GSN Digital Edition April 2016

Government Security News
APRIL 2016 DIGITAL EDITION
IMAX Film ‘A Beautiful Planet’ uses Canon cameras and lenses to capture
breathtaking images of Planet Earth shot from International Space Station –
More on Page 32
Also in this issue:
LRAD Corporation announces $490,000 Coast Guard Order from Asia – Page 6
What’s up with WhatsApp for Emergency Communcations? – Page 8
George Lane: Race for a New Class of Weapons Threatens to Revive Cold War – Page 10
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issues RFP to develop long-range master growth plan – Page 26

GSN April 2016 Digital Edition
Table of Contents
GSN TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT
DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) demonstrates precision timing
at New York Stock Exchange
“Accurate position, navigation ad timing is necessary for the function and integrity
of many critical infrastructure sectors, such as the electric grid, communication
networks and financial networks,” said DHS Undersecretary for Science
and Technology Dr. Reginald Brothers on April 19. The occasion was the announcement
of a successful demonstration of the Enhanced Loran (eLoran), a
precision-timing technology for financial transactions, at the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE). eLoran is a low-frequency, high power radio navigation signal
that is broadcasted by ground-based transmission stations, allowing the signal to
penetrate through buildings and provide precision timing indoors and throughout
urban environments. DHS S&T, the U.S. Coast Guard, UrsaVav Inc and Harris
Corporation study e-Loran through a cooperative Research and Development
Agreement. The demonstration at the NYSE was hosted by Juniper Networks
and presented to technical representatives from financial services, energy and
communication centers. Read more on Page 7.
Nice Technology continues to transform how law enforcement handles all
aspects of an investigations
A lot has changed in the way law enforcement officers perform their work since
the days of patrolling a beat, says Jerry Rodriguez, Business Development Manager
of NICE Systems. The streetlights host cameras and sensors. Police departments
are purchasing more. Federal grants pay for body-worn cameras. But as
the amount of technology continues to increase, it’s important to coordinate the
data and turn it into something meaningful. And that’s where NICE Systems fits in
– by capturing, integrating, and putting information into context from many different
sources to reconstruct the pertinent details of incidents. New digital investigation
techniques like “Nice Investigations” enable police departments to seamlessly connect
digital silos through one application, according to Rodriguez. Read more on
Page 4.
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NEWS AND FEATURES
NICE’s Rodriguez: Technology continues to
transform how law enforcement handles all aspects
of an investigation Page 4
LRAD ® Corporation Announces $490,000 Coast
Guard Order from Southeast Asia Page 6
DHS S&T demonstrates precision timing technology
at the New York Stock Exchange Page 7
What’s up with WhatsApp for Emergency
Communications? Page 8
George Lane Column: Race for a New Class of
Weapons Threatens to Revive Cold War Page 10
Government Security News Awards Programs –
What they’re all about Page 12
HID Global Steers Driver Licenses and other
Government IDs to Mobile Devices Page 15
CINCH and SIS introduce encrypted security system
software for secure alarm communication for remote
monitoring Page 18
Seeking to integrate detection technologies,
ETD/EDS firms consolidate Page 21
Campbell on Crypto: Cybersecurity and Occam’s
Razor – Encryption is the Simplest Answer Page 22
ODSecurity body scanners cut prison overdose
deaths, now at all-time high according to Center
for Disease Control Page 24
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Careers –
Protecting America’s Borders Page 25
Maritime/Coastal/Port Security
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issues
RFP to develop long-range master growth plan
Page 26
Shipping industry benefits from low oil prices
Page 28
Shipping industry’s Cyber Security guidelines to
protect AIS navigation Page 29
Mega-ships challenges and benefits for ports
Page 30
Everbridge selected to develop new Florida Emergency
Notification System, ALERTFLORIDA Page 31
Video Surveillance
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IMAX ® Film ‘A Beautiful Planet’ features “out of
this world” CANON 4K imagery Page 32
OnSSI receives Hanwha Techwin America’s 2015
Partner of the Year Award Page 34
Eagle Eye CEO sets up $1M grant program to get
camera systems in schools Page 35
DTI to provide CCTV surveillance systems to Dallas
Area Rapid Transit Page 36
3xLOGIC takes home SIA Award with recently
launched thermal camera Page 37
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NICE’s Rodriguez: Technology continues to
transform how law enforcement handles all
aspects of an investigation
By Steve Bittenbender
Jerry Rodriguez remembers when
an electric typewriter qualified as
technology in a police department.
A lot has changed with the way
law enforcement officers perform
their work in the 30 years since the
now-retired cop began patrolling a
beat. The streetlight at an intersection
can host cameras and other
sensors to help police departments
monitor high-priority areas
more effectively, and
the officers themselves
are suiting up with technology,
too, as the number
of departments purchasing
has risen thanks
to the availability of federal
grants for such items
as body-worn cameras.
As the amount of technology
used by law enforcement
agencies continues
to increase, it’s important
for those departments to find ways
to coordinate the data generated
by the new resources and turn it
into something meaningful for the
departments and the people they
Jerry Rodriguez,
Business Development
Manager, NICE Systems
serve.
That’s where NICE Systems
fits in. The international
company offers solutions
that can capture,
integrate and put into
context information from
many different sources to
help agencies reconstruct
and understand the pertinent
details of incidents.
For police investigators,
that could include
a wide
spectrum of evidence
-- recorded audio from
911 calls, video from
multiple camera sources
(CCTV, body-worn, and
in-car), and data from
Automatic License Plate
Recognition (ALPR),
Computer Aided Dispatch
(CAD), Records
Management (RMS) and
other databases and systems.
Previously, evidence in a case all
had to be collected manually from
these different silos, but new digital
investigation technologies like
NICE Investigate are now enabling
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police departments to seamlessly
connect their digital silos through
one application. The technology
provides a one-stop shop for gathering
evidence. The investigator
doesn’t have to waste time logging
onto individual systems to manually
collect evidence to build their case.
The solution also makes it easier for
investigators to connect the dots in
a case by visualizing evidence on a
timeline or map.
With agencies using technology
more, it will require them to find
ways to store data in places where
it can be protected while still being
easy to access for investigators and
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LRAD ® Corporation Announces $490,000
Coast Guard Order from Southeast Asia
SAN DIEGO, CA – April 14,
2016 – LRAD Corporation (NAS-
DAQ: LRAD), the world’s leading
provider of acoustic hailing
devices (“AHDs”) and advanced
mass notification systems, today
announced a $490,000 LRAD
1000Xi systems and accessories
order for a Southeast Asian Coast
Guard agency. Scheduled for delivery
this fiscal year, this is the
latest order from a country equipping
its homeland security and
defense forces with LRAD’s award
winning, long range communications
capabilities.
“Many nations are experiencing
escalating territorial water incursions
and homeland security
threats,” noted Tom Brown, President
and Chief Executive Officer
of LRAD Corporation. “LRAD’s attention
commanding warning tones
and voice broadcasts determine the
intent of boats not responding to
radio calls, establish large standoff
zones around Coast Guard vessels,
and provide enhanced communication
during coastal defense
operations. LRAD systems ensure
commands and instructions in any
language are clearly delivered, heard
and understood over wind, engine
and background noise.”
In addition to serving with the
The New LRAD 450XL
country’s naval force on national
defense missions, this Coast Guard
agency is tasked with protecting
the country’s extensive coast line as
well as internal and territorial waters
from drug smuggling, human
trafficking, terrorism, the dumping
of industrial or toxic waste; enforcing
fishing, maritime and environmental
protection laws; providing
marine assistance and conducting
search and rescue operations.
LRAD systems are an essential
component in all Escalation of Force
protocols and have proven highly
effective in resolving uncertain situations
and saving lives on both sides
of the Long Range Acoustic Device®.
LRAD systems are in use in more
than 70 countries around the world
and are the only acoustic hailing
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devices that meet all U.S. Military
requirements.
About LRAD Corporation
Using advanced technology and
superior voice intelligibility,
LRAD Corporation’s proprietary
Long Range Acoustic Devices®
and revolutionary ONE VOICE®
mass notification systems safely
hail and warn, inform and direct,
prevent misunderstandings,
determine intent, establish large
safety zones, resolve uncertain
situations, and save lives. LRAD
systems are in service in more than
70 countries around the world in
diverse applications including mass
notification and public address,
fixed and mobile defense deployments,
homeland, border, critical
infrastructure, maritime, oil & gas,
and port security, public safety,
law enforcement and emergency
responder communications, asset
protection, and wildlife control and
preservation. For more information,
please visit www.lradx.com.

DHS S&T demonstrates precision timing technology
at the New York Stock Exchange
WASHINGTON – The Department
of Homeland Security, Science and
Technology Directorate (S&T) announced
today the successful demonstration
of the Enhanced Loran
(eLoran), a precision-timing technology
for financial transactions
at the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE).
eLoran is a low-frequency, highpower
radio navigation signal that
is broadcasted by ground-based
transmission stations, allowing the
signal to penetrate through buildings
and provide precision timing
indoors and throughout urban environments.
“Accurate position, navigation,
and timing is necessary for the function
and integrity of many critical
infrastructure sectors, such as the
electric grid, communication networks,
and financial institutions,”
said DHS Under Secretary for Science
and Technology Dr. Reginald
Brothers. “Ensuring the continu-
ous and uninterrupted availability
of critical information ensures our
national security.”
DHS S&T, U.S. Coast Guard, UrsaNav,
Inc., and Harris Corporation
study eLoran through a Cooperative
Research and Development Agree-
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What’s up with WhatsApp for
Emergency Communications?
Op-Ed by Joe Mazzarella,
Senior V.P. & Chief Legal Counsel,
Board Member, Mutualink
When terror struck Brussels, one
thing that quickly became evident
was how much more needs to be
done to ensure effective and efficient
communications for first
responders worldwide. In its aftermath,
various media sources reported
that Brussels police were
forced to use WhatsApp Messenger
to communicate with one another
in the aftermath of the attacks, and
that widespread communication
problems hampered emergency services.
Commercial mobile networks
in the area were overwhelmed by
increased traffic and Brussels’ emergency
services network, ASTRID,
likewise failed, leaving law enforcement
unable to connect and collaborate
in the chaos. As an instant
messaging client for smartphones,
WhatsApp may be wonderful for
personal communications, but it
is hardly sufficient to meet the demands
for real time communications
in the midst of a life-critical
crisis.
Unfortunately, a lack of reliable
emergency communications systems
is not unique to Brussels. If
a large scale terrorist attack were
to happen on U.S. soil tomorrow,
there is a significant risk that similar
failures would occur. In fact,
in countless cases since 9/11, communications
failures coupled with
the continuing inability to interoperate
with partner responder agencies
during major emergencies have
been reported as a serious issue in
after action reports. The range includes
failures in communications
and interoperability during Hurricane
Katrina, the Deep Horizon
Spill, the Aurora Theater shooting,
the Washington Navy Yard shooting,
and L’Enfant Train Station Fire,
among others. Fortunately, there
are simple, quick, cost-effective and
uncontroversial steps that can be
literally taken today
that would greatly
enhance our ability
to respond more effectively
to terror attacks.
When terror
strikes, an effective
emergency response
requires massive cooperation
and information
sharing
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among law enforcement agencies
and federal, state and local agencies
to eliminate the threat and minimize
causalities. First responders
must be able to communicate in real
time with relevant parties for ongoing
assessment and rapid decisionmaking
during unfolding situations.
In these scenarios, information is at
a premium and every moment of
uncertainty, confusion, delay or indecision
can inevitably lead to an
increased number of injuries and
deaths. With real-time situational
awareness and coordination being
perhaps the most critical components
of a first-response effort, there
is no greater truism than “time
saved is lives saved.”
One of our biggest obstacles is
a surprisingly simple one – public
safety officials and government entities
cannot effectively communicate
with each other (interoperate)
in real time during an emergency.
Sadly, this crucial functional deficit

