Government Security News January 2017 Digital Edition

Government Security News 

JANUARY 2017 DIGITAL EDITION 

Louisiana parish protects children in schools with real-time chemical detection 

technology, by George Lane – Page 6 

Also in this issue: 

Amico Security expects to play major role in Trump’s border security initiative – Page 10 

DHS Science and Technology Explosive Division (EXD) releases new incident management tool for first 

responders – Page 46

NEWS 

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More than 170 members of House of Representatives Join Effort to Create 

Independent Commission to investigate foreign interference in U.S. Elections 

Louisiana parish protects children in schools with 

real-time chemical detection technology, 

by George Lane 

AMICO Security expects to play major role 

in Trump’s border security initiative 

USCIC updates how processing times are posted: 

specific dates rather than weeks or months 

States and localities respond to Donald Trump’s immigration plans 

Robots, not immigrants, are replacing 

U.S. manufacturing workers 

Rule will streamline approval of new technologies 

DOJ issues final rule about unfair 

immigration-related employment practices 

GSN announces Winners and Finalists 

in the 2016 Homeland Security Awards Program 

Will Congress fund President Trump’s executive 

order on border enforcement? 

Resentment and hatred from the Middle East: 

Why they hate us 

Cloudera and Docker, Inc. partner to 

vastly improve the security of data 

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LGBT Military Community calls on General Mattis to make clear his support for 

ALL service members & their families during confirmation hearing 

General Mattis says no to roll back open LGBT Military Service 

as Secretary of Defense 

DHS Science and Technology Directive Explosive Division 

(EXD) releases new incident management planning tool 

for first responders 

GTT solutions awarded supplier status for Crown Commercial Service TMT2 

framework agreement 

Upgrades to allow for more frequent, reliable and faster rail service along the 

Northeast Corridor recommended 

The Chemistry behind the Flint Water Crisis: 

Corrosion of Pipes, Erosion of Trust, by George Lane 

FEATURES 

SPECIAL REPORT ON ACCESS CONTROL & IDENTIFICATION 

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HID Global predicts top trends for 2017 in the Identity 

Technology industry 

Heightening security verification with self-service kiosks 

Card personalization now making Government ID cards 

more secure with better visual security 

SPECIAL REPORT ON VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, SOFTWARE, MANAGEMENT 

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Hikvision supports school security and success 

for students with disabilities 

New Thermal Chassis Surveillance Camera 

Offers Continuous Zoom 

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More than 170 members of House of Representatives join 

effort to create independent commission to investigate 

foreign interference in U.S. elections 

WASHINGTON, DC – Jan 6, 2017, 

Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), the 

Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee 

of the House Permanent 

Select Committee on Intelligence, 

and Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD- 

07), the Ranking Member of the 

House Committee on Oversight 

and Government Reform, are reintroducing 

their Protecting Our 

Democracy Act to establish an independent, 

bipartisan commission 

to investigate foreign interference in 

the 2016 election. 

They originally introduced their 

legislation on December 7, 2016, 

at the end of the 114th Congress. 

Since then, they have obtained the 

support of more than 170 Members 

of the House of Representatives, including 

Democratic Leader Nancy 

Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny 

Hoyer, and all members of House 

Democratic leadership; the Ranking 

Members of all House Committees; 

and all Democratic members of the 

House Permanent Select Committee 

on Intelligence and the House 

Committee on Oversight and Government 

Reform. 

Their bill would create a 12-member, 

bipartisan, independent commission 

empowered to interview 

witnesses, obtain documents, issue 

subpoenas, and receive public testimony 

to examine attempts 

by the Russian 

government or others to 

use electronic means to 

influence, interfere with, 

or undermine trust in last 

year’s U.S. elections. The 

commission would examine 

any similar efforts 

by any other foreign governments 

or entities and 

would issue a final report 

with recommendations to Congress 

and the President within 18 months 

of enactment. 

“There’s overwhelming agreement 

across America that our democracy 

was attacked this past presidential 

election. Now everyone’s asking 

what our nation’s leaders will do 

about it. Our legislation answers 

that question by identifying who 

was responsible and telling Americans 

what we will do to secure our 

next election,” said Ranking Member 

Swalwell. “We continue to seek 

Republican cosponsors because this 

Elijah E. Cummings, 

Ranking Member of 

House Committee on 

Government Oversite 

must be about country, not party. 

If we do nothing, we are telling the 

world our elections are open for influence 

by the most aggressive meddler. 

With 17 intelligence 

agencies agreeing that 

Russia interfered in our 

election, we most move 

quickly to have an independent, 

bipartisan, depoliticized 

commission 

to fully examine the circumstances, 

inform the 

public of its findings, and 

develop a plan to prevent 

this from ever happening 

again.” 

“The most senior leaders of our 

Intelligence Community testified 

yesterday that Russia interfered in 

our elections, which Republicans 

and Democrats alike have compared 

to an act of war,” said Ranking 

Member Cummings. “This grave 

threat calls for a truly bipartisan 

and independent commission that 

can put politics aside and conduct 

a complete review of this interference 

in our democratic process, and 

make concrete recommendations to 

protect our nation from being un- 

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dermined by any foreign 

power. We cannot allow 

this to become the new 

normal for what we will 

accept as Americans.” 

The 12 members of the 

independent commission 

would be appointed 

within 90 days of enactment 

of the Swalwell- 

Cummings bill by the Speaker of 

the House (3), Senate Majority 

Leader (3), House Minority Leader 

(3), and Senate Minority Leader 

(3). The commission would choose 

a chair and vice chair of different 

Steny Hoyer, 

Democratic Whip 

parties. No federal officers 

or employees would 

be eligible to serve on the 

commission. Appointees 

would be prominent U.S. 

citizens with national 

recognition and significant 

depth of experience 

in governmental service, 

law enforcement, armed 

services, law, public administration, 

intelligence gathering, foreign 

affairs, cybersecurity, and federal 

elections. 

This week, a bipartisan group of 

former senior intelligence and defense 

officials – including former 

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 

former Secretary of Defense 

Leon Panetta, former Acting Director 

of Central Intelligence Michael 

Morrell, and former Member 

of Congress and 9/11 Commission 

Vice Chair Lee Hamilton – sent a 

letter urging Congress to create an 

“independent, bipartisan commission” 

to “understand fully and publicly 

what happened, how we were 

so vulnerable, and what we can do 

to protect our democracy in future 

elections.” 

The bill’s original cosponsors include: 

1.Eric Swalwell 

2.Elijah Cummings 

3.Sheila Jackson Lee 

4.Alma Adams 

5.Pete Aguilar 

6.Nanette Barragan 

7.Karen Bass 

8.Joyce Beatty 

9.Sanford Bishop 

10.Earl Blumenauer 

11.Lisa Blunt-Rochester 

12.Suzanne Bonamici 

13.Madeleine Bordallo 

14.Brendan Boyle 

15.Robert Brady 

16.Anthony Brown 

17.Julia Brownley 

18.Cheri Bustos 

19.G.K. Butterfield 

20.Michael Capuano 

21.Salud Carbajal 

22.Tony Cardenas 

23.Matt Cartwright 

24.Andre Carson 

25.Kathy Castor 

26.Joaquin Castro 

27.Judy Chu 

28.David Cicilline 

29.Katherine Clark 

30.Yvette Clarke 

31.William Lacy Clay 

32.Emanuel Cleaver 

33.James Clyburn 

34.Steve Cohen 

35.Gerald E Connolly 

36.John Conyers, Jr. 

37.Jim Cooper 

38.J. Luis Correa 

39.Jim Costa 

40.Joe Courtney 

41.Joseph Crowley 

42.Henry Cuellar 

43.Danny K. Davis 

44.Susan Davis 

45.Peter DeFazio 

46.Diana DeGette 

47.John Delaney 

48.Rosa DeLauro 

49.Mark DeSaulnier 

50.Theodore Deutch 

51.Debbie Dingell 

52.Lloyd Doggett 

53.Michael Doyle 

54.Keith Ellison 

55.Eliot Engel 

56.Anna Eshoo 

57.Adriano Espaillat 

58.Elizabeth Esty 

59.Dwight Evans 

60.Bill Foster 

61.Lois Frankel 

62.Marcia Fudge 

63.Ruben Gallego 

64.John Garamendi 

65.Vicente Gonzalez 

66.Tulsi Gabbard 

67.Al Green 

68.Gene Green 

69.Raul Grijalva 

70.Luis Gutiérrez 

71.Alcee Hastings 

72.Denny Heck 

73.Jim Himes 

74.Steny Hoyer 

75.Jared Huffman 

76.Pramila Jayapal 

77.Hakeem Jeffries 

78.Eddie Bernice Johnson 

79.Hank Johnson 

80.Marcy Kaptur 

81.William Keating 

82.Robin Kelly 

83.Joseph P. Kennedy III 

84.Ro Khanna 

85.Ruben Kihuen 

86.Daniel Kildee 

87.Derek Kilmer 

88.Ron Kind 

89.Raja Krishnamoorthi 

90.Ann McLane Kuster 

91.James Langevin 

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Louisiana parish protects 

children in schools with real-time 

chemical detection technology 

By George Lane 

The RFLM (Regional Fence 

Line Monitor) chemical security 

network, funded by 

the State of Louisiana and 

the Pointe Coupe Parish 

Police Jury, was demonstrated 

December 2 at the 

Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff ’s Office 

Emergency Operations Center 

in Louisiana near Baton Rouge. The 

standoff sensor in RFLM detects and 

identifies chemicals in real-time from 

up to 3 miles away from any direction 

while identifying the source of the release 

with video surveillance, providing 

integrated situational awareness 

and CONOPS. 

The RFLM chemical security network 

consists of a fixed standoff 

chemical detector operating with 

a video camera, multiple portable 

chemical detectors, a fixed video 

camera, and chemical sensor data 

integrated with local meteorological 

data at the Pointe Coupe Parish “911” 

Center. 

The fixed standoff chemical detector 

uses an FTIR (Fourier Transform 

Infrared) sensor with a video camera. 

The RAPID (Remote Air Pollution 

Infrared Detector) chemical detector 

George Lane 

in RFLM is produced by 

Bruker Detection and detects 

and identifies chemical 

threats and risks from 3 

miles away. 

Ground level video provides 

surveillance of RAP- 

ID as well as security and a 

PZT-enabled video camera 

operating on the 300-foot microwave 

communication tower provides wide 

area surveillance. 

Primary critical infrastructure and 

public health in Pointe Coupee Parish 

protected by the RFLM chemical 

security network include Valverda 

Elementary School, Livonia High 

School, and residents of the Town of 

Livonia and surrounding rural areas 

in Valverda, living adjacent to the 

Union Pacific Rail Yard, Union Pacific’s 

second largest rail yard in North 

America. 

RFLM uses local wind speed, direction, 

and concentration to provide 

location and time of impact of chemical 

releases. RFLM contacts local citizens 

and students, faculty, and staff in 

schools at risk to chemical releases, 

determining whether to evacuate or 

“shelter-in-place”. Group text messaging 

and social media enable real-time 

response to chemical releases. 

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Current Pointe Coupee Parish 

School “shelter-in-place” emergency 

response procedures call for duct tape 

to be used to completely seal windows 

and doors to stop chemical releases. 

However, if students remain in sealed 

rooms, Carbon dioxide buildup in 

rooms can become a major threat to 

health. To mitigate these effects, activated 

Carbon is added to air conditioner 

filters operating in “shelter in 

place” locations to provide protection 

during extended chemical threats and 

risks. 

The RFLM chemical security network 

was developed by Emergency 

Response Technology (ERT) and 

selected “Best Rail Yard Hazmat 

Monitoring and Detection” and “Best 

Integration of Cameras, Sensors, 

Communications for Rail Safety” by 

Government Security News (GSN) 

in 2016; (http://gsnmagazine.com/ 

node/46657?c=airport_aviation_security). 

ERT’s chemical security network 

designed for the Port of Greater Baton 

Rouge was selected as “Best Integrated 

Harbor Security Program” by GSN 

in 2015 (pages 58-59); www.yumpu. 

com/en/document/view/55008535/ 

the-gsn-2015-digital-yearbook-ofawards.

Operating beneath the I-10 Bridge 

in Baton Rouge, RAPID’s 3-mile 

standoff detection and identification 

range will provide chemical security 

for the Port of 

Greater Baton Rouge, 

the Port Allen lock of 

the Gulf Intracoastal 

Waterway, downtown 

Baton Rouge, 

the city of Port Allen, 

the Placid Refinery 

in Port Allen, the 

ExxonMobil refinery 

in Baton Rouge, 

and transportation 

of commerce on the 

Lower Mississippi River (LMR). 

ERT’s chemical security network 

designed for the Port of New Orleans 

was selected as “Best Integrated 

3-mile 

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3-mile radius of RAPID 

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Harbor Security Program” by GSN in 

2014. DHS has approved funds for 

a chemical security network using 

RAPIDs at the Port of New Orleans 

that will be operated by the New Orleans 

Office of Homeland Security & 

Emergency Preparedness. 

Operating beneath the Crescent 

City Connection Bridge over the LMR 

in New Orleans, the 3-mile range of 

RAPID standoff detection and identification 

will protect the Port of New 

Orleans, cruise ships and terminals 

at the port, trucks transporting commerce 

at the port, the New Orleans 

Public Belt rail line at the port, the 

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at the 

“We’re powered by new challenges. 

Our experience has made us experts 

at providing total security solutions.” 

PHIL BARRETT 

8 years • Power/Utility Business Development 

Our high standards help you meet yours. Providing superior 

perimeter security solutions is not just our mission. 

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LMR, the Mercedes Benz 

Superdome, residents living 

and working in Uptown and 

the Central Business District 

(CBD), visitors in the French 

Quarter, and transportation 

on the LMR. 

In 2008 a tanker collided 

with a barge near the Port of 

New Orleans, releasing over 

419,000 gallons of diesel, and 

interrupting transportation 

of commerce on the LWR for 

11 days. In 2010 the Aspen 

Institute, and the Ford Foundation, 

conducted a vulnerability assessment 

at Tulane University to calculate the 

economic consequences of the interruption 

of transportation of commerce 

on the LWR. 

Because the LMR provides transportation 

for over 45% of all U.S. 

energy products and over 60% of all 

U.S. commerce, the study concluded 

that interrupting the transportation 

of commerce on the LWR costs the 

domestic economy over $275 million 

per day, and international commerce 

over $500 million each day. The release 

of common diesel in 2008 cost 

the domestic economy over $3 billion 

and international commerce over $6 

billion. 

But without the capability to detect 

and identify secondary chemical releases 

and their sources, the collision 

at the Port of New Orleans could have 

been much worse. The tanker had just 

uploaded approximately 3 million 

Bruker RAPID (Remote Air 

Pollution Infrared Detector) 

The fixed standoff 

chemical detector uses an 

FTIR (Fourier Transform 

Infrared) sensor and a 

video camera. 

RAPID monitors chemical 

threats and risks from an 

elevated platform. 

December 2, 2016 

RFLM Field Demonstration 

gallons of Styrene monomer, which 

can violently react with itself, known 

in chemistry as “autopolymerization”. 

If the Styrene monomer had “autopolymerized”, 

the tanker would have 

exploded, causing extensive collateral 

damage, and closed the LMR even 

longer. RAPID would have detected 

both diesel and Styrene monomer 

simultaneously, and directed emergency 

responders to the primary 

chemical threat, Styrene monomer, 

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Video camera 

FTIR 

sensor 

Fig. 1: Bruker RAPID 

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providing the source of both releases 

for quick response. 

If RAPID determines the 

source of a hazardous chemical 

release is on land, from rail, 

trucks, or chemical facilities on 

the river, the Captain of the Port 

may elect not to close the LMR, 

saving the domestic economy 

over $275 million per day and 

international commerce over 

$500 million per day. 

Below is an interactive screenshot 

of the video (click to view) 

of the December 2 field demonstration 

in which Sulfur hexafluoride 

(SF6), an inert gas, was released at the 

Emergency Operations Center approximately 

300 yards away from the 

Bruker RAPID. 

The RAPID FTIR standoff chemical 

sensor uses proprietary software to 

colorize chemical releases, allowing 

emergency responders and managers 

to visually determine the source as 

well the dispersion of chemicals from 

Click to view video of the December 2 field demonstration

up to 3 miles away in any direction. 

In the RAPID video a yellow dot in 

a surveillance box highlighted in blue 

progresses from right to left and then 

down, representing surveillance by 

RAPID as it scans the selected area. 

