long-term approach to innovation<br />
and R&D. However, nearly<br />
one in five companies (18%) does<br />
not have a strategy in place to maintain<br />
innovation. The most common<br />
strategy for maintaining innovation<br />
with lower budgets is to increase<br />
collaboration with other industry<br />
players (45%). Nearly one in three<br />
(30%) plans greater involvement in<br />
joint industry projects in the year<br />
ahead.<br />
“Innovation and collaboration are<br />
even more important in this current<br />
price environment. It isn’t just about<br />
finding the breakthrough technologies<br />
– although that’s important too<br />
– it’s also about making things simpler<br />
and more efficient and ultimately<br />
helping the industry to safely cut<br />
costs. At DNV GL, we are continuing<br />
to invest 5% of our revenue in<br />
R&D as we see this as a key enabler<br />
for sustainable long-term competitiveness,”<br />
continues Tørstad.<br />
The greatest barriers to growth<br />
in 2016 are the low oil price (63%),<br />
weak global economy (42%), uneconomic<br />
gas prices (21%) and growing<br />
regulatory burden (11%). Access to<br />
Energy industry veteran Stephen<br />
Trippe named Interim Chair of<br />
Quantum Technology Sciences<br />
Continued from page 34<br />
forward to helping write the next<br />
chapter of Quantum with their outstanding<br />
team,” says Trippe.<br />
About Quantum Technology<br />
Sciences<br />
Quantum Technology Sciences<br />
designs and sells intrusion detection<br />
and surveillance solutions to<br />
safeguard highly valued assets and<br />
critical infrastructure. Founded in<br />
1991, Quantum is the first security<br />
and surveillance company to maintain<br />
an awareness perimeter where<br />
threats in the air, water and land are<br />
detected, tracked, and classified in<br />
real-time. The company’s seismicacoustic<br />
detection solutions have<br />
won consecutive ASIS Accolades innovation<br />
awards in 2014 and 2015.<br />
capital (16%) has also become more<br />
prominent in 2016.<br />
Download a complimentary<br />
copy of A New Reality: the outlook<br />
for the oil and gas industry in 2016<br />
from: http://dnvgl.com/anewreality<br />
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Siemens and IBM team on next<br />
generation of cloud-based building<br />
energy management solutions<br />
Continued from page 36<br />
tion, automation and digitalization.<br />
One of the world’s largest producers<br />
of energy-efficient, resource-saving<br />
technologies, Siemens is No. 1 in<br />
offshore wind turbine construction,<br />
a leading supplier of gas and steam<br />
turbines for power generation, a<br />
major provider of power transmission<br />
solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure<br />
solutions as well as<br />
automation, drive and software solutions<br />
for industry. The company<br />
is also a leading provider of medical<br />
imaging equipment – such as computed<br />
tomography and magnetic<br />
resonance imaging systems – and<br />
a leader in laboratory diagnostics<br />
as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2015,<br />
which ended on September 30,<br />
2015, Siemens generated revenue<br />
of €75.6 billion and net income of<br />
€7.4 billion. At the end of September<br />
2015, the company had around<br />
348,000 employees worldwide.
FAA announces nearly<br />
300,000 operators sign on to<br />
online drone registry<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
As the Federal Aviation Administration’s<br />
new online system for registering<br />
small unmanned aircraft<br />
reaches its one month anniversary,<br />
federal officials announce that nearly<br />
300,000 drone owners have come<br />
on board.<br />
In all, 295,306 owners registered<br />
within the first 30 days, according<br />
to the agency.<br />
“The registration<br />
numbers we’re seeing<br />
so far are very<br />
encouraging,” said<br />
FAA Administrator<br />
Michael Huerta.<br />
“We’re working hard<br />
to build on this early<br />
momentum and ensure<br />
everyone understands the registration<br />
requirement.”<br />
Owners of drones that weigh between<br />
.55 pounds and 55 pounds<br />
and use them for recreational purposes<br />
are required to register. Any<br />
new aircraft must be registered before<br />
operators can fly it outdoors.<br />
Drones that were in use prior to the<br />
start of the registry must be registered<br />
by Feb. 19.<br />
Those who signed on during the<br />
first month – between the dates of<br />
Dec. 21 and Jan. 21 – received a refund<br />
of their $5 application fee. Federal<br />
officials announced the refund<br />
initiative last month as an incentive<br />
to encourage people to join early.<br />
“I am pleased the public responded<br />
to our call to register,” Department<br />
of Transportation Secretary<br />
Anthony Foxx said. “The National<br />
Airspace System is a great resource<br />
and all users of it, including (drone)<br />
users, are responsible for keeping it<br />
safe.”<br />
The registry came<br />
into effect after a<br />
panel of industry<br />
experts and government<br />
leaders<br />
came together late<br />
last year to generate<br />
ideas on regulating<br />
the aerial vehicles,<br />
which have exploded in popularity<br />
in recent years. Operators flew<br />
about 200,000 drones in 2014, and<br />
federal officials expected more than<br />
1.5 million of the remote controlled<br />
planes to be planes to be flown last<br />
year.<br />
As the number of drones increased,<br />
so too did the number of<br />
complaints about them interfering<br />
with other aircraft. Pilots and other<br />
officials lodged more than 1,100<br />
complaints in the first 10 months<br />
of 2015, representing a more than<br />
39<br />
five-fold increase from the previous<br />
year’s totals. Complaints include pilots<br />
in New York and Denver saying<br />
they saw drones fly near their plane<br />
as they approached the runway. A<br />
drone also flew into the University<br />
of Kentucky’s 60,000-seat football<br />
stadium, where it crashed into a<br />
pane of glass prior to the start of a<br />
game last September. No one was<br />
injured, but authorities charged the<br />
student who flew the drone with<br />
second degree wanton endangerment.<br />
The registry currently applies to<br />
drone owners who use their aircraft<br />
solely for recreational purposes.<br />
They do not need to pay a fee for<br />
each drone they own, but they must<br />
affix the unique identifier they received<br />
on each drone upon completing<br />
the registration process. The<br />
registration is valid for three years.<br />
Owners need to register their<br />
drones at www.faa.gov/uas/registration.<br />
They must enter their name as<br />
well as their mailing, physical and<br />
email addresses. The owner who<br />
registers the aircraft must be at least<br />
13 years of age.<br />
Owners who fail to join the registry<br />
subject themselves to possible<br />
civil and criminal penalties.<br />
The FAA did not include drone<br />
operators who use their machines<br />
for commercial purposes on the<br />
registry for the initial rollout. Instead,<br />
federal officials plan to have<br />
commercial operators register online<br />
by the middle of March.
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