was identified long ago in the aftermath
of September 11, 2001. In the
intervening fifteen years, tens of billions
of taxpayer dollars have been
spent on new radio digital radio
communications systems based on
the premise of improving interoperability,
but in reality these new
systems never delivered on their
primary mission, at least not in any
meaningful way.
In the United States, initiatives
such as FirstNet and the DHS Interoperable
Communications Act
represent earnest attempts to remedy
this persistent problem and are
positive steps in the right direction.
With FirstNet, congested commercial
mobile networks, like those experienced
in Brussels, would no longer
be needed. Instead, a dedicated
private public safety broadband
network similar to commercial mobile
networks will be available exclusively
to first responders. With
FirstNet, a broad range of new applications
and interactive services
will furnish first responders with
cutting edge capabilities in the field
that vastly exceed the limited voice
communications now provided by
legacy radio communications systems.
Still, more must be done –
and can be done now without much
heavy lifting or cost. Proven, commercially
available solutions for
communications interoperability
are at our disposal. DHS maintains
a list of Qualified Anti-Terrorism
Technologies (QUATTs), which
have already undergone a rigorous
review and testing process under
the SAFETY Act (Support Antiterrorism
by Fostering Effective
Technology). Furthermore, DHS
certifies a list of “Approved Products
for Homeland Security,” which are
ready to be deployed in defense of
our homeland, but remain inexplicably
underutilized. These technol-
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Hazmat Science and Public Policy with George Lane
Race for a New Class of Weapons
Threatens to Revive Cold War
By George Lane
The U.S., Russia, and China are currently
aggressively pursuing a new
generation of smaller, less destructive
weapons, using “hypersonic glide” vehicles
(HGV). The buildups threaten
to revive a Cold War-era arms race
and unsettle the balance of destructive
force among nations that has kept
the peace for more than a half-century.
It is an old dynamic playing out
in an economically declining Russia,
a rising China, and an
uncertain U.S. resuming
their brinksmanship.
U.S .officials blame
Russian president Putin.
Some blame the Chinese,
who are looking for
a technological edge to
keep the U.S. at bay. And some blame
the U.S. for speeding ahead with
“modernization” that risks throwing
nuclear fuel on the fire.
“Fast, precise, and deadly”
HGVs are being developed by the
U.S., China, and Russia, ultrahighspeed
warheads capable of carrying
either nuclear or non-nuclear payloads.
As in the graphic, the HGV vehicle
is launched in several stages: (1)
Moscow and Beijing are testing space
weapons that could knock out U.S.
military satellites at the beginning of
a nuclear war.
Launch; (2) Separation; (3) Descent;
(4) Pull up; (5) Glide; and (6) Impact.
The HGV is launched aboard an
ICBM, separates while still in space,
and then zooms back into the atmosphere
at Mach 10, or 7,680 miles
per hour. That’s fast enough to enter
American airspace before we even
react. By comparison, today’s cruise
missiles fly between 500 to 600 mph.
The HGV is less susceptible to anti-ballistic
missile countermeasures
than conventional reentry vehicles
that descend on a predictable ballistic
trajectory. HGVs could pull-up
after reentering the atmosphere and
approach its target in a relatively flat
glide, lessening the time it can be detected,
fired at, or reengaged if the
initial attack failed. Gliding makes it
more maneuverable and also extends
its range so that relatively vulnerable
mid-course phase of its flight can take
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place father from the target.
The HGV stays within the stratosphere
after reentry and pull-up, and
glides through the air. Although that
creates more drag, warheads fly further
than they would on a higher trajectory
through space, and are too low
to be intercepted by exo-atmospheric
kill vehicles.
The Chinese military is flight-testing
a HGV called “WU-14”. It flies
into space on a traditional
long-range missile, but
then maneuvers through
the atmosphere at Mach 10,
rendering current missile
defenses useless. WU-14
would provide Beijing for
the first time with a precision
strike capability to hit any target
in the world within an hour.
China might use their HGV as an
anti-ship ballistic missile with a nonnuclear
warhead against U.S. aircraft
carriers and alter the balance of
power in the Pacific, where China is
literally building new islands in the
South China Sea, also claimed by at
least three other countries, including
the Philippines, an American ally. The
Chinese have concluded that it is un-

likely that anyone will challenge them
in this area believed rich in oil and
gas and strategically vital.
“Mutual Assured Destruction”
One fear about the new weapons is
that they could undercut the grim
logic of “Mutual Assured Destruction,”
the Cold War doctrine that any
attack would result in massive retaliation
and ultimately the annihilation
of all combatants. While much debated
and often mocked, in classics like
the movie “Dr. Strangelove”, “MAD”
worked. Now the precision and lessdestructive
nature of these new weapons
raises the temptation to use them.
Moscow and Beijing are testing
space weapons that could knock out
U.S. military satellites at the beginning
of a nuclear war. In response,
Washington is launching space observation
satellites meant to deter
and help defeat such attacks. For decades,
the main nuclear powers have
observed a shaky global ban on testing,
a central pillar of nuclear arms
control. Advocates of the U.S. nuclear
modernization program call it a reasonable
response to Putin’s aggression,
especially his 2014 invasion of
Crimea.
While that fulfills the president’s
commitment to rely less on atomic
weapons, it may prompt adversaries
who cannot match the technology
to depend more on nuclear arms.
The diminished nuclear arms and
the non-nuclear
weapons that the
U.S. is developing
could make
the unthinkable
more thinkable.
No major nuclear
power feels
more threatened
by U.S. advances
than China.
A pre-emptive
strike might easily
do in its relatively
small arsenal. Beijing has felt
increasingly encircled. It sees a U.S.
HGV as a way to attack China without
crossing the nuclear threshold,
complicating its assessment of nuclear
retaliation.
For decades Washington and Moscow
have kept their nuclear forces on
high alert so that, in theory, military
authorities can fire missiles if networks
of radars, satellites and computers
detect an incoming strike. The
tactic is meant to dodge a crippling
blow that might curb or eliminate a
nation’s ability to retaliate.
Critics see the “launch on warning”
tactic as greatly increasing the risk of
accidental war. In the past, they note,
false alerts have repeatedly brought
the world to the brink of disaster. Last
year, the Chinese military declared
in an official document that it seeks
to “improve strategic early warning”
for its nuclear forces. Advocates of
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arms control see increasing numbers
of warheads and lethality of delivery
vehicles. If maneuverable warheads
become a global reality in the next decade,
then the world will have failed
to put a new nuclear genie back in
the bottle, and these new HGV genies
will be on the loose at Mach 10.
George Lane has 25 years of experience
in the development of chemical
security systems, conducting research
as a NASA Fellow at the Stennis Space
Center and as a NSF Fellow. Lane was
air quality SME for the University of
California at Berkeley Center for Catastrophic
Risk Management during the
BP Oil Spill. Lane is currently chemical
security SME for the Naval Postgraduate
School Maritime Interdiction
Operations in the Center for Network
Innovation and Experimentation.

Government Security News Awards Programs –
What they’re all about
By Adrian Courtenay
GSN’s first awards program took
place in 2009 and featured a gala
Awards Dinner at New York’s historic
Roosevelt Hotel. In a
collaboration between GSN
and the International Association
of Airport and
Seaport Police, the partners
selected Frances Townsend,
former assistant to President
Bush for Homeland
Security and Terrorism, as
recipient of the 3rd Annual Fred V.
Morrone 9/11 Award.
Previous winners of the Award
had been New York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani and former Department
of Homeland Security Undersecretary
Asa Hutchison.
Fred Morrone was the highest
ranking police officer to lose his life
at Ground Zero on September 11,
2001, and Ms Townsend, who has
appeared many times on national
television as an expert in Homeland
Security and terrorism, delivered a
moving tribute to Fred Morrone as
well as the many other heroes and
innocent souls who lost their lives.
There was hardly a dry eye in the
house as the bagpipers of the Airport
and Seaport Police played their
traditional salute to fallen heroes.
9/11 will not be forgotten by the
Courtenay family either, as we lived
only a few hundred yards from
the World Trade Center on Duane
Street, and two of our children
went to school every
day at PS 234, which was
immediately across the
street from the Trade Center.
Our oldest son Clark
and I walked through the
Trade Center almost every
day on the way to his preschool
at Trinity Church. There was
also a fire house nearby
where the fire fighters
would often let Clark sit
in the driver’s seat of their
big fire trucks – which is
about the greatest thrill
that you can give to a
4-year old boy.
We’ll never forget the
kindness of those wonderful
guys at the fire house. Tragically,
eleven of those brave men perished
on 9/11 trying to save other
people’s lives.
In 2010, GSN decided to host its
Awards Dinner in Washington, DC,
where many of the defense contractors
and homeland security technology
companies are located. For this
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event, we had the spectacular good
fortune, thanks to Mark Hatten, the
brilliant CEO of Mutualink, who
introduced us to retired Four Star
General of the Army Barry McCaffrey,
who agreed to serve as Keynote
Speaker in the 2010 Awards Program.
Here are a few lines from my
description of the dinner and Keynote
address of General McCaffrey:
Forty-five awards, an elegant
dinner and a rousing speech
On the evening of November 8,
2010, in a packed ballroom at the
JW Marriott Hotel in Washington,
DC, an audience of federal, state,
county and municipal government
officials, along with thirty-plus
tables of government contractors,
systems integrators and vendors of
IT and physical security products
and solutions, dined on halibut
and filet mignon and witnessed the