The small box on the lower right represents 

what the video camera is seeing 

as it moves from left to right with 

the FTIR chemical sensor. 

RAPID detects and identifies the 

location of the release of SF6, dispersing 

to the southwest (left in the video). 

SF6 appears in yellow at the top of the 

screen, and is highlighted in yellow 

at the bottom of the screen as one 

of a list of toxic industrial chemicals 

(TICs) in the RAPID library. Within 

6 seconds, the color of SF6 changes 

to red, indicating an increased confidence 

in detection and identification. 

SF6 appears in a red circle in the 

alarm box and also changes color to 

red in the chemical library at the bottom 

of the screen. 

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Another demonstration was conducted 

using an industrial grade of 

Freon used to clean computer keyboards. 

Three additional chemicals in 

the Freon-based cleaner were autonomously 

detected and identified by 

RAPID and were visible as they dispersed. 

RAPID can be programmed 

to follow dispersion into selected areas. 

As soon as chemicals are detected 

and their sources identified, a single 

portable chemicals sensor is deployed 

to the source of the release to both 

confirm chemical-specific identification 

and provide measurement in sub 

parts per million. The ERT chemical 

security network is being deployed at 

fixed locations and portable on maritime 

emergency response vessels on 

water and in SUV vehicles on land. 

“We aim to protect property, and provide 

peace of mind by providing remarkable 

perimeter security products and 

unrivaled service.” 

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11 years • Mission Critical Business Development 

We know people make the difference for your business and ours. 

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service that lead to total perimeter security solutions. 

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AMICO Security expects to play major 

role in Trump’s border security initiative 

BIRMINGHAM, AL — January 

11, 2017 — AMICO Security announced 

today that its AMIGUARD 

system, considered one of the most 

secure and cost effective border solutions 

available on the market, is 

expected to play a large role in President-elect 

Donald Trump’s plan 

to build a border wall between the 

United States and Mexico. 

AMICO Security brings to the 

market extensive experience in 

building border walls and fences. 

The company’s high security fence 

system currently secures a 36-mile 

stretch along the United States and 

Mexico Border near Yuma Ariz., at 

the San Luis Crossing and an 18- 

mile area at the Otay Mesa Crossing 

in California. 

With President-elect Trump’s call 

to expand the border wall between 

the United States and Mexico, 

AMICO Security has already seen a 

sharp increase in interest from several 

government agencies. 

“AMICO Security is one of the 

only truly U.S.-owned manufacturers 

of high-security border fencing,” 

said Gary Baltz, an AMICO 

Security spokesperson. “In many 

speeches on President-elect Donald 

Trump’s ‘Thank You Tour,’ he stated 

that the policy of his administration 

will be to buy American and to create 

American jobs.” 

AMICO Security buys U.S.-made 

steel and produces its security fence 

panels in its U.S. factories with 

American workers, while many other 

competitors are foreign-owned 

and purchase raw materials from 

producers in Mexico and China. 

“We hope that our government 

will be vetting out those that are not 

in compliance with the buy America 

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policy,” added Baltz. 

AMICO is considered the largest 

manufacturer of Security Mesh in 

the world and has the capacity to 

meet a large demand. Security Mesh 

is an extremely cost effective way 

to build a barrier and allows border 

guards to see through the fence 

structure and wind to pass through 

thereby reducing wind resistance. 

These high security meshes can be 

produced to meet anti-climb and 

cut requirements making it very difficult 

to breach. 

AMIGUARD’s patent pending 

design allows for the simple integration 

of technology such as radar 

systems, which can classify targets 

and track movement along the border, 

in addition to anti-tunneling 

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USCIC updates how processing times are posted: 

specific dates rather than weeks or months 

By Michele Waslin 

United States Citizenship and Immigration 

Services (USCIS) announced 

that beginning on January 4, 2017, 

it has changed how it posts processing 

times. Rather that listing weeks 

or months, it now provides specific 

dates. This is a small initial step toward 

providing better customer service 

and giving individuals and employers 

the information they need 

about their immigration cases. However, 

the dates listed are still not based 

on real-time information and are outdated 

when they are published. 

USCIS provides its customers with 

estimates of how long the waiting 

time is because individuals who submit 

petitions or applications for immigration 

benefits to USCIS often 

have to wait lengthy periods for the 

transaction to be completed. These 

processing times are posted on the 

USCIS website. Processing times are 

available by location (e.g. National 

Benefits Center, service center, or 

field office) and by filing type. The 

American Immigration Council’s fact 

sheet on processing times explains 

how these processing times are calculated. 

In the past, processing times were 

listed in one of two ways: 

1. Processing times related to publicly-announced 

production goals. 

USCIS established production 

goals for certain filing types. For 

example, USCIS set a five month 

processing time goal for N-400s 

(naturalization applications). If the 

office was meeting or exceeding the 

goal, meaning applications were 

being processed in five months or 

less, the processing time was listed 

as five months. In other words, the 

customer doesn’t have specific information 

about how long applications 

are actually taking, just that 

they are being processed within five 

months. 

2. If the office was not meeting its 

production goal, the chart listed the 

date of the last application the office 

worked on at the time the data was 

sent to the Office of Performance 

and Quality (OPQ), which is the 

office that regularly calculates processing 

times. This does not mean 

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that all applications received as of 

that date had been adjudicated. 

According to the USCIS announcement, 

the agency will now be using 

the second method for publishing 

processing times. The tables available 

on the USCIS processing times webpage 

now list a “Processing Cases As 

of Date.” Presumably, the date listed 

is the date of the last application that 

particular office worked on at the moment 

the processing data was sent to 

OPQ. This new format also means 

that USCIS no longer informs the 

public of its processing goals. 

While having a date is helpful in 

that it is less confusing, it does not resolve 

all problems. 

For example, USCIS does not post 

processing times for all applications, 

and processing times do not reflect 

any delays related to Requests for Evidence. 

Furthermore, processing times 

are generally out of date by the time 

they are published. This is because 

OPQ takes time to receive and aggregate 

data from the various offices, calculate 

processing times, and publish 

them. Months can pass between the 

first day of the performance month 

and publication. Currently, the processing 

times were last updated De- 

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States and localities respond to 

Donald Trump’s immigration plans 


With all the focus on what to expect at 

the national level on immigration under 

President-elect Donald Trump’s 

administration, it’s easy to overlook 

the states and localities, which are 

reacting to the presidential elections 

and previewing their intentions on 

immigration. 

Elections for governor were held 

in 12 states, with Democrats and Republicans 

each winning six. Republicans 

increased the number of states 

in which they control both legislative 

chambers from 30 to 32 states. Republicans 

have control of the governor’s 

office and both legislative houses 

in 24 states. Democrats control both 

Houses in 13 states, and have full control 

in six. 

Given the harsh anti-immigrant 

tone Trump took, some states and 

localities are doubling down on protecting 

their immigrant communities, 

push back on federal attempts to 

increase deportations, and make their 

communities more welcoming for all 

residents. For example: 

• In Chicago, a $1 million legal defense 

fund for immigrants was recently 

created. Mayor Rahm Emanuel also 

promised to keep Chicago a “sanctuary 

city” and restrict its collaboration 

with federal enforcement authorities, 

even if the city loses federal funding 

as a result. 

• In New York City, Mayor Bill De- 

Blasio has voiced strong support for 

immigrants and the city’s protective 

policies. Most recently, he vowed that 

the federal government would not be 

able to use information from municipal 

ID cards to target immigrants for 

deportation. Approximately 900,000 

New York CIty residents have these 

ID cards and had submitted documents 

proving identity and city residency 

in order to receive them. 

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• In California, lawmakers are considering 

a series of bills to protect unauthorized 

immigrants from deportation. 

One bill would create a fund to 

pay for legal counsel for immigrants 

facing deportation. Another would 

train criminal defense attorneys in 

immigration law so they could better 

protect their clients. The California 

Values Act (SB 54) would ban state 

and local police from performing the 

functions of a federal immigration officer 

and would create “safe zones” at 

public schools, hospitals, and courthouses. 

- Also in California, the Dignity Not 

Detention Act was re-introduced. It

would prohibit local cities and counties 

from entering into new contracts 

with private, for-profit detention facilities 

and would require detention 

facilities to comply with standards of 

humane treatment. 

• In Detroit, the city council approved 

municipal ID cards, which will allow 

all city residents to have identification 

documents regardless of immigration 

status. According to City Council 

Member Raquel Castaneda Lopez, 

“We do not stand down to our commitment 

to being a sanctuary city. We 

don’t stand down to our commitment 

to being a welcoming city. We do not 

stand down to our commitment to 

welcoming refugees.” 

• Churches and universities around 

the nation have also vowed to push 

back against any federal policies that 

endanger immigrants. 

At the same time, some states and 

localities will likely feel emboldened 

by Trump’s victory to push for greater 

restrictions on immigrants and immigration. 

In the past, we have seen state policies 

aimed at making life more difficult 

for immigrants living in the community, 

encouraging them to leave. 

Bolstered by likely expansions of collaboration 

between federal immigration 

enforcement agencies and states, 

we are likely to see legislation affirming 

such cooperation. We may also 

see new attempts to cut refugee resettlement, 

and there may also be attempts 

to roll back previously passed 

immigrant integration policies. For 

example: 

• In Florida, State Senator Greg Steube 

filed a bill (SB 82) to repeal in-state 

tuition for undocumented students 

who graduated from Florida high 

schools. The current law providing 

for in-state tuition went into effect in 

July 2014. According to Sen. Steube, 

who was just named chairman of the 

Senate Judiciary Committee, “I don’t 

think it’s appropriate that illegal immigrants 

should get tax-subsidized 

tuition.” 

• Some states will be trying to prohibit 

so-called “sanctuary cities” that 

limit cooperation with the federal 

immigration authorities. 

For example, Arkansas 

SB14 would prohibit 

sanctuary policies and 

deny state funds to 

municipalities that do 

not comply. The bill defines 

a sanctuary policy as 

one that limits reporting of immigration 

status to federal authorities, 

restricts custody transfers to ICE, requires 

ICE to obtain a warrant before 

making a custody transfer, prevents 

law enforcement officers from asking 

about immigration status, or grants 

unauthorized immigrants “the right 

to lawful presence or status within 

the municipality in violation of federal 

law.” Senator Gary Stubblefield, 

the bill’s sponsor, said he is unaware 

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of any actual sanctuary cities in the 

state and claimed his bill is “preemptive.” 

Anti-sanctuary legislation has 

been pre-filed in Texas as well. 

• In 2016, dozens of bills were introduced 

in state legislatures aimed at 

preventing refugees from being resettled 

in the state. In Michigan, House 

Concurrent Resolution 28 is a nonbinding 

anti-refugee resolution that 

urges the U.S. government to stop 

refugee resettlement in Michigan until 

the federal government increases 

screening and security checks. It 

passed the House Local Government 

Committee. 

• In Texas, where the legislature 

meets every other year, we can expect 

debate on a number of immigration-related 

issues in 

2017 including making 

any crime committed 

by an unauthorized 

immigrant a felony and 

a bill to amend the state’s 

constitution to deny bail to 

anyone in the country unlawfully. 

As the federal government presses 

for more collaboration between states 

and localities in order to pursue a deportation 

agenda in the future, it will 

be more critical than ever to monitor 

state and local laws and policies.

Robots, not immigrants, are replacing U.S. 

manufacturing workers 


There is significant evidence that 

immigrants boost the economy, 

create jobs, and bolster innovation. 

However, President-elect Donald 

Trump has repeatedly stated he 

wants to “put American workers 

first” by restricting immigration. 

Some Americans who are justifiably 

concerned about the economy, 

unemployment, and offshoring mistakenly 

believe that immigrants are 

responsible for the country’s economic 

woes. But the manufacturing 

industry shows that the story is 

much more complicated. In fact, a 

recent article in Fusion makes the 

case “that machines–not Mexicans– 

are perhaps the main culprit for U.S. 

job-loss in the manufacturing sector.” 

The manufacturing industry– 

which includes companies that 

make non-durable (quickly consumed) 

and durable goods (those 

that last a long time)–in the U.S. has 

been particularly hard hit in recent 

years. Manufacturing used to be 

the nation’s biggest employer, but 

today it is the fourth largest industry 

by employment. Ten percent of 

all workers in the U.S. 

work in the manufacturing 

industry. 

According to a 2016 

Georgetown University 

study, manufacturing 

was the hardest-hit industry 

in the Great Recession. 2.7 million 

jobs were lost between December 

2007 and January 2010 and workers 

with a high school diploma or less 

suffered the most, accounting for 

1.6 million lost jobs. Manufacturing 

has since recovered and added 

1.7 million new jobs, still falling one 

million jobs short of pre-recession 

levels. 

Scholars have found that more 

than 80 percent of the job losses in 

manufacturing between 2000 and 

2010 can be attributed to increased 

per-worker production. Because 

of automation and technological 

change, workers in the manufacturing 

sector are much more productive 

than they were a decade ago. 

The industry can produce more 

with fewer workers. According to a 

2015 study by Ball State University’s 

Center for Business and Economic 

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Photo by Engineering at Cambridge 

Research, if 2000 levels of productivity 

were applied to 2010 levels of 

production, 20.9 million manufacturing 

workers would have been required. 

However, only 12.1 million 

were employed. 

In other words, the manufacturing 

industry has continued to grow and 

remains very important to the U.S. 

economy. However, employment in 

manufacturing has not increased, 

primarily due to growth in productivity. 

As technology continues 

to advance, other sectors may also 

see job losses. According to Wilson 

Center scholar Chris Wilson, 

“We can make more stuff with fewer 

people. The real enemy is robots…” 

The bottom line is manufacturing 

jobs are not disappearing because 

of immigration. In fact, immigrants 

are key to the expansion and growth 

of the American economy.

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new technologies 

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department 

of Transportation’s Federal 

Aviation Administration (FAA) 

today issued a final rule that overhauls 

the airworthiness standards 

for small general aviation airplanes. 

This innovative rule will reduce the 

time it takes to move safety enhancing 

technologies for small airplanes 

into the marketplace and will also 

reduce costs for the aviation industry. 

“Aviation manufacturing is our 

nation’s top export and general aviation 

alone contributes approximately 

$80 billion and 400,000 jobs to 

our economy,” said U.S. Transportation 

Secretary Anthony Foxx. “The 

FAA’s rule replaces prescriptive 

design requirements with performance-based 

standards, which will 

reduce costs and leverage innovation 

without sacrificing safety.” 

FAA’s new Part 23 rule establishes 

performance-based standards for 

airplanes that weigh less than 19,000 

pounds with 19 or fewer seats and 

recognizes consensus-based compliance 

methods for specific designs 

and technologies. It also adds new 

certification standards to address 

general aviation loss of control accidents 

and in-flight icing conditions. 

“The rule is a model of what we 

can accomplish for American competitiveness 

when government and 

industry work together and demonstrates 

that we can simultaneously 

enhance safety and reduce burdens 

on industry,” said FAA Administrator 

Michael Huerta. 

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The rule responds to the FAA 

Modernization and Reform Act of 

2012 and the Small Airplane Revitalization 

Act of 2013, which directed 

the FAA to streamline the 

approval of safety advancements 

for small general aviation aircraft. 

It also addresses recommendations 

from the FAA’s 2013 Part 23 Reorganization 

Aviation Rulemaking 

Committee, which recommended a 

more streamlined approval process 

for safety equipment on small general 

aviation aircraft. 

The new rule also promotes regulatory 

harmonization among the 

FAA’s foreign partners, including 

the European Aviation Safety Agency 

(EASA), Transport Canada Civil 

Aviation (TCCA), and Brazil’s Civil 

Aviation Authority (ANAC). This 

harmonization may help minimize 

costs for airplane and engine manufacturers 

and operators of affected 

equipment who seek certification to 

sell products globally. 

The rule affects airplane manufacturers, 

engine manufacturers, and 

operators of affected equipment. 

Click here to learn more from the 

FAA and industry about the benefits 

of streamlined certification. 

This regulatory change is a leading 

example of how the FAA is 

transforming its Aircraft Certification 

Service into an agile organization 

that can support aviation 

industry innovation in the coming 

years. The Service is focused on using 

risk-based oversight to refresh 

the certification strategy, investing 

in management systems to improve 

performance, and improving the 

overall organization. 

The rule will be effective eight 

months from publication in the 

Federal Register.

