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Government Security News<br />
MAY 2016 DIGITAL EDITION<br />
Rising tide in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by ice melting in Antarctica, is creating<br />
the first climate refugees in Louisiana, by Dr. George Lane – Full story on page 30<br />
Also in this issue:<br />
HID Global and prime contractor DLRS Group win Best ID Document Award for new Irish passport card, the<br />
first and only credit-card sized passport used in Europe for border crossing – Page 16<br />
Battelle develops time-saving active shooter response system – Page 28<br />
Maine College uses satellite technology to help prevent sexual assaults – Page 38
<strong>GSN</strong> <strong>May</strong> 2016 Digital Edition Technology Spotlight<br />
Congratulations to HID Global and DLRS Group for winning<br />
“ID Document of the Year Award” for producing and designing<br />
new Irish Passport card, first of its kind in Europe<br />
DUBLIN, Ireland and AUSTIN, Texas, <strong>May</strong> 10, 2016 – DLRS Group, Ireland’s leading security<br />
printer and HID Global ® , a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced that<br />
the new Irish Passport Card has won the Regional Best ID Document of the Year Award 2016<br />
by Reconnaissance International at this year’s High Security Printing Conference in Bucharest,<br />
Romania. The programme’s prime contractor DLRS Group joined forces with HID Global, Absolute<br />
Graphics, and Purple Pod to design and produce Europe’s first passport card, which has<br />
been in circulation since October, 2015. The award was presented to Ireland’ Passport Service<br />
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<br />
The award was accepted by Austin Gormley, Director of Passport Services, Department of<br />
Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland as well as David O’Connor of DLRS. READ FULL STORY<br />
ON PAGE 16<br />
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NEWS AND FEATURES<br />
What you need to know about the temporary worker<br />
bill introduced by Senator Flake Page 5<br />
Theia Technologies honored by Vision Systems<br />
Design 2016 Innovators Awards Program Page 6<br />
Restrictive voting laws threaten to block millions of<br />
Latino voters, including many newly-naturalized<br />
Page 8<br />
Gallagher new releases include Command v7.50<br />
update to company’s security management platform<br />
Page 9<br />
Genetec AutoVu Managed Services offers<br />
end-user independence from on-premises storage<br />
Page 10<br />
CINCH systems announces Vice President of Sales<br />
Page 10<br />
HID Global Case Study: Migrating to a smart “One<br />
Card” Student ID at George Mason University Page 12<br />
DLRS Group, HID GLOBAL New Irish Passport card<br />
wins Best ID Document Award Page 16<br />
FAA tests drone detection system at JFK Page 18<br />
George Lane Column: The rising tide in the Gulf<br />
of Mexico is creating the first climate refugees in<br />
Louisiana, caused by ice melting in Antarctica Page 30<br />
Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
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LA Airport Police reject plan to work ten more years<br />
for same retirement package as LAPD Page 19<br />
Motorola Solutions transforms body-worn cameras<br />
for Tetra users Page 22<br />
U.S. Attorney pays tribute to Ohio cops in honor<br />
of National Police Week Page 23<br />
StealthGearUSA showcases premium holsters<br />
and gear at NRA Annual Meeting Page 24<br />
IACP, University of Cincinnati join forces to<br />
start $3.3M policing research center Page 25<br />
Study: Utility claims BodyWorn cameras save<br />
thousands because of auto redacting Page 26<br />
Battelle develops time-saving active-shooter<br />
response system, seeks partner for rollout Page 28<br />
Satellite Communications<br />
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COMSAT provides satellite communications services<br />
to the Marines Page 34<br />
Inflatable antennas help Cubic Global Defense<br />
serve military, Middle East markets Page 36<br />
Maine college using satellite technology to<br />
help prevent sexual assaults Page 38<br />
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VeriSat to demonstrate its satellite interference<br />
reduction solution at Singapore conference Page 40
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Theia Technologies honored by Vision Systems<br />
Design 2016 Innovators Awards Program<br />
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, <strong>May</strong> 5th,<br />
2016 – Theia Technologies, high<br />
resolution imaging technology specialist,<br />
announced today that its 4K<br />
1/1.8” Compact Lens family was<br />
recognized by the judges of the annual<br />
Vision Systems Design Innovators<br />
Awards program. The judging<br />
panel consisted of esteemed experts<br />
from system integrator and end-user<br />
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Theia was honored with a bronzelevel<br />
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megapixel resolution lenses provide<br />
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Covering 1/1.7” 4K imagers,<br />
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At 64.5mm long by 59mm diameter,<br />
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Offered in fully motorized, manual,<br />
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“Theia is honored to once again be<br />
recognized for innovation in imaging<br />
technology,” commented Mark<br />
Peterson, Vice President of Advanced<br />
Technology for Theia Technologies.<br />
“We strive to design and<br />
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Alan Bergstein, publisher of Vision<br />
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The Innovators Awards are judged<br />
based on the following criteria:<br />
• Originality<br />
• Innovation<br />
• Impact on Designers, Systems<br />
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• Fulfilling a need in the market<br />
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• Leveraging a novel technology<br />
The 2016 Visions Systems Design<br />
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Published since 1996, Vision Systems<br />
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The Vision Systems Design 2016 Innovators<br />
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Restrictive voting laws threaten to block<br />
millions of Latino voters, including many<br />
newly-naturalized<br />
By Michele Waslin<br />
Naturalization and voter registration<br />
rates have surged in recent<br />
months, but strict new voter laws<br />
in many states are threatening to reduce<br />
the number of Latinos voters<br />
(including many newly naturalized)<br />
who will be allowed to cast ballots.<br />
More than 185,000 citizenship<br />
applications were submitted<br />
in the final three<br />
months of 2015, which<br />
is a 14 percent increase<br />
from 2014 and up 8 percent<br />
compared with the<br />
same period ahead of<br />
the 2012 elections. According<br />
to the Houston<br />
Chronicle, in Texas,<br />
naturalization ceremonies<br />
in Houston have<br />
swelled to about 2,200<br />
per month, compared<br />
with 1,200 before, and more than<br />
80 percent of those naturalized then<br />
register to vote, compared with 60<br />
percent previously.<br />
Experts are attributing the surge<br />
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anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy<br />
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attacks on our community.’ ”<br />
But a new report from the National<br />
Association of Latino Elected<br />
8<br />
and Appointed Officials (NALEO)<br />
finds that eight million Latino voters<br />
could be impacted by new voting<br />
laws. First, in 2013 the Supreme<br />
Court invalidated a provision of the<br />
Voting Rights Act that which obligated<br />
certain states with a history of<br />
discrimination to obtain “pre-clearance”<br />
from the U.S. Department of<br />
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of electoral laws. According to NA-<br />
LEO, approximately 8 million Latino<br />
voters live in jurisdictions that<br />
must no longer be pre-cleared by<br />
the federal government despite their<br />
histories of discriminatory voting<br />
practices.<br />
At the state level, nineteen states<br />
have enacted or implemented<br />
new restrictive laws since<br />
the November 2012 election<br />
that will make it harder for<br />
some voters to cast ballots in<br />
2016. Eight states have laws<br />
that make it more difficult<br />
to register to vote by making<br />
voters register much<br />
further in advance, restricting<br />
community volunteers<br />
from helping with voter registration<br />
efforts, or requiring<br />
additional documentation.<br />
Six states have laws making it more<br />
difficult to vote by shortening early<br />
voting periods, and another six have<br />
placed restrictions on absentee voting.<br />
Finally, nine states have passed<br />
voter ID laws, requiring potential<br />
voters to present certain documents<br />
More on page 42<br />
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Gallagher new releases include Command v7.50<br />
update to company’s security management platform<br />
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-(Marketwired - <strong>May</strong> 12, 2016) -<br />
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Genetec AutoVu Managed Services<br />
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on-premises storage<br />
MONTRÉAL, <strong>May</strong> 11th 2016 –<br />
Genetec Inc. (Genetec), a leading<br />
provider of open-architecture, unified<br />
IP security solutions today announced<br />
the latest update of AutoVu<br />
Managed Services (AMS), a<br />
turnkey Automatic License Plate<br />
Recognition (ALPR) solution that<br />
allows parking customers to outsource<br />
their IT hardware and management<br />
requirements to Genetec.<br />
AutoVu Managed Services leverages<br />
the cloud to offer end-users<br />
independence from on-premises<br />
storage, IT management and depreciation<br />
costs, and can now accommodate<br />
larger fleets of patrol<br />
vehicles with support for fixed LPR<br />
cameras, addressing end-user requests.<br />
AutoVu is offered as part of<br />
Genetec Security Center, the company’s<br />
unified IP security platform<br />
that combines access control, video<br />
surveillance and ALPR.<br />
Genetec will demonstrate AutoVu<br />
Managed Services for the first time<br />
at the upcoming IPI Parking Show<br />
in Nashville, TN (<strong>May</strong> 17th-20th)<br />
on booth # 215 along with its full<br />
catalog of AutoVu parking and law<br />
enforcement cameras, systems and<br />
services. AutoVu Managed Services<br />
is expected to be available in mid-<br />
<strong>May</strong> from Genetec AutoVu channel<br />
and sales partners.<br />
“With the responsibility of managing<br />
parking for the City of Richmond,<br />
we were having to host and<br />
maintain our own servers on premises,<br />
which, after troubleshooting,<br />
we found were only performing 55%<br />
of the time. We also had frustrating<br />
performance lag and regularly occurring<br />
internal IT conflicts,” said<br />
Javon Barner, On-Street Parking<br />
Enforcement Manager at the<br />
City of Richmond,<br />
Virginia. “After we<br />
became an earlyadopter<br />
for AutoVu<br />
Managed Services,<br />
More on page 43<br />
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CINCH systems<br />
announces Vice<br />
President of Sales<br />
ST. MICHAEL, MN, <strong>May</strong> 24, 2015<br />
– CINCH systems, Inc. is pleased to<br />
announce Dennis Dop as the company’s<br />
Vice President of Sales. Dop<br />
will be responsible for driving sales<br />
in high security markets for intrusion<br />
detection systems and sensing<br />
devices to achieve company growth<br />
objectives.<br />
Dop, a wellknown<br />
and<br />
respected veteran<br />
in the<br />
security industry,<br />
comes<br />
to CINCH<br />
systems with Dennis Dop<br />
20+ years of VP of Sales<br />
CINCH systems, Inc.<br />
security sales<br />
and sales force<br />
management experience. Dop<br />
brings industry knowledge and<br />
strong sales leadership in commercial<br />
and residential security markets,<br />
national account management,<br />
and driving dealer sales. With the<br />
addition of Dennis Dop, CINCH<br />
systems will grow the sales base,<br />
broaden customer reach, and expand<br />
into new markets.<br />
“In every industry there are a se-<br />
More on page 44
HID Global Case Study: Migrating to<br />
a smart “One Card” Student ID<br />
at George Mason University<br />
As the commonwealth of Virginia’s<br />
largest public university, George<br />
Mason University has a population<br />
of more than 30,000 students<br />
with nearly 5,000 facility members<br />
and 2,000 contractors on campus.<br />
Showing no signs of slowing its student<br />
enrollment, George Mason is a<br />
rapidly expanding campus with new<br />
facilities and residential halls under<br />
construction, and new services being<br />
deployed each year. However, an<br />
outdated and vulnerable Mason ID<br />
card system needed to be replaced<br />
with a more secure and comprehensive<br />
“one card” solution that could<br />
provide better security, efficient<br />
end-to-end issuance capabilities and<br />
connect card holders to new services<br />
and departments on campus. Most<br />
importantly, the university needed<br />
a cost-effective migration plan if it<br />
were to completely replace its legacy<br />
student ID card system.<br />
Challenges<br />
For over a decade, George Mason<br />
has been issuing Mason ID cards<br />
with magnetic swipe technology to<br />
its students, faculty and contractors.<br />
These legacy cards not only wore<br />
out quickly but they relied on a security<br />
technology that lacked the<br />
cryptographic capabilities of smart<br />
cards, and were thus susceptible to<br />
cloning and counterfeiting. It was<br />
also difficult to update and manage<br />
old campus door locks and cards.<br />
Needing to address today’s increasing<br />
security challenges, George<br />
Mason also recognized that with<br />
any new technology deployment on<br />
campus, they had an opportunity to<br />
lay a foundation that would help the<br />
university meet the needs and the<br />
expectations of a very technologysavvy<br />
generation of students.<br />
Greater campus security could be<br />
achieved by moving to a new contactless<br />
smart card technology, but<br />
the greatest efficiency and convenience<br />
would come from leveraging<br />
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the power of a flexible, “one card”<br />
solution that enabled the Mason ID<br />
to be used with not only access control<br />
systems, but other value-added<br />
applications and services on and off<br />
campus.<br />
Determined to move to a new and<br />
comprehensive ID solution, George<br />
Mason was conscious of its limited<br />
budget and the time and cost<br />
associated with replacing existing<br />
card infrastructure and ultimately,<br />
rebadging its more than 30,000 card<br />
holders on campus.<br />
The Solution<br />
By working with HID Global and<br />
its parent ASSA ABLOY, George<br />
Mason was able to design a cost-effective<br />
and comprehensive, end-toend<br />
ID solution that would enable<br />
university administrators to migrate<br />
their existing card system over an<br />
expected five years. Simultaneously<br />
compatible with the legacy student<br />
ID cards and the existing hardware
on campus, this new solution would<br />
be deployed slowly and consist of<br />
the following:<br />
• HID Global multiCLASS<br />
SE® readers, as well as<br />
PERSONA® Campus<br />
Software and SAR-<br />