General Barry McCaffrey (USA-Ret.)
presenting of 45 winner’s trophies
to deserving government agencies
and private industry developers of
advanced security and communications
technologies.
The audience was also treated to a
barn-burner of a speech by four star
General Barry McCaffrey (USA-
Ret.), who saluted the public-private
partnership of government and
private business, which he credited
with making tremendous strides
since the “transformational event”
of 9/11/2001 in which “the most
powerful nation literally in the history
of the world” was attacked by
a small number of mostly upper
middle class, highly educated Saudi
boys, who took our own technology
one day and murdered 3,000 of us.”
“The last time we had a casualty
rate like that,” McCaffrey said, “was
in the Battle of Antietam in the Civil
War.”
If there is a more exciting speaker
on this earth than General
McCaffrey, I’ve never met
him or her. There is no doubt
in my mind that every one of
the hundreds of people in
the room that evening believed
that General McCaffrey
was speaking directly to
them.
In following years, GSN
also had the good fortune of
having General Dynamics as
its lead Awards Sponsor. A
later Raytheon became lead Sponsor
and joined GSN in establishing
the GSN/Raytheon Award for Distinguished
Leadership and Innovation
in Public Safety and Security,
with the first Award going to Richard
Reed, Deputy Assistant to President
Obama for homeland security.
Mr. Reed was chosen for his “tireless
work in his key role in leading
the development of national policy
relating to resilience, transborder
security and community
partnerships.”
Former Commandant
of the U.S. Coast Guard,
Admiral Thad Allen,
who came out of retirement
twice to service his
country – once in Hurricane
Katrina and later
in the BP Oil Spill -- was
Winner of the GSN/
Raytheon Award in the
following year, and was
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as well-deserving of the Award as
anyone could be. As a matter of fact,
as many have repeated, he was probably
one of the few persons in the
country who could cope with Hurricane
Katrina and the BP Oil Spill.
One of my personal favorite experiences
to date in the GSN Awards
Programs history was the story of
the Bastrop County Texas Wildfires,
largest in the history of Texas,
which could not be contained by
one agency after another, as homes
and business burned to the ground
– until county, state and federal government
agencies from all around
the country, including the fabled
Southern Area Red Team, banded
together into the “Bastrop County
Unified Command” to subdue their
egos and put the fire out.
All of the Bastrop County Unified
Commanders came to the Awards
Dinner that year, some bringing
their children and grandchildren.
Glen Woodbury, Director of Center for Homeland Defense
and Security/NPS, accepting award while accompanied by
CHDS graduates

At the end of the Awards Dinner,
we played an 80-slide power
point presentation showing all details
of the fires that threatened
Bastrop County. But it ended with
slides of all the commanders standing
in the center of the hometown
football field in Bastrop, waiving to
the people of Bastrop
County, who came to
thank them and cheer
for them. That was crying
material for me and
just about everyone in
the room. It still brings
tears to my eyes when I
think about these valiant
warriors who had
smiles on their faces
as they waived to the people whose
lives and property they had saved.
In an interview conducted after
the slide presentation, the head of
the Bastrop County Emergency Response
confided the following to
me:
“You know, I’m 68 years old and
I’ve been in emergency response for
most of my life. And I thought to
myself, “Buddy, your whole life has
been a warm-up for this moment.
Can you handle it? And my next
thought was, “I’m ready.”
And he was. And that’s why the
Bastrop County football field’s
bleachers were filled with folks who
wanted to cheer for them and thank
them for their bravery
and professionalism
and submerging their
egos and getting the job
done.
There are thousands
more stories like these
of innovators and scientists,
police officers and
fire fighters who spend
their lives trying to
help others. Running these Awards
Programs has been very rewarding
to us at Government Security News
since 2009. We’re looking forward
to finding lots more stories like this
and telling our readers about them.
And that’s what our Awards Programs
are all about.
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And speaking of innovative Winners, here’s how HID Global Government ID Solutions, Sponsor of this
year’s Airport, Seaport, Border Security Awards Program, is leading the shift in enabling mobile phones
to carry driver licenses, passports, social security cards and other citizen IDs, providing the secure
ecosystem to facilitate the transition from physical identification cards to citizen IDs on smartphones.
Thanks HID Global – for the Sponsorship and the mobile IDs!
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HID Global’s Government ID Solutions
provides governments worldwide
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that include national ID,
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worldwide
At the same time, a major shift
in government-to-citizen ID credentials
is underway. Facing everincreasing
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constraints, and the need to
deliver services that better accommodate
citizen expectations, governments
worldwide are continually
looking for innovative ways to
improve ID programs – all while
lifestyle has become the norm.
The next frontier for government
identity is the ability for mobile
phones to carry driver licenses,
passports and social security cards,
among other citizen IDs, including
ensuring they can be provisioned
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over the air as has already been
proven at universities, banks, hotels,
hospitals and other institutions.
Driver licenses are a particularly
compelling application.
HID Global is poised to lead this
shift, providing the secure ecosystem
needed to facilitate the transition
from physical identification
cards, to citizen IDs on smartphones.
With mobile IDs, the possibilities
are endless. From driver’s
licenses and national ID cards, to
vehicle registrations, residence permits
and much more, mobile IDs
mark a new era in which citizens
will be able to confidently use their
smartphone as their secure and
trusted ID.
A survey of Departments of
Motor Vehicles (DMVs) was recently
conducted to gauge the
interest in mobile driver’s licenses.
In a sample of the 69 jurisdictions
that issue driver licenses in
North America, approximately
one-third of them indicated either
interest or planning for the
move to offering mobile driver licenses
to citizens in the future. HID
Global expects that this trend will
only increase.
Having a driver license on a smartphone
– instead of having to carry a
wallet with a plastic driver license –
is intriguing to most people. Smartphones
have become an extension
of people’s daily lives and are used

for virtually everything else, ranging
from boarding an airplane to
buying products. Why not for carrying
IDs on smartphones?
A mobile driver license will simplify
people’s lives, empower people
with more applications and better
control of their privacy, and increase
the level of trust to use a person’s
digital identity. The benefits also extend
to DMVs, which will be able to
improve citizens’ experience as well
as generate new revenues. People
will not have to go stand in line at
DMVs anymore to renew a driver
license or make an address change.
Policymakers are increasingly interested
in seeing the results of “pilot
programs” to demonstrate the
viability of a jurisdiction offering a
mobile driver license. At the same
time, HID Global is addressing the
concerns and objections of decision-makers,
who either are happy
with the way driver licenses currently
work or are suspicious of the
mobile driver license. People are
asking good questions about mobile
IDs, and HID Global is here to answer
those questions. The following
are three examples of concerns or
objections to mobile driver licenses.
• Mobile driver license can be
faked more easily than a physical
driver license. The truth is just
the opposite, however. It is easier
to fake a physical driver’s license
than a mobile driver license. With
mobile, electronic authentication
using cryptography is possible,
which will prevent counterfeiting
or fake IDs.
• A mobile phone battery can
die and make the mobile driver
license useless. The beauty of a
mobile driver license is that it can
be available online, with the permission
of the citizen. A government
official, such as a police officer,
will be able to access people’s
identity, even if the citizen’s phone
battery is drained.
• Deploying a mobile driver license
is too complex. Because the
existing processes and infrastructure
to create a physical driver
license will be used by a DMV,
there is actually not that much
more that needs to be done to enable
a DMV to start issuing mobile
driver license except to work
with a trusted partner who can
securely provision the credential
over-the-air into a citizen’s smartphone.
The best approach is for a
DMV to launch a pilot program
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to test out the concept of a mobile
driver license.
Mobile driver licenses will be an
option for citizens who desire their
convenience and are not meant to
replace physical driver licenses. For
the foreseeable future, physical driver
licenses will co-exist with mobile
driver licenses. Co-existence will
give government bodies more time
to work out all the details and learn
from the rollout.
Once one or two states start offering
mobile driver licenses to its
citizens, there will be a ripple effect.
The shift will be quick across many
other states. This will unleash the
unrealized demand among citizens
for mobile IDs.
HID Global makes it possible for
governments to reach a new standard
in their relationship with citizens
– whether the interaction is
with law enforcement, motor vehicle
agencies, educational institutions,
or quasi-governmental organizations.
The world of citizen IDs
is on the verge of a massive shift.
HID Global will be there every step
of the way.