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HID Global predicts top trends for 2017 in the 

Identity Technology industry 

AUSTIN, TX, January 11, 2017 – 

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in 

trusted identity solutions, forecasts 

a shift in the use of identity technology 

that will lead to increased adoption 

of mobile devices and the latest 

smart card technology, a greater 

emphasis and reliance on the cloud, 

and a radical new way of thinking of 

trust in smart environments and Internet 

of Things (IoT). 

Ultimately, HID Global predicts the 

2017 trends will transform the way 

trusted identities are used with smart 

cards, mobile devices, wearables, 

embedded chips and other “smart” 

objects, particularly in industries focused 

on regulatory compliance, such 

as government, finance and healthcare 

markets. This shift will precipitate 

the move from legacy systems 

to NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy and 

advanced smart card technology to 

meet the evolving needs of enterprises 

and governments worldwide. 

The forecast for 2017 is also based 

on a breakthrough in adoption of mobile 

identity technology in 2016. Exemplifying 

industry-wide trending, 

HID Global experienced tremendous 

uptick in customer deployments of 

its broad mobility solutions and has 

a strong pipeline of future customer 

installations in the works to make 

verification of identities optimized 

for mobile applications. 

“HID Global has forecasted top 

trends based on our broad view of the 

market in close collaboration with 

customers and partners who are assessing 

and deploying innovative solutions 

across markets worldwide,” 

said Stefan Widing, President and 

CEO of HID Global. “We have been 

at the forefront of major technology 

shifts over the years and HID Global 

believes 2017 will mark an important 

phase in the industry, as organizations 

seek to use the broadest range of 

smart devices ever. This will directly 

impact how customers view and use 

trusted identities on both mobile devices 

and smart cards for more activities 

in more connected environments 

in the years ahead.” 

HID Global focuses on four significant 

trends in 2017 that will influence 

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how organizations create, manage 

and use trusted identities in a broad 

range of existing and new use cases. 

Stronger adoption of 

mobile devices and advanced smart 

cards underscores the need 

for trusted identities 

• Similar to the adoption of consumer 

trends to IT in past years, 2017 will 

also see further consumerization of 

security, with heightened demand 

from users seeking to open doors, 

and login to cloud-based resources, 

as well as have personalized on-demand 

printing of documents, and to 

deploy printed credentials remotely 

or conduct other transactions and 

daily activities using trusted IDs on 

their phone, wearable or smart card. 

• Trusted IDs that integrate security, 

privacy and convenience will provide 

a new level of assurance to these applications 

and transactions, while being 

uniquely positioned to make secure 

access more personalized to the 

individual. 

• The industry will look towards complete 

identity relationship management 

that considers the need to grant 

access based on the context or circumstances 

for risk-appropriate au-

thentication across trusted identities 

assigned to people, devices, data and 

things in smart offices, buildings and 

other environments that are becoming 

more connected every day. 

Greater emphasis on the cloud 

through “hybrid” solutions that 

combine on-premises and the cloud 

to create common management 

platforms for digital IDs 

• Organizations are recognizing the 

interdependencies of technologies 

and platforms needed for business 

agility, cost management and providing 

a better user experience within a 

mobile workforce, or for digital commerce 

and relationship management 

that continues to require more reach, 

flexibility, security. 

• In banking, government, healthcare 

and other regulated markets, multifactor 

authentication for physical and 

IT access control will have more opportunities 

to merge into integrated 

systems that will also provide a more 

convenient experience for users and 

increase security. 

• This model will make it easier for 

administrators to deploy and maintain 

an integrated system throughout 

the complete identity lifecycle -- from 

onboarding to offboarding; 

• It will make it possible to monitor 

and manage employees’ access rights 

as their role changes within an organization, 

ensuring employees only 

have access to what they need in a 

current role. 

• Credential issuance for physical ID 

cards will also experience a digital 

transformation, as the use of cloud 

technologies will enable managed 

service models for badge printing and 

encoding. 

Emerging IoT uses cases to 

connect, more people, places and 

things, increasing the need to ensure 

the Internet of Trusted Things (IoTT) 

• Trusted identities will increasingly 

be employed to help secure, customize 

and enhance the user experience 

across a growing range of industry 

segments that are embracing the 

power of the IoT. 

• Organizations will look towards 

streamlining processes and operations 

using real-time location systems, 

presence- and proximity-based 

location functionality, condition 

monitoring solutions, beacons and 

cloud-based models for 

emerging IoT applications 

using Bluetooth 

Low Energy. These applications 

will include 

a growing number of 

energy efficient, productivity 

and safetyoriented 

use cases that 

will need to know the 

identity of occupants 

in a physical space to 

manage environmental 

conditions, book meet- 

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ing rooms and auto-configure audio 

visual equipment and alarms. 

• Bluetooth Low Energy-based solutions 

will also advance existing secure 

proof of presence capabilities to 

include the predictive analytics and 

functionality based on location-based 

technologies. 

Embedding trusted identities more 

deeply in everyday activities for 

businesses and consumers 

• Trusted identities will become an 

embedded feature of more use cases 

rather than simply an add-on capability. 

This trend of “security by design” 

will lead to many more convenient 

approaches to using digital identities 

across a growing variety of activities, 

services and industries. 

• Along with popular secure access 

use cases, new applications will 

emerge, such as employee mustering 

capabilities to address emergencies as 

well as the need to more 

accurately determine 

who is in a building in 

real-time. 

• New capabilities for 

managing and using 

trusted IDs will be driven 

by the increase of 

temporary offices, mobile 

knowledge workers 

and the evolution of the 

workplace, where adapting 

to the preferences of 

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Heightening security verification with 

self-service kiosks 

The issuance and verification of 

identity credentials are currently 

managed by different agencies in 

different ways. Given the variations 

in resources, technology and 

security requirements, this is not 

surprising. Emerging technologies 

are now creating opportunities to 

achieve greater consistency across 

platforms and agencies which may 

enable greater efficiencies and better 

accuracy throughout the spectrum 

of security needs. 

One promising modality is the 

standalone, self-service ID kiosk. 

Its simplest form is similar to the 

electronic check-in kiosks at airports, 

where passengers insert their 

credit cards or scan their passports 

to verify identity. Those kiosks serve 

as an initial security point, but they 

do not support biometric data recognition 

(such as fingerprints, iris 

scan or facial recognition). They reduce 

the need for clerks to perform 

the check-in at the airline counter, 

without replacing TSA check-points 

where passengers show picture IDs 

along with boarding passes. 

Still, the check-in machine allows 

reasonable labor savings for airlines. 

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It also provides a conceptual backdrop 

for the type of self-service kiosks 

that could enable greater levels 

of efficiency, savings and accuracy 

in security credentials issuance and 

authentication. This could be useful 

in government embassies and facilities, 

as well as in airports and other 

locations where security needs are 

high. 

The enrollment process for issuing 

ID credentials must still begin 

with a face-to-face encounter with 

an officer or agent of the issuing 

body. For example a passport, driver’s 

license or global entry pass requires 

the completion and transfer 

of data such as birth certificates, fingerprints, 

signature, etc. Biometric 

data capture can be performed automatically 

with the use of a machine, 

such as the Speed Identity kiosk, or 

by a trained security agent. A combination 

of the two can also be used 

to speed up the process. The security 

officer is usually vested with the 

skills to recognize human factors, 

such as nervousness, that provide 

subjective cues about an applicant’s 

authenticity, for example. While fingerprints 

and photographs are collected 

automatically, the officer’s attention 

can be focused on observing 

behaviors that a machine can’t see 

or understand. 

The real benefit of a self-service

ID kiosk is after the credentials have 

been issued – when they are checked 

at the point of entry to an airport 

terminal, area or building. Here, 

biometric data can be matched 

against a central database. Fingerprints 

can be quickly scanned and 

matched. A signature can be validated. 

Or a photo can be used for a 

facial recognition (FR) comparison. 

Many of the security functions enabled 

by the technology can take 

place seamlessly without the user’s 

explicit step-by-step direction because 

they occur in the background. 

Once an individual’s background 

and identity are vetted through the 

appropriate authoritative agencies, 

it won’t have to be done repeatedly. 

All of the work is done up front and 

subsequent screenings are virtually 

instantaneous. 

Gaining entry to a secure area – 

for example, a particular work area 

in a mission critical facility or location 

– can be done at an unattended 

gate, simply by requiring a quick 

fingerprint, iris scan, or FR comparison. 

The potential for unauthorized 

access, fraud and human error is reduced. 

Re-entering the US after a trip 

abroad can also be made faster 

and easier with self-service kiosks. 

Instead of manually completing a 

US customs form and handing it, 

with a passport, to a customs agent 

for checking, questions can be answered 

on an electronic screen and 

the passport can be authenticated at 

the same time. The machine does 

more than visual inspection of an 

ID credential – it can also scan for 

invisible security features. The time 

and labor savings can be invaluable. 

This technology is already being 

used at international points of entry. 

A common credential for government 

facilities and agencies could 

also be accommodated. This would 

allow authentication between agencies 

with a high degree of confidence. 

The migration to self-service kiosks 

will require planning. Traffic 

volume must be carefully considered 

when deciding how many machines 

to install and in what locations. 

They must be easy to find, and 

it’s important to install enough of 

them to prevent long lines. Bottlenecks 

would defeat their purpose of 

convenience, and discourage use. 

The interface and workflow are 

critical points for user adoption. The 

kiosk should be inviting and easy to 

use and understand. It’s possible for 

the interface to adjust workflow in 

accordance with the user’s demographic 

(age, for example). The user 

won’t realize it, but the speed of the 

question/answer workflow will be 

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adjusted to meet the user’s anticipated 

needs. 

Anti-fraud measures can be 

built in as well. Biometrics can be 

proofed with background adjudication. 

The interactive technology will 

detect inconsistencies and adjust 

the workflow to allow correction or 

to automatically abort an attempt. 

Conclusion 

The use of self-service kiosks for 

identity authentication will become 

commonplace in areas, like airports 

and government facilities, where a 

high degree of security is required. 

These new technologies will enable 

faster and more accurate checking 

of credentials, saving time and 

money and providing a new level of 

convenience to the users.


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It is estimated that more than 

90 percent of photo ID card inspections 

are undertaken visually 

and in the field. In fact, visual 

inspections are often the first and 

primary form of document investigation 

and validation. Any decisions 

to use a secondary inspection 

criteria are often based on the outcome 

of the visual inspection. For 

this reason, good badge design and 

the selection of the right custom ID 

card printing solution is so important. 

These components are crucial 

in creating visually secure credentials 

that incorporate elements that 

can be scrutinized and validated 

during the initial inspection. 

The speed, cost-effectiveness, 

convenience and simplicity of visual 

inspections have made them 

particularly popular in government 

applications including national 

ID cards, permit and enforcement 

documents, and federal ID credentials. 

These cards, documents and 

credentials must be clearly authentic 

and genuine, so the 

importance of having 

a well-designed visual 

security solution cannot 

be overstated. 

Typical visual security 

features include 

holographic overlaminates and card 

pre-printing. Holographic overlaminates 

may include numerous overt, 

covert and forensic features, while 

pre-printing options range from 

holograms and various types of security 

printing to special inks, relief 

structures, laser images, optical 

variable ink (OVI), hidden features, 

and randomized UV markings. 

There are dozens of visual security 

combinations that can be considered, 

and HID Global and its partners 

are available to help customers 

make the right choices for their requirements. 

It’s important to note that most of 

the visual security solutions that are 

offered today are one-size-fits-all, 

meaning they are exactly the same 

on every single document. While 

this is still a very effective solution, 

an additional level of defense can 

be applied by utilizing card printing 

features including personalizing 

IDs with on-card visual security options. 

The ID designs can now play 

a role in the first line defense against 

counterfeiting by taking visual security 

features and customizing them 

to each unique card holder or user. 

HID Global delivers this capability 

to its customers with its One-2- 

One custom card printing offerings, 

which make visual security 

solutions unique to each individual 

and their credential. These One-2- 

One solutions can be created on the 

company’s vanGO® cards which are 

stamped with a unique and specialized 

foil developed by HID Global. 

In addition, numerous One-2-One 

visual security elements can be 

placed onto the cards’ foil including 

a picture of the card holder, a 

unique identification number, or 

even a combination of items, such 

as a unique ID plus the organization’s 

logo, for example. The alternative 

One-2-One option of laser 

engraving offers the advantage of 

being able to place images either at 

the surface or beneath the surface of 

the ID card, and supports more detailed 

images as well as the ability to

create microtext lettering. The personalization 

of these One-2-One solutions 

are done by using available 

modules that can be attached to the 

HID FARGO® HDP8500 industrial 

ID card printer and encoder. The 

HDP8500LW laser writing module 

is used for creating the unique personalization 

of the foil on vanGO 

cards while the HDP8500LE laser 

engraver module can be used to 

apply numerous types of laser engraving 

options onto cards made of 

polycarbonate or laserable PVC materials. 

As with other forms of security, 

visual security solutions take time 

to develop and implement, so plan 

ahead. Remember that visual security 

is the first line of defense against 

threats to people, property, assets, 

information and infrastructure. Be 

sure to implement visual security as 

part of a well-developed and managed, 

multi-level security solution. 

And consider One-2-One card personalization 

solutions that are easy 

to validate and deliver increased 

counterfeit resistance. 

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DOJ issues final rule about unfair 

immigration-related employment practices 

By Leslie Dellon 

The U.S. Department of Justice’s 

(DOJ) Civil Rights Division recently 

issued a final rule, effective January 

18, to update regulations that the 

agency uses to enforce employmentrelated 

anti-discrimination provisions 

that Congress included in the 

“unfair immigration-related employment 

practices” section of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act (INA). 

The agency maintains that the update 

clarifies the procedures for investigations 

and charges of discrimination. 

With the Immigration Reform and 

Control Act of 1986, Congress added 

a section to the Immigration and 

Nationality Act that made it illegal 

for employers to hire unauthorized 

workers. In the same legislation, Congress 

also added a section prohibiting 

immigration-related discrimination 

in the employment context. Congress 

also created a Special Counsel for 

Immigration-Related Unfair Employment 

Practices within DOJ to enforce 

the anti-discrimination provisions. 

This was out of concern that overlycautious 

employers would refuse to 

hire, or take other discriminatory employment-related 

actions against, U.S. 

citizens or certain immigrants who 

had work authorization but looked or 

sounded “foreign.” 

The law protects against discrimination 

based on “national origin,” 

which refers to being from a particular 

country or region of the world, or 

having an accent or appearing to be 

of a particular ethnicity. The law also 

protects against “citizenship status” 

discrimination for U.S. citizens, nationals, 

permanent residents (“green 

card” holders), refugees, asylees, and 

certain temporary residents. However, 

those who are not U.S. citizens 

or nationals will lose this additional 

protection if they do not take steps to 

become U.S. citizens within a specified 

time period. The law does not 

protect people not authorized to work 

in the U.S. and excludes employers 

with three or fewer employees, jobs 

with a lawful citizenship requirement 

or when a national origin discrimination 

claim would be covered by a different 

law. 

In 1990, Congress added a protection 

against a new form of immigration-related 

discrimination. When 

workers present documentation 

proving they are authorized to work 

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in the U.S., an employer cannot require 

that they provide more or different 

documents, such as rejecting 

any documents other than a “green 

card” from permanent residents. 

In 1996, Congress amended this 

documentation provision to specify 

that an employer who requires “more 

or different documents,” or refuses to 

accept a document that “reasonably” 

appears to be genuine would be acting 

unlawfully only if the employer 

acted “for the purpose or with the intent 

of discriminating.” 

In December, DOJ finally issued 

regulations implementing this 

amendment and making certain other 

changes. Key elements of the new 

regulations include: 

• The name of the Special Counsel’s 

office is changed to the Immigrant 

and Employee Rights Section (which 

remains part of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division) 

because having more than one 

Special Counsel’s office has caused 

confusion. The Special Counsel’s title, 

which is specified by the law, remains 

unchanged. 

• The new regulations include a definition 

of “discriminate,” which the 

agency maintains has clarified that 

an employer’s intent to discriminate 

must be based on national origin or 

citizenship status. Some employers 

remain concerned because the definition 

of intent does not consider what

eason an employer may have had. 

For example, an employer may try to 

be helpful by letting a person who has 

identified herself as a permanent resident 

know that she could provide her 

green card for documentation. The 

employer’s intent is to be helpful, not 

to discriminate. This is different than 

requiring all foreign-born employees 

to present a green card, which is 

clearly discriminatory. However, the 

final rule does not ultimately resolve 

this issue because DOJ also explains 

that if the employer is intentionally 

treating the permanent resident differently, 

i.e., because of her citizenship 

status, then the employer has 

discriminated. 