GENT Passport® locks<br />
from HID Global’s<br />
parent company, ASSA<br />
ABLOY. Chosen for their<br />
built-in encryption and enhanced<br />
security, the multi-technology readers<br />
and locks also support the legacy<br />
magnetic stripe (magstripe) cards<br />
used on campus as well as newer,<br />
contactless card technology.<br />
• Seos® smart cards from HID<br />
Global were chosen for their advanced<br />
security, interoperability<br />
between the new locks and readers,<br />
and the multiple card applications<br />
enabled by its breakthrough technology.<br />
For instance, the university<br />
leveraged HID Global OMNIKEY®<br />
desktop readers to extend the Seos<br />
card’s use to check out library books<br />
and to pay for meals in the cafeteria.<br />
• HID Global FARGO® DTC4500e<br />
ID card printers and encoders along<br />
with its Asure ID® card personalization<br />
software were installed at the<br />
campus card office. Cards are personalized<br />
by printing student information<br />
to the card at the same time<br />
encoding and programming of both<br />
magstripe and Seos technologies are<br />
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Total issuance time is drastically<br />
reduced, data entry mistakes are<br />
eliminated and the new ID cards are<br />
printed at higher quality with more<br />
durable lamination.<br />
“One of our goals is to get the students<br />
out of the card office as quickly<br />
as possible. We wanted something<br />
that was seamless, so staff could<br />
search for the person, verify the<br />
identity, print the card and hand it<br />
to the person, knowing that it would<br />
work right away,” said Jerry Baugh,<br />
Director of the Mason Card Office<br />
with George Mason University.<br />
“With the new printers and Asure<br />
ID software, we were able to really<br />
streamline the entire card process<br />
and set up a true one-stop shop on<br />
campus that not only reduced the<br />
waiting time for the student, but<br />
produced a more durable and better<br />
looking card that eliminated the<br />
hassle and costs of replacing cards<br />
that used to wear out too quickly.”<br />
George Mason worked closely<br />
with HID Global and ASSA ABLOY<br />
to chart a three-year migration path<br />
for its new solution. To date, George<br />
Mason has installed about 3,500<br />
new HID Global readers and ASSA<br />
ABLOY locks, and has issued more<br />
than 12,000 new Mason ID cards<br />
to incoming freshmen to start. The<br />
university expects to complete its<br />
card migration by 2017 with more<br />
readers and locks to follow.<br />
Powered by Seos smart card technology,<br />
the new Mason ID cards<br />
are initially being used for accessing<br />
facilities, residence halls, library<br />
and cafeteria services. The multitechnology<br />
readers and locks ensure<br />
the total system also works with the<br />
older magstripe ID cards still in use.<br />
Potential applications for the new<br />
Mason ID include cashless payment<br />
for the Washington D.C. transit system,<br />
time and attendance when at<br />
the gym, and even generating onetime<br />
password (OTP) soft tokens to<br />
allow students and faculty to access<br />
cloud applications, data and other<br />
services in the future.<br />
Benefits<br />
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The university now has state-of-theart<br />
facility security as well as realtime<br />
control when a lock-down or<br />
other changes are needed. They also<br />
can quickly and easily modify their<br />
access control system, including updating<br />
card privileges, revoking and<br />
replacing lost or stolen cards, and<br />
adding or removing applications,<br />
while the new ID card also frees the<br />
students to easily access so many aspects<br />
of campus life.<br />
The move to a Seos-based technology<br />
solution has provided the<br />
university with more freedom of<br />
choice and the ability to add more<br />
applications as it scales in the future,<br />
while providing the confidence that<br />
the university is receiving the bestin-class<br />
security and privacy protection<br />
for its students and staff. In the<br />
coming years, George Mason has<br />
positioned itself to take full advantage<br />
of its ID system to extend not<br />
only the many uses for the Mason<br />
ID, but the form factor of the student<br />
ID itself.<br />
“For us, Seos is a short step; we<br />
want bigger, better, newer, faster. We<br />
know mobile credentials are coming,<br />
and we want to be positioned.<br />
We know our readers are already<br />
there, so the ability for us to leverage<br />
mobile credentials and send<br />
those to the phone will be our next<br />
step,” stated Danny Anthes, Senior<br />
Manager of Information Technology<br />
with George Mason University.<br />
“I think Seos goes beyond just door<br />
access, it speaks better to the credential<br />
and pieces we have in that.<br />
It allows us to put the destiny of the<br />
department back into their own<br />
hands.”
Threat deterrent technology<br />
Disaster response and recovery<br />
Inspection team training<br />
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HID Global and prime contractor DLRS Group win Best ID<br />
Document Award for new Irish Passport card; credit-card<br />
sized card is first and only passport deployed in Europe for<br />
border crossing<br />
DUBLIN, Ireland and AUSTIN, Texas<br />
<strong>May</strong> 10, 2016 – DLRS Group,<br />
Ireland’s leading security printer and<br />
HID Global®, a worldwide leader in<br />
secure identity solutions, today announced<br />
that the new Irish Passport<br />
Card has won the Regional Best ID<br />
Document of the Year Award 2016<br />
by Reconnaissance International at<br />
this year’s High Security Printing<br />
Conference in Bucharest, Romania.<br />
The programme’s prime contractor<br />
DLRS Group joined forces with<br />
HID Global, Absolute Graphics, and<br />
Purple Pod to design and produce<br />
Europe’s first passport card, which<br />
has been in circulation since October,<br />
2015. The award was presented<br />
to Ireland’ Passport Service Department<br />
of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<br />
The credit-card sized card is the<br />
first and only passport card deployed<br />
in Europe for border crossing. It allows<br />
Irish citizens to travel across<br />
Europe without their traditional<br />
passports. The award recognizes<br />
the Passport Card for its innovative<br />
design, the combination of state-ofthe-art<br />
technologies and a unique<br />
mobile application process. Citizens<br />
can obtain the card by applying online<br />
or through a smartphone app<br />
that allows the applicant<br />
to submit a compliant<br />
photo from a mobile device.<br />
Payments are made<br />
through a secure payment<br />
gateway.<br />
Cardholders benefit<br />
from the card’s state-ofthe-art<br />
technologies and<br />
innovative security features. The card<br />
is the first to combine optical security<br />
media and an ICAO-compliant<br />
chip, which together provide ultrahigh<br />
levels of protection against attempts<br />
at fraud and counterfeiting.<br />
Other innovations optimizing the<br />
card’s reliability, durability and security<br />
include a highly secure personalized<br />
embedded hologram photo;<br />
a unique anti-crack technology that<br />
protects the card from daily wear<br />
and tear; and direct bonding, which<br />
minimizes the space required for<br />
the RFID chip, allowing the unique<br />
combination of security features.<br />
Other security features on the<br />
passport card include the holder’s<br />
signature, a Kinegram overlay featuring<br />
a 12 string harp, specific tactile<br />
features, optically variable and<br />
thermochromic inks plus a covert<br />
diffractive image.<br />
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The new Irish passport card fits<br />
thematically with the new Irish ePassport,<br />
using some of the same imagery,<br />
representing the culture, history<br />
and people of Ireland.<br />
The Irish security printer DLRS,<br />
was the lead company in the management<br />
and delivery of the card<br />
project, partnering with HID Global<br />
Ireland, Absolute Graphics and Purple<br />
Pod. It was also the producer of<br />
Ireland’s new ePassport, which was<br />
introduced in 2013.<br />
HID Global designed and manufactures<br />
the card and also supplies<br />
the personalization software and<br />
Fargo Laser Engraving equipment<br />
– the high security personalization<br />
systems used to print and issue the<br />
cards.<br />
Austin Gormley Director of Passport<br />
Services, Department of Foreign<br />
Affairs and Trade Ireland said,
“We are delighted to receive this<br />
prestigious international award,<br />
which recognizes the quality and innovation<br />
of the card, and the benefit<br />
it delivers to our citizens. It is also a<br />
tribute to the technical capabilities<br />
within Ireland.”<br />
The award was accepted by Austin<br />
Gormley, Director of Passport Services,<br />
Department of Foreign Affairs<br />
and Trade Ireland as well as David<br />
O’Connor of DLRS.<br />
The Regional ID Document of<br />
the Year award aims to promote the<br />
best in security printing, system infrastructure<br />
and implementation of<br />
a government passport, identity or<br />
other security card scheme. The conference<br />
organizers, Reconnaissance<br />
International, recognized the pioneering<br />
use of many new high security<br />
printing technologies and techniques<br />
deployed in the Irish passport<br />
card.<br />
“DLRS and our team of partners<br />
take great pride in delivering the<br />
new Irish passport card, that is making<br />
the lives of Irish citizens easier,”<br />
said David O’Connor, Sales Director,<br />
DLRS. “Our goal was to deliver the<br />
highest quality and most innovative<br />
card imaginable, within budget<br />
to the government of Ireland. This<br />
award recognizes our success in doing<br />
so.”<br />
“Congratulations to Ireland’s Department<br />
of Foreign Affairs on this<br />
exciting award,” said Rob Haslam,<br />
Vice President Government ID Solutions,<br />
HID Global. “DLRS successfully<br />
spearheaded this award-winning<br />
project by bringing together<br />
the right team of experts, ideas and<br />
technologies. It is rewarding that<br />
HID Global’s daily focus on innovation<br />
has helped to deliver this unique<br />
project.<br />
About DLRS Group<br />
DLRS Limited is Ireland’s largest<br />
security printer. Established since<br />
1976, the Company has a production<br />
facility in the Republic of Ireland,<br />
servicing the needs of major<br />
financial and government bodies<br />
supplying passport books and cards,<br />
biometric cards and network development<br />
including enrolments, production<br />
management and Personation<br />
solutions, fiscal stamps and<br />
security documents.<br />
For more information visit http://<br />
www.dlrsgroup.com.<br />
DLRS Limited is the security division<br />
of the Smurfit Kappa Group,<br />
world-leader in paper based packaging,<br />
operating in 22 countries in Europe.<br />
Smurfit Kappa Group is the<br />
European leader in containerboard,<br />
solid board, corrugated and solid<br />
board packaging and has a key position<br />
in several other paper packaging<br />
market segments.<br />
About HID Global<br />
HID Global is the trusted source<br />
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for innovative products, services,<br />
solutions, and know-how related to<br />
the creation, management, and use<br />
of secure identities for millions of<br />
customers around the world. The<br />
company’s served markets include<br />
physical and logical access control,<br />
including strong authentication<br />
and credential management; card<br />
printing and personalization; visitor<br />
management systems; highly secure<br />
government and citizen ID; and<br />
identification RFID technologies<br />
used in animal ID and industry and<br />
logistics applications. The company’s<br />
primary brands include ActivID®,<br />
EasyLobby®, FARGO®, IdenTrust®,<br />
LaserCard®, Lumidigm®, Quantum<br />
Secure, and HID®. Headquartered in<br />
Austin, Texas, HID Global has over<br />
2,700 employees worldwide and operates<br />
international offices that support<br />
more than 100 countries. HID<br />
Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group<br />
brand. For more information, visit<br />
http://www.hidglobal.com.<br />
For more information and HID<br />
Global news, visit our Media Center,<br />
read our Industry Blog, subscribe to<br />
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government/citizen-id
FAA tests drone detection system at JFK<br />
The FAA and its government partners<br />
are expanding research on ways<br />
to detect “rogue” drones around airports.<br />
The Federal Aviation Administration<br />
(FAA) and its government, industry<br />
and academia partners have<br />
joined forces to evaluate drone detection<br />
technology at John F. Kennedy<br />
International Airport (JFK) in<br />
New York.<br />
Over the last two years, the FAA<br />
has received numerous reports<br />
from pilots and residents about unmanned<br />
aircraft systems – UAS, or<br />
“drones” – around some of the nation’s<br />
busiest airports, including<br />
JFK.<br />
“We face many difficult challenges<br />
as we integrate rapidly evolving<br />
UAS technology into our complex<br />
and highly regulated airspace,” said<br />
Marke “Hoot” Gibson, FAA Senior<br />
Advisor on UAS Integration. “This<br />
effort at JFK reflects everyone’s<br />
commitment to safety.”<br />
Beginning <strong>May</strong> 2, the FAA conducted<br />
evaluations at JFK to study<br />
the effectiveness of a Federal Bureau<br />
of Investigation (FBI) UAS detection<br />
system in a commercial airport<br />
environment. Five different rotorcraft<br />
and fixed wing UAS participat-<br />
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ed in the evaluations, and about 40<br />
separate tests took place.<br />
The JFK evaluation involved extensive<br />
government inter-agency<br />
collaboration, and cooperation<br />
from industry and academia. The<br />
tests expanded on research performed<br />
earlier this year at Atlantic<br />
City International Airport.<br />
In addition to the<br />
FAA and the FBI, the<br />
agencies combining<br />
forces in this research<br />
included the Department<br />
of Homeland Security<br />
(DHS), Department<br />
of Justice, Queens<br />
District Attorney’s Office<br />
and the Port Authority<br />
of New York and New Jersey.<br />
DHS and the FBI want to identify<br />
unauthorized UAS operators for<br />
law enforcement purposes, and the<br />
FAA’s mission is to provide a safe<br />
and efficient airport environment<br />
for both manned and unmanned air<br />
traffic.<br />
“We applaud the FBI and FAA for<br />
their efforts to detect and track unmanned<br />
aerial systems (UAS),” said<br />
Thomas Bosco, Port Authority Aviation<br />
Director. “We look forward to<br />
supporting continued U.S. Government<br />
efforts to identify and deploy<br />
countermeasures to neutralize the<br />
threat posed by rogue UASs.”<br />
The team evaluating the FBI’s<br />
detection system also included<br />
contributions from one of the six<br />
FAA-designated UAS test sites. The<br />
Griffiss International Airport test<br />
site in Rome, NY, provided expertise<br />
in planning the individual tests<br />
as well as the flight commander for<br />
the tests and two of the UAS used.<br />
The FY 2016 Appropriations law<br />
mandates that the FAA continue<br />
research into detection of UAS in<br />
airport environments. The agency<br />
is continuing to formulate an interagency<br />
strategy to evaluate detection<br />
systems in a variety of airport<br />
environments.
Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
Los Angeles Airport Police reject plan to work<br />
ten more years to get same retirement package<br />
as LAPD and LAPD Port Police<br />
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LOS ANGELES, CA - Almost one<br />
hundred Los Angeles Airport Police<br />
Officers from Los Angeles International<br />
Airport (LAX), LA/Ontario<br />
International Airport (ONT) and<br />
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) attended<br />
Thursday’s meeting of the Board of<br />
Airport Commissioners at LAX to<br />
voice their concern about Los Angeles<br />
World Airport’s (LAWA) decision<br />
to continue treating their lives,<br />
service and commitment as not<br />
equal to those of other City police<br />
agencies.<br />
During today’s public comment<br />
section, officer after officer reiterated<br />
their unhappiness with the City’s<br />
decision to provide a retirement<br />
package that forcesAirport Police<br />
officers to work an additional decade<br />
to be on par with officers from<br />
the Los Angeles Police Department<br />
and Los Angeles Port Police-also<br />
City police agencies.<br />
“Everyday the City of Los Angeles<br />
tells me my life isn’t as valuable or<br />
important as other officers by refusing<br />
to give me equal pay and benefits<br />
for equal work,” said LAXPD<br />
senior leader officer and Los Angeles<br />
Airport Peace Officers’ Association<br />
(LAAPOA) president Marshall<br />
McClain.<br />
“As it stands now, Airport Police<br />
officer will have to work an additional<br />
decade or more to achieve<br />
the same retirement package that’s<br />
currently available to Los Angeles<br />
police officers in the City and at the<br />
Port. That’s more years of putting<br />
our lives on the line. More years of<br />
breathing in bad carcinogens at the<br />
airport and risking injury. Los Angeles<br />
takes great pride in treating<br />
everyone equally-except for when<br />
it comes to its police officers at the<br />
airport.”<br />
Officers reminded the sevenmember<br />
board that their lives, families,<br />
service and commitment to the<br />
City of Los Angeles and its three airports<br />
mattered. Officers pointed out<br />
that they shouldn’t have to work an<br />
additional decade in order to retire<br />
with the benefits of the 30-year pension<br />
plan currently being offered to
Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
them.<br />
Last week Airport Police officers<br />
voted to approve a tentative agreement<br />
after working without a mutually<br />
agreed upon contract for six<br />
years. While the contract still requires<br />
the final approval of the city<br />
council, over 400 police officers and<br />
firefighters assigned<br />
to LAX, Van Nuys<br />
and Ontario airports<br />
voted to approve a<br />
contract that includes<br />
a first raise of 6.7%<br />
that will take effect in<br />
June 2016 followed by<br />
2% raises in July 2017<br />
and January 2018. Officers<br />
will not receive<br />
raises or cost of living<br />
allowances for years<br />
2014 and 2015. The<br />
contract if approved<br />
will run through June<br />
30, 2018.<br />
This contract is<br />
the result of tedious mediations to<br />
achieve a global settlement agreement<br />
in an effort to resolve several<br />
open employee grievances, unfair<br />
labor practices and a pending lawsuit.<br />
In exchange, this contract improves<br />
the starting salary to the<br />
same amount as all other police<br />
agencies in Los Angeles, includes<br />
a $500 increased uniform allowance<br />
and a safety tier retirement<br />
with a .14% increased pension formula,<br />
which was a counter offer to<br />
bring Airport Police officers to the<br />
same retirement level as the City’s<br />
other two police agencies. In addition,<br />
LAAPOA members will have<br />
to contribute more money to the<br />
cost of medical, pension and retiree<br />
health. LAAPOA is currently awaiting<br />
an actuarial report from the City<br />
Administrative Officer that would<br />
give Airport Police officers the same<br />
retirement as employees of the Department<br />
of Water and Power-but<br />
not equal to the LAPD or L.A. Port<br />
Police.<br />
“With the tentative agreement in<br />
place to bring Airport Police officers<br />
20<br />
retirement benefits to at least match<br />
DWP employees we’re headed in the<br />
right direction but we’re far from<br />
achieving equal pay and benefits for<br />
our officers at the airport,” said Marshall<br />
McClain. “All we’re asking for<br />
is to be treated equally.”<br />
All funds used to pay for LAXPD<br />
officers are derived<br />
from airport feesnone<br />
of the funds<br />
come from City monies.<br />
Taxes will not go<br />
up if Airport Police<br />
officers are compensated<br />
the same as other<br />
City police agencies.<br />
The Los Angeles<br />
Airport Peace Officers<br />
Association<br />
(LAAPOA) represents<br />
the sworn police<br />
officers and firefighters<br />
of the Los Angeles Airport Police<br />
Department assigned to protect<br />
and serve Los Angeles International<br />
Airport (LAX), LA/Ontario International<br />
Airport (ONT) and Van<br />
Nuys Airport (VNY). For more information<br />
on LAAPOA, please visit<br />
laapoa.com.
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Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
Motorola Solutions<br />
transforms body-worn<br />
cameras for Tetra users<br />
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands<br />
– <strong>May</strong> 19, 2016 – At Critical Communications<br />
World 2016 (<strong>May</strong> 31<br />
to June 2 in Amsterdam), Motorola<br />
Solutions announces a new combination<br />
of body-worn video camera,<br />
radio speaker and microphone,<br />
along with new, cloud-based, digital<br />
evidence management software,<br />
which is able to collaborate with<br />
TETRA digital two-way radios. The<br />
new “Smart Interface” (Si) Si500<br />
Video Speaker Microphone (VSM)<br />
is reducing the number of devices<br />
that weigh down public safety officers<br />
in the field today, while CommandCentral<br />
Vault digital evidence<br />
management software is providing<br />
unparalleled efficiency that saves<br />
time and resources.<br />
Public safety agencies today face<br />
an increasing demand to capture,<br />
store, properly manage and share<br />
video evidence. While use of bodyworn<br />
cameras has widespread and<br />
growing acceptance with public<br />
safety agencies and the citizens<br />
they protect, the massive amounts<br />
of data cameras create needs to be<br />
managed and stored, oftentimes<br />
incurring significant<br />
costs. With its<br />
new solution, Motorola<br />
Solutions tackles all of<br />
these challenges and offers<br />
an end-to-end solution that can<br />
be used with existing TETRA radio<br />
equipment. Public safety agencies<br />
are provided with a seamless experience<br />
from video capture in the field<br />
to back office storage and content<br />
management that helps them simplify<br />
workflows and reduce administrative<br />
overheads.<br />
“In Europe Middle East and Africa<br />
(EMEA), TETRA digital radio<br />
technology has become a standard<br />
for mission-critical communications,”<br />
said Steven Young, vice president<br />
TETRA devices at Motorola<br />
Solutions. “This is why we have<br />
developed a body-worn video solution<br />
that collaborates with TETRA<br />
radios. The Si500 is transforming<br />
digital evidence management by integrating<br />
our best microphone into<br />
a body-worn camera and combining<br />
it with a content management<br />
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Si 500 VSM extends performance of Motorola Solutions<br />
Tetra digital two-way radios<br />
system that´s unmatched in its easeof-use.”<br />
Sight and Sound Simplified<br />
Both body-worn camera and remote<br />
radio speaker microphone,<br />
the compact Si500 VSM is a unique<br />
interface that extends the missioncritical<br />
performance of Motorola<br />
Solutions TETRA digital two-way<br />
radios. The lightweight compact design<br />
includes innovative features to<br />
meet the needs of first responders:<br />
• The Si500 VSM is equipped with<br />
a 210-degree range-of-motion camera<br />
lens that provides optimal fieldof-view<br />
and flexible wearing positions.<br />
Users can wear the VSM with<br />
the display facing in or out.<br />
• The Si500 VSM features a new<br />
adaptive audio engine that automatically<br />
adjusts audio settings based<br />
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U.S. Attorney pays tribute to Ohio cops in<br />
honor of National Police Week<br />
by Benjamin C. Glassman<br />
Acting U.S. Attorney for the<br />
Southern District of Ohio<br />
As the top federal law enforcement<br />
official for the southern<br />
half of Ohio, I’ve had the opportunity<br />
to work with many<br />
great police officers over the<br />
years. They are impressive<br />
people doing impressive work.<br />
Sometimes I wish everyone<br />
had the opportunity that I have to<br />
get to know all of these officers personally.<br />
Police officers are public servants<br />
who are an integral part of our daily<br />
life. They catch criminals, find and<br />
return things that are lost, point the<br />
way when we ourselves get lost, and<br />
help the elderly and children alike<br />
cross the street. In other words, police<br />
officers serve; they protect; they<br />
listen; they teach. What distinguishes<br />
a police officer’s job from that<br />
of almost all other public servants,<br />
however, is that it requires the officer<br />
to put his or her very life on the<br />
line in the performance of duty.<br />
Policing is a difficult and honorable<br />
calling that bears tremendous<br />
responsibility. We ask our police<br />
23<br />
officers to run<br />
toward danger,<br />
rather than away<br />
from it, and<br />
once there, we<br />
ask them to use<br />
their best judgment<br />
in making<br />
split-second<br />
decisions. The<br />
Benjamin C. Glassman consequences of<br />
those decisions<br />
are an officer’s burden for life.<br />
To be sure, just because policing<br />
is honorable work does not mean<br />
that every single police officer is an<br />
honorable person. There are rogue<br />
police officers who abuse their<br />
powers and commit crimes—just<br />
as there are doctors and lawyers<br />
and teachers and priests who abuse<br />
their positions and commit crimes.<br />
It is precisely because policing is so<br />
important to the fabric of all of our<br />
lives that my office takes so seriously<br />
instances of police abuse. The U.S.<br />
Attorney’s Office has prosecuted<br />
corrupt police officers to the full extent<br />
of the law, and we will continue<br />
to do so.<br />
But those cases are very much the<br />
exception, not the rule. In my experience,<br />
at least 999 out of every<br />
1,000 police officers discharge their<br />
duties professionally and honorably.<br />
Sometimes, I think, that rule is<br />
harder to see in today’s Internetsaturated<br />
culture. It’s so easy to see<br />
a video clip on the internet of a police<br />
officer somewhere misbehaving<br />
and form an opinion, perhaps even<br />
subconsciously, that police officers<br />
are really like that—even if, on reflection,<br />
the misbehaving officer in<br />
the video is in some jurisdiction<br />
hundreds of miles away that has<br />
absolutely no connection with the<br />
southern half of Ohio or any police<br />
officer you’ve ever met or will ever<br />
meet. The social dynamics of the<br />
internet, moreover, often seem to<br />
encourage taking sides as to everything.<br />
But policing is not something<br />
that’s amenable to taking sides because<br />
all of us want the same thing:<br />
safe communities in which order<br />
is maintained in an atmosphere of<br />
fairness and mutual respect.<br />
The police with whom I work in<br />
the Southern District of Ohio are<br />
doing tremendous work. They are<br />
seeking to be proactive instead of<br />
reactive. They are using data-driv-<br />
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Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
StealthGearUSA showcases premium holsters<br />
and gear at NRA Annual Meeting<br />
AMERICAN FORK, UT – Like<br />
most ideas that begin with a need<br />
to fix everyday things in the garage,<br />
StealthGearUSA too was founded<br />
upon humble beginnings. In 2012<br />
CEO and Founder Paul Laemmlen<br />
focused on the idea of creating the<br />
perfect holster as he was attempting<br />
to fix a poorly designed IWB holster,<br />
manufactured by a major U.S. company<br />
that had failed in a very public<br />
way. His leather holster failed,<br />
causing his sidearm to fall onto the<br />
floor of a busy retail establishment.<br />
Through hours and hours of studying<br />
other holsters and creating prototypes,<br />