CINCH and SIS introduce encrypted security
system software for secure alarm communication
for remote monitoring
April 13, 2016, ST. MICHAEL,
MINN. – CINCH systems, Inc.
and Security Information Systems,
Inc. (SIS), jointly announce the release
of the HSVR (High Security
Virtual Receiver) software system
for security dispatch centers, which
is used to receive encrypted alarm
signals from CINCH AES Encrypted
security systems. This new UL®
listed IP - based communication
platform enables CINCH Intrusion
Detection Systems with patented
AES End-To-End Encryption* to
maintain 100% encryption from the
sensors—to the control panel sending
the encrypted signal, via the
web—to the security dispatch center
to contact authorities of alarm
events.
“Our patented 100% AES Encrypted
End-To-End security products
have been specified and used
by U.S. Government Agencies and
the U.S. Military for years. We collaborated
with SIS—specialists in
dispatch center software to develop
the software that would enable communication
and encryption from
the security panel to a dispatch center
over the web,” said Joel Christianson,
CEO, CINCH systems, Inc.
“Our U.S. Government and Military
customers
requested
that we develop
the
H S V R
and we are
pleased that
we are now
ready to offer
encrypted
communication from CINCH panels
to remote monitoring/dispatch
centers,” adds Christianson.
“From SIS’s perspective, the advanced
encrypted technology of
the HSVR gives CINCH systems’
customer base the ability to “Virtually
Connect” and remotely monitor
CINCH encrypted systems
anywhere in the world, it’s a very exciting
and unique product offering.“
said Greg Gilbert, Marketing Manager,
Security Information Systems,
Inc. (SIS).
About CINCH systems, Inc.
www.cinchsystems.com
CINCH systems, Inc. is a leading
supplier of high security and
life safety technologies with offices
based in St. Michael, Minn. CINCH
systems offers the industry’s leading-edge
high security product
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portfolios including;
• Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
• Vehicle Barrier Systems (VBS)
Controls
• Door and Security Gate Controls
CINCH systems products provide
complete patented, AES Encryption
End-To-End, secure fiber
conversion, and the easiest to use
touch screen interface in the security
industry. Products are used to
protect people and property across
a wide-range of facilities for U.S.
Government Agencies and Military
facilities, SCIFs–Sensitive Compartmented
Information Facilities,
Law Enforcement, and Commercial
Faculties
For more information call: (763)
497-1059 or email: info@cinchsystems.com
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CINCH and SIS introduce encrypted
security system software
Continued from page 18
About Security Information
Systems, Inc. (SIS)
www.SecuritySoftware.com
Security Information Systems, Inc.
(SIS) is a leader in high performance
software systems for the security industry.
With over 5000 installations
world-wide, the Alarm Center®
software series has set the standard
for reliability and excellence in dispatch
center automation & security
management software. The Alarm
Center® has received the “stamp of
approval” by the watch dog agencies
of the industry, UL & ULC Classified
and has passed stringent testing
requirements of the Department
of Defense Information Assurance
Certification and Accreditation
Process (DIACAP), complies with
Assured Compliance Assessment
Solution (ACAS), and the Secure
Configuration Compliance Validation
Initiative (SCCVI) providing
the required automated network
vulnerability scanning, configuration
assessment, application vulnerability
scanning, device configuration
assessment, and network
discovery required for government
installations. For more information
call: (407) 345-1550 or email: sales@
SecuritySoftware.com
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Seeking to integrate detection
technologies, ETD/EDS firms
consolidate
By Adrian Courtenay
Three of the industry’s most significant
companies— Smiths, Safran’s
Morpho Detection, and Implant
Sciences Inc. — have all been in the
news lately. Smiths, headquartered
in the UK, announced Thursday
that it had purchased Paris-based
Safran’s Morpho Detection unit for
$710 million. OSI Systems and L3
were rumored to be among the bidders.
Implant Sciences, which is headquartered
in Wilmington, MA, also
is setting itself up for what it calls a
“strategic alternative.’” The strategic
alternative could be a sale, a merger
or other significant change in operations,
according to an 8-K filing
with the SEC on April 8.
The motivation to merge stems
in great measure for a desire to integrate
complementary technologies
into streamlined product offerings.
Smiths, according to industry
experts, is primarily interested in
Morpho’s broad range of EDS technologies,
including Computer Tomography,
Ion Trap Mobility Spectrometer
trace detection, X-ray
and X-ray Diffraction. Morpho’s
strength in tomography is complementary
to Smiths’ strength in X-
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ray. Morpho does have an explosives
trace detection business, but
it has struggled significantly over
the past few years and is a shrinking
segment of the company’s revenues.
Implant Sciences has emerged as
the technology leader in the ETD
segment, winning a $163 million
ID/IQ (basically an open purchase
order) from the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) and
an initial order for.1170 Implant
systems. The TSA
began installing the
systems in December.
Implant also
won a majority of
contracts in Europe,
which recently implemented
a mandatory
program to
strengthen airport explosives and
drug detection capabilities. Implant
Sciences is considered by industry
experts to be particularly attractive
to homeland security and defense
contractors because of its technology
and its close relationships with
security agencies in Europe, Asia
and the Americas.
Implant’s 8-K filing detailed significant
modifications to longstanding
credit agreements with its
financing partner, Platinum Partners,
including the elimination of a
blocking feature that prevented Platinum
from owning more than 4.99
percent of the company. If it wishes,
Platinum is now free to convert its
convertible debt into preferred and
common stock, which essentially
would make Platinum Implant’s
majority shareholder and in control
of any transformative event.
Estimating a selling price for Implant
if it goes down that road is difficult.
On the one hand, the company
is growing rapidly, with revenues
jumping 5x in the past two years. On
the other hand, its debt load is huge.
It’s borrowed money from Platinum
every year at 15 percent interest, and
has paid back very little of it. Platinum
also has had the
right to convert unpaid
interest into Implant
stock at a price as
low as 8 cents a share.
It also has two other
convertible tranches
at more than a dollar.
Platinum controls 57
percent of the company and appears
to be anxious to get its money out.
Eight years is a very long time for a
hedge fund to hold its position. Implant,
which declined to comment
on the negotiations with Platinum,
has two investment advisors, Noble
Financial Capital Markets and
Chardan Capital Markets, LLC, as
well as the law firm of Wilke, Farr
& Gallagher LLC, helping to look at
strategic initiatives.

Campbell on Crypto
Cybersecurity and Occam’s Razor –
Encryption is the Simplest Answer
By Shawn Campbell
When it comes to OMB’s Cybersecurity
Strategy and Implementation
Plan (CISP), it may be
best to apply the problem-solving
principle of Occam’s Razor: The
simplest answer is usually correct.
And the simplest answer is:
Encrypt everything, from datain-motion
to data-at-rest.
CISP underscores the need for
agencies to implement
an indepth
defensive
strategy to protect
high value
information and
assets – especially
sensitive
data, sensitive
keys, and identity credentials.
Sensitive data at rest is particularly
vulnerable once a breach
has occurred, because of its volume
and relevance.
The true threat to sensitive data
comes from attackers hijacking
privileged accounts with full access
to servers. In some cases,
“Insiders are a major source of breaches,”
whether intentional and malicious or
through inadvertent misuse by employees
or partners.
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the attackers are actually insiders
with existing elevated privileges.
Privileged accounts are where
data is most readily available;
other end points do hold data,
but that data is too widely distributed
to be as great a threat.
The greatest risk to unauthorized
data access comes from insider
threats, which are surprisingly
prevalent. As early as 2012,
the industry analyst firm Forrester
noted that (particularly in the
private sector) “insiders are a major
source of breaches,” whether
intentional and malicious or
through inadvertent misuse by
employees or partners. Privileged
accounts have access to considerable
amounts of data. Today,
through the sharing of administrator
and superuser accounts, as
well as physical theft of servers,
insiders present both a real and
growing threat.
Enter Occam’s Razor
To address CISP’s requirement
for protection of high value information
and assets,
the best way
for agencies is the
simplest: Encrypt
all sensitive data on
your storage array.
What it boils
down to is, if sensitive
data is encrypted,
then it is safe. And if you
don’t know which of your data is
sensitive, then encrypt all of it.
As an added layer of protection,
separately store the encryption
keys used to encrypt and decrypt
data. When an encryption key is
stored separately from the data –
ideally on a hardened device – it

is not available to an attacker.
You can also take immediate
measures to minimize insider
threats by enabling privileged
users (such as root or system administrators)
to perform authorized
duties while keeping sensitive
data encrypted and secure.
Separate server administration
from data access and encryption
key management. Dynamically
protect sensitive data-at-rest in
enterprise servers through encryption
at the file-system level
and centralized key management.
Specific Ways to Keep It Simple
Protect Personally Identifiable
Information (PII). When PII
data is encrypted, it is not exposed
in the event of a breach.
This limits the potential damage
of a breach, protects citizen data,
minimizes the costs associated
with post-breach credit tracking,
and protects the reputation of the
agency.
The best approach to protection
is to apply granular policies
to control access to authorized
users. For example:
• Finance managers get full
access to confidential financial
spreadsheets
• IT administrators get access
to perform routine maintenance,
but cannot see files that have
been encrypted (IT sees only cipher
text).
• Program analysts can access
and share their aggregated analysis
on seasonal trends in the finance
folder, but only see cipher
text if they click on the spreadsheet
with specific identity information.
• Terminated employees who
depart the organization with sensitive
info are unable to access the
agency assets in their possession.
They will see encrypted data if
they attempt to access or open
files.
Protect data in the cloud. Encrypt
files before storing them
in the cloud. That way, the cloud
provider can never access your
data.
Secure big data implementations.
Big data implementations
collect semi-structured data from
numerous sources, which may
contain sensitive data. Typically,
big data implementations rely on
outside encryption solutions.
The best approach to securing
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big data is to provide transparent
and automated encryption
of sensitive data in clusters with
granular access controls. These
controls define and enforce policies
to guard against unauthorized
and rogue access to – and
possible exposure of – high value
data.
In this era of growing insider
threats to data in motion and at
rest, make sure you comply with
CISP by using the principle of
Occam’s Razor. Encrypt everything.
Shawn Campbell is VP of Product
Management, SafeNet Assured
Technologies. He can be
reached at Shawn.Campbell@
safenetat.com

ODSecurity body scanners cut prison overdose
deaths, now at all-time high according to Center
for Disease Control
As prisoners find more ingenious
methods of smuggling contraband
into correctional facilities, so correctional
facilities must find more
ingenious methods of detecting
smuggled contraband!
The Center for Disease Control
and Prevention in the US announced
in December 2015 that deaths from
drug overdoses are at an all-time
high, with 61% from Heroin and
Opiate use. This is expounded in
the correctional facilities, where addiction
is an omnipresent problem
faced the world over.
In Manawatu Prison, New Zealand
the amount of drugs people
have tried to smuggle has doubled
in the past five years. In a recent
report released under the Official
Information Act, figures showed in
2014-15, there were 118 instances
of drugs being seized at the prison,
which was an increase of 10 from
the previous year, but double of that
seized during 2010-2011.
In a 2004 study from the US Bureau
of Justice Statistics figures
showed that 70% of state prisoners
and 64% of federal prisoners used
drugs regularly at the time they
committed their crime. 25% of offenders
convicted of violent crimes
were high at the time of offense.
Once in a correctional facility,
prisoners who are addicts, remain
addicts, and as such will find any
way possible of continuing their
supply of drugs.
An ever increasing array of smuggling
methods is keeping correctional
staff on their toes; with finds
in visitor’s underwear and person,
in babies’ nappies, inside food cartons,
secreted on an offender’s body,
and internal concealment. More recent
developments include the use
of drones, and substances mixed
with paint on children’s paintings
which inmates chew to get the desired
effect. All of which means the
authorities need to be far more resourceful
when it comes to detecting
these smuggled items.
Netherlands based security manufacturer,
ODSecurity add another
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tool to correctional facilities arsenal
in the fight against contraband
smuggling with their SOTER RS
Through-Body Scanners regarded
as the most effective way of countering
the smuggling of contraband
material without subjecting inmates,
visitors and staff to intrusive
body searchers.
In March ODSecurity installed
another SOTER RS unit in the US
Correctional Establishment, this
time at Humboldt County Correctional
Facility, California with other
counties scheduled for installation
during the coming months.
The SOTER RS is a low dosage
full body scanner which combines
ultra-low radiation with maximum
visibility, for use at airports and prisons.
Within seconds the SOTER RS
reveals hidden items, such as weapons
or narcotics, diamonds, or any
stolen or smuggled goods. It doesn’t
even have to be metal. The SOTER
shows a clear difference between
human tissue and other materials.
Even ingested or camouflaged items
will be shown.
The SOTER RS will increase the
level of security operations previously
possible through the use
of conventional metal detectors.