• Individuals who submit a discrimination 

claim within the 180-day time 

period provided by law now have an 

additional 45 days to submit information 

if the Special Counsel decides 

that they did not provide enough information 

to meet the requirements 

for a “charge.” 

• The DOJ Special Counsel may accept 

charges filed after the 180-day 

time limit under certain circumstances. 

• The Special Counsel may file a 

complaint based on an investigation 

the office initiated, up to five years after 

the date of alleged discrimination. 

While the final rule still does not provide 

answers to all of the questions 

raised by employers, the agency has 

clarified its position as to enforcement 

of the law. 

House members join effort to 

create independent commission 

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92.Rick Larsen 

93.John Larson 

94.Brenda Lawrence 

95.Barbara Lee 

96.Sander Levin 

97.John Lewis 

98.Ted Lieu 

99.David Loebsack 

100.Zoe Lofgren 

101.Alan Lowenthal 

102.Nita Lowey 

103.Ben Ray Lujan 

104.Michelle Lujan Grisham 

105.Stephen Lynch 

106.Carolyn Maloney 

107.Doris Matsui 

108.Betty McCollum 

109.A. Donald McEachin 

110.James P. McGovern 

111.Jerry McNerney 

112.Gregory Meeks 

113.Grace Meng 

114.Seth Moulton 

115.Gwen Moore 

116.Stephanie Murphy 

117.Jerrold Nadler 

118.Grace Napolitano 

119.Richard Neal 

120.Donald Norcross 

121.Eleanor Holmes Norton 

122.Beto O’Rourke 

123.Frank Pallone 

124.Jimmy Panetta 

125.Bill Pascrell 

126.Nancy Pelosi 

127.Ed Perlmutter 

128.Scott Peters 

129.Collin Peterson 

130.Stacey Plaskett 

131.Mark Pocan 

132.Jared Polis 

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133.David Price 

134.Mike Quigley 

135.Jamie Raskin 

136.Kathleen Rice 

137.Cedric Richmond 

138.Jacky Rosen 

139.Lucille Roybal-Allard 

140.Raul Ruiz 

141.C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger 

142.Bobby Rush 

143.Tim Ryan 

144.Gregorio Sablan 

145.Linda Sanchez 

146.John Sarbanes 

147.Janice Schakowsky 

148.Adam Schiff 

149.Bradley Schneider 

150.Bobby Scott 

151.Jose Serrano 

152.Terri Sewell 

153.Carol Shea-Porter 

154.Brad Sherman 

155.Kyrsten Sinema 

156.Albio Sires 

157.Louise Slaughter 

158.Adam Smith 

159.Darren Soto 

160.Jackie Speier 

161.Thomas Suozzi 

162.Mark Takano 

163.Bennie Thompson 

164.Mike Thompson 

165.Dina Titus 

166.Paul Tonko 

167.Norma Torres 

168.Niki Tsongas 

169.Juan Vargas 

170.Marc Veasey 

171.Filemon Vela 

172.Nydia Velazquez 

173.Debbie Wasserman Schultz 

174.Maxine Waters 

175.Bonnie Watson Coleman 

176.Peter Welch 

177.John Yarmuth

GSN announces 

Winners and Finalists in the 

2016 Homeland Security Awards Program 

By Adrian Courtenay 

Government Security News is 

pleased to announce the Winners 

and Finalists in its 8th annual 

Homeland Security Awards Program, 

and to thank the indefatigable 

Chuck Brooks and his team for 

serving as expert judges with great 

distinction. Not surprisingly, Chuck 

Brooks is once again the odds-on favorite 

to become the “Cybersecurity 

Marketer of the Year”. 

It is similarly no surprise, in light 

of what took place in the recent 

Presidential election, that the subject 

of Cybersecurity attracted more 

entries in the 2016 Awards Program 

than any other topic. 

On a very important note on 

the subject of Cybersecurity, GSN 

would like to take this opportunity 

to salute Brigadier General (retired) 

Gregory Touhill, who has been 

named as the First Federal Chief 

Information Officer of the United 

States. He was previously the Deputy 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Cybersecurity 

and Communications, 

National Programs and Protection 

Directorate, Department of Homeland 

Security. Additionally, he was 

Chief Information Officer and Director 

of Command, Control, 

Communications and 

Cyber Systems at the U.S. 

Transportation Command. 

In 2014, General Touhill 

authored a book titled “Cybersecurity 

for Executives.” 

Before moving on to the 

announcement of Winners 

and Finalists, I would like to 

share with everyone the comments 

that Chuck Brooks made about the 

quality of the entries in the Awards 

Program, which I believe described 

this year’s Awards perfectly. His 

comments also explain why you will 

see a number of categories which 

have more than one Winner. In Mr 

Brooks’ words: 

“These are my general perceptions 

of the Awards: Each year the quality 

and scope of the submissions makes 

it more difficult to judge. They are 

all deserving. There are no inferior 

security products or services that I 

evaluated – they are all stellar. The 

approaches and methods sometimes 

differ among the entries and that is 

largely because they are highly fo- 

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Chuck Brooks 

cused on their specific client needs. 

As to the government entries, these 

submissions exemplify the 

best in public/private cooperation. 

Government 

is moving rapidly into the 

digital era and integrating 

technologies, processes 

and accordingly new mandates 

of their government 

agencies and programs.” 

With that introduction from Mr. 

Brooks, here are the 2016 Winners 

and Finalists: 

Category #1: Vendors of 

IT Security Products and Solutions 

Judging in this category is based on 

a combination of: 

• Increase in client organization’s 

security 

• Technological innovation or 

improvement 

• Filling a recognized government 

IT security need 

• Flexibility of solution to meet 

current and future organizational 

needs

The GSN 2016 Homeland Security Awards 

Best User & Entity Behavior 

Analytics (UEBA) Solution 

Amplivox - Finalist 

Identive - Finalist 

Inmarsat - Winner 

FLIR - Finalist 

Rave Mobile Security – Finalist 

Gurucul - Winner 

Best Industrial 

Cybersecurity Solution 

Aperio - Winner 

Claroty - Finalist 

Darktrace - Winner 

Indegy - Winner 

Best Application Security Solution 

Waratec - Winner 

Best Multifactor 

Authentication Solution 

No entries 

Best Anti-Malware Solution 

Blue Ridge - Winner 

Bromium - Winner 

Passages - Finalist 

Best Identity Management Platform 

Centrify - Winner 

Forum Systems - Finalist 

HID Global - Winner 

Best Enterprise File Solution 

No entries 

Best Compliance/Vulnerability 

Assessment Solution 

Netwrix Corporation - Finalist 

Risk Vision - Finalist 

Solar Winds - Winner 

Wombat - Finalist 

Best Cyber Operational Risk 

Intelligence 

Red Seal - Winner 

Best Data Security/Loss 

Management Solution 

Spiron - Winner 

Best Email Security 

and Integrity Solution 

Wombat Security Technologies - 

Winner 

Best Endpoint Detection 

and Response Solution 

Bromium - Winner 

Illusive Networks - Winner 

Tychon - Finalists 

Best Forensic Software 

No Entries 

Best Big Data Analytics Solution 

Securiport - Winner 

Best Threat Intelligence Solution 

Securiport - Winner 

ViaSat - Finalist 

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Best Network 

Security/Enterprise Firewall 

Forcepoint - Winner 

Best Physical Logical Privileged 

Access Management Solution 

Beyond Trust - Winner 

Centrify Corporation - Finalist 

EKUSA - Finalist 

Forum Systems - Finalist 

Identive - Winner 

Best Continuous Monitoring 

and Mitigation Solution 

Cyber Ark – Winner 

Darktrace - Winner 

Netwrix - Finalist 

Passages - Finalist 

Securiport - Finalist 

Solar Winds Worldwide - Finalist 

Best Security Incident & Event 

Management (SIEM) Solution 

Cyber Ark - Finalist 

Netwrix - Winner 

Solar Winds Worldwide - Winner 

Best Security Infrastructure 

Orchestration 

Phantom - Winner 

Best Server Security Solution 

BlueRidge - Winner

Category #2: Vendors of Physical 

Security Products and Solutions 

Judging in this category is based on 

a combination of: 

• Increase in client organization 

Technological innovation or 

improvement 

• Filling a recognized government 

IT security need 

• Flexibility of solution to meet 

current and future organizational 

needs 

PHYSICAL SECURITY, ACCESS 

CONTROL, IDENTIFICATION, 

COMMUNICATIONS 

Best Biometric Identification 

System 

No Entry 

Best Access Control Hardware 

Identive - Winner 

Best Asset Tracking 

With Pairing Technology 

Offsite Vision Holdings - Winner 

Best Mass Notification System 

Amplifox Sound Systems - Winner 

LRAD 2 - Finalist 

Rave Mobile Security - Finalist 

Best Acoustic Hailing Service 

Amplivox Sound System - Finalist 

LRAD - Winner 

Best Lock-Down and 

9-1-1 Notification 

in Active Shooter Situations 

Rave Mobile Safety - Winner 

Best Active Shooter 

Gunshot Detection Solution 

Shooter Detection System - Winner 

DETECTION PRODUCTS 

Best Chemical Detection Product 

or Solution 

FLIR - Winner 

Best Explosives Detection Product 

or Solution 

FLIR - Winner 


Solution 

FLIR - Winner 

Best Automated License Plate 

Recognition (ALPAR) 

Perceptics LLC - Winner 

Best Spherical Situational 

Awareness Imaging Technology 

IC Realtime - Winner 

OTHER PRODUCTS 

Best Perimeter Protection, 

Intrusion Detection System 

Ross Technology Corporation - 

Winner 

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Best Crash Barriers 

(Gates, Fences, Barriers, Bollards) 

Best Guard Booths 

B.I.G Enterprises – Winner 

SERVICES/EDUCATION 

Best Disaster Preparedness, 

Recovery, Clean-up 

High Rise Escape Systems Inc - 

Winner 

Category #3: GSN 2016 

Government Excellence Award 

Judging in this category will be 

based on one or more of the following 

criteria: 

• Development of successful 

strategy and increase in public 

safety 

• Providing a notable solution to a 

recognized problem 

• Reduction in cost and/or major 

increase in efficiency and 

effectiveness 

• Decisive, successful action to 

respond to threat or emergency 

Special note on this year’s Government 

Awards: Rather than relying on 

predetermined categories, the judges 

decided instead to select five entries 

that would best represented the term 

Government Excellence.

The GSN 2016 Homeland Security Awards 

Readers who would like to learn 

more about the selected entries may 

go to the GSN 2016 Digital Yearbook 

of Homeland Security Awards, where 

descriptions of the Government Excellence 

Winner’s entries will be posted 

shortly. 

2016 Government Excellence Entry 

selected by judges: 

Agency: USDA Agricultural Research 

Service (USDA-ARS) 

Category: Most Notable Federal 

Government Program, Project or 

Initiative 

Product: BeyondTrust Powerbroker 



Agency: Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) 

Category: Most Notable Cybersecurity 

Program or Technology 

Product, Service or Program: Personal 

Identity Verification (PIV) 

and Single Sign On (SSO) enablement 



Agency: Department of Homeland 

Security, Office of Cybersecurity 

and Communications 



Product: National Cybersecurity 

Assessments and Technical Services 

(NCATS) 



Agency: State of Montana 

Category: Most Notable State 

Government Program, Project 

or Initiative 

Program: State Information Technology 

Services Division (SITSD), 

State of Montana 



Agency: DOJ, OPM 

Category: Most Notable Government 

Security Program, Project of 

Initiative 

Product, Service or Program: Interagency 

Security Committee Risk 

Management Process (ISCRMP) 

Training Program 



Agency: Wombat Security Technologies 



Product, Service or Program: Wombat 

Security Education Platform 

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Nomination process 

Vendors of IT security or physical 

security products or solutions 

may nominate themselves 

or be nominated by a federal, 

state or local government official. 

Government agencies or departments 

may nominate their 

own agency or department, or 

another government agency or 

department, or may be nominated 

by a vendor of IT Security 

or Physical Security products 

and solutions. 

Entrants in any category may 

enter for multiple awards. 

Entry procedure 

Each entrant, or representative 

of entrant’s company or government 

agency, must fill out a separate 

entry form for each award 

being sought. 

A written narrative of company 

or agency’s achievements 

and credentials for the award 

being sought should not exceed 

500 words. Entrants are 

welcome to provide supporting 

documentation such as Web 

links, supporting letters or favorable 

press coverage of their 

company or agency.

Video Surveillance, Software, Management 

Hikvision supports school security and success for 

students with disabilities 

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA —January 

16, 2017— Hikvision USA Inc., 

the North American leader in innovative, 

award-winning video surveillance 

products, delivered a new 

security system that will be used for 

classroom instruction as well as security 

at Kids World, a non-profit 

school for students with disabilities, 

located in Taylorsville, Utah. 

The system was installed over 

the holidays. Since its founding in 

2005, Kids World has helped 

students (pre-school 

to 7th grade) with 

a variety of challenging 

disabilities, 

said Kids 

Worldfounder 

Brandon Francis. 

“We help students get 

their behavior, social skills, and 

academics to the point where they 

can be successful in school and in 

their community,” Francis said. 

“We become a family to our students 

and I always hate to see them 

graduate our program,but it’s great 

to see them confident and ready to 

flourish in their next educational 

setting.” 

Several Kids World graduates 

have moved on to public school settings. 

One child, who was nonverbal 

initially, started speaking after 

participating in an auditory therapy 

program at Kids World. 

The Hikvision solution replaced 

an outdated system. Cameras are 

used for security when the school is 

vacant, during recess on the school’s 

playground, in the classrooms, and 

in the pickup/drop-off area. Inside 

the classrooms, teachers use 

video for monitoring 

and visual feedback. 

Kids World’s 

new Hikvision 

system is designed 

for very easy installation, 

versatility 

and is ideally suited 

to a small education-vertical 

environment. The system includes 

three Hikvision DS-2CD2432F-IW 

3MP Indoor IR Wifi Cube cameras; 

one DS-2CD2542FWD-IWS 4MP 

WDR Mini Dome Network camera; 

four DS-2CD2132F-IWS MP Vandal-proof 

Network Dome cameras; 

and aDS-7716NI-I4/16P Embedded 

Plug & Play 4K NVR, with a built-in 

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POE switch. 

All of the cameras feature higher 

definition, affording better security 

and better coverage for the safety 

of the children. The outdoor cameras 

provide a wide coverage area 

for effective perimeter protection. 

The indoor cameras are low profile, 

which makes them unobtrusive in 

theclassroom. 

The 4MP indoor dome camera 

features very wide, 106-degree coverage 

for the classroom, and all indoor 

cameras have audio recording 

capability, which Kids World teachers 

will use for instructional purposes. 

All of the cameras are also 

Wifi capable for a dynamic range of 

deployment opportunities. 

Kids World has two classrooms

and 16- to 20 students. In addition 

to regular school hours, Kids World 

offers one-on-one therapy, tutoring 

and after-school programs. Hikvision 

has solutions that are tailored 

specifically to the education market, 

with systems that are appropriate 

for a wide variety of K-12 and higher 

education applications. 

“We’re particularly pleased to provide 

technical expertise and video 

surveillance equipment to help support 

KidsWorld teachers and students,” 

said Alex Asnovich, director 

of marketing for Hikvision USA. 

“This is one example of the many 

ways that Hikvision invests in the 

communities where we do business,” 

he added. 

A few years ago, Kids World 

moved from its original location in 

a commercial park to a residential 

neighborhood. “I did an extensive 

study and found that a home-like 

environment is the most beneficial 

for students with and without disabilities. 

This type of environment 

helps students feel safe, secure, and 

at home. As a result, students have 

a higher self-esteem, are more ready 

to learn, have higher outcomes, and 

feel less anxiety then in a commercial 

building,” Francis said. “The 

Hikvision cameras will really make 

a difference for our students and 

their families, providing security 

and a helping hand in the classroom 

too,” Francis added. 

About Hikvision 

Hikvision is the world’s leading supplier 

of video surveillance solutions. 

Featuring the industry’s strongest 

R&D workforce, Hikvision designs, 

develops, and manufactures standard- 

and high-definition cameras, 

including a variety of IP cameras, 

analogcameras, and cameras featuring 

the latest in high-definition 

analog technology. Hikvision’s 

product suite also includes digital 

video servers, hybrid and standalone 

DVRs, NVRs, and other elements 

of sophisticated security systems 

for both indoor and outdoor 

use. 