Laemmlen developing the<br />
company’s first ventilated holster<br />
using its Ventcore® platform.<br />
Never one to sit back and not take<br />
action, Laemmlen began an exhaustive<br />
search for better options –<br />
nothing existed that met his exacting<br />
standards. Thus began his quest<br />
to craft a better holster. It would<br />
need to be built without moisturetrapping<br />
leather, with completely<br />
synthetic materials, ventilated, and<br />
padded for comfort. It would need<br />
to be lighter and tougher than other<br />
holsters on the market. It would be<br />
a holster that would give rock-solid<br />
confidence knowing it would always<br />
perform flawlessly and be so comfortable<br />
that it would be a pleasure<br />
to wear for everyday carry.<br />
Four years later, StealthGearUSA<br />
has grown from those<br />
humble beginnings to<br />
its current position as<br />
a highly sought-after<br />
manufacturer of highperformance<br />
holsters<br />
and gear that embodies<br />
the needs of the demanding<br />
user in the everyday<br />
carry (EDC) space. Since the<br />
company’s inception in 2012 with<br />
two employees, it has now experienced<br />
400% growth each year and<br />
has more than 25 employees operating<br />
out of a nearly 10,000 square<br />
foot manufacturing and operations<br />
space. In 2016, StealthGearUSA will<br />
also open its first retail space (2,200<br />
square feet) near their headquarters<br />
in American Fork, UT.<br />
At the 145th annual National Rifle<br />
Association’s (NRA) Annual Meetings<br />
& Exhibits <strong>May</strong> 20 – 22 in Louisville,<br />
KY , StealthGearUSA became<br />
a first-time exhibitor (booth #2741).<br />
During the massive three-day event<br />
at the Kentucky Exposition Center,<br />
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StealthGearUSA<br />
showcased the holster that<br />
put the company on the map – the<br />
SGUSA IWB Holster – and will<br />
debut the new IWB Mini-Holster,<br />
OWB Mag & Utility Carrier and the<br />
SGP-1R Tactical Flashlight.<br />
Each of the StealthGearUSA<br />
hand-crafted holsters are customized<br />
to fit the consumer’s personal<br />
handgun and are made with the<br />
company’s own Ventcore platform.<br />
Additionally, StealthGearUSA will<br />
unveil their new OWB Magazine<br />
& Utility Carrier and feature their<br />
wide-array of mag carrier and holster<br />
options that utilize patented<br />
Ventcore® and FLEX platforms and<br />
More on page 45
IACP, University of Cincinnati join forces<br />
to start $3.3M policing research center<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
Editor, Government Security News<br />
Funded by a $3.3 million grant, the<br />
University of Cincinnati and the International<br />
Association of Chiefs of<br />
Police announced earlier this month<br />
they will create a new research institute<br />
aimed at protecting constituents<br />
and ensuring the fair treatment<br />
of those served by law enforcement.<br />
The two organizations received<br />
funding from the Laura and John<br />
Arnold Foundation to establish the<br />
IACP/UC Center for Police Research<br />
and Policy, which will have<br />
staff housed at both the Ohio school<br />
and at IACP’s headquarters in Alexandria,<br />
VA. In its first three years,<br />
the center has goals of establishing<br />
and sharing a national policy<br />
for conducting research, starting<br />
at least three research efforts and<br />
translating researchers’ findings into<br />
recommendations for police chiefs.<br />
“The goal of the IACP/UC Center<br />
for Police Research and Policy is to<br />
provide a path for law enforcement<br />
and researchers to work together<br />
on evidence-based research studies<br />
that will drive future practices<br />
and policies,” said IACP President<br />
Terrence M. Cunningham, Chief of<br />
the Wellesley, Massachusetts, Police<br />
Department. “Academic researchers<br />
often don’t have access to data<br />
police departments collect. Additionally,<br />
research does not<br />
provide actionable recommendations<br />
that can be<br />
easily translated into specific<br />
policies and practices<br />
that could enhance policing.”<br />
Dr. Robin S. Engel, the<br />
university’s vice president<br />
for safety and reform, will<br />
help lead the new initiative,<br />
which will bring together experienced<br />
researchers to identify law<br />
enforcement practices that both effective<br />
and reasonable. UC’s School<br />
of Criminal Justice is renowned for<br />
its research capabilities, and U.S.<br />
News & World Report considers the<br />
school as one of the top three criminal<br />
justice doctoral programs in the<br />
country.<br />
“The IACP/UC Center for Police<br />
Research and Policy will bring<br />
high-caliber academic researchers<br />
and police practitioners together to<br />
conduct cutting-edge research and<br />
share findings with law enforcement<br />
leaders around the world,”<br />
said Engel, who currently serves as<br />
a consultant for police<br />
departments in<br />
Cincinnati and Tulsa,<br />
OK and has served as<br />
a criminal justice researcher<br />
and educator<br />
for more than 17<br />
years. “This innovative<br />
collaboration will enable<br />
us to develop evidence-based<br />
policies<br />
and practices that are focused on<br />
addressing critical policing issues,<br />
creating a ground-breaking model<br />
for police-academic partnerships.”<br />
The initiative comes less than a<br />
year after a white University of Cincinnati<br />
officer shot and killed an<br />
unarmed black man during a traffic<br />
stop that took place outside of the<br />
university’s campus. Investigators<br />
used the officer’s body camera foot-<br />
More on page 44<br />
Dr. Robin S. Engel<br />
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Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
Study: Utility claims BodyWorn<br />
cameras save thousands because<br />
of auto redacting<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
Editor, Government Security News<br />
Utility CEO Robert McKeeman calls<br />
redacting of images captured by police<br />
body-worn cameras the “elephant in the<br />
room.”<br />
The work it takes to intentionally distort<br />
innocent bystanders and other nonessential<br />
elements – for privacy protection<br />
purposes – from body camera<br />
footage is often considered an arduous<br />
task that sometimes complicates and<br />
lengthens the time it takes for footage to<br />
be released to the public.<br />
However, McKeeman, whose company<br />
produces the BodyWorn camera systems,<br />
said that the ability to automatically<br />
redact extraneous images that are not<br />
necessary to the case at hand. It means<br />
the press, the public, juries and judges<br />
can see the evidence without jeopardizing<br />
the privacy concerns of those in the<br />
background.<br />
Further, McKeeman said, auto redacting<br />
is a tremendous cost saver, and a<br />
recent study published by his company<br />
shows police departments can save significantly<br />
through automatic redaction.<br />
“It is the major cost that rarely gets<br />
considered when evaluating body cameras,<br />
even though handling redaction<br />
automatically could end up improving<br />
operations and saving departments millions,”<br />
he said. “Police transparency and<br />
accountability, and protecting the privacy<br />
of police officers and citizens, very<br />
much depends upon being able to redact<br />
video quickly and at low cost. We encourage<br />
all Police Departments to tailor<br />
our analysis to their specific situation so<br />
they make an informed purchase choice<br />
that provides the best solution to increase<br />
police officer safety while also providing<br />
the best value for their taxpayers.”<br />
The call for police departments to implement<br />
body-worn cameras has grown<br />
louder in recent years as a number of<br />
high-profile incidents called into question<br />
how officers treat suspects. At the<br />
same time, however, civil rights advocates<br />
have questioned how the use of<br />
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such cameras won’t invade the privacy of<br />
bystanders.<br />
In the report, Utility claims automatic<br />
redaction can save police departments<br />
up to $12,000 per camera over a five-year<br />
period. The report is available at: http://<br />
bit.ly/1XEyrdU.<br />
“This analysis is intended to educate<br />
government leaders, police executives<br />
and procurement staff about the true total<br />
cost of implementing and operating a<br />
body camera program. The body camera<br />
hardware is just the start of the total cost<br />
of ownership,” McKeeman said. “Police<br />
departments have been surprised by<br />
significant additional costs for network<br />
infrastructure; operations staff support;<br />
police officer overtime; security; backup<br />
and disaster recovery; and video storage,<br />
redaction and administration costs. Our<br />
analysis addresses the 5-Year Total Cost<br />
of Ownership of a police body camera<br />
solution.”<br />
McKeeman added that cameras also<br />
should be as easy to use as possible for<br />
officers, who are often required to turn<br />
on manual cameras during highly stressful<br />
situations. He noted a Department<br />
of Justice study that indicated Phoenix<br />
police officers only turned on manually<br />
activated cameras only 13 percent of the<br />
time they were required to do so.<br />
“Body-worn cameras should reliably<br />
capture video and audio without burdening<br />
the Police Officer,” McKeeman said.<br />
BodyWorn isn’t the only system avail-<br />
able that provides automatic redaction.<br />
VIEVU offers an automated video redaction<br />
technology that uses an advanced<br />
algorithm to blur faces and other identifiable<br />
features.<br />
“The cutting-edge AVR system offered<br />
by VIEVU will lessen the burden<br />
on police departments and simplify the<br />
redaction process, allowing for increased<br />
adoption of body worn cameras around<br />
the world,” VIEVU President Steve Ward<br />
said last year in a release touting its development.<br />
Graphic courtesy of Utility<br />
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Law Enforcement/Public Safety<br />
Battelle develops time-saving active-shooter response<br />
system, seeks partner for rollout<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
Editor, Government Security News<br />
Ed Jopeck found the numbers disturbing.<br />
Despite the technology becoming<br />
available to detect gunshots in<br />
buildings, active shooting events<br />
– and the tragic deaths that all too<br />
often com with them – continued to<br />
occur. According to Federal Bureau<br />
of Investigation data, an average of<br />
more than 16 attacks took place annually<br />
between 2000 and 2013, with<br />
the number almost tripling in the<br />
last seven years.<br />
In all, 1,043 people died or were<br />
injured as a result of such events.<br />
So even with gunshot detection<br />
systems in place, mass shootings<br />
still took place and fatalities still<br />
occurred. It led Jopeck, a program<br />
manager at Battelle, and his colleagues<br />
at the Ohio-based non-profit<br />
research and development institution<br />
to find a way to make detection<br />
systems better.<br />
Two years later, Battelle is ready<br />
to roll out SiteGuard Active Shooter<br />
Response, a solution that uses sensors<br />
and cameras to identify and<br />
pinpoint gunshots as well as monitor<br />
the whereabouts of the shooter.<br />
In a recent test conducted with<br />
representatives from the Federal<br />
Law Enforcement Training Center,<br />
SiteGuard reduced the time officers<br />
needed to neutralize the threat by<br />
nearly two-thirds.<br />
SiteGuard’s “impact can and has<br />
be demonstrated repeatedly to end<br />
a shooting significantly faster,” Jopeck<br />
said. “We are not talking about<br />
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Battelle SiteGuard<br />
responding seconds faster here, but<br />
by six minutes or more. A shooter<br />
can find and shoot at a lot of building<br />
occupants in six minutes.”<br />
What makes SiteGuard stand out<br />
among the solutions available is the<br />
automated video tracking of shooters.<br />
That enables law enforcement<br />
agents arriving at the scene to know<br />
where the shots are being fired and<br />
the assailant’s whereabouts. In the
testing, Jopeck said the system allowed<br />
approaching law enforcement<br />
officers to know what the shooter as<br />
they approached the subject.<br />
Also, Battelle’s audio sensors do<br />
not need line of sight clearance to<br />
identify a shot thanks to a proprietary<br />
two-stage algorithm developed<br />
to identify gunshots sounds with<br />
accuracy. Because of that development,<br />
Jopeck said buildings need<br />