Non-metallic objects hidden under
clothes, in natural cavities or within
the human body cannot be detected
by conventional metal detectors
and typically, these non-detectable
items, such as narcotics, explosives,
precious stones, plastic weapons, or
other contraband, can only otherwise
be detected by highly intrusive
total body searches.
SOTER RS is successfully deployed
in prisons, in airports, detention
centres, police and customs
facilities worldwide including;
Australia, Denmark, Ghana, Hong
Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico,
Nigeria, The Netherlands, The United
Arab Emirates, The United States
of America, The United Kingdom,
Chile, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
ODSecurity
Based in the Netherlands and the
USA, ODSecurity is part of part of
ODMedical, whose core business
is the sales of high quality medical
and surgery equipment and instruments.
It also develops and assembles
electronic and mechanical
equipment in electronic powered
fine mechanics (Mechatronics) and
X-Ray research equipment.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
Careers – Protecting America’s
Borders
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From hundreds of border stations
and ports of entry located along
thousands of miles of international
border and coastline, the dedicated
men and women of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) serve
as the ultimate
line of defense
against terrorists,
foreign criminal
networks
and illegal aliens
attempting to
breach America’s
borders.
Editor’s Note: GSN would like to
thank Tony Smith, Sr. Editor, Border
Patrol Ed, for pointing out that
a GSN article from 2009 that is still
posted on the GSN website provides
extremely outdated information.
Mr. Smith also kindly posted a link
– http://www.borderpatroledu.org/
– to a currently posted description of
the many careers, opportunities and
qualified schools in all states that are
available to those who may be interested
in a career with U.S. Customs
and Border Patrol.
CBP currently employs some
45,000 men and women in U.S. customs
and border patrol jobs, including
a national team of Border Patrol
Agents more than 20,000 strong.
Border Patrol Agents serve as the
boots on the ground in America’s
fight to defend her borders, and
represent the single largest Federal
law enforcement
task force in existence.
U.S. Customs
and Border Protection
has seen
unprecedented
growth in resources
and staffing,
and in the past ten years has
doubled the number of agents in
active service. The agency will only
continue to grow and hire more
dedicated professionals as border
protection continues to be an imperative
that cannot be ignored.
View U.S. Territory information
from Guam, Puerto Rico, and The
Virgin Islands.
In 2012 alone, CBP inspected 448
million travelers and 25 million cargo
containers that moved through
America’s border crossings and
ports of entry. The movement of this
much traffic wasn’t without inci-
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Maritime/Coastal/Port Security
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issues
RFP to develop long-range master growth plan
April 11, 2016 - The Port Authority
announced today that a comprehensive
review will be undertaken of
the Port of New York and New Jersey
covering more than 3,000 acres
of cargo facilities in order to better
evaluate and plan for future growth,
improve operations and
enhance revenue and job
creation opportunities.
The agency today issued
a publicly advertised
Request for Proposals
(RFP 45736 http://www.
panynj.gov/businessopportunities/bid-proposal-advertisements.
html?tabnum=6.) for a planning
consultant to develop a long-range
Maritime Master Plan to guide future
growth and development of the
port for the next 25 to 30 years. The
review will look at each of the port’s
six container terminals as well as its
auto, bulk, cruise and adjacent real
estate holdings along with support
services and operations. The review
is expected to take up to 18 months
to complete.
In developing the master plan,
the consultant will use data and information
from previous studies,
including the 2014-2015 Land Use
Plan and the 2015 Port Demand and
Capacity Study. Once completed, it
will provide the framework to maximize
land use, ensure an appropriate
diversity of uses, increase operational
efficiency and provide for
enhanced revenue opportunities.
Aside from the Master Plan initiative,
the Port Authority already
has taken steps to improve operational
performance and efficiency
at the port through the formation
of the Port Performance Task Force
in December 2013. The task force
developed a series of 23 recommendations
designed to reduce truck
congestion and air emissions in the
Port of New York and New Jersey,
improve customer service for truck-
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ers and other port stakeholders, and
enhance the flow of goods to and
from the marketplace. A group of
port stakeholders – the Council on
Port Performance – was formed and
is now actively working on planning
and implementing the recommendations.
“Our port has been
a national trendsetter
in the maritime
industry and continues
to be the leading
East Coast gateway
for international
shippers,” said Port
Commerce Director
Molly Campbell. “To continue this
positive trend, we must take a holistic
look at the entire port operation
and develop an optimum plan
that will allow us to efficiently grow
the business for decades to come
following a record 10.4 percent in-

CONTACT:
Port Authority
of New York and New Jersey
212-435-7777
Since 2000, the Port Authority has invested $2 billion to prepare the region’s port for future
growth. Today, the Port of New York & New Jersey is the third largest port in the nation.
crease in cargo volumes in 2015.”
One of the consultant’s primary
tasks will be to develop an outreach
plan with Port Authority staff
to work with and solicit ideas and
opinions from a variety of internal
and external port stakeholders.
These include federal, state and local
government agencies, neighboring
communities, tenants, industry
representatives, elected officials, labor
organizations and the public.
The review also will explore industry
trends and developments
that could impact the port, and analyze
the ability of the existing complex
to effectively and efficiently
meet future demand while generating
increased revenues for the agency
and stakeholders and increased
economic activity for the region in
a sustainable manner.
The selected consultant will be
asked to conduct a market analysis
and identify emerging technologies
and potential changes in operating
practices that could improve efficiency.
The review also will look at port
capacity, the current tenant mix and
whether the current structure will
allow for future demand to be effectively
met. It also will look at other
unique strategies such as off-port
support facilities, inland ports, expansion
of the free-trade zone and
short sea shipping.
Firms can obtain a copy of the
RFP online at:
http://www.panynj.gov/businessopportunities/bid-proposal-advertisements.html?tabnum=6.
Founded in 1921, the Port Authority
of New York and New Jersey builds,
operates, and maintains many of
the most important transportation
and trade infrastructure assets in
the country. The agency’s network of
aviation, ground, rail, and seaport
facilities is among the busiest in the
country, supports more than 550,000
regional jobs, and generates more
than $23 billion in annual wages and
$80 billion in annual economic activity.
The Port Authority also owns and
manages the 16-acre World Trade
Center site, where the 1,776-foottall
One World Trade Center is now
the tallest skyscraper in the Western
Hemisphere. The Port Authority receives
no tax revenue from either the
State of New York or New Jersey or
from the City of New York. The agency
raises the necessary funds for the
improvement, construction or acquisition
of its facilities primarily on its
own credit. For more information,
please visit http://www.panynj.gov.
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Maritime/Coastal/Port Security
Shipping industry benefits
from low oil prices
Posted by PortVision
When oil prices fall, shipping companies
experience a huge benefit in
the lower cost of fuel as well as an
increase in the demand for oil tanker
storage space. One of the major
operating expenses for shipping
companies is fuel. Early this year,
economists wondered if there was a
bottom to the price of crude.
The reality is that oil prices are cyclical.
But the recent lifting of Iran’s
oil sale sanctions and the new ability
for the US to export oil will most
likely keep oil prices on the low side
for the foreseeable future, as reported
in the Wall Street Journal. Iran is
expected to offer $1 million barrels
a day to the marketplace and the US
has more than $10 billion worth of
excess oil stored in the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, so it does not need
to limit oil exports. Added to this,
oil shale operations can be profitable
when oil is selling at $40 a barrel
– and once consolidation in that
industry has slowed and technology
has improved, the oil will flow
steadily from this source.
Hellenic Shipping News reports
that daily rates of oil tankers have increased
from $25,000 a day in 2012
and 2013 to as much as $90,000 in
2015. Contango, the storage of oil in
offshore vessels, has increased measurably.
Lower costs for fuel allow shipping
firms to focus on operational
efficiencies: adding new routes that
were once unprofitable,
taking
on delayed infrastructure
upgrades,
purchase
of vessels with
greater cargo
capacity, investment
in technological
innovations.
Less expensive
fuel also leads to lower costs in shipping
dry cargo, although the overall
downturn in the global economy,
especially the falling demand from
China, has stressed this area of the
shipping industry. In February, Reuters
called this a crisis for dry-bulk
shipping firms. However, Maersk,
the world’s largest container shipping
line measured by capacity,
reports strong growth in shipping
volumes in early 2016 compared to
last year. Its shipping from Asia increased
almost 15% prior to Lunar
New Year celebration factory shutdowns.
Vessels up and down the
Asian coasts have been sitting idle
waiting in Singapore, Indonesia and
China ports for cargoes. The balance
between capacity and market
demand is especially challenging
at present. The Wall Street Journal
cites the Baltic Dry Bulk Index –
which measures commodity shipping
prices – remains 74% below
2015’s peak hit just in August.
Oceaneering helps our customers
navigate the complexities associated
with marine shipping and
liquid cargo terminal management
through the PortVision AIS vessel
tracking service and TerminalSmart
marine terminal management system.
Visit www.oceaneering.com/
portvision for more information.
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Shipping industry’s Cyber Security
guidelines to protect AIS navigation
BIMCO, the world’s largest international
shipping association representing
almost 60% of the world’s
commercial vessels, in conjunction
with CLIA, ICS, INTERCARGO
and INTERTANKO*, have announced
security guidelines for
vessels involved in global shipping.
Potential cyber vulnerabilities have
become a major consideration due
to the growing complexities of onboard
operations systems and their
linking with many shoreside networks.
Although vessels can control
the cyber-security of their own systems,
they have less cyber-control
over the multiple communications
necessary with outside organizations.
Real-time data flowing into and
from a ship or onshore company
opens up any system to attack. Navigation
systems including GPS, AIS
and ECDIS are extremely vulnerable
to hacking, according to a June 2015
article in Marinelink.com. Now that
AIS and ECDIS are mandatory for
larger commercial and passenger
vessels, there is an increased need
for a focus on security measures.
The same article cites an incident in
2014 involving the grounding of a
US naval vessel in the Pacific Ocean
that may have been the result of
compromised software updates to
its ECDIS charts. AIS position data
can be transmitted incorrectly for
security or fraudulent reasons and
in 2013 GPS data was “spoofed” to
disorient the navigation system on a
luxury yacht.
As described in the guidelines, an
attack can range from using information
gained regarding cargo confidentiality
to achieving full control
of a machinery management system
resulting in financial loss or loss of
life. The new guidelines categorize
these threats by impact: low or limited
adverse effect; moderate or substantial
security breach, and high or
catastrophic effect.
Unauthorized access or malicious
attacks may have significant consequences
for navigation, safety, en-
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vironment, operations and trade in
international shipping. The guidelines
suggest approaches that will
make ships more resistant to threats
of any kind. The first step is an assessment
of current operations and
systems. A description of possible
threats is included to raise awareness
of the importance of cyber-security.
Some of these threats include
outside exploitation from activists,
criminals, terrorists, espionage organizations.
Inside weaknesses are
also identified, such as innocent
data breaches or intentional damage
from disgruntled employees.
The guidelines include instructions
on how to reduce the risk to
the shipboard IT infrastructure as
well as operations equipment connected
to these systems. User and
data management protocols are offered
as well as a way to implement
different levels of access based on
users’ needs. Business-critical and
commercially sensitive information
needs a different level of protection
than routine operating data.
Development of response, recovery,
and contingency plans follow,
along with protection and detection
measures that can be taken. Configuration
of network devices and
satellite and radio communication
is discussed.
Marinelink.com emphasizes the
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Maritime/Coastal/Port Security
Mega-ships challenges and benefits for ports
The mega-ship the CMA
CGM Benjamin Franklin
called in at the Port of
Los Angeles in December,
2015. Capable of carrying
18,000 TEUs and only 80%
full, it took four full days
to unload 11,200 cargo
containers in Los Angeles,
ranging from furniture to
electronics to toys. It was
the largest cargo ship ever
to visit the West Coast. Five
days later, the vessel berthed in the
Port of Oakland in the San Francisco
Bay.
In addition to the ports of Los
Angeles and Oakland, there are
currently three other destinations
on the US West Coast capable of
handling mega ships: Long Beach,
Seattle and Tacoma. By next year,
the Canadian Port of Prince Rupert
(British Columbia) will be online,
too.
As reported in the LA Times and
California Sunday Magazine, to prepare
for the arrival of a vessel 1,310
feet long, displacing more than
158,000 tons with a keel extending
more than 34 feet below the water,
Los Angeles port officials, the shipping
line, and the dockworker’s
union planned their logistics for
weeks – even while the cargo was
being loaded in China and South
Korea. Lead times typically run
only two days. It was important to
the port to avoid the disruption of
work bottlenecks so pre-staged rail
cars and truck drivers were carefully
coordinated; the complex logistics
involved harbor pilots and dock
workers as well.
Benefits to the West Coast ports
are clear. The capability of handling
these larger ships will ensure
increasing amounts of trade with
Asia, bringing more employment
for unions and transportation lines.
Although the Panama Canal is being
expanded, its new canal will
only accommodate vessels carrying
13,000 TEUs. As shipping lines
move to larger vessels for their cost
efficiencies, they will seek out locations,
globally, that can support
them. Quartz reports that vessels
capable of handling 21,000 TEUs
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are now in production.
Terminals around the
world are facing challenges
from these larger ships.
Stresses on port infrastructure
are common: there is a
need for deeper channels,
larger cranes, more dockworkers
for unloading,
truckers and rail lines to
haul the goods. Counterbalancing
the benefits of
welcoming larger ships,
these complexes look at the ROI of
infrastructure improvement in light
of a downturn in the shipping industry,
as world economies struggle.
Moody’s Investors Service predicted
that for 2015 global container ship
capacity would increase about 9%
while demand growth would be less
than half that number.
The Wall Street Journal reported
in February that the Port of Hong
Kong is being skipped by more container
ships due to its shallow channels,
high cargo handling costs, and
busy harbor. (“Hong Kong’s Port
Falls Further,” February 17, 2016, p.
B7.) Shenzhen, Shanghai and Ningbo
terminals are picking up some of
this trade as Hong Kong saw a decrease
in its traffic of 9.5% in 2015
and has fallen to #5 where a decade
ago it was the world’s busiest.