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AMICO Security to play major 

role in Trump’s border security 

initiative 


technology, detection devices, and 

video surveillance, all of which are 

currently used on the Israel border. 

“We are a 76-year-old Alabamabased 

steel fabrication company, 

which has been hit hard by foreign 

imports, dumping and an un-level 

playing field,” said Baltz. “We are extremely 

excited to have the opportunity 

to increase production and put 

American workers back to work.” 

About AMICO Security 

AMICO Security is an industry 

leader in manufacturing medium 

to high security perimeter systems. 

AMICO has been in business for 

over 76 years and our patented 

proprietary systems protect infrastructure 

and boarders throughout 

the world. The new AMIGUARD 

perimeter system is the gold standard 

for perimeter protection and 

is rapidly becoming the number 

one choice for infrastructure protection 

worldwide. 

http://www.amicosecurity.com

Video Surveillance, Software, Management 

New Thermal Chassis Surveillance Camera 

Offers Continuous Zoom 

Sierra-Olympic Technologies, a supplier 

of infrared (IR) and thermal 

imaging components, cameras, and 

systems solutions for innovative 

imaging applications, has developed 

a new thermal chassis camera 

with a continuous zoom that is 

built for integrators and thermal 

video end-users, the Vinden 150 EX 

640 x 480 (see Fig. 1). The affordable 

camera provides 

highly-sensitive thermal 

imaging using 

advanced, uncooled 

VOx microbolometer 

technology and 

an extremely efficient 

continuous zoom optic. 

The highly parfocal 

optic keeps objects 

in perfect focus 

throughout the zoom range. 

The new Vinden 150 EX features 

a total 12X zoom factor and a remarkable 

1.5 degree HFOV in full 

optical plus digital zoom. The 640 x 

480 camera is available in 30 Hz and 

9Hz models, depending on export 

requirements. Specially designed 

for critical pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) security 

and surveillance applications, 

the camera offers advanced thermal 

image processing for integrators or 

other users who require exceptional 

Figure 1 - Sierra-Olympic’s Vinden 

150 EX 640 x 480 thermal imaging 

camera for video surveillance and 

security. 

zoom imaging capabilities (see Fig. 2 

- Side-by-side Visible vs. Vinden 150 

EX thermal camera views). 

The Vinden 150 EX uncooled 

camera offers IP-video output with 

H.264 and MJPG streams and Ethernet 

control, for maximum flexibility 

and integration into new or existing 

security and surveillance systems. 

Simultaneous analog video (NTSC 

or PAL) and 14-bit 

Camera Link digital 

outputs are also available. 

Optional control 

via a serial communication 

port (serial 

com) is offered; other 

options include individual 

harness microconnectors 

or 30-pin 

FFC connectors. 

An ideal imaging tool for systems 

integrators, Sierra-Olympic’s Vinden 

150 EX is used for infrastructure security, 

thermal PTZ systems, port 

and harbor security, 

and a variety of defense 

applications. 

To learn more about 

the new Vinden 150 

EX 640 x 480 thermal 

camera, please go to: 

www.sierraolympic. 

com/products/lwir- 

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optics/vinden-cz/vinden-150-ex- 

640x480. 

About Sierra-Olympic 

Technologies, Inc. 

Sierra-Olympic Technologies, Inc. 

(www.sierraolympic.com Hood 

River, Oregon), experts in thermal 

imaging technology, provides cameras, 

components, and systems solutions 

for infrared camera users and 

integrators. Sierra-Olympic partners 

with industry-leading manufacturers 

to offer complete solutions for 

SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR imaging 

applications. The company offers numerous 

products for online purchase 

and immediate shipment. Products 

include LWIR OEM imaging cores, 

cooled cameras for science and industry, 

cooled cameras for OEM 

customers, SWIR cameras, and thermography 

systems for temperaturemeasurement 

applications. 

Figure 2 - Side-by-side Visible vs. Thermal camera viewsviews from a 

visible camera and a thermal camera of smoky hills and power lines).

Elephant proof. 

Our cameras are much tougher than they look. That’s because we don’t just 

give them a few strikes during testing, as you might expect. Instead, we subject 

them to about 30 heavy strikes – directly on their weakest spots. Don’t worry 

though, we keep them away from elephants. 

It’s just one of the tough tests Axis cameras face, so you can be sure you’ll 

always get the best image quality and high performance – no matter what’s 

thrown at them. 

Learn more about Axis’ quality assurance work at axis.com/quality 

For more information about our governement solutions, visit www.axis.com/usgov

Will Congress fund President Trump’s executive 

order on border enforcement? 

By Joshua Breisblatt 

President Donald Trump’s Border 

Security and Immigration Enforcement 

Improvements executive order 

is an attempt to fulfill his campaign 

pledge to build a wall at the 

southern border, to provide additional 

resources to Border Patrol 

agents, to curtail due process 

at the border, and to increase detention 

along the southern border, 

including for those who are 

seeking protection. Much of this 

order will require more funding 

from Congress, and that is by no 

means guaranteed. 

The executive order directs the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) to take immediate steps 

to allocate available funds to start 

constructing a wall, as well as creating 

a long-term funding plan for 

it. As a practical matter, with estimated 

costs of $15 to $25 billion 

to build the remaining border wall 

segments, Congress would have to 

appropriate significant additional 

funding for construction and annual 

maintenance. 

Apart from the wasteful expense, 

construction of additional border 

fencing is unnecessary; as of early 

2017, approximately 650 miles of 

border fence already exists. Even 

the head of the National Border Patrol 

Council, a union representing 

16,000 Border Patrol agents which 

endorsed Trump during his campaign, 

said, “We do not need a wall 

along the entire 2,000 miles of border.” 

The order also directs DHS to immediately 

construct detention facilities 

at or near the southern border 

and to hire an additional 5,000 Border 

Patrol agents. The federal government 

is operating under a Continuing 

Resolution until April 28, 

2017, and it is doubtful that significant 

funds exist to implement these 

plans. Construction and maintenance 

costs for new detention facilities 

are exorbitant; spending on 

ICE’s 34,000 detention beds costs 

taxpayers over $2 billion each year. 

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Hiring additional border patrol 

agents is going to be a tall order as 

well. Currently, Border Patrol is required 

to have 21,370 agents but as of 

October 2016, they only had 19,828, 

nearly 1,500 below the required levels. 

Border Patrol has significant 

issues with its hiring process, low 

morale and high attrition rates, 

making it hard to increase staff 

quickly even it were to get additional 

funds from Congress. Not 

to mention, the fact that Border 

Patrol staffing doubled in the early 

2000s, which has led to it being 

Photo by John Taylor 

considered “America’s most outof-control 

law enforcement agency.” 

DHS is also directed to expand 

“expedited removal” to the full extent 

the law permits. This type of 

summary removal procedure was 

previously restricted to wide border 

regions (within 100 miles of 

any US border) and recent unlawful 

entrants (within 14 days). The 

order would expand application of 

expedited removal throughout the 

country, to individuals who unlawfully 

entered the U.S. and cannot 

prove to DHS that they have been 

continuously present for the previous 

two years. 

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Resentment and hatred from the Middle East: Why they hate us – 

is by Michael Conti, Cal State, Fullerton, photos contributed by GSN. 

Resentment and hatred from the Middle East: 

Why they hate us 

By Michael Conti 

12/14/16 – The Middle East in recent 

times has been seen as a place of chaos 

and civil unrest. To us, they seem 

backwards and outright barbaric as we 

see beheadings in news feeds, headlines 

of suicide bombings, and terrorist 

attacks throughout the world. 

To the common citizen of the United 

States, this aggression is unwarranted 

and it seems as though they simply 

hate us for existing. While that would 

put us in a good light and provide 

the moral high ground, this is simply 

not the case. As we look through the 

past seven decades, we see that the 

United States government has had a 

paramount role in what we see today. 

Modernized countries in Europe look 

as the US and see a trusted and amiable 

ally. However, those of less developed 

countries in the Third World see 

us as a tyrannical force that has forced 

upon them the will of imperialism. To 

put it simply, the US has been a police 

force for the world and has done well 

through humanitarian efforts, but 

they have also committed egregious 

acts including meddling in the affairs 

of sovereign countries, overthrowing 

rulers, and undermining governments 

by backing rebel forces in the 

Middle East under the pretense of defending 

democracy and its values. It 

is because of these acts that they hate 

us and have caused us harm. 

In order to fully understand the 

mindset of the US government in the 

20th century, we must look at its beginnings 

when they achieved sovereignty 

as a result of the Revolutionary 

War. While this was a victory in itself, 

the fleeting US government was weak 

and needed to expand its borders in 

order to survive and thrive. It was 

thought to be their Manifest Destiny, 

a term used to describe and justify the 

taking of the rest of the modern day 

United States from Native Americans 

and Spain. While much of the territory 

came from the French in the form 

of the Louisiana Purchase, the rest of 

it was taken through federal acts and 

military force. To best explain this, 

Odd Arne Westad, a historian who 

specializes in the Third World and 

author of, The Global Cold War, gives 

a simple explanation for how the US 

operates when he states, “From its 

inception the United States was an 

interventionist power that based its 

foreign policy on territorial expansion. 

Its revolutionary message- free 

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men and free enterprise…” (Westad, 

9-10). As we see from this quote, it 

not only goes along with the theme 

of having to expand to survive, but it 

also shows us how this idea evolved 

to be a mantra for future events under 

the guise of promoting freedom with 

a global economy. It is this idea that 

later justified intruding in the affairs 

of the Middle East. While it seems irrelevant 

to study the past, this piece 

of information is important as we can 

now look into future events with an 

understanding of the US’s motives. 

Now that we know the US has been 

an imperialist power from its inception, 

we can take a relatively clear 

look at past events and understand 

why the US acted the way they did in 

the Middle East. An example to look 

at comes in the form of a book written 

by Douglass Little titled, American 

Orientalism, The United States 

And The Middle East Since 1945. He 

delves into the era of the 1940s-1950s 

when the United States emerged as 

an economic super power following 

World War Two while the rest of 

Europe was in ruin. Under the Truman 

administration, financial aid was 

given to the allied powers to rebuild. 

However the source of this aid is re-

vealed when Little states, 

“To fuel the European 

Recovery Program that 

Secretary of State George 

Marshall unveiled in June 

1947, the Truman administration 

intended to rely 

not on the oil fields of east 

Texas or Venezuela but, 

rather, on the 300,000 

barrels of Saudi crude…” 

(Little, 53). Indeed, rather 

than looking to their own 

secured resources in order 

to help the recovery effort, the US 

government decided to impose itself 

by taking oil from Saudi Arabia in addition 

to other Middle Eastern countries 

such as Kuwait and Lebanon. 

The book goes on to say that they did 

this in order to maintain their status 

as auto-manufacturing giants. It’s 

not surprising given the context that 

under the ideas of Manifest Destiny, 

the Saudis are uncivilized barbarians 

and that it is justifiable to take from 

them as a result. While it may seem 

relatively harmless to take resources, 

oil is the livelihood of Middle Eastern 

countries as it is their single most 

profitable export. To take this from 

them would be to threaten their way 

of sustainability. It’s no wonder as to 

why they would resent such a thing. 

However, the taking of their resources 

is relatively tame when we look 

further and see that the US, along 

the other Allied Powers, stirred civil 

unrest in the Middle East after establishing 

the Jewish nation of Israel by 

taking the holy city of Jerusalem from 

Palestine in the post-World War Two 

era. 

The establishment of Israel in 1948 

was backed by the Allied Powers and 

came as a grave insult to Palestine. 

The holy and ancestral lands of Jerusalem 

were taken from them and given 

to their sworn enemies, the Jews. 

This almost immediately caused a 

massive conflict known as the Israeli 

War in which Israel emerged victorious 

and had taken yet more land. The 

textbook Major Problems in American 

Foreign Relations, Volume II: 

Since 1914, a series of documents 

and essays on US foreign relations 

gives us a glimpse into the predicament 

that the Arab nations such as 

Palestine were in before Israel came 

to be when it states, “The Arabs, no 

less than the Jews, are victims of history. 

Four centuries of Turkish rule 

hurt them at least as badly as a decade 

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of Naziism hurt the Jews. 

Now, in their morning of 

independence, the Arabs 

have suffered defeats 

at the hands of a small, 

despised people” (Major 

Problems, 319). As this 

quote eloquently shows 

us, the Palestinians and 

other Arabs were also 

victims of oppression 

just as the Jews were. The 

seizing of their lands was 

kicking them back down 

as they were getting back up. With 

such blatant encroachment and arrogance, 

further resentment from the 

Middle East toward the US and the 

West undoubtedly developed. One of 

the final series of acts that solidified 

this hatred is seen after we look into 

the overthrowing of rulers in order 

to create pro-American regimes that 

would allow for further meddling. 

Not only has the United States government 

meddled by leeching resources 

and usurping ancestral lands, 

they made matters worse by overthrowing 

governments in order to insert 

pro-American regimes that would 

be willing to resist the Soviet Union 

during the Cold War. With the backing 

of the US government, countries 

such as Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and 

Egypt underwent political coups that 

overturned the ruling government. 

All of this went relatively unknown to 

neighboring nations until the Iranian 

Revolution that overthrew the pro-

American Shah and subsequent takeover 

of the embassy revealed it. This 

is conveyed by Mahmood Mamdani 

in his book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, 

America, the Cold War, and the 

Roots of Terror. He shows us that US 

actions were revealed when he states, 

“Secret American aid to opponents of 

the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul had 

begun before the Soviet army invaded 

Afghanistan. CIA and State Department 

documents seized during the 

embassy takeover in Tehran reveal 

the United States had begun quietly 

meeting Afghan-rebel representatives 

in Pakistan in April 1979, eight 

months before Soviet military intervention” 

(Mamdani, 123). Essentially, 

the Iranian Revolution that ended in 

the overthrowing of the pro-American 

Shah concretely revealed with 

evidence to the Arab nations, the fact 

that the United States was meddling 

in their affairs. Moreover, it shows us 

that they provoked the conflict that 

would occur in Afghanistan when 

they met with rebel groups such as 

the mujahedeen (a group that would 

later create splinter groups such as 

the Taliban and Al-Qaeda) in order to 

overthrow the regime, and that this is 

why the Soviets invaded. When added 

to the other aforementioned factors, 

it becomes more apparent as to why 

this hatred eventually boiled over 

into counter-aggression. However, 

U.S. intelligence experts were certain 

that retaliation would occur in some 

form of economic or political 

means. They couldn’t 

even fathom the idea of an 

outright attack on home soil 

because they thought they 

were dealing with other government 

leaders. What they 

didn’t realize was that the 

very people they armed to 

fight the Soviets were to be 

the people that would attack 

due to the fact that the mujahedeen, 

a radical nationalist 

group, saw both Soviet and 

American interventionism 

as incursions that would not 

go unpunished. 

The term for these unintended 

consequences is 

blowback as Chalmers John- 

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son explains in his book titled, The 

Costs and Consequences of American 

Empire. The book gives a detailed 

account of how the term came to be 

and how it is used to described consequences 

that are known or unknown 

based on the actions taken by the U.S. 

government. It goes further to say 

that this kind of information is largely 

kept from the American people and 

that this is the reason behind their ignorance 

of why these people hate us. 

The more significant part of this book 

however, is the direct correlation that 

it draws between the arming of the 

rebels in Afghanistan to the 9/11 attacks. 

Johnson brings up a classified 

CIA document post-action report 

and reveals its contents when he 

states, “The attacks of September 11 

descend in a direct line from events in 

1979, the year in which the CIA, with 

full presidential authority, began carrying 

out its largest ever clandestine 

operation—the secret arming of Afghan 

freedom fighters (mujahedeen) 

to wage a proxy war against the Soviet 

Union…” (Johnson, 12). It would 

seem that the arrogant and careless 

actions in Afghanistan came back to 

haunt the US. While there is no condoning 

the terrorist attacks of 9/11, 

these events were not unprovoked 

as Americans were led to believe by 

presidents such as George W. Bush. 

In conclusion, the Middle East is 

a place of chaos and hatred for the 

West. However, after looking into the 

not-so-well-known history of the US,

we have a better understanding as to 

why they are this way. It is due to the 

outright arrogance of an outdated 

ideology that these people were put 

through political and civil instability. 

After learning what we have today a 

clearer picture can be seen that is the 

US is a police force that has done well 

through humanitarian efforts such as 

the Peace Corps, but has been an oppressive 

force that imposed its will on 

a people that would not be willing to 

take it laying down. 