fewer sensors installed, especially<br />
in large open spaces with columns<br />
– such as a library or cafeteria – that<br />
could prevent the visual flash of a<br />
weapon from being detected.<br />
But the system doesn’t just help<br />
law enforcement officers. It also aids<br />
building occupants by disseminating<br />
critical information via public<br />
address announcements, phone<br />
calls, text messages or computer<br />
displays to help them escape or find<br />
appropriate shelter.<br />
“Completely researching, reimagining<br />
and then re-inventing the<br />
response to active shootings helped<br />
Battelle find better approaches to<br />
saving lives that many active shooting<br />
experts had missed,” Jopeck said.<br />
In addition to the FLETC testing,<br />
Battelle has also tested the system at<br />
Reynoldsburg High School, which<br />
is located near Battelle’s headquarters<br />
in Columbus, OH. The system<br />
has been in place for two years, with<br />
Battelle officials implementing new<br />
technology into the school’s system<br />
as it’s developed.<br />
“We are always seeking better ways<br />
to protect our students and teachers<br />
in Reynoldsburg City Schools,” said<br />
Tina Thomas-Manning, Reynoldsburg’s<br />
superintendent. “Battelle’s<br />
science capability and world-class<br />
reputation for supporting education<br />
initiatives gave us confidence to give<br />
the system a trial run and evaluate<br />
its capabilities.”<br />
Since the successful tests at the<br />
FLETC’s Georgia training facility,<br />
Jopeck said Battelle has received<br />
interest from government agencies<br />
and businesses about getting the<br />
system installed in their facilities.<br />
However, in order to meet that demand,<br />
Jopeck said the organization<br />
is looking to meet with technology<br />
companies to help them make<br />
the technology available to a wider<br />
market, such as schools.<br />
The first systems should be installed<br />
by the end of the calendar<br />
year, he added.<br />
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U.S. Attorney pays tribute to<br />
Ohio cops<br />
Continued from page 23<br />
en approaches to enforcement. In<br />
many respects, the police here in<br />
the southern half of Ohio are leading<br />
the way in developing innovative<br />
approaches to today’s crime<br />
problems. The police here are not<br />
immune to mistakes—who is?—but<br />
they are trying, and they care deeply<br />
about the communities they serve.<br />
That warrants support and commendation.<br />
<strong>May</strong> 15-21 served as National Police<br />
Week. It is a tradition that has<br />
grown out of President John F. Kennedy’s<br />
proclamation in 1962 that<br />
designated <strong>May</strong> 15 as Peace Officers<br />
Memorial Day. Tragically, within the<br />
past year, Cincinnati Police Officer<br />
Sonny Kim, Danville Police Officer<br />
Thomas Cottrell, Columbus Police<br />
Officer Steve Smith, and Hilliard<br />
Police Officer Sean Johnson have<br />
lost their lives in the performance of<br />
their duties. They were not only public<br />
servants. They were family members,<br />
neighbors, and friends. As we<br />
remember them, let’s reflect on all<br />
police officers this way. The officers<br />
who serve here in the Southern District<br />
of Ohio are not some video clip<br />
from a far-away state. They are family<br />
members, neighbors, and friends<br />
who perform a dangerous, difficult,<br />
and essential job with honor. I thank<br />
them for their service.
Hazmat Science and Public Policy with George Lane<br />
Rising tide in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by<br />
the ice melting in Antarctica, is creating the<br />
first climate refugees in Louisiana<br />
By George Lane<br />
In January of this year, the United<br />
States Department of Housing and<br />
Urban Development announced a<br />
$48 million grant for Isle de Jean<br />
Charles located on the vulnerable<br />
southern coast of Louisiana: the<br />
first allocation of federal tax dollars<br />
to move an entire community<br />
struggling with the impacts of climate<br />
change. 1<br />
The resettlement<br />
plan is one of the first of<br />
its kind in the world, a<br />
test of how to respond<br />
to climate change in<br />
the most dramatic circumstances<br />
without<br />
tearing communities apart. Under<br />
the terms of the federal grant,<br />
the island’s residents are to be resettled<br />
to drier land, a community<br />
that currently does not exist.<br />
Louisiana officials have been<br />
coping with some of the fastest<br />
rates of land loss in the world, an<br />
area the size of Delaware has disappeared<br />
from south Louisiana<br />
since the 1930s. Unless significant<br />
changes are made, Louisiana will<br />
have the first climate refugees in<br />
the world.<br />
Donald Boesch and Virginia<br />
Burkett, coastal researchers with<br />
Louisiana connections, are widely<br />
respected for their expertise on<br />
why Louisiana’s coast is rapidly being<br />
flooded by the Gulf of Mexico. 2<br />
Both believe that recently released<br />
Unless significant changes are made,<br />
Louisiana will have the first climate<br />
refugees in the world.<br />
research could hold the key to the<br />
success of that effort or its rapid<br />
demise.<br />
However, the surprising new<br />
study doesn’t involve levees, sediment<br />
diversions, oil and gas canals<br />
or any of the other issues usually<br />
debated when Louisiana’s coastal<br />
plan is discussed. It blames Antarctica,<br />
thousands of miles south<br />
of the Louisiana coast.<br />
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The research<br />
presents<br />
evidence<br />
that the world and Louisiana face<br />
a stark choice. If global temperatures<br />
do not rise more than 2 degrees<br />
Celsius by 2100, sea-level rise<br />
could be manageable and Louisiana’s<br />
coastal plan might succeed.<br />
Otherwise a sudden, dramatic<br />
melting of ice on Antarctica<br />
will add another 3 feet<br />
to the current prediction<br />
of a 3.5-foot rise in sea<br />
level by 2100, swamping<br />
most of the southern third<br />
of Louisiana. 3<br />
It holds a key to the future of<br />
the Louisiana coast. The rate of ice<br />
loss projected for Antarctica could<br />
result in the loss of Louisiana’s<br />
coastal systems as we know them.<br />
What happens in Antarctica could<br />
determine what happens here in<br />
Louisiana. We’re definitely linked.<br />
It’s hard to imagine two locations<br />
with less in common. Louisiana<br />
is subtropical, green and home
to pelicans and hurricanes while<br />
Antarctica is freezing, white, and<br />
home to penguins and blizzards.<br />
Yet as soon as science confirmed<br />
that seas are rising because human<br />
actions are warming the atmosphere,<br />
researchers knew Antarctica<br />
would be critical to the future<br />
of coastal communities, especially<br />
the already sinking coast of Louisiana.<br />
Atmospheric warming is raising<br />
sea levels in two ways. First, water<br />
expands as it is warmed, and the<br />
oceans have been increasing in<br />
volume because of that. Second,<br />
water stored as ice in glaciers and<br />
ice shelves is now pouring into the<br />
oceans, further increasing their<br />
volume. Antarctica holds 90 percent<br />
of the world’s ice. Suddenly<br />
an isolated, little-visited continent<br />
became very, very important to<br />
Louisiana, and the world.<br />
Stretched across the bottom of<br />
the planet, Antarctica is huge,<br />
covering an area roughly the size<br />
of the United States and Mexico<br />
combined. Heaped on top of that<br />
vast land mass is ice averaging<br />
7,000 feet in depth. Imagine a vast<br />
container of water with a faucet at<br />
the bottom.<br />
If the faucet only drips, it won’t<br />
change ocean levels much. But<br />
if opened wider and fixed in that<br />
position for centuries, most coastlines<br />
would drown. If all the ice<br />
in Antarctica melts, those same<br />
models show the oceans rising 200<br />
feet, meaning Baton Rouge, Louisiana,<br />
now 80 miles north of New<br />
Orleans, would be on what’s left of<br />
the coast. Evidence has long existed<br />
that past episodes of dramatic<br />
increases in sea level were accompanied<br />
by sudden, huge losses of<br />
Antarctic ice. But the new and rapidly<br />
evolving science focusing on<br />
the complex forces at work on that<br />
continent had yet to nail down reliable<br />
mechanisms for the progression<br />
of ice loss.<br />
While our planet has been<br />
warming, the floating ice fields<br />
surrounding Antarctica have been<br />
growing in size in recent years.<br />
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These floating fields, composed<br />
of relatively recent snows, serve<br />
as bumpers protecting the massive<br />
land-based ice shelves from<br />
the warming ocean. They were one<br />
reason the United Nations’ Intergovernmental<br />
Panel on Climate<br />
Change said Antarctica would<br />
contribute little to the group’s<br />
“worst case” rise of 3.2 feet by the<br />
end of the century.<br />
That was shaken in January<br />
with the publication of a study<br />
titled “Contribution of Antarctica<br />
to past and future sea level rise.” 4<br />
Researchers Robert DeConto and<br />
David Pollard had been struggling<br />
for years to determine why their<br />
computer models could not reproduce<br />
the dramatic melting that<br />
occurred 125,000 years ago under
Hazmat Science and Public Policy with George Lane<br />
the similar temperatures and carbon<br />
levels that existed at that time.<br />
Then they learned that the floating<br />
ice fields could break up rapidly if<br />
air temperatures continue to rise.<br />
When they added that scenario<br />
into their models, one result for<br />
the future was startling: If carbon<br />
emissions are not controlled soon,<br />
by 2050, the floating ice fields<br />
could fall apart, allowing the landbased<br />
ice shelves to begin melting<br />
quickly. Any rise would be even<br />
higher on the Louisiana coast because<br />
this area would have an increasingly<br />
strong gravitational<br />
pull as Antarctica lost all that ice.<br />
So if a certain amount of ice<br />
melts and raises global sea level<br />
by 1 centimeter, in Louisiana,<br />
that rise would be 1.2 or 2.5 centimeters.<br />
Just another reason why<br />
Fig. 1: This bridge in Louisiana fills with up to a foot of mud during<br />
storms. (Source: Josh Haner/New York Times <strong>May</strong> 6, 2016)<br />
we in Louisiana have to be really<br />
concerned about these sea-level<br />
rise figures. And what happens<br />
in Louisiana in climate change<br />
doesn’t stay in Louisiana. The new<br />
research should be a warning for<br />
coastal areas because when sea levels<br />
were 20 to 30 feet higher than<br />
they are now, carbon levels were<br />
only 280 parts per million; today’s<br />
readings already have passed 400.<br />
The report has serious implications<br />
for Louisiana’s coastal master<br />
plan. The plan is based upon the<br />
principle that the Mississippi River<br />
can provide enough sediment to<br />
rebuild and strengthen the sinking<br />
coastal basins in the face of rising<br />
seas and a sinking land mass.<br />
Projections made in 2012 used<br />
estimates of 10 to 17 inches of sealevel<br />
rise through 2061, projections<br />
many scientists<br />
said were already<br />
too conservative. 5<br />
State officials said<br />
the models they’re<br />
using in drafting<br />
the 2017 update<br />
of the plan have<br />
tentatively been<br />
set from 39 to<br />
70.8 inches of sea<br />
level rise through<br />
2100. That already<br />
has resulted in the<br />
removal of two sediment diversions<br />
planned for the lower section<br />
of the river in quickly sinking<br />
Plaquemines Parish.<br />
The higher projection did not<br />
alter plans for projects about 30<br />
miles farther north. However,<br />
many recent projections show that<br />
if greenhouse emissions are not<br />
dramatically reduced soon, the<br />
rate of sea-level rise will increase<br />
dramatically in the last three decades<br />
of the century, swamping<br />
much of what the state hopes to<br />
build by 2061.<br />
The benefits of reducing carbon<br />
emissions should be clear to Louisiana.<br />
This report says if Louisiana<br />
is aggressive and committed to the<br />
Paris climate change goals, it has<br />
a real chance for saving the coast.<br />
If not, Louisiana will have the first<br />
climate refugees in the world. 6 The<br />
only question then is who’s next.<br />
References<br />
1. “Isle De Jean Charles Band of Biloxi Chitimacha<br />
Choctaw Receive National Disaster<br />
Competition Award for Resettlement”; HUD<br />
and the Rockefeller Foundation, http://www.<br />
isledejeancharles.com/ (For more information<br />
on the resettlement project, visit www.coastalresettlement.org)<br />