Everbridge selected to develop new Florida Emergency
Notification System, ALERTFLORIDA
Everbridge, a global enterprise software
company that provides applications
which automate the delivery
of critical information to help keep
people safe and businesses running,
today announced that the Florida
Division of Emergency Management
(FDEM) has selected Everbridge
as the service provider for
the development and implementation
of AlertFlorida, a landmark initiative
which will provide statewide
emergency alert and notification
services to Florida residents, businesses
and visitors.
“Ensuring the safety of all Floridians
is the Division’s top priority,”
said FDEM Director Bryan W.
Koon. “The selection of Everbridge
as the AlertFlorida vendor marks
a milestone toward providing the
State’s Emergency Managers with a
standardized system to communicate
critical emergency information
to every resident, business and visitor
in Florida.”
AlertFlorida services are currently
being implemented in several
counties during an initial phase,
with additional deployment phases
continuing throughout 2016. Each
participating jurisdiction will be
able to customize the categories of
alerts available in their community
through a local opt-in portal. The
system also will provide automated
notifications of flash floods, tornados
and other watches and warnings
issued by the National Weather Service.
AlertFlorida is expected to be the
most comprehensive and coordinated
statewide emergency notification
program in the country. Once fully
deployed, users will be able to select
their preferred language and methods
for receiving alerts, including
SMS text messaging, e-mail, voice
calls, TDD/TTY messaging and
mobile device apps for AndroidTM,
Apple® and Windows® mobile devices.
The system will also allow users
to post alerts to social media channels
and will interface directly with
existing broadcast-based alerting
systems.
“The state of Florida continues to
demonstrate strong leadership in
emergency management, and this
statewide critical communications
program will improve Florida’s
overall preparedness and resiliency
during severe weather disasters and
manmade emergencies,” said Jaime
Ellertson, CEO of Everbridge. “We
applaud the state of Florida for this
initiative and we are delighted to
partner with FDEM to help ensure
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that all individuals and organizations
in the state are safe and informed.”
Everbridge provides critical communication
services to over 2,700
global customers. Everbridge’s large
public sector clients include eight of
the ten largest U.S. cities and all but
one of the top 25 busiest airports in
North America. Everbridge’s communications
platform can deliver
billions of messages each year across
multiple languages and device types.
For additional information about
the Florida Division of Emergency
Management, visit Floridadisaster.
org. FDEM also features an extensive
social media presence. Follow
FDEM on Twitter at @FLGetAPlan,
Instagram at @FLGetAPlan and
Facebook at Facebook.com/FloridaDivisionofEmergencyManagement
and Facebook.com/KidsGetAPlan.

Video Surveillance
IMAX ® Film ‘A Beautiful Planet’ features
“out of this world” CANON 4K imagery
Using Canon Cameras and Lenses, Teams Shooting from the International Space Station
Capture Breathtaking Images of Our Planet from a Vantage Point Few Get to See
MELVILLE, N.Y., April 14, 2016
– The future of 4K filmmaking is
looking up — in fact, all the way to
space. A Beautiful Planet, the latest
3D space documentary from acclaimed
filmmaker Toni Myers and
IMAX Entertainment, made in cooperation
with NASA, will premiere
in IMAX in New York on April 16
and was shot primarily in space using
Canon cameras and lenses. The
film will be shown to the public exclusively
in IMAX® and IMAX® 3D
theaters beginning April 29.
The Canon EOS C500 4K Digital
Cinema Camera and EOS-1D C
4K cameras were transported from
Earth to the International Space
Station (ISS) in November 2014
via an unmanned supply ship, and
were received by NASA astronaut
Terry Virts, astronaut Samantha
Cristoforetti from the European
Space Agency and Cosmonaut Anton
Shkaplerov. This was the first
time that 4K cameras were brought
aboard the space station for a commercial
film project. During a sixmonth
mission at the ISS, Virts,
Cristoforetti and Shkaplerov worked
closely with NASA astronauts Kjell
Lindgren, Butch Wilmore, Scott
Kelly, and Kimiya Yui of the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA) to take turns using Canon’s
advanced digital cameras and lenses
to film footage of lightning storms,
the continents, volcanoes, coral
reefs and bright city lights on Earth
for the film. One of the film’s greatest
and most dramatic highlights,
the striking imagery of the Northern
Lights--or the aurora borealis--
was captured by NASA astronaut
Kjell Lindgren. These awe-inspiring
images were previously unattainable
in such stunning resolution.
The Canon EOS C500 4K (4096 x
2160-pixel) Digital Cinema Camera
is capable of originating uncompressed
RAW output for external
recording to meet the demands of
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premium cinematic productions
and other top-quality production
markets. It features a Super 35mm,
8.85-megapixel CMOS image sensor,
DIGIC DV III Image Processor
and an expansive range of recording
and output options specifically for
4K and 2K image acquisition. The
compact, lightweight Canon EOS-
1D C Digital SLR camera delivers
outstanding video performance
and provides video recording at
4K (4096 x 2160-pixel) or Full HD
(1920 x 1080-pixel) resolution to
support high-end motion picture,
television production and other advanced
imaging applications.
‘A Beautiful Planet’
joins Canon at NAB
A gallery of still images taken on the
ISS with the Canon EOS-1D C camera
and Canon lenses during the
shooting of the film will be shown
at the Canon booth # C4325 at the
National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) trade show, April 18-
21, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. During
NAB, the film’s Director of Photography,
James Neihouse, ASC, will
speak at Canon’s stage on the chal-

lenges and benefits of shooting in
space. Joining him will be Marsha
Ivins, a consultant on the film, former
NASA astronaut, and a veteran
of five space shuttle missions. Neihouse
has worked on more than 30
IMAX films including Space Station
3D and Hubble 3D and trained more
than 25 shuttle and space-station
crews on the intricacies of large-format
filmmaking.
The documentary, A Beautiful
Planet was produced, written, and
directed by Toni Myers, and is narrated
by Academy Award®-winning
actress Jennifer Lawrence.
About A Beautiful Planet
A Beautiful Planet is a breathtaking
portrait of Earth from space,
providing a unique perspective and
increased understanding of our
planet and galaxy as never seen before.
Made in cooperation with the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), the film
features stunning footage of our
magnificent blue planet — and the
effects humanity has had on it over
time — captured by the astronauts
aboard the International Space Station
(ISS). From space, Earth blazes
at night with the electric intensity of
human expansion — a direct visualization
of our changing world. But
it is within our power to protect the
planet. As we continue to explore
and gain knowledge of our galaxy,
we also develop a deeper connection
to the place we all call home. From
IMAX Entertainment and Toni Myers
— the acclaimed filmmaker behind
celebrated IMAX® documentaries
Hubble 3D, and Space Station
3D — A Beautiful Planet presents an
awe-inspiring glimpse of Earth and
a hopeful look into the future of humanity.
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About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider
of consumer, business-to-business,
and industrial digital imaging
solutions to the United States and to
Latin America and the Caribbean
(excluding Mexico) markets. With
approximately $31 billion in global
revenue, its parent company, Canon
Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall
in U.S. patents granted in 2015† and
is one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s
Most Admired Companies in 2016.
Canon U.S.A. is committed to the
highest level of customer satisfaction
and loyalty, providing 100 percent
U.S.-based consumer service
and support for all of the products it
distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated
to its Kyosei philosophy of social
and environmental responsibility.
In 2014, the Canon Americas Headquarters
secured LEED® Gold certification,
a recognition for the design,
construction, operations and
maintenance of high-performance
green buildings. To keep apprised of
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please contact pr@cusa.canon.com.