Michael Conti is an undergraduate 

student at California State University, 

Fullerton, and is working on degrees in 

history and political science. He plans 

to be a historical analyst, specializing 

in comparative politics. 

Works Cited 

Johnson, Chalmers. Blowback: The Costs and 

Consequences of American Empire. New York: 

Henry Holt, 2004. 12-13. Print. 

Little, Douglas. “American Orientalism.” American 

Orientalism : The United States and The 

Middle East Since 1945. The University of North 

Carolina Press, 2008. 53-54. Print. 

Mamdani, Mahmood. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: 

America, the Cold War, and the Roots of 

Terror. New York: Pantheon, 2004. 123-124. 

Print. 

Merrill, Dennis, and Thomas G. Paterson. Major 

Problems in American Foreign Relations: 

Documents and Essays. Boston, 2010. 319-320. 

Print. 

Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third 

World Interventions and the Making of Our 

Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 

2007. 39-72. Print. 

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Cloudera and Docker, Inc. partner to vastly 

improve the security of data 

MCLEAN, VA — December 19, 

2016 — Cloudera, the global provider 

of the fastest, easiest, and most 

secure data management, analytics 

and machine learning platform built 

on the latest open source technologies, 

today announced that it has 

partnered with Docker, Inc. to provide 

Commercially Supported (CS) 

Docker Engines with a jointly developed 

solution to secure Docker 

container volumes. This integrated 

solution allows government agencies 

to share data via cryptographically 

secure containers as part of a 

partnership where Cloudera provides 

level one and level two technical 

support backed by Docker, Inc. 

Docker and Cloudera worked in 

close collaboration to meet the specific 

needs of government agencies. 

Because these agencies often have 

sensitive workloads where portability 

and security are necessary, the 

two companies worked together on 

an integration that would protect 

the code and data running in containerized 

workloads. Docker and 

Cloudera made sure that all data 

and code are protected both in transit, 

at rest, and at runtime. 

The integrated solution is based 

on Cloudera Navigator Encrypt 

running on Docker, Inc’s CS Engine. 

Cloudera Navigator Encrypt transparently 

encrypts and secures data 

at rest without requiring changes to 

applications and ensuring there is 

minimal performance lag in the encryption 

or decryption process. Advanced 

key management with Cloudera 

Navigator Key Trustee Server 

and process-based access controls 

in Navigator Encrypt enable organizations 

to meet compliance regulations 

and help protect organizations 

from unauthorized parties or 

malicious actors gaining access to 

encrypted data. Docker wraps software 

in a complete filesystem aka 

container that includes an application 

and its dependencies which allows 

applications to run anywhere. 

In addition, Docker Content Trust 

based on The Update Framework 

(TUF) provides the most secure 

content distribution model for verifying 

the creator of a specific dockerized 

application. 

Cloudera Navigator Encrypt 

Key Trustee Server and Client already 

possess Federal Information 

Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 

compliance, the U.S. government 

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computer security standard used 

to approve cryptographic modules. 

The partnership with Docker, Inc. 

enables the pursuit of an end-to-end 

FIPS-validated product to include 

the Docker platform itself, as well 

as the encryption and key management 

platform. 

Docker provides an abstraction 

layer for Cloudera’s Navigator Encrypt 

and the Key Trustee Server, 

allowing the exchange of dockerized 

applications so they can be run, 

but not seen, modified, or tampered 

with. It has complete administrative 

separation of duties where administrators, 

platform owners and users, 

whether trusted or untrusted, 

cannot impact each other. Multiple 

points of control, application 

fingerprinting, and user roles and 

network-based authentication are 

included. 

“Cloudera is committed to delivering 

the highest levels of data security 

for Docker workloads,” said 

Charles Zedlewski, senior vice president, 

Products at Cloudera. “We are 

pleased to have the opportunity to 

bring the industry leading security 

controls that are already a core part 

of Cloudera’s business to the realm

of dockerized applications 

and supporting 

the U.S. Government 

with their most challenging 

problems.” 

“Docker is increasingly 

becoming a 

critical platform for 

Federal agencies as 

they modernize their 

applications, while 

making them even 

more secure through 

Docker’s isolation capabilities 

and content 

security framework,” 

said Nathan McCauley, 

Director of Security for Docker. 

“This partnership with Cloudera 

further elevates the security posture 

of Dockerized applications by protecting 

against data leaks through 

secure encrypted data volumes.” 

The joint solution is both operating 

system and cloud agnostic. This 

early access product is currently 

available to U.S. government agencies. 

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LGBT military community calls on General Mattis to 

make clear his support for ALL service members & 

their families during confirmation hearing 

WASHINGTON, January 11, 2017 

– Today, the nation’s leading organizations 

for lesbian, gay, bisexual, 

and transgender (LGBT) service 

members and their families – the 

American Military Partner Association 

(AMPA) and OutServe-SLDN 

– issued the following joint statement 

ahead of the U.S. Senate confirmation 

hearing of retired USMC 

General James Mattis, who 

was nominated by Presidentelect 

Donald Trump to serve 

as Secretary of Defense. The 

confirmation hearing for 

General Mattis is scheduled for 

Thursday morning. 

“Over the last eight years, the United 

States has made profound progress 

for LGBT service members and 

their families under the leadership of 

President Obama. No longer forced 

to hide something as fundamental as 

who we are, LGBT service members 

can serve openly and honestly. LGBT 

service members and their families 

take great pride in our service to the 

nation and are finally able to express 

that pride publicly. Our organizations 

stand ready to protect and build upon 

this vitally important progress.” 

“We respect General Mattis’ service 

and dedication to our country. 

Because questions have been raised 

regarding Mattis’ commitment to 

the diversity of our fighting force, we 

feel, as the leading advocates for our 

modern military families, a responsibility 

to call for clarity. During the 

confirmation process, we urge General 

Mattis to make clear his full and 

unequivocal support for all of our 

nation’s heroes and their families, 

including those who are 

LGBT. It is absolutely crucial 

that the next Secretary 

of Defense is committed to 

ensuring all service members 

and their families -- no matter their 

sexual orientation or gender identity 

-- have the support they need 

and deserve. These military families 

sacrifice each and every day for our 

nation, and it is imperative that they 

know the senior civilian leadership 

has their back.” 

The American Military Partner Association 

(AMPA) is the nation’s largest 

organization of LGBT military spouses, 

their families, and allies. With more 

than 50,000 members and supporters, 

AMPA is committed to education, advocacy, 

and support for our “modern 

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military families.” For more information, 

visit www.MilitaryPartners.org 

OutServe-SLDN (OS-SLDN) is the 

largest non-profit, legal services, advocacy 

and policy organization dedicated 

to bringing about full LGBT equality 

to America’s military and ending all 

forms of discrimination and harassment 

of military personnel on the basis 

of sexual orientation and gender identity. 

With more than fifty chapters and 

70,000 subscribers around the world, 

OS-SLDN supports a professional network 

of LGBT military personnel and 

strives to create an environment of 

respect in the military with regard to 

sexual orientation and gender identity. 

OS-SLDN provides free and direct legal 

assistance to service members and 

veterans affected by the repealed “Don’t 

Ask, Don’t Tell” law and the prior regulatory 

ban on open service, as well as 

those currently serving who may experience 

harassment or discrimination. 

For more information, visit www.outserve-sldn.org.

General Mattis says no to roll back open LGBT military 

service as Secretary of Defense 

WASHINGTON – Today, the nation’s 

leading organizations for lesbian, gay, 

bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) 

service members and their families – 

the American Military Partner Association 

(AMPA) and OutServe-SLDN 

– issued the following joint statement 

following comments made by President-elect 

Donald Trump’s nominee 

for Secretary of Defense, retired General 

James Mattis, during confirmation 

hearings this morning. General 

Mattis indicated he will not work to 

reverse the current policies that allow 

any qualified person to serve, including 

LGBT people. 

“We are heartened by General Mattis’ 

stated commitment during his testimony 

not to reverse the profound 

progress we have made in ensuring 

LGBT service members and their 

families are able to serve our nation 

with pride,” said AMPA President 

Ashley Broadway-Mack and Out- 

Serve-SLDN Executive Director Matt 

Thorn. “Because questions had been 

raised about his commitment on this 

front, uncertainty in the future had 

given our military families great cause 

for concern. His comments today give 

us hope for a working relationship between 

our organizations and the new 

Defense Department leadership. If 

confirmed, we look forward to working 

with General Mattis in supporting 

our nation’s brave heroes and their 

families. We are committed to holding 

the incoming administration accountable 

and ensuring all who serve, 

regardless of their sexual orientation 

or gender identity, have the support 

and respect they need and deserve.” 

During his prepared testimony, 

General Mattis said, “We open the 

door to all patriots who are eligible 

and meet the standards, provide them 

with the training, equipment, and 

leadership that’s central to their success, 

and ensure all service members 

are treated with dignity and respect.” 

When asked by Senator Kirsten 

Gillibrand (D-NY) about his support 

for LGBT service members currently 

serving our nation, General Mattis 

said, “Senator, my belief is that we 

have to stay focused on a military 

that’s so lethal that on the battlefield 

it will be the enemies’ longest day 

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and their worst day when they run 

into that force. I believe that military 

service is a touchstone for patriots of 

whatever stripe. It’s simply the way 

that they demonstrate their commitment. 

And I believe right now that 

the policies that are in effect, unless 

a service chief brings something 

to me where there’s a problem that’s 

been proven, then I’m not going in 

with the idea that I’m going to review 

these and right away start rolling 

something back.” He went on to say, 

“Frankly, I’ve never cared much about 

two consenting adults and who they 

go to bed with.” 

Later, Senator Mazie Hirono (D- 

HI) asked him directly, “Is there 

something innate in being a woman 

or LGBT that would cause you to believe 

that they could not be part of a 

lethal force?” General Mattis replied 

with a simple, “no.” 

Yesterday in a joint statement, 

AMPA and OutServe-SLDN called 

on General Mattis to make clear his 

full and unequivocal support for all of 

our nation’s heroes and their families, 

including those who are LGBT. 

The American Military Partner Association 

(AMPA) is the nation’s largest 

organization of LGBT military spous- 

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DHS Science and Technology Directive Explosive 

Division (EXD) releases new incident management 

planning tool for first responders 

A suspicious package is found in a 

public park. An unattended bag is 

found by a trash can at the metro 

or a street corner. A person with a 

weapon is reported at a school or 

mall or other public location. Unfortunately, 

these are not uncommon 

occurrences, and 

responder agencies – 

from small towns to big 

cities – must all know 

how to respond and 

work together. That requires 

training, technology, 

tools, and time. The 

Department of Homeland 

Security Science 

and Technology Directorate 

(S&T) Explosives 

Division (EXD) has a 

solution. 

EXD has funded research 

at the Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory to continue development 

of the Incident Management 

Preparedness and Coordination 

Toolkit (IMPACT), a geospatial 

tool designed to enhance situational 

awareness, communication, and 

collaboration during and for security 

events. This tool was originally 

funded by the DHS Office of 

Bombing Prevention to help bomb 

squads assess impacts from improvised 

explosive devices (IEDs). 

Since its original release, IMPACT 

has expanded its capabilities to provide 

tools to assist in active shooter 

planning, downwind hazards from 

A built-in wizard calculates active shooter line-of-sight overlays. 

the release of dangerous chemicals, 

large stadium evacuation and casualty 

simulations, security surveys, 

and monitoring large event social 

networks for emergency response 

support. 

“IMPACT is a free, all-hazards 

planning tool for first responders, 

emergency managers, and other 

security professionals. It combines 

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simulation, visualization, and mapping 

into an integrated user interface 

similar to a smart phone or tablet,” 

explained S&T Program Manager 

Elizabeth Obregon. “First responders 

can use it for planning, situation 

awareness, and response to natural 

and man-made disasters. It 

uses common data formats 

to easily exchange data with 

other map-based tools.” 

IMPACT is currently being 

used and evaluated by 

more than 400 agencies at 

the federal, state, and local 

levels including the Transportation 

Security Administration, 

the Federal 

Emergency Management 

Agency, the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 

and police departments 

at the state and local levels. 

The only Geographic Information 

System tool specifically tailored 

for counter-improvised explosive 

devices, homemade explosives, active 

shooter responses, and first 

responder use, IMPACT allows responders 

to conduct both live and 

table top exercises for simulated 

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GTT solutions awarded supplier status for Crown 

Commercial Service TMT2 framework agreement 

ST. PAUL, MN – 15 December 

2016 – Global Traffic Technologies 

is pleased to announced that it has 

been awarded supplier status for its 

traffic preemption solutions on the 

UK Government’s Crown Commercial 

Service Traffic Management 

2 (TMT2) framework agreement. 

TMT2 provides public sector customers 

with access to industry leading, 

innovative traffic management 

solutions. 

The framework aims to deliver 

local, regional and national traffic 

management technologies through 

a qualified supply chain, ensuring 

reliability and resilience. TMT2 allows 

direct and standardised procurement 

of small components 

through to large, complex systems. 

It was developed to create 

a competitive and 

fast route to market for 

the provision of traffic 

management solutions, 

by streamlining procurement 

processes and increasing 

the number and 

selection of suppliers. 

Richard Eltze, GTT Vice President 

EMEA Markets, said being 

awarded the framework supplier 

Richard Eltze 

status was good news for all existing 

and potential public sector GTT 

customers. “The fact that the UK 

Government’s Crown 

Commercial Service has 

awarded us a place on 

the TMT2 agreement is 

evidence of how valuable 

the Government 

considers GTT’s solutions 

to be,” he said. “This is very 

encouraging for GTT and shows 

clearly our customer focus and 

commitment to providing innovative 

and effective traffic preemption 

solutions. Such solutions often have 

many stakeholders, even if it is one 

agency that is responsible for the 

procurement of the technology, and 

for GTT it is vital that the needs of 

all stakeholders are taken 

into account. 

“The benefit of having 

an Emergency Vehicle 

Preemption system in 

place in case of a major 

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enough, especially 

when it comes to 

very congested areas in large cities 

and on motorways. Our experience 

with cities such as New York, San 

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Francisco, Las Vegas, and Calgary 

in Canada, as well as Doha in Qatar 

and several Eastern European 

implementations, gives 

testament and proof of 

concept to our EVP solutions.” 

Global Traffic Technologies’ 

Opticom systems 

work with traffic 

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public transportation vehicles with 

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These can help get an ambulance, 

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reduce delays and increase efficiencies 

in bus services. 

TMT2 is divided into 15 service 

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of which GTT applied for and has 

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Upgrades to allow for more frequent, reliable and faster 

rail service along the Northeast Corridor recommended 

Anthony Foxx 

WASHINGTON – After four years 

of working with the Northeast 

states, federal and state partner 

agencies and dozens and dozens of 

public meetings, the Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA) today 

recommended a vision to build a 

better and stronger Northeast Corridor 

(NEC) over the next 30 years. 

“The Department of Transportation 

believes that investing in this 

vision for the Northeast Corridor 

must happen—because rail does 

more than take us places; it provides 

us with opportunities 

and connects us to the 

future,” said U.S. Transportation 

Secretary Anthony 

Foxx. “While building this 

recommendation would 

require significant investment, 

the cost of doing 

nothing is much greater. 

The communities and the economies 

of the Northeast cannot grow 

and flourish without significant, 

new investment.” 

In 2012, at the urging of Congress, 

all Northeast states and the Federal 

Railroad Administration began 

working together to develop a vision 

that would help guide and coordinate 

planning and investments. For 

more than four years, and including 

numerous agency and public meetings, 

the Northeast states and FRA 

have engaged stakeholders about 

their ideas, hopes, recommendations 

and concerns about the future 

of the NEC. The extensive outreach 

has included broad stakeholder engagement 

from individuals, elected 

leaders, civic organizations in small 

townships and business leaders. 

What quickly became clear, and 

was universally agreed, is that the 

corridor’s current capacity 

is vastly inadequate. Today’s 

NEC simply cannot 

meet the demands of today—or 

tomorrow. 

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The recommendation announced 

today by the FRA 

would increase reliability 

and provide more options by: 

• Adding new tracks to increase the 

Northeast Corridor to four tracks in 

most locations, which would allow 

for more frequent and faster service. 

Additional tracks would be added 

to areas with greater demand. 

• Providing intercity access to 

Philadelphia Airport so that passengers 

do not have to change trains 

at 30th Street. 

• Adding direct and frequent service 

to Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, 

Mass. 