2. Coral Davenport and Campbell Robertson,<br />
“Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’”,<br />
New York Times, <strong>May</strong> 6, 2016<br />
3. “What a 6-foot sea level rise would look<br />
like”, Figure 2, Source: Dan Swenson, Baton<br />
Rouge Advocate, <strong>May</strong> 6, 2016<br />
4. Robert M. DeConto and David Pollard,<br />
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Fig. 2: Source: Dan Swenson, Baton Rouge Advocate <strong>May</strong> 6, 2016<br />
“Contribution of Antarctica to past and future<br />
sea-level rise”, Nature, Volume 531, Issue 7596,<br />
pgs 591–597, March 31, 2016<br />
5. United Nations University Institute for Environment<br />
and Human Security, http://ehs.unu.<br />
edu/<br />
6. “This bridge in Louisiana fills with up to a<br />
foot of mud during storms”, Figure 1, Source:<br />
Josh Haner, New York Times <strong>May</strong> 6, 2016<br />
George Lane has 25 years of experience in the development of chemical security<br />
systems, conducting research as a NASA Fellow at the Stennis Space<br />
Center and as a NSF Fellow. Lane was air quality SME for the University<br />
of California at Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management during<br />
the BP Oil Spill. Lane is currently chemical security SME for the Naval<br />
Postgraduate School Maritime Interdiction Operations in the Center for<br />
Network Innovation and Experimentation.<br />
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Satellite Communications<br />
COMSAT provides satellite communications<br />
services to the Marines during multinational<br />
training session<br />
WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE)<br />
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value-added reseller of Inmarsat’s<br />
Global Xpress services, worked with<br />
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific<br />
(MARFORPAC), who organized<br />
and managed the exercise, to integrate<br />
Global Xpress into the scenarios<br />
for BK16. The Global Xpress<br />
service was provided via a Cobham<br />
5075 terminal which was deployed<br />
with the U.S. Marine Corps.<br />
Balikatan is an annual military exercise<br />
between U.S. joint forces and<br />
the Armed Forces of the Philippines<br />
(AFP) with multinational participants<br />
such as Australia. The BK16<br />
exercise focused on a variety of missions<br />
to include humanitarian assistance,<br />
maritime law enforcement,<br />
and environmental protection. During<br />
this exercise, U.S. forces conducted<br />
humanitarian civil assistance<br />
projects with the AFP throughout<br />
the Philippine archipelago.<br />
There were also combined operational<br />
events between U.S. forces,<br />
the three main branches of the AFP,<br />
and other major Philippine military<br />
camps to improve collaboration, increase<br />
partnership capabilities, and<br />
plan for follow-on operations.<br />
“As part of this exercise, our intention<br />
was to support MARFORPAC<br />
in this exercise by bringing new and<br />
innovative cost-effective communication<br />
technologies that support<br />
mission success. Unlike competitive<br />
offerings, the service is readily available<br />
today and offers unmatched<br />
end-user benefits,” said Nancy Ho,<br />
Vice President, Business Development,<br />
U.S. Government / Military,<br />
COMSAT, Inc. “The ease of<br />
use and performance of the Global<br />
Xpress solution was able to deliver<br />
a reliable, core communications link<br />
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during the exercise.”<br />
The Global Xpress SATCOM as a<br />
Service end-to-end managed service<br />
capability allowed the Cobham 5075<br />
terminal to be tested at COMSAT<br />
offices in Herndon, VA; shipped to<br />
the Philippines; and brought online<br />
within minutes -- a significant stepchange<br />
compared to the traditional<br />
VSAT capability, which requires operator<br />
intervention to reconfigure<br />
a terminal to operate in a new geographic<br />
location.<br />
Because of its global mobility,<br />
ease-of-use and high throughput,<br />
users were able to set up the Global<br />
Xpress terminal and acquire service<br />
in just minutes for their web browsing<br />
and email applications at Basa<br />
Air Base, the designated headquarters<br />
for all U.S. Marine Corps Forces<br />
involved in the exercise. Supported<br />
by the only commercial worldwide<br />
Ka-band constellation built for mobility<br />
available from a single operator,<br />
Global Xpress delivered BK16<br />
exercise users with end-to-end,<br />
seamless ‘SATCOM as a Service’<br />
capability – compatible with MIL-
SATCOM systems and available on<br />
demand, no matter the environment<br />
or the geographic location.<br />
“We have a proven track record<br />
of more than 35 years delivering<br />
mobile satellite communication capabilities<br />
to U.S. government users<br />
worldwide. Through collaborations<br />
with our skilled partners like COM-<br />
SAT, we have successfully demonstrated<br />
that Global Xpress delivers<br />
a highly reliable Ka-band network<br />
to meet mobile, on-demand communication<br />
needs, worldwide,” said<br />
Kai Tang, Inmarsat’s Vice President<br />
of Market Development, U.S. Government.<br />
“We believe that the BK16<br />
exercise users were able to see firsthand<br />
the benefits Global Xpress delivers<br />
– seamless, consistent wideband<br />
access from a single operator<br />
that supports mobile, interoperable<br />
communication needs, at an affordable<br />
price.”<br />
About COMSAT<br />
Headquartered in Herndon, VA,<br />
is part of Satcom Direct (SD), the<br />
leading provider of satellite voice<br />
and broadband data solutions for<br />
flight deck and cabin communications<br />
serving business, military,<br />
government, and heads of state<br />
aircraft. With a direct lineage from<br />
the COMSAT organization that was<br />
created by the Communications<br />
Satellite Act of 1962, the company<br />
has played an important role in the<br />
SATCOM industry from its inception<br />
to present day. COMSAT offers<br />
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a broad array of advanced solutions<br />
to meet U.S. military and commercial<br />
requirements, including fixedand<br />
rotary-wing aircraft, homeland<br />
security systems, public safety communications,<br />
defense electronics<br />
and avionics, and threat detection.<br />
COMSAT’s key milestones include<br />
being a founding member of Intelsat;<br />
operating the Marisat fleet<br />
network, which provided the first<br />
mobile satellite communications<br />
services to the United States Navy;<br />
and founding the initial operating<br />
system of Inmarsat from the company’s<br />
two earth stations.<br />
About Inmarsat<br />
Inmarsat plc is the leading provider<br />
of global mobile satellite communications<br />
services. Since 1979, Inmarsat<br />
has been providing reliable<br />
voice and high-speed data communications<br />
to governments, enterprises<br />
and other organizations, with<br />
a range of services that can be used<br />
on land, at sea or in the air. Inmarsat<br />
employs around 1,600 staff in<br />
more than 60 locations around the<br />
world, with a presence in the major<br />
ports and centres of commerce on<br />
every continent. Inmarsat is listed<br />
on the London Stock Exchange<br />
(LSE:ISAT.L). For more information,<br />
please visit www.inmarsat.com.
Satellite Communications<br />
Inflatable antennas help Cubic Global Defense<br />
serve military, Middle East markets<br />
<strong>May</strong> was a productive month for<br />
Cubic Global Defense.<br />
The company started off the month<br />
showcasing some of the C4ISR<br />
technology it acquired through the<br />
recent purchases of DTECH Labs,<br />
GATR Technologies and TeraLogics<br />
at the biennial Special Operations<br />
Forces Exhibition and Conference<br />
in Jordan. C4ISR stands for Command,<br />
Control, Communications,<br />
Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance<br />
and Reconnaissance.<br />
Among the products and solutions<br />
marketed at SOFEX included<br />
a mobile Internet solution featuring<br />
end-to-end full motion video and<br />
satellite communications management<br />
that works with essentially<br />
every combat net radio system.<br />
GATR’s portable antenna works as<br />
effectively as its more rigid counterparts,<br />
but at a mere fraction of<br />
the weight. The 85 percent weight<br />
reduction gives it an edge over its<br />
competitors in the government and<br />
commercial markets.<br />
It’s all a part of the company’s<br />
“training to tactical” strategy to<br />
serve its Middle East market, said<br />
John Naff, who serves as the general<br />
manager for Cubic Defense Saudi<br />
Arabia and as the business development<br />
vice president for Cubic Global<br />
Defense.<br />
“These comprehensive capabilities<br />
will provide enhanced flexibility<br />
for not only ground and air training<br />
systems, but also tactical communi-<br />
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GATR inflatable antenna
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op a successful satellite communications<br />
program with its unique and<br />
portable, inflatable satellite terminals,”<br />
said Mike Twyman, executive<br />
vice president of communications,<br />
intelligence and surveillance systems,<br />
Cubic Global Defense. “This<br />
award demonstrates the Army’s<br />
commitment to innovative C4ISR<br />
technologies that support and expand<br />
the warfighter’s capabilities in<br />
remote locations.”<br />
GATR’s terminals were also showcased<br />
at the GEOINT Symposium<br />
in Orlando. Hosted by the U.S. Geospatial<br />
Intelligence Foundation, its<br />
serves as the largest conference for<br />
the geospatial defense and intelligence<br />
community.<br />
TeraLogics’ cloud-based Unified<br />
Video software, which brings together<br />
full motion video with sensor<br />
data and geospatial images to<br />
give analysts usable intelligence,<br />
also was showcased at the Orlando<br />
show, as was Cubic’s game-based<br />
training modules that can be used<br />
to improve decision making in the<br />
field.<br />
Both were also on display at the<br />
Special Operations Forces Industry<br />
Conference in Tampa at the end of<br />
the month.<br />
“With our expanding product<br />
and services portfolio, Cubic is now<br />
poised to deliver innovative techcations<br />
solutions that support real<br />
operations and mission readiness,”<br />
he said.<br />
The day after SOFEX concluded,<br />
GATR announced it received an order<br />
from the U.S. Army to support<br />
its Transportable Tactical Command<br />
Communications (T2C2) initiative.<br />
The $5 million deal, under<br />
an Army Small Business Innovative<br />
Research Phase III Indefinite Delivery,<br />
Indefinite Quantity contract, allows<br />
GATR to test T2C2’s inflatable<br />
satellite terminals in preparation for<br />
upcoming verification test.<br />
At the same time, GATR also delivered<br />
10 inflatable satellite terminals<br />
that will be used for testing<br />
the Army’s next generation tactical<br />
communications system. The Army<br />
has agreed to purchase up to 780<br />
terminals if it exercises all purchase<br />
orders after testing concludes. The<br />
initial 10, which included five small<br />
and five medium terminals, were<br />
valued at $3.2 million.<br />
Because if their significantly lower<br />
weight, the inflatable antennas can<br />
be air dropped on location or even<br />
shipped as commercial baggage,<br />
which significantly reduces the cost<br />
in transportation. The GATR antennas<br />
range in size from 1.2 to 4 meters.<br />
“GATR Technologies has worked<br />
closely with the U.S. Army to develnologies<br />
which address our customers’<br />
need for integrated and comprehensive<br />
mission-focused solutions,”<br />
said Chris Bellios, senior vice president<br />
of defense and intelligence services<br />
for Cubic Global Defense.<br />
Cubic Defense Systems provides<br />
combat training systems and secure<br />
network and communications and<br />
networking solutions to support<br />
both the military and other security<br />
forces protecting the United States<br />
and its allies. Its goal is to increase<br />
situational awareness and understanding<br />
for its global client base.<br />
Special Operations Forces “face<br />
threats in an ever-changing environment<br />
and need specialized training<br />
for increased mission readiness,”<br />
said Bill Toti, president of Cubic<br />
Global Defense. “Cubic is focused<br />
on delivering customers training<br />
and communications products that<br />
offer interoperability, while addressing<br />
the present and future challenges<br />
faced not only by U.S SOCOM<br />
(Special Operations Command) but<br />
also the global SOF network.”