Video Surveillance
OnSSI receives Hanwha Techwin America’s
2015 Partner of the Year Award
PEARL RIVER, NY (March 17,
2016) – OnSSI, the market leader
in open architecture and intelligent
IP video surveillance software, has
been awarded the 2015 Partner of
the Year Award from Hanwha Techwin
America, highlighting OnSSI’s
outstanding ability to integrate with
Hanwha’s product line. The award
was presented during the Samsung
Techwin STEP Partner Summit held
in Puerto Rico
from March 6-9,
2016.
“The recognition
by Hanwha
Techwin America
as Partner
of the Year is
a testament to
our commitment
to powerful
integrations between Ocularis
5 and Hanwha’s technologies,” said
Ken LaMarca, VP of Sales and Marketing,
OnSSI, “We look forward
to further expanding our technology
integration efforts with Hanwha
Techwin America.”
“OnSSI is always one of the first of
our partners to integrate with any
of our newest products,” said Tom
Cook, VP of Sales, North America,
Hanwha Techwin America. “They
provide exceptional service to support
all of our efforts, both in the
U.S. and in Korea.”
About OnSSI
On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.
(OnSSI) was founded in 2002 with
the goal of developing comprehensive
and intelligent IP video surveillance
management
software.
OnSSI’s Ocularis
IP security
and surveillance
VMS
platform increases
security,
reduces operational
costs, and
Mulli Diamant receives award
helps organizations
move closer to prevention.
Ocularis delivers open architecture,
flexibility, and scalability for a range
of applications including education,
gaming, government, healthcare,
manufacturing, public safety, transportation,
and utilities. OnSSI is
headquartered in Pearl River, New
York and has representation in over
100 countries. With its acquisition
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of Germany-based VMS company,
SeeTec AG and the launch of Ocularis
5, OnSSI continues to drive
global expansion and technological
innovations.
For more information on OnSSI,
call 845-732-7900, e-mail info@onssi.com
or visit www.onssi.com.
About Hanwha Techwin America
Hanwha Techwin America, a division
of Hanwha Techwin, is a
leading supplier of advanced video
surveillance solutions for IPvideo,
analog and hybrid systems.
Building on the company’s history
of innovation, Hanwha Techwin
America is dedicated to providing
solutions with the highest levels of
performance, reliability and costefficiency
for professional security
applications, such as continuing development
in advanced edge devices
and video analytics. For more information
visit samsung-security.com.

Eagle Eye CEO sets up $1M grant
program to get camera systems in
schools
By Steve Bittenbender
In an attempt to bolster security at
schools and colleges, the CEO of a
video management system company
has established a grant program
that would cover the costs for a fully
functional security system for up to
a year.
Eagle Eye Networks began accepting
applications for the Drako
Cloud Security Grant for Schools on
March 31. Applications are due by
July 1 and are available at: eagleeyenetworks.com/school-securitygrant-video-surveillance/.
Funding
from the grant program is available
to accredited public and provate
schools across the country.
Successful applicants will get an
Eagle Eye Security Camera Video
Management System. That includes
cloud management, mobile access
applications, cameras, networking
equipment and secured gateways.
After the year ends, schools may return
the system or purchase it and
any necessary subscriptions.
Dean Drako, Eagle Eye’s president
& CEO, said the company established
the program to help
schools offset the costs associated
with installing a
camera network that can
enable first responders to
have emergency access.
“We are funding this
cloud security grant to
make it easier for more
schools to provide the
highest level of safety to
their students and staff,” he said.
“Eagle Eye Networks’ cloud surveillance
offers many benefits to improve
campus security, including
flexible retention, leading mobile
access, scalability, and an overall
lower total cost of ownership.”
School leaders who have Eagle
Eye systems already in place said
they chose the company because
of the savings and secure access a
cloud-based solution provides.
“Our school district’s top priority
is to protect our students and staff,”
said Steve Thalheimer, superintendent
of Fairfield (Ind.) Community
Schools. “Eagle Eye Networks’
cloud-based system will allow our
staff and law enforcement to have
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Dean Drako,
Eagle Eye President &
CEO
as much information as possible in
any situation. We can use their First
Responder Real-time Video Access
to immediately give first responders
immediate access.”
Eagle Eye’s “cloudbased
surveillance system
lets us direct our technology
budget towards the
classroom, to enhance
our students’ educational
experience, rather than
towards building a large
technical support infrastructure,”
said Wayne
Marks, CTO, Brentwood
Christian School in Austin,
Texas.
The program announcement
comes at the same time Eagle Eye
released the findings of its second
survey on video surveillance in
schools. During the first quarter of
the year, 1,500 people were polled,
with 72 percent saying they favored
having security cameras in elementary,
middle and high schools – a
seven percent increase from the
2015 results.
Not only do the majority of parents
want schools to use cameras,
the same percentage of parents also
want the ability to view the video.
However, that number is split –
with 33 percent wanting full access
and 39 percent wanting it only
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Video Surveillance
DTI to provide CCTV surveillance systems
to Dallas Area
Rapid Transit
PERTH, Australia – (BUSINESS
WIRE) – DTI Group Ltd (ASX:DTI)
(DTI) is pleased to announce the
award of a contract with Dallas Area
Rapid Transit (DART) for the supply
and installation of advanced CCTV
surveillance systems on light rail vehicles
(LRVs) for the city of Dallas,
Texas.
The contract involves the supply
and installation of surveillance systems
on 48 LRVs valued at approximately
US$2.6 million plus options
for the supply and installation of an
additional 115 LRVs valued at approximately
US$6.3 million. Deliveries
for the initial 48 systems are expected
to commence in the first half
of FY17 and will be delivered over a
12 month period.
Each LRV will be equipped with:
• DTI’s advanced TDR6 digital
surveillance system with integral
switching, enhanced ‘dual drive’
redundancy and communications
infrastructure for system management
and data downloads
• nine high-definition 6-megapixel
cameras each providing a 360 degree
panoramic view of the passenger
area
• three transit rated power over
Ethernet network switches
• multi-function 4G, LTE, 802.11
a/b/g/n ruggedized router to provide
live viewing of passenger cameras.
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The DTI solution will be supplied
with full 4G/LTE ‘live’ streaming
functionality which includes seamless
integration into the existing station
and platform camera systems.
DTI will also provide its comprehensive
back-end CCTV management
system to centralize and coordinate
the CCTV data and allow video evidence
and system diagnostics to be
recovered from LRVs through an online
automated CCTV ‘booking’ system
utilizing a Wi-Fi network.
DTI’s Managing Director, Richard
Johnson, commented: “The selection
of the DTI solution by DART builds
on DTI’s recent run of wins in the US
rail market and, importantly, is another
direct order with a key transit
operator in the US. This project demonstrates
DTI’s growing presence in
providing advanced surveillance and
information technology solutions
and services in the US mass transit
market, which is the biggest market
in the world. Dallas now becomes
another city in the US which has DTI
solutions operating across rail or bus
networks joining Philadelphia, and
San Francisco.”
“We are pleased with the endorse-
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3xLOGIC takes home SIA Award with recently
launched thermal camera
By Steve Bittenbender
3xLOGIC arrived at this month’s
ISC West annual conference touting
a couple new pieces of hardware
in the video surveillance market.
It then left the Las Vegas show with
another piece of hardware.
The company’s VERA thermal
imaging camera took home the top
award for video surveillance and advanced
imaging technologies in the
Security Industry Association’s New
Product Showcase. The award winners
were announced on April 6 at
the conference.
“SIA New Product Showcase judges
saw many new companies enter the
competition this year for the first
time, and several first-time winners
like 3xLOGIC emerged over strong
contenders,” said Don Erickson, the
association’s CEO.
Matthew Kushner, 3xLOGIC’s
CEO, said thermal imaging technology
is quickly becoming a leading
trend in the security market. VERA’s
analytics do not take into account
things like vehicle headlights, moving
water or the wind – items that could
lead to false alarms triggered by other
systems.
The standalone IP video system
also offers remote access with digital
zoom capabilities. It also is scalable,
allowing customers to purchase multiple
units for a greater security presence.
“No other thermal cameras on the
market today can match the combination
of our thermal technology, QR
code easy install and set-up, edgebased
recording and powerful analytics
packages,” he said. “No competing
product, at this price, offers the detection
range we have, not even close,
and this camera includes our onboard
analytics as standard. The competition
has only 3rd party analytics as an
option.”
In addition, Kushner said the technology
now is becoming more affordable
for businesses of all types and
sizes to use.
“Clearly, the judging panel for these
NPS awards recognized the camera’s
game-changing line-up of superior
features at a price that makes thermal
technology affordable for all for the
first time.”
The NPS program, which began in
1979, recognized winners in 26 different
categories this year and received
about 100 entries from companies of
various sizes. Erickson added that the
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entries submitted showcased a variety
of technological advances and innovations.
Besides VERA, 3xLOGIC also
introduced another system at ISC
West. Called a Time of Flight camera,
the system tracks people and produces
a three-dimensional image for accurate,
real-time processing of scene
data.
“The Time of Flight camera has unbelievable
accuracy, and it is the least
costly device on the market today
that offers such power and processing
potential,” Kushner said. “This
camera is ideal for retail deployments
where accuracy of information can
empower marketing and operations
professionals in making critical business
decisions.”
3xLOGIC Inc. has been a leading
innovator in server and cloud-based
security technology for 15+ years. The
company is recognized for providing
easy-to-use surveillance and business
intelligence solutions that seamlessly
integrate video, access control, and
disparate data such as ATM, Pointof-Sale,
analytics, and more.
3xLOGIC’s video surveillance solutions
are engineered for ease of installation,
scalability and affordability
combined with a managed services
portfolio that enables integrators to
effectively evolve from dealers to
high-value strategic partners.