• Increasing, and in some cases 

doubling, the number of regional 

trains and providing up to five times 

more intercity trains. 

The recommendation would improve 

travel times: 

• Travel from Boston to New York 

City would be 45 minutes faster (total 

time of 2 hours, 45 minutes). 

• Travel from New York City to 

Washington, D.C., would be 35 

minutes faster (total time of 2 hours, 

10 minutes). 

While the recommendation made 

today would grow the role of rail 

along the Northeast Corridor, it 

prioritizes bringing the current corridor 

back to good condition, or a 

state of good repair, first. 

With the corridor returned to 

good condition, the recommendation 

includes projects that will allow 

for even faster and more reliable 

service, along with more options for 

commuters and travelers. The recommendation 

is also projected to

USCIC updates how processing 

times are posted 


create 47,000 jobs each year, for 30 

years. 

The recommendation FRA released 

today is just that – a recommendation 

for what FRA believes 

the Northeast Corridor could be 

in the future. In fact, it will now be 

up to states, cities and railroads to 

take next steps and decide whether 

to move forward with any specific 

projects. Each individual project, 

just like any other infrastructure 

project in this country, will require 

more review and more environmental 

studies, as well as significant 

funding. 

“In order to keep moving forward, 

we need a new vision for the Northeast 

Corridor – a corridor that can 

move an ever-increasing population 

safer, faster and more reliably 

than before,” said FRA Administrator 

Sarah E. Feinberg. “We need 

Click to view the video “NEC Future” 

a corridor that provides more options 

and more trains for commuters. 

One that allows for seamless 

travel between the nation’s capital 

and New York, and New York and 

Providence and Boston. A corridor 

that provides streamlined connections 

between a city’s airports and 

its city center. And a corridor that 

can efficiently and reliably serve a 

population that is growing quickly.” 

FRA believes that today’s recommendation 

is a strong one and 

should move forward. To do that, 

it will require the business community, 

railroads, states, Congress 

and the millions of people who use 

the NEC every day to make it clear 

that this is a necessary and worthy 

investment. 

For more information, visit www. 

necfuture.com 

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cember 29, 2016 based on data as of 

October 31, 2016. 

The Administrative Appeals Office 

(AAO) of USCIS also announced that 

it had modified how it presents its 

processing time information on appeals 

cases. In the past, AAO provided 

information on the average completion 

time for the month’s cases. Now, 

AAO will provide the total number 

of completions for the quarter and 

the percentage completed within its 

180 day goal, by form type and case 

type. The 180 day goal begins after 

the office that issued the unfavorable 

decision forwards the case to AAO, 

which is supposed to be done within 

45 days. However, this initial field review 

can take longer. This means the 

AAO’s figures don’t reflect the total 

time for completion of a case. 

Processing times are important 

pieces of information since employers, 

individuals, family members, and 

their attorneys need to know how 

long an application or petition will 

take to be adjudicated. Delays can 

have serious implications for many 

people. Now that USCIS has raised 

its fees significantly, hopefully more 

progress will be made towards resolving 

delays and making their processes 

more transparent.

The Chemistry behind the Flint Water Crisis: 

Corrosion of Pipes, Erosion of Trust 

By George Lane 

When Flint, Michigan changed its 

water supply in 2014, it initiated a 

cascade of chemical reactions inside 

decades-old water pipes that caused 

Lead to leach into its drinking water, 

triggering a major public health crisis. 

When Flint used its own river as 

a water supply, drinking water contained 

a staggering 13,200 parts per 

billion (ppb) Lead, almost 900 times 

higher than the 15 ppb regulatory 

limit set by the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). Some water 

samples exceeded the EPA criteria 

for Lead concentration in hazardous 

waste, 5,000 ppb (1) . 

Although Lead pipes have been 

used for water distribution for over 

two thousand years beginning with 

the Romans, the use of Lead pipes carrying 

water in the United States on a 

major scale began in the late 

1800s, particularly in larger 

urban cities. By 1900, more 

than 70% of cities with populations 

greater than 30,000 

used Lead-lined pipes for 

drinking water (2) . 

The use of Lead pipes to 

carry drinking water was 

recognized as a cause of 

Lead poisoning by the late 

1800s in the United States. 

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George Lane 

In 1890 the Massachusetts 

State Board of Health advised 

the state’s cities and 

towns to avoid using Lead 

pipes to transport drinking 

water. By the 1920s, many 

cities and towns were prohibiting 

or restricting their 

use. To combat this trend, 

the Lead industry carried out an effective 

campaign to promote the use 

of Lead pipes, affecting public health 

and delaying the replacement of Lead 

water pipes (3) . 

Normally water managers add 

chemicals to water, such as orthophosphates, 

to prevent corrosion. 

Orthophosphates bond with Lead in 

pipes, creating a protective coating 

between Lead and water. When that 

shield is intact, corrosive chemicals 

like Dissolved Oxygen (DO) can’t 

interact with the Lead; however, orthophosphates 

have to be 

added continually or the 

barrier breaks down. If the 

barrier does break down, 

DO combines with Lead 

atoms, oxidizing them. 

Oxygen takes electrons 

from Lead, grabs its Hydrogen 

protons, turning 

into water, and allows Lead to leach 

into drinking water. Once oxidized, 

Lead dissolves into the water instead 

of sticking to the pipe. 

Flint’s water treatment plant did not 

add orthophosphates, allowing the 

pipes to corrode, and Lead quickly 

contaminated the drinking water. 

Additionally, Flint River water had 

high levels of chlorides, which accelerate 

corrosion. There were two other 

sources of chloride: Ferric chloride 

used in Chlorine disinfection of water 

and road salt applied during tough 

Michigan winters. Switching 

from Detroit’s Lake 

Huron to Flint River water 

created a perfect storm for 

Lead leaching into Flint 

drinking water. 

A complex brew of acids, 

salts, Chlorine and many 

other chemicals were involved 

in oxidizing Flint’s 

metal pipes and releasing 

Lead. High levels of Lead in

Flint drinking water weren’t reported 

to the public for 18 months; however, 

the corrosion happened quickly, 

especially in the warmer summer 

months. Without effective treatment 

to control corrosion, Flint’s water 

leached high levels of Lead from the 

city’s pipes into city drinking water. 

Following the switch, E. coli bacteria 

was also found in the water. 

To combat E. coli, extra Chlorine 

was added as a disinfectant to remove 

it. Ferric chloride was also added as 

a coagulant to remove organic matter 

from the water, initiating a domino 

effect of chemical causes and effects. 

Flint’s water quality problems were 

also caused by corrosion in both the 

Lead and Iron pipes that distribute 

water. When city residents began using 

the Flint River as its water source, 

the water’s ability to corrode those 

pipes wasn’t adequately controlled. 

This led to high Lead levels, rustcolored 

tap water, and the growth of 

pathogenic microbes. 

When Flint changed its water supply, 

the city didn’t adequately control 

corrosion. Flint isn’t the only city susceptible 

to these problems. The pipes 

in its old distribution system had seen 

the same water for decades, similar to 

many other cities. Switching water 

supplies changed the chemistry of the 

water flowing through those pipes. 

When a switch like this happens, 

the chemistry in the water system 

moves toward a new equilibrium. In 

Flint the change was catastrophic. 

Flint was getting its water from the 

Detroit Water & Sewerage Department, 

which would draw water from 

Lake Huron and then treat it before 

sending it to Flint. 

To lower the city’s water costs, in 

2013 Flint officials decided to take 

water from another source which was 

building its own pipeline from the 

lake. Shortly after that, Detroit told 

Flint it would terminate their original 

long-term water agreement within a 

year and offered to negotiate a new, 

short-term agreement. Flint declined 

the offer. While waiting for the new 

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Pipeline under construction will supply Flint, Michigan with water from Lake Huron. 

pipeline to be finished, Flint began 

taking water from the Flint River and 

treating it at the city plant. 

Problems with the city’s tap water 

started the summer after the switch 

in 2014. First, residents noticed foultasting, 

reddish water coming out of 

their taps. In August, the city issued 

alerts about E-coli contamination and 

told people to boil the water before 

using it. A General Motors plant in 

Flint stopped using the water because 

it was corroding steel parts. 

In early 2015 Lead reached Flint’s 

University of Michigan campus. Researchers 

sampled water from 252 

Flint homes and reported the results 

(www.flintwaterstudy.org). Hurley 

Children’s Hospital in Flint released 

data showing that since the water 

change, the number of Flint children 

with elevated levels of lead in their 

blood had increased from 2.4% to 

4.9% (4) . 

Lead is neurotoxic, causing behavioral 

problems and decreased intelligence. 

The Blood Brain Barrier limits 

the passage of ions, but because it has 

not formed in children, they can absorb 

from 40% to 50% of water-soluble 

Lead compared with 3% to 10% 

for adults (5) . 

So why did the switch to Flint’s river 

water cause this catastrophe? As water 

travels through the miles of pipes in a 

city’s distribution system, molecules 

of contaminants in the water react 

with the pipes themselves, acting as a 

geochemical reactor. There are miles 

and miles of pipes, some Iron, some

Copper, some Lead, that got corroded. 

Corrosion occurs when oxidants, 

such as DO or Chlorine, react with 

elemental metals in the pipes. 

Cities no longer install lead pipes. 

But older cities such as Flint still rely 

on them, usually as water mains in 

the street to a home’s water meter. Because 

of Lead pipes, some states regulate 

the corrosivity of water to deposit 

a protective coating on the pipes. 

A 1990 report from the American 

Water Works Association estimated 

there are over 3 million Lead-lined 

pipes transporting drinking water in 

the Northeastern U.S. alone (6) . According 

to EPA, nationwide over 10 

million American homes and buildings 

receive water from Lead-lined 

pipes (7) . 

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So why is Lead 

used in water 

pipes? The answer 

can be found literally 

thousands of 

years ago in the 

first “plumbing” 

systems, named for 

the word “Lead” in 

Latin, “plumbum”. 

Tap water in ancient 

Rome had 100 

times more Lead 

than local spring 

waters. Lead piping 

was used because 

of its unique ability 

to resist pinhole 

leaks while still 

malleable enough 

to be formed into shapes that deliver 

water. Lead was used in many other 

common products, such as Tetra Ethyl 

Lead in gasoline and Lead-based 

paint, until scientific advancements 

in the 20th century demonstrated 

its toxicity. With passage of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act Amendments of 

1986, installation of Lead water pipes 

was finally prohibited nationwide (8) . 

Today utilities treat their water to 

maintain a mineral crust on the inside 

surfaces of their pipes. This socalled 

“passivation layer” protects the 

pipes’ metal from oxidants in the water. 

The coatings consist of insoluble 

oxidized metal compounds produced 

as the pipe slowly corrodes. 

If the water chemistry isn’t optimized, 

the passivation layer may dissolve 

and allow mineral particles to 

flake off of the pipe’s crust. This exposes 

bare metal, allowing the Iron, 

Lead, or Copper to oxidize and leach 

into the water. Flint water chemistry 

was not optimized to control corrosion. 

Most importantly, the treated 

Flint River water lacked one chemical 

that the treated Detroit water had: 

Phosphate. Cities such as Detroit add 

orthophosphates to their water as 

part of their corrosion control plans 

because of the formation of Lead 

phosphates, which are largely insoluble 

and add to the passivation layer. 

The entire Flint water crisis could 

have been avoided if the city had added 

orthophosphates, commercially 

available chemicals, used in Detroit. 

After just five weeks in the Flint water, 

the pipes leached 16 times as much 

Lead as those in the Detroit water, 

demonstrating just how corrosive the 

treated Flint water was. But orthophosphates 

aren’t the only corrosion 

solution. Some water utilities treat 

water so it has a high pH, a high alkalinity. 

These conditions decrease the 

solubility of Lead carbonates, which 

also contribute to the pipe’s protective 

mineral layer. 

The pH drop over time indicates 

that plant operators in Flint didn’t 

have a target pH as part of a corrosion 

plan. Water utilities usually find a pH 

that’s optimal for preventing corrosion 

in their system. For example, in 

Boston, another city with old Lead 

pipes, average water pH held steady 

around 9.6 in 2015, according to re-

ports from the Massachusetts Water 

Resources Authority. 

Problems with Flint’s pipes started 

quickly. The rust color and bad taste 

of the water coming out of residents’ 

taps in the summer of 2014 was a sign 

that the passivation layer on was dissolving 

into the water. Iron corrosion 

also encourages the growth of pathogens 

in the distribution system. As the 

mineral layer in iron pipes falls off, 

it exposes bare iron that can reduce 

free Chlorine added to the water as 

a pathogen-killing disinfectant. One 

home with Lead levels almost 900 

times higher than the EPA limit had 

no detectable Chlorine levels over 18 

days of monitoring. 

Although Flint has switched back 

to the Detroit water, it may take years 

for pipes to regain their passivation 

layers for corrosion to slow to normal 

levels, and for Lead concentrations to 

drop back into an acceptable range. 

However Joel Beauvais, Deputy Assistant 

Administrator of EPA’s Office 

of Water, emphasizes “EPA’s position 

is there is no safe level of lead exposure.” 

While the drinking water crisis 

has focused on Flint, almost 2,000 additional 

water systems in all 50 states 

have shown excessive levels of Lead 

contamination over the past four 

years. 

The lesson from Flint is to continually 

monitor water chemistry, especially 

when switching water supplies. 

Water utility officials were already 

collecting all the data they needed, 

pH, alkalinity, chloride levels, to determine 

if the water was too corrosive. 

The message is to consider the connections 

between the stability of the 

water infrastructure and the chemistry 

of the water flowing through that 

infrastructure. That will inevitably 

control the water quality at the tap. 

By not adding a corrosion inhibitor, 

Flint expected to save about $140 

per day. But the human costs of the 

errors made in Flint will reverberate 

through the community forever and 

their magnitude will dwarf the original 

planned savings. According to 

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, replacement 

of Flint’s Lead water lines is now 

estimated to cost up to $1.5 billion. 

On December 20, 2016, Michigan’s 

Attorney General announced felony 

charges against two former Flint 

emergency managers and two other 

former city officials linked to the city’s 

disastrous decision to switch water 

sources, which resulted in widespread 

and dangerous Lead contamination 

of Flint drinking water. These latest 

charges bring the total number of 

people charged to thirteen. 

On December 30, the Louisiana 

Department of Health and Human 

Resources (DHHR) reported unsafe 

levels of Lead in the drinking water in 

over 20% of the homes and businesses 

of St. Joseph, a rural city in North 

Louisiana. Dr. Jimmy Guidry, Louisiana 

DHHR Director, warned citizens 

saying “The message to the folks who 

live there is not to drink the water” (9) . 

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References 

1. Miguel A. Del Toral, “High Lead Levels in 

Flint, Michigan - Interim Report”, USEPA Regulations 

Manager, Ground Water and Drinking 

Water; Branch; www.documentcloud.org/ 

documents/2696671-2015-06-24-Miguel-Del- 

Toral-Memo.html 

2. W. Troesken, “The Great Lead Water Pipe 

Disaster”, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2006 

3. Richard Rabin, “The Lead Industry and 

Lead Water Pipes”, Am J Public Health, 2008 

September; 98(9): 1584–1592; www.ncbi.nlm. 

nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509614/ 

4. Siddhartha Roy, “Pediatric Lead Exposure 

Presentation from Hurley Medical Center doctors 

concerning Flint Michigan”, September 24, 2015; 

http://flintwaterstudy.org/2015/09/pediatriclead-exposure-presentation-from-hurley-medical-center-doctors-concerning-flint-mi/ 

5. Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, “Elevated Blood 

Lead Levels in Children Associated with the Flint 

Drinking Water Crisis: A Spatial Analysis of 

Risk and Public Health Response”, Am J Public 

Health, February 2016; 106(2): 283–290; http:// 

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/ 

AJPH.2015.303003 

6. “Selecting Lead Pipe Rehabilitation and Replacement 

Technologies”, American Water Works 

Association, July 2001, pgs. 74-87; www.Waternet.0054574.pdf 

7. “Flint Water Crisis Shines Light on Lead 

Pipes Across U.S.”, Wall Street Journal, January 

28, 2016; www.wsj.com/articles/flint-watercrisis-shines-light-on-lead-pipes-crisscrossingthe-u-s-1453977180 

8. “Prohibition on Use of Lead Pipes to Carry 

Drinking Water”, Safe Drinking Water Act 1986: 

Section 1417 

9. Mark Ballard, “Lead found in Saint Joseph 

drinking water in 20-plus percent of homes, 

businesses”, Baton Rouge Advocate, December 

31, 2016; www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ 

news/politics/article_40b6dfea-ce2d-11e6- 

a1f1-a73640428e2e.html

HID Global predicts top trends 

for 2017 


today’s talent pool is driving the need 

for more open, flexible workspaces. 