Satellite Communications<br />
Maine college using satellite<br />
technology to help prevent<br />
sexual assaults<br />
BANGOR, MAINE (PRWEB) <strong>May</strong><br />
17, 2016 – Since October of 2015,<br />
Husson University has been the<br />
site of an extensive pilot program<br />
with the Peace of Mind<br />
Company to test a keychainsized,<br />
POM personal security<br />
device that calls campus safety<br />
and security with the touch of<br />
a button. Today, the University<br />
announced, after thoroughly testing<br />
the device, that it is making this<br />
technology available to all members<br />
of the university community who<br />
are interested in subscribing to this<br />
annual service.<br />
“Safety in the classroom, office<br />
and other public spaces is always an<br />
important priority for Husson University,”<br />
said Executive Director of<br />
Safety and Security Raymond Bessette.<br />
“We believe that the addition<br />
of the POM device and subscription<br />
to our current security regimen will<br />
provide an added measure of safety<br />
and security on our campus.”<br />
When the POM keychain-size device<br />
is activated, it sends a GPS location,<br />
profile information, and the<br />
student’s picture to Husson Safety<br />
and Security. With a $45 annual<br />
subscription, members of Husson’s<br />
campus community can choose between<br />
a Silent POM that emits no<br />
sound when activated or a Signal<br />
POM that beeps and buzzes when<br />
activated. The Signal POM also offers<br />
two-way communication with<br />
Husson’s Safety and Security dispatcher.<br />
The Silent POM, on the<br />
other hand, allows the dispatcher to<br />
hear communication but does not<br />
allow the signal activator or anyone<br />
near this individual to hear the dispatcher.<br />
The U.S. Department of Educa-<br />
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tion’s Campus Safety and Security<br />
Data Analysis Cutting Tool continues<br />
to show that Husson University<br />
has one of the lowest levels of<br />
campus crime in Maine. “Our University<br />
continues to be one of the<br />
safest campuses in the country and<br />
we want it to stay that way,” continued<br />
Bessette. “One sexual assault<br />
on campus is one too many. We’re<br />
hoping that this device can help<br />
make our already safe campus,<br />
even safer.”<br />
Husson has installed and<br />
trained their Safety and Security<br />
dispatchers on the specially designed<br />
POM software that shows<br />
the location, picture and profile information<br />
of anyone who activates<br />
the device. The device pairs easily<br />
with a Bluetooth-enabled mobile<br />
phone. If a student or other member<br />
of the Husson community activates<br />
the device while they are off<br />
campus, the software automatically<br />
redirects the signal to local law enforcement.<br />
This device has several unique advantages.<br />
Unlike the call boxes currently<br />
on many college campuses,<br />
anyone who feels threatened carries<br />
the ability to initiate emergency<br />
communication immediately from<br />
wherever they are. Since activating<br />
the POM device only requires<br />
pushing one button, those in danger<br />
need not worry about trying to
dial when calling for help. This will<br />
allow individuals to be in communication<br />
with emergency assistance<br />
immediately.<br />
Members of campus Safety and<br />
Security will have copies of the<br />
POM app on their iPhones and Androids.<br />
This will allow them to use<br />
the GPS feature to quickly find those<br />
in need of assistance if the situation<br />
demands that those in danger move<br />
as they are calling for help.<br />
In addition to sexual assault prevention,<br />
the POM device has applications<br />
to other campus situations.<br />
Individual can also activate the device<br />
when they:<br />
• Feel unsafe in a classroom or<br />
office<br />
• Need a virtual-walking escort<br />
• Need to call for an in-person<br />
walking escort<br />
• Have a health emergency<br />
• Are lost<br />
• See suspicious activity, a<br />
threatening situation or<br />
witness a crime<br />
• See someone who needs<br />
help<br />
Members of the Husson community<br />
interested in signing up for this service<br />
are asked to visit http://www.<br />
POM-CO.com/husson.<br />
For more than 100 years, Husson<br />
University has prepared future<br />
leaders to handle the challenges of<br />
tomorrow through innovative undergraduate<br />
and graduate degrees.<br />
With a commitment to delivering<br />
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affordable classroom, online and<br />
experiential learning opportunities,<br />
Husson University has come to<br />
represent superior value in higher<br />
education. The Bangor campus and<br />
satellite education centers in Southern<br />
Maine, Wells, and Northern<br />
Maine provide advanced knowledge<br />
in business; health and education;<br />
pharmacy studies; science and humanities;<br />
as well as communication.<br />
In addition, Husson University has<br />
a robust adult learning program. For<br />
more information, visit Husson.edu.
Satellite Communications<br />
VeriSat to demonstrate its satellite interference<br />
reduction solution at Singapore conference<br />
By Steve Bittenbender<br />
Editor, Government Security News<br />
Norwegian-based VeriSat has announced<br />
that its innovative solution<br />
to reduce interference from VSAT<br />
terminals will be on display at one<br />
of Asia’s largest communications<br />
conferences.<br />
VeriSat’s SatGuard<br />
picks out the VSAT terminals<br />
that cause interference,<br />
detecting the<br />
unique identifier from<br />
the offending terminal.<br />
That enables the satellite<br />
network operator to<br />
take the required steps<br />
to resolve the issue. It<br />
works on both adjacent<br />
and cross-polar interference.<br />
SatGuard’s launch last year was<br />
considered revolutionary in the<br />
satellite communications industry,<br />
helping the company win the Technology<br />
Company of the Year earlier<br />
this year at the Via Satellite Excellence<br />
Awards.<br />
Companies like VeriSat “set a<br />
benchmark for what can be accomplished<br />
in this market,” commented<br />
Mark Holmes, Editorial Director,<br />
The Aerospace Group. “We are delighted<br />
to add VeriSat to our list of<br />
winners for Technology Company<br />
of the Year. We believe the development<br />
of SatGuard is hugely beneficial<br />
to the industry given satellite<br />
SatGuard by VeriSat<br />
interference has been an ongoing<br />
problem. This Award is really welldeserved.”<br />
Attendees at CommunicAsia will<br />
get a chance to see an up-close demonstration<br />
of SatGuard as part of a<br />
tour sponsored by the Satellite Interference<br />
Reduction Group.<br />
“The VeriSat booth is one of<br />
the must see stops on the tour. Its<br />
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range of solutions have done so<br />
much to better manage services<br />
and strengthen our battle against<br />
satellite interference,” said Martin<br />
Coleman, Executive Director, Satellite<br />
Interference Reduction Group.<br />
Adding, “The SatGuard solution is<br />
widely regarded in the industry<br />
as a game changer.”<br />
Petter Amundsen, Veri-<br />
Sat’s CEO, said the tour<br />
offers a chance for leaders<br />
in the communications industry<br />
to see the types of<br />
solutions available to mitigate<br />
their problems.<br />
“Since first being presented<br />
the challenge of VSAT<br />
interference, we have put a<br />
lot of effort into giving the<br />
industry tools to resolve it<br />
quickly and efficiently,” he<br />
said. “We are proud of what we have<br />
achieved so far and will continue to<br />
develop the tool further and support<br />
our customers to combat this<br />
tricky problem.”<br />
In addition, VeriSat also will showcase<br />
its GSM interference resolving<br />
solution. The GSM solution works<br />
by extracting the country identification<br />
code as well as the unique
identifier on the mobile device. Determining<br />
those pieces of information<br />
resolves the interference in a<br />
manner more expedient than other<br />
solutions.<br />
Now in its 27th year, CommunicAsia<br />
2016 is billed as the one-stop<br />
venue for professionals and executives<br />
in the information and communications<br />
technology industry.<br />
The four-day event starts <strong>May</strong> 31 at<br />
the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.<br />
Besides satellite communications,<br />
the conference also offers tracts in<br />
broadband, enterprise digital transformation,<br />
Internet of things technologies<br />
and smart cities, among<br />
other subjects.<br />
The conference attracts telecommunications<br />
and satellite operators<br />
as well as ICT solution providers<br />
and government organizations.<br />
Attendees come from all over the<br />
world, including the United States<br />
and Europe to participate.<br />
For more information on VeriSat,<br />
go to: http://verisat.no. For more information<br />
on CommunicAsia, go to:<br />
http://communicasia.com.<br />
U.S. Transportation Secretary<br />
Foxx to visit seven cities in<br />
Smart City Challenge<br />
Last December, Secretary<br />
Foxx launched the Smart<br />
City Challenge in response<br />
to the trends identified in<br />
the Beyond Traffic draft report,<br />
which revealed that<br />
our nation’s aging infrastructure<br />
is not equipped<br />
to deal with a dramatically<br />
growing population in regions<br />
throughout the country.<br />
The USDOT has pledged up to<br />
$40 million<br />
(funding subject<br />
to future<br />
appropriations)<br />
to one<br />
city to help it define what it means<br />
to be a “Smart City “and become the<br />
country’s first city to fully integrate<br />
innovative technologies – self-driving<br />
cars, connected vehicles, and<br />
smart sensors – into their transportation<br />
network<br />
On Monday, <strong>May</strong> 16th, U.S.<br />
Transportation Secretary Anthony<br />
Foxx kicked off visits to all 7 Smart<br />
City Challenge Finalist cities. He<br />
will meet with mayors and other<br />
local leaders in Austin, TX; Columbus,<br />
OH; Denver, CO; Kansas City,<br />
MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR;<br />
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Transportation<br />
Secretary Foxx<br />
and San Francisco, CA as<br />
they work to complete final<br />
proposals by <strong>May</strong> 24.<br />
<strong>May</strong>ors of the seven finalist<br />
cities – Austin, Columbus,<br />
Denver, Kansas City,<br />
Pittsburgh, Portland, and<br />
San Francisco - make their<br />
‘final pitch’ for why their city<br />
should be selected as the winner of<br />
the U.S. Department of Transportation’s<br />
Smart City Challenge.<br />
The winner<br />
of the Smart<br />
City Challenge<br />
will receive<br />
up to<br />
$40 million from USDOT to help<br />
create a fully integrated, first-of-itskind<br />
city that uses data, technology<br />
and creativity to shape how people<br />
and goods move in the future.<br />
• Read the seven finalists’ vision<br />
statements from Round 1 of the<br />
Smart City Challenge<br />
• View a list of organizations interested<br />
in partnering with cities on<br />
smart mobility solutions!<br />
<strong>GSN</strong> will report the Winner of the<br />
Smart City Challenge along with the<br />
Winning City’s Plan.