NICE’s Rodriguez: Technology
continues to transform how law
enforcement handles all aspects of
an investigation
Continued from page 4
officers who need it, said Rodriguez,
who joined NICE as a business development
director for the company’s
Public Safety Business Unit.
The NICE solution is both CJIScompliant
and cloud-based, and
provides permissions-based
access to digital case folders
so task forces and investigative
teams working multiple angles
of a case can collaborate more
effectively while building a case,
instead of sharing evidence the
old fashioned way – on CDs,
DVDs and thumb drives.
There’s also a public interface
where private businesses can register
their CCTV cameras and where
citizens can upload photos or video
they’ve taken of incident scenes, Rodriguez
said. “These capabilities can
significantly reduce the time spent
on manual and tedious tasks officers
and investigators are bogged down
with today,” said Rodriguez.
Rodriguez began his police work
as an officer for the Los Angeles Police
Department 1986. He eventually
rose to the rank of captain for the
nation’s third-largest force before
he moved to Baltimore. There, he
served as the deputy police commissioner
in charge of implementing
numerous reforms as well as leading
several high-level investigations.
During his illustrious career, Rodriguez
earned opportunities to
study at some of the most prestigious
leadership and law enforcement
training programs in the country,
including the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
National Academy and
the West Point Leadership Program.
After his retirement, Rodriguez
went to NICE.
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“It’s incredibly rewarding to be
able to take my 30 years of experience
in law enforcement and apply
that knowledge to help police departments
around the country,” said
Rodriguez. “In addition to helping
investigators close more cases faster,
this technology can improve the
success of prosecutions by putting
evidence in proper context so DAs
and juries can better understand all
the underlying facts of the case.”
Technology also is moving forward
in other ways that empower
the general public to interact with
police departments, said Rodriguez,
who was a featured speaker
at two sessions during last month’s
International Wireless Communications
Expo in Las Vegas. That
includes text-to-911 capabilities,
and broader Next Generation 9-1-
1 which will eventually enable witnesses
and other concerned citizens
to send videos and photos in addition
to texts to 9-1-1. In a recent
NICE webinar, only 17 percent
of attendees surveyed had implemented
text-to-911, even though all
major wireless providers offer the
service today. However, 55 percent
of agencies surveyed during the
webinar said they had plans to
implement text-to-911 in the
future, with nearly half those
interested planning on doing so
sometime later this year.
“There’s clear momentum for
text-to-911, and a number of
agencies are also exploring ways to
accept photos and videos from citizens
without waiting for full-fledged
NG9-1-1,” said Rodriguez. “With
these new multimedia interactions,
agencies will need technology to
capture, manage and synchronize
these interactions to put them into
proper context, so they can understand
and evaluate the decisions
and actions of their telecommunicators.
This is an area where NICE
excels as well.”

DHS S&T demonstrates precision
timing technology at the New York
Stock Exchange
Continued from page 7
ment for applicability
to provide timing
information for
critical infrastructure
applications.
The demonstration
at the NYSE was hosted by Juniper
Networks on April 19 and presented
to technical representatives from
the financial services, energy, and
communication sectors.
“We are constantly working with
critical infrastructure partners like
the financial sector to help build
their capabilities and resilience to a
variety of hazards, including space
weather and other cyber or physical
threats to the system’s continuity,”
stated DHS Assistant Secretary
for Infrastructure Protection Caitlin
Durkovich.
Precise and synchronized timing
of financial
transactions is
critical to markets
worldwide
and is mandated
by regulation in
the European Union and is increasingly
required in the United States.
Today, precision timing capabilities
are provided primarily by satellitebased
Global Positioning System
(GPS). However, GPS’s space-based
What’s up with WhatsApp for
Emergency Communications?
Continued from page 9
ogies enable secure bridging of public
safety agency communication
systems with partners and critical
infrastructure entities on demand,
providing instant, on-demand collaboration
using existing systems.
In fact, these technologies are used
extensively in select parts of the
country by hundreds of state and
local agencies, but still far too few.
signals are low-power and susceptible
to possible disruptions. GPS
signals are also difficult to receive
indoors and in urban canyons.
“During the technology demonstration
inside the NYSE building,
we were able to not only provide
signals indoors but also provide
timing information to within 30
nanoseconds of our UTC reference,”
said Sarah Mahmood, S&T program
manager for
the eLoran cooperation
agreement.
Recognizing
the challenges of
space-based signals
and the importance of having
multiple timing sources, eLoran is
one technology being considered
to provide a complementary timing
solution to existing GPS technology.
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Increased deployment of these
technologies would result in secure
communications among police, fire
and EMS, as well as with thousands
of local partner agencies that sit on
the front line of terror in America –
such as hospitals, transit authorities,
and utilities. We would all do well
to remind ourselves that our mission
is to protect Main Street, U.S.A.
with an urgency commensurate
with the serious threats confronting
our communities and our citizens.
There is no greater imperative. It is
simply unacceptable for police and
other emergency responders to rely
on consumer-grade smartphone
apps for emergency communications,
when life-saving technology
advancements are available today.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
Careers – Protecting America’s
Borders
Continued from page 25
dent. In just one year, Border Patrol
Agents and CBP Officers at official
entry locations intercepted 145,000
inadmissible aliens and seized some
$1.2 billion worth of bootlegged
intellectual property, 2,100 tons of
narcotics and $100 million in smuggled
currency. Another 327,000 illegal
aliens were intercepted away
from official entry points as they attempted
to enter the U.S.
The professionals with U.S. Customs
and Border Protection are
charged with preventing terrorists
and terrorist weapons from entering
the United States, while at the
same time enforcing hundreds of
U.S. laws. These dedicated professionals
serve in several specialized
roles, but with one common objective:
To protect, manage and control
America’s borders.
Becoming a Border Patrol Agent –
Meeting the Basic Requirements
Becoming a Border Patrol Agent
starts with meeting certain basic
criteria. A strong preference is
shown to candidates who hold an
associate or bachelor’s degree. In
most cases, candidates without law
enforcement or relevant military
experience will need to hold a degree
in criminal justice or a related
field in order to compete on a level
playing field with experienced law
enforcement professionals vying
for the same positions. Some of the
higher-skilled technical and leadership
roles within U.S. Customs and
Border Protection are only open to
candidates with college degrees.
Applicants interested in learning
how to become border patrol
agents must be U.S. citizens or legal
residents who have held residency
status for at least three years. There
is also an age restriction for candidacy,
which excludes those older
than 40 from being considered as
new hires. As is standard of all law
enforcement jobs, candidates must
submit to drug testing, a comprehensive
state and federal criminal
background check, physical fitness
testing and exams that assess judgment
and problem solving skills.
Spanish language proficiency or
the ability to learn some Spanish
is also a basic requirement. Border
patrol jobs very often involve interactions
with non-native English
speakers, and just as often individuals
who speak no English at all. This
means that border patrol job candidates
must either be able to demonstrate
their ability to communicate
in Spanish, or demonstrate a level
of language acquisition competency
that assures their ability to learn
some basic Spanish.
Program outcomes vary according
to each institution’s specific curriculum,
and employment opportunities
are not guaranteed.
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Shipping industry’s Cyber
Security guidelines to protect
AIS navigation
Continued from page 29
importance of the maritime industry,
a complicated web of oil
tankers, container ships and other
vessels that transport 90% of worldwide
cargo, and the importance of
keeping this industry cyber-safe
and secure. As ships get smarter and
drone ships become commonplace,
one can see the inherent risks a vessel
which is totally monitored and
directed from shore could face. Secure
AIS navigation tools will gain
in importance in these scenarios
and the new guidelines are an intelligent
step in that direction.
The January 2016 32-page guidelines
(The Guidelines for Cybersecurity
Onboard Ships) are available
for download from the BIMCO site.
*BIMCO: Baltic and International
Maritime Council
CLIA: Cruise Lines International
Association
ICS: International Chamber of Shipping
INTERCARGO: International Association
of Dry Cargo Shipowners
INTERTANKO: International Association
of Independent Tankers
Eagle Eye CEO sets up $1M grant
program to get camera systems in
schools
Continued from page 35
when there’s an incident. Women
were more inclined to want access
to video than men by a 79-percent
to 68-percent margin.
Respondents indicated they wanted
cameras placed at entrances
and exits (76 percent), followed by
hallways (62 percent) and lunchrooms,
hallways and gyms (53
percent). Adults were far less enthusiastic
about placing cameras in
classrooms (36 percent) and locker
rooms/bathrooms (18 percent).
Drako said the Eagle Eye system
works with a variety of by IP and analog
cameras, and if a school wishes
to add more cameras to their system,
they can do so provided they
pay for the wiring and installation.
Eagle Eye, which is based in Austin,
offers a cloud-based security
video management system that also
can record on site. Besides encrypted
recording capabilities, Eagle Eye’s
solutions, which are sold through
authorized resellers, also enable first
responders to have real-time access
to video.
DTI to provide CCTV surveillance
systems to Dallas Area Rapid
Transit
Continued from page 36
ment of our innovative sixth generation
state-of-the-art TDR6 digital
surveillance system. DTI is committed
to ongoing product and system
development for the transit sector
building on over 15,000 systems already
provided to the US market to
date”, he said.
About DTI Group
DTI develops and provides worldleading
surveillance and commuter
communication systems technology
and services to the mobile transit
industry worldwide. Core technology
development and system design
activities are undertaken from the
Company’s head office.
About DART
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority
(DART) is a transit agency based
in Dallas, Texas. It operates buses,
light rail, commuter rail, and highoccupancy
vehicle lanes in Dallas and
12 of its suburbs. DART operates the
longest light rail network in the United
States, with 90 miles of track.
The DART light rail system comprises
90 miles between its four lines
— the Red Line, the Blue Line, the
Orange Line and the Green Line. The
system utilizes 163 light rail trains
manufactured by Kinki Sharyo.
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