Consumers also will begin seeing 

trusted identities used in many everyday 

scenarios, such as guaranteeing 

authorized use of corporate and 

heavy machinery fleets, as well as creating 

new ways to safeguard students 

and validate drivers. 

These trends will drive new user experiences 

that are tailored to vertical 

market requirements. Following are 

three particularly compelling examples: 

Banking: A digital identity transformation 

will drive consistency across 

multiple service channels to improve 

the user experience, from faster instant 

issuance that is revolutionizing 

the way customers receive new or 

replacement debit and credit cards, 

to “out-of-band” mobile push capabilities 

that increase trust and reduce 

fraud for consumers, and deliver a 

much easier path to compliance for 

financial institutions. Digital IDs will 

also push the industry to increase 

trust levels by better associating a 

user’s true identity (biometrics) with 

their digital identities. 

Government: Trusted identities will 

change the way citizens interact with 

government agencies and systems. 

Passports, national IDs, driver licenses 

and other credentials will co-exist 

with new disruptive technologies to 

change the way IDs are issued by government 

agencies and used by citizens. 

Citizen IDs are poised to move 

to mobile phones this year, where 

state and national governments will 

begin offering mobile driver’s licenses 

and other mobile identity IDs as an 

option alongside the physical document. 

Meanwhile, the combination of 

mobile with innovative physical and 

logical features will provide more options 

for government agencies to stay 

ahead of the counterfeiters by advancing 

the security, personalization, 

management and issuance of physical 

documents. 

Healthcare: In the increasingly connected 

healthcare environment, institutions 

will seek to implement better 

systems to improve the patient experience 

and enhance efficiencies, while 

safeguarding and managing access 

to equipment, facilities, patient data 

and electronic prescriptions of controlled 

substances (EPCS) across the 

healthcare continuum. From hospital 

to home, healthcare organizations 

will seek to employ a combination of 

strong authentication, and new IoT 

applications to address these challenges. 

HID Global anticipates the shift in 

the use of identity technology will 

drive industry trends in 2017, along 

with new solutions and capabilities 

that enhance the user experience for 

years to come. 

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About HID Global 

HID Global is the trusted source for 

innovative products, services, solutions, 

and know-how related to the 

creation, management, and use of 

secure identities for millions of endusers 

around the world. The company’s 

served markets include physical 

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technologies used in animal ID and 

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The company’s primary brands include 

ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FAR- 

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General Mattis says no to roll back 

open LGBT Military Service 


es, their families, and allies. With more 

than 50,000 members and supporters, 

AMPA is committed to education, advocacy, 

and support for our “modern 

military families.” For more information, 

visit www.MilitaryPartners.org 

OutServe-SLDN (OS-SLDN) is the 

largest non-profit, legal services, advocacy 

and policy organization dedicated 

to bringing about full LGBT equality 

to America’s military and ending all 

forms of discrimination and harassment 

of military personnel on the basis 

of sexual orientation and gender identity. 

With more than fifty chapters and 

70,000 subscribers around the world, 

OS-SLDN supports a professional network 

of LGBT military personnel and 

strives to create an environment of 

respect in the military with regard to 

sexual orientation and gender identity. 

OS-SLDN provides free and direct 

legal assistance to service members 

and veterans affected by the repealed 

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law and the 

prior regulatory ban on open service, 

as well as those currently serving who 

may experience harassment or discrimination. 

For more information, 

visit www.outserve-sldn.org. 

DHS Science and Technology 

Directive Explosive Division 

releases new incident management 

planning tool 


active shooter and IED attacks, Obregon 

explained. 

Repeatedly tested in the field by 

numerous law enforcement and 

first responder organizations, IM- 

PACT has been successfully used to 

mitigate real world incidents. It was 

briefed to the United States Capitol 

Police immediately after a March 

2016 incident in which live shots 

were fired at the Capitol Visitors 

Center. Since that briefing, USCP 

has become a growing end user of 

the tool and plans to use it for a 

number of upcoming gatherings in 

2017. In addition, table top exercises 

generated by IMPACT were 

credited with mitigating an active 

shooter event at a school in Louisville, 

Kentucky, in September 2014. 

The tool is Section 508 compliant, 

enabling it to be used across the federal 

government and by its mission 

partners. 

S&T was interested in developing 

this tool as it gives first responders 

a free, easy to use capability to 

conduct better organized and more 

efficient exercises, provide for facility 

protection, and plan for major 

public and security events, Obregon 

said. IMPACT can be considered a 

success as many organizations that 

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have been briefed on the tool, including 

the Secret Service, Capitol 

Police, Washington Metropolitan 

Area Transit Authority, the Transportation 

Security Administration, 

and others, have expressed interest 

in adopting the tool and are currently 

in the process of doing so. 

In addition, IMPACT has provided 

hundreds of agencies at the federal, 

state and local level with an exercise, 

protection and planning capability 

that they did not have before but urgently 

needed. 

Responder agencies interested 

in accessing and using the tool can 

download it at http://geo.ornl.gov/ 

impact and start using it immediately. 

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GTT solutions awarded supplier 

status for Crown Commercial Service 

TMT2 framework agreement 


More information on TMT2 can be 

found at http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/contracts/rm1089. 

About Global Traffic 

Technologies, LLC 

GTT, formed in 2007 from 3M’s 

pioneering Intelligent Transportation 

Systems business, is the manufacturer 

of Opticom priority control 

systems and Canoga traffic-sensing 

systems. These systems have provided 

safe and reliable traffic solutions 

to communities for over 45 years. 

GTT proactively delivers advanced 

transportation 

solutions to help 

emergency, transit 

and traffic personnel 

increase 

safety, minimize 

traffic congestion and reduce 

greenhouse gas emissions, while 

maximizing resource efficiency and 

performance. Headquartered in St. 

Paul, Minnesota, GTT is the market 

leader in traffic management 

systems, having an installed base of 

over 70,000 intersections and 70,000 

vehicles in over 3,100 municipalities 

worldwide, including 41 of the 50 

largest U.S. cities. 

To find out more about GTT, visit 

their website (www.gtt.com). 

About the 

Crown Commercial Service 

The Crown Commercial Service 

(CCS) has brought together Government’s 

central commercial 

capability into a single organisation, 

amalgamating Government 

Procurement Service with other 

commercial teams from the Cabinet 

Office and central government 

departments. CCS is an executive 

agency of the Cabinet Office and 

operates as a trading fund under 

the Government Trading Funds Act 

1973. Their remit is to work with 

both departments and organisations 

across the whole of the public 

sector to ensure maximum value is 

extracted from every commercial 

relationship and improve the quality 

of service delivery. The CCS goal is 

to become the “go-to” place for expert 

commercial and procurement 

services. With both service delivery 

and advisory capability, services include 

contract 

management 

and supplier 

performance 

management 

to ensure 

that the Government acts as a true, 

single customer; freeing up individual 

organisations to focus their 

procurement expertise on what is 

unique to them. 

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Will Congress fund President 

Trump’s executive order on border 

enforcement? 


This change would eviscerate due 

process for huge numbers of undocumented 

individuals already in 

the U.S., even those with deep roots 

in our families and communities. 

Expedited removal allows DHS enforcement 

officers to deport individuals 

without ever seeing an immigration 

judge – often in as little 

as 24 hours – with no guarantee of 

legal counsel and little chance to obtain 

an attorney while detained. 

The order also directs the Attorney 

General to prioritize the prosecution 

of unlawful border crossers 

in group hearings with little-to-no 

due process. These prosecutions, often 

referred to as Operation Streamline, 

were intended to deter illegal 

entry and reentry. Instead, they have 

clogged the federal courts by taking 

up 52 percent of the federal docket 

and wasted precious government 

resources with little evidence that 

the program is achieving its goals. 

This executive order is an attempt 

by Trump to keep his campaign 

promise of building a wall along the 

Southern border and getting tough 

on unauthorized immigration. 

However, these proclamations will 

soon run into the reality of needing 

funding from Congress.

GSN: What are your general thoughts on the 

2015 awards? 

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GSN: You spent many years on Capitol Hill and 

also at the Department of Homeland Security. 

As we head into 2016, what do you envision as 

homeland security spending priorities? Awards Category: 

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DIGITAL 

What area/issue 

YEARBOOK 

pending 

OF AIRPORT/SEAPORT/BORDER 

trends do you 

SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS 

see as priorities for the homeland security 

community? 


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GSN: What future areas of homeland security 

interest would you advise companies to explore? 

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www.networkharbor.com 

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radiation_detection 




jedgerly@speakerboxpr.com 

The Winners and Finalists have 

been selected. Now our national 

and international readers want 

to know what the strategies, 

technologies and innovations 

were that gave you the 

advantage. Let them know with 

a 2-page spread in the 

2016 Digital Yearbook of 

Award Winners. 

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OF 

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LAST YEAR’S YEARBOOK 

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OF 

Airport/Seaport/ 

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AND 

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National Programs and Protection Directorate. 

ed world. New legislation pending in Congress formalizes 

the increased DHS role in public/private partnering. 

GSN 2015 DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY 

and 

Global spending also parallels the DHS spending raise. 

AIRPORT, SEAPORT, BORDER SECURITY AWARDS PROGRAMS 

A new market research report, “Global Homeland Security 

and Emergency Management Market, 2013–2018”, Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and de- 

New legislation also would update the 12-year-old Federal 

published by MarketsandMarkets is expected to reach lineate DHS’s role in guarding government networks and 

$544.02 Billion by 2018. Unfortunately, those numbers websites. 

could go even higher if there are more incidents similar to A priority for 2016 will be to accelerate rollout of 

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what happened in Paris, Mali, and San Bernardino, CA. Einstein III Accelerated (E3A), the latest phase of DHS’s 

Best Detection Solutions 

automated network-security correcting systems. DHS has 

established memoranda of agreement with 55 federal 

Chuck Brooks, Distinguished Judge 

agencies to implement Einstein to provide horizon scanning 

and automated monitoring, detection, and remedia- 

GSN 2015 Homeland Security and 

Best Integrated Security Programs 


CB: Counterterrorism and the counter CBRNE (chemical 

Airport, Seaport, Border Security Awards programs 

tion of government networks. DHS is also planning for 

2015 Winner 

, biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) mission 

new cyber technologies that provide advanced defense of 

Network will always Harbor, be fundamental Inc. to homeland planning and 

network framework layers, including authentication, better 

encryption, biometrics, and data analytical tools”. 

spending. Those are the most catastrophic threats. In 

2015 Winner 

addition to CBRNE DHS has assumed more and more of a 

leadership role in cybersecurity derived from both Presidential 

mandates and congressional legislation. 


CB: For me it was a real pleasure judging this year’s 

Cybersecurity is indeed a top priority as government agencies 

and mega corporations experience more data breach- 

IPM (integrated process management) provides an 

annual Homeland Security and Airport, Seaport, Border 

CB: 

CB: Macro spending will increase across the board on 

The key word really is “future” and it is already additional element of extensibility and power for policy 

Security Awards programs. The submissions this year 

Best Physical Security Information Management 

homeland security products and services In accordance 

es with each passing year. I recently published an article 

around the corner with the Internet of Things (IoT). management and workflow processing that is virtually 


were frankly quite amazing. The capabilities and technical 

System - PSIM 

to the new threats we are especially facing from ISIS and 

in The Federal Times on Key homeland security priorities 

Recently both the FBI and DHS issued warnings about unlimited IoT in its capabilities. The end result is an intuitive, 

comprehensive automated security management 

merits of the IT and Physical security products/solutions 

from other terrorist actors, and global instabilities. This 

to watch in 2016 (http://www.federaltimes.com/story/ 

and pending threats. The reality is that we have become 

platform that operates identically, anywhere within the 

of all the vendors made it especially difficult to judge. In 

was reflected in the recent passage of the 2016 omnibus 

government/dhs/blog/2015/12/15/key-homeland-securitypriorities-watch-2016/77368604/) 

My thoughts in regards 

immersed in a new digital era comprised of more organization. than 50 There’s no need to retrain staff when Rapiscan they Systems, a leading provider of security screening 

solutions, is well known for the high quality, reliment 

or integrated with Rapiscan’s X-ray and metal- 

detection products can be used in a standalone deploy- 

my opinion they were all winners because they are leading 

technological contributors to the current and future 

LightHouse 

spending Bill recently passed by Congress by Congress. 

billion interfaced devices. Anything connected is move vulnerable. 

Expect significant investments in smart cities, nents smart are connected to the platform, which in turn ability saves and affordability of its solutions. With products based threat detection solutions. The newest addition to 

from one facility to another, or when new compo- 

The bill provides DHS with $40.96 billion, which is an 

to cybersecurity verbatim: 

security of our nation. It is good to know that very talented 

people in industry and government are continually 

Network Harbor’s LightHouse platform delivers dent management, too. 

increase of $1.33 billion over the fiscal year 2015 enacted 

“The 2015 DHS budget directed more than $1.25 billion 

to cybersecurity and that trend will continue in 2016. 

homes, smart businesses, and smart governments customers in the significant amounts of time and money. sold into four market segments, including Baggage and Rapiscan’s radiation detection product line is the Rapiscan 

MP100 Backpack Radiation Detection system. A high 

Parcel Inspection, Cargo and Vehicle Inspection, Hold 

levels. It included increased funding levels for Customs 

next Its decade. click-and-go For the ability security to adopt community this conveys 

Baggage Screening and People Screening, the company performance, easy to use radiation monitor combining 

designing and upgrading security solutions to fill gaps as 

unified security management for enterprise organizations, 

extending the capabilities of physical security its own capabilities means that there’s no “dumbing 

the full functionality of any security system’s API within 

and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

and for DHS Cybersecurity programs in the incident DHS management DHS’s (PSIM) inception to include as we geographical have become a more down” interconnect- 

of features or for functions threat detection, – just a seamless, surveillance, con-predictive data analytics, 

tion situations Convy its customers Associatescould face. An important a lightweight, compact commercial backpack, making 

Cybersecurity and IT have moved to the forefront since 

opportunities in developing and integrating new sensors 

has a solution John for Convy, the most Principal demanding threat detec- 

gamma and optional neutron detection is housed in 

adversaries are becoming more hostile and sophisticated. 

part of Rapiscan’s product portfolio is its radiation the system perfect for covert inspection situations. The 

information system (GIS) and non-physical products in sistent user interface, anywhere across the enterprise. 

detection product line, which addresses the need for MP100 is ideal for supporting security operations and 

a truly comprehensive safety and security management It installs easily, and is quickly mastered by administrators 

and end users alike. LightHouse supports almost 

global governments and organizations to monitor and performing radiation surveys in a variety of markets – 

environment. LightHouse is unique in that it integrates 

locate radioactive threat materials that can be used in including critical infrastructure, customs and border 

every security system, physical or non-physical, into a all major security product manufacturers including 

office: 202-421-3777 

atomic weapons and dirty bombs. The product line is control, event security, defense and law enforcement 

single, seamless oversight system. Its intuitive interface access control, video, audio, mass notification, IDS, 

comprised of software and hardware based solutions applications. All of the features required for radiation 

drives faster recognition of potential threats, as well RTLS and more. LightHouse has been designed to add 

for inspecting vehicles, packages and people. Radiation detection are integrated in the MP100 so it can be used 

as gives first responders the information they need to additional system integration’s to the platform without 

make better informed, more appropriate decisions. disruption or encumbrance of any existing integration 

LightHouse is designed to support the IT side of inci- in an expedient, stable and secure process. LightHouse 


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and display. Using the MP100 is as easy as slipping 

the backpack on and walking around. Weighing just 

18 pounds, the MP100 is lightweight and easy to use. 

Additionally, the onboard battery enables 16 hours of 

continuous operation in a wide range of environments. 

The Rapiscan RadviewerTM Android app displays the 

operator’s current position and direction toward the 

radiation source. The design of the MP100’s radiation 

detectors provides increased directional sensitivity of 

the radiation detection. A radiation alarm is signaled audibly 

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organization: 

via RadviewerTM. In this way, the MP100 enables users Jennifer Edgerly, Senior Account Director, 

to effectively detect and locate radioactive threats. The SpeakerBox Communications 

MP100 is manufactured by Rapiscan’s Radiation Detection 

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