How Adv Tech can Help Emergency Response During a Crisis
By Jeffrey Schweitzer
Drawing on years of expertise working directly with first responders, law enforcement, local and national government, and other critical infrastructure service providers, Verizon has teamed up with a variety...
DARPA – New Ways to Represent Info Could Transform Digital Tech
Many people who use computers and other digital devices are aware that all the words and images displayed on their monitors boil down to a sequence of ones and zeros.
But few...
XProtect Essential+ Fuels the Business Video Revolution (Video)
Milestone Systems, the 2016 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Platinum Award Winner for Best IP Video Surveillance Solution, has released XProtect Essential+ as a free entry product to the company’s portfolio.
“XProtect Essential+ is a...
$1.7M in New Public Safety Orders for Long Range Acoustic Devices
LRAD, the world’s leading provider of acoustic hailing devices, and a competitor in the 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, has received two public safety orders totaling $1.7 million from law enforcement agencies...
Georgia Ports Break Container Volume Record (Learn More, Video)
More than 9,500 TEUs were moved on and off of the OOCL France, one of two 13,000-plus TEU vessels to call the Port of Savannah within 21 days.
The arrival of...
S&T Helps Explosive Detection Canine Teams get REDDI (See Video)
Dogs are uniquely suited to sniffing out explosives as their sense of smell is more than a million times stronger than a human’s.
Harnessing this natural ability to help law enforcement...
Digital ID – Biometrics are Key to Marrying Security & Convenience
By Isabelle Moeller, Chief Executive of the Biometrics Institute
Thanks, in no small part, to the whims of Hollywood, biometrics have become something of a go-to metaphor for bleeding edge, bullet-proof security.
It’s easy...
SkyX Systems Deploys First ‘xStation’ (See in Action, Multi-Video)
SkyX, the Canadian leader in long-range unmanned aerial monitoring, has successfully delivered and installed its first production xStation, a unit that remotely recharges SkyX drones during missions - a key milestone in...
Latest UK Attack Underlines Intensification of Terrorism Threat
By Otso Iho, Senior Analyst, Jane’s Terrorism & Insurgency Centre (JTIC), IHS Markit
On 3 June, three suspected Islamist militants used a vehicle to drive into pedestrians on London Bridge in the...
DISA Seeks Industry Cyber Tools with Cost Effective Pricetags (Multi-Video)
Staying ahead of cyberthreats in a time of constricting budgets is a major challenge for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) today.
To confront this quagmire, the agency’s officials are open...