Restrictive voting laws threaten to<br />
block millions of Latino voters<br />
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proving citizenship either to register<br />
to vote or to vote. Multiple studies<br />
have found that Latinos and other<br />
minorities are less likely to possess<br />
the necessary<br />
documents.<br />
All of these<br />
restrictions<br />
have passed<br />
despite any<br />
hard evidence<br />
that voter fraud is a problem.<br />
NALEO estimates that more than<br />
875,000 Latinos in these 19 states<br />
could be seriously impeded from<br />
participating in the 2016 Presidential<br />
election. According to NALEO<br />
Executive Director Arturo Vargas,<br />
“More than 13.1 million Latino<br />
voters are expected to cast ballots<br />
in 2016. While historic, we know<br />
millions more will stay at home on<br />
Election Day.”<br />
While Latinos and other citizens<br />
feel compelled by the current immigration<br />
debate to exercise their<br />
constitutional right to vote in the<br />
upcoming elections, many may be<br />
deterred from having their voices<br />
heard and votes counted. The barriers<br />
to full civic participation in the<br />
U.S. are extremely troublesome and<br />
must be addressed.<br />
Gallagher releases Command<br />
v7.50 update to company’s security<br />
management platform<br />
Continued from page 9<br />
complete visibility over a site. Developing<br />
innovative solutions that<br />
meet the evolving needs of our customers<br />
is core to what we do here<br />
at Gallagher and our latest releases<br />
again deliver on this promise.” says,<br />
Evan Morgans, Senior Product<br />
Manager – Security.<br />
Further details about<br />
Gallagher’s latest products:<br />
Command Centre v7.50 boasts<br />
new features designed to enhance<br />
the user experience. The ability to<br />
allocate and manage specific Command<br />
Centre workstation licenses<br />
improves operator efficiency, particularly<br />
for multi-tenanted sites.<br />
Another enhancement includes<br />
an integration between Command<br />
Centre and Microsoft’s Active Directory<br />
authentication and authorization<br />
tool, enabling instantaneous<br />
updates of cardholder records,<br />
eliminating duplication of data<br />
entry, and minimizing errors.<br />
Gallagher’s improved Mobile<br />
App extends security across the site<br />
and beyond the door by enabling<br />
guards to make an informed access<br />
decision without requiring control<br />
room verification. The Gallagher<br />
App is designed to work with Apple<br />
devices iOS 8 and newer.<br />
About Gallagher<br />
A technology leader in integrated<br />
access control, intruder alarms<br />
management and perimeter protection,<br />
Gallagher’s security solutions<br />
are in use with national and local<br />
government, military, commercial,<br />
industrial, healthcare, transportation<br />
and academic organizations in<br />
more than 100 countries. A truly<br />
global operation, Gallagher provides<br />
proven protection to customers<br />
in Europe, North and South<br />
America, Africa, Australasia and<br />
South East Asia.<br />
Gallagher’s comprehensive<br />
security and business risk management<br />
solutions provide protection<br />
for large and small organizations<br />
throughout the world, addressing<br />
the key issues of security and risk<br />
management, personnel workflow<br />
and business continuity.<br />
Visit security.gallagher.com for<br />
more information.<br />
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Genetec AutoVu Managed Services<br />
offers end-user independence from<br />
on-premises storage<br />
Continued from page 10<br />
Genetec took over to manage all<br />
parking services and storage needs<br />
remotely, resulting almost immediately<br />
in a 99% uptime, and working<br />
flawlessly ever since. We regularly<br />
email our permit and scofflaw lists<br />
to Genetec, and within five minutes,<br />
everything is up to date. AutoVu<br />
Managed Services allows us to focus<br />
on parking, while Genetec experts<br />
handle the technology,” added<br />
Barner.<br />
“We created AutoVu Managed<br />
Services specifically for customers<br />
who are challenged by cost,<br />
server space limitations and management<br />
of on premises hardware<br />
and IT support issues,” said Chris<br />
Yigit, Business Development Manager<br />
at Genetec. “AutoVu Managed<br />
Services offers our customers the<br />
most flexible way to focus on what<br />
they do best; manage on-site parking<br />
enforcement. With the AutoVu<br />
ALPR system hosted in the cloud,<br />
configuration and maintenance are<br />
entrusted to Genetec technicians,<br />
for easy deployment, management<br />
and support,” continued Yigit.<br />
About AutoVu Managed Services<br />
AutoVu Managed Services is offered<br />
on a term-basis, removing up-front,<br />
capital expenditure costs, avail-<br />
able in two-options: AutoVu Managed<br />
Services Basic and Premium.<br />
AutoVu Managed Services Basic<br />
includes the Genetec-hosted backend<br />
ALPR system, parking permit<br />
management, assisted Security Center<br />
configuration and automated<br />
software upgrades. AutoVu Managed<br />
Services Premium includes<br />
access to a ‘hotline’ contact with<br />
Genetec AutoVu experts for ‘white<br />
glove’ support and consulting hours<br />
to address training, feature updates<br />
or counsel on expanding the client’s<br />
current AutoVu parking configuration<br />
requirements.<br />
For more information about AutoVu<br />
Managed Services, visit: http://<br />
www.genetec.com/solutions/allproducts/autovu/autovu-managedservices<br />
About Genetec<br />
Genetec develops open-platform<br />
software, hardware and cloud-based<br />
services for the physical security<br />
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and public safety industry. Its flagship<br />
product, Security Center, unifies<br />
IP-based video surveillance, access<br />
control and automatic license<br />
plate recognition (ALPR) into one<br />
platform. A global innovator since<br />
1997, Genetec is headquartered in<br />
Montreal, Canada, and serves enterprise<br />
and government organizations<br />
via an integrated network of resellers,<br />
integrators and consultants<br />
in over 80 countries. Genetec was<br />
founded on the principle of innovation<br />
and remains at the forefront<br />
of emerging technologies that unify<br />
physical security systems. For more<br />
information about Genetec, visit:<br />
www.genetec.com<br />
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CINCH systems announces<br />
Vice President of Sales<br />
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lect few with the unique ability to<br />
apply technical skills and knowledge<br />
to improve a customer’s business—<br />
making their job easier and more<br />
profitable. In the security industry,<br />
Dennis is one of these select few and<br />
we are pleased that he has joined our<br />
team,” said Joel Christianson, CEO<br />
of CINCH systems, Inc. “During<br />
the last several years Dennis has had<br />
great success in developing sales for<br />
a security company that was new to<br />
the U.S. market. This experience,<br />
coupled with his sales management<br />
background at General Electric is<br />
an ideal fit to our immediate and<br />
long-term growth and revenue objectives,“<br />
adds Christianson.<br />
About CINCH systems, Inc.<br />
CINCH systems products provide<br />
complete patented, 128-bit AES Encryption<br />
End-To-End for a security<br />
system that is protected from system<br />
breach and tamper. System programing<br />
and operation is simplified<br />
with the easiest to use touch screen<br />
interface in the security industry.<br />
Product groups include:<br />
• Intrusion Detection Systems<br />
(IDS)<br />
• Vehicle Barrier Systems (VBS)<br />
Controls<br />
IACP, University of Cincinnati<br />
join forces<br />
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age and other evidence to charge<br />
him with murder. The university<br />
fired officer Raymond Tensing,<br />
whose trail is scheduled to begin<br />
later this year. A subsequent review<br />
by an external firm also led to the<br />
departure of the university’s police<br />
chief – who encouraged officers to<br />
patrol neighborhoods surrounding<br />
the campus – and his top assistant.<br />
The finalists for those two positions<br />
were scheduled to meet with<br />
campus officials, students and the<br />
• Commercial<br />
Door and Security<br />
Gate Controls<br />
Products are<br />
used to protect<br />
people and<br />
property across<br />
a wide-range<br />
of facilities<br />
for U.S. Government Agencies and<br />
Military facilities, SCIFs–Sensitive<br />
Compartmented Information Facilities,<br />
Law Enforcement, and Commercial<br />
Facilities.<br />
For more information call: (763)<br />
497-1059 or email: info@cinchsystems.com<br />
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Dennis Dop<br />
VP of Sales<br />
CINCH systems, Inc.<br />
community toward the end of <strong>May</strong><br />
as part of the selection process.<br />
The Arnold Foundation provided<br />
money for the center because many<br />
of its current investments center on<br />
improving the criminal justice system.<br />
“We believe that the IACP/UC<br />
Center for Police Research and Policy<br />
has the potential to transform<br />
contemporary policing by helping<br />
to create a dynamic two-way collaboration<br />
between research and practice<br />
that is unprecedented in the<br />
field,” Foundation Vice President of<br />
Criminal Justice Matt Alsdorf said.<br />
“This partnership has the potential<br />
to address some of policing’s most<br />
pressing and persistent challenges<br />
with an evidence-based approach<br />
that is academically tested and practical.”<br />
IACP is the largest organization<br />
of law enforcement executives, with<br />
more than 27,000 members from<br />
130 countries.
Motorola Solutions transforms<br />
body-worn cameras for Tetra users<br />
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on the user’s wearing position and<br />
environment. With five integrated<br />
microphones and a loud 0.5-watt<br />
rated speaker, it provides the high<br />
audio quality of TETRA radios.<br />
• Integrated Wi-Fi dramatically<br />
improves the speed of uploading<br />
multi-media. It also makes overthe-air<br />
feature updates via Radio<br />
Management quickly and seamlessly<br />
over Wi-Fi.<br />
• The Si500 VSM offers a fullscreen<br />
tempered-glass display with<br />
an intuitive user interface that presents<br />
only vital information within<br />
three panels. Users have the ability<br />
to control radio channels and talkgroups,<br />
view recorded video and<br />
photos, tag videos and listen to audio<br />
recordings.<br />
Digital Evidence Management<br />
Revolutionized<br />
The digital evidence management<br />
solution includes the cloud-based<br />
CommandCentral Vault software<br />
application to securely store, manage<br />
and share digital evidence. With<br />
an expansive base storage capacity<br />
and integration with computer<br />
aided dispatch and records management<br />
systems, CommandCentral<br />
Vault is designed to make digital<br />
evidence management easy and affordable.<br />
The digital evidence management<br />
software also:<br />
• Ensures end-to-end security that<br />
reduces any challenge to chain of<br />
custody for agencies<br />
• Pairs with the Si500 VSM and<br />
can also operate stand alone and<br />
accept evidence gathered from any<br />
device<br />
• Offers a highly streamlined ability<br />
to search, review, annotate and<br />
perform other evidence management,<br />
reducing administrative time<br />
and expense<br />
• Provides an industry-leading auto-redaction<br />
feature to help public<br />
safety agencies remove identities of<br />
individuals in videos seamlessly. Instead<br />
of having to painstakingly invest<br />
the time to review and possibly<br />
edit each video frame, technicians<br />
will be able to automatically mark<br />
objects such as faces, addresses or<br />
license plates and let the new technology<br />
blur them out automatically<br />
throughout the video, saving hours<br />
of administrative time.<br />
• Creates greater engagement and<br />
transparency with communities.<br />
The system enables agencies to improve<br />
evidence sharing and more<br />
easily respond to content requests.<br />
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StealthGearUSA showcases<br />
premium holsters and gear at NRA<br />
Annual Meeting<br />
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technology.<br />
“We are excited to introduce our<br />
award-winning high-performance<br />
holsters and technical gear to the<br />
attendees, outdoor enthusiasts, and<br />
industry influencers at the 2016<br />
NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits<br />
event,” said Paul Laemmlen, Chairman<br />
and Founder of StealthGearU-<br />
SA. “Since 2012 we have continued<br />
to raise the bar in the holster and<br />
concealment gear market by developing<br />
new technologies and never<br />
sacrificing quality and performance.<br />
This is why we are fast becoming the<br />
company of choice for firearm owners,<br />
concealed carry proponents,<br />
military, and law enforcement professionals”<br />
In addition, StealthGearUSA<br />
will present to attendees their new<br />
SGP-1R tactical flashlight and accessories<br />
which are ideal for EDC<br />
and designed with feedback from<br />
SWAT operators and other industry<br />
experts.<br />
Recently, StealthGearUSA received<br />
its second consecutive LA-<br />
DIES CHOICE Award from the<br />
Shooting for Women Alliance for<br />
its ONYX IWB holster. The LA-<br />
DIES CHOICE Awards represents<br />
results from 28,700 women who<br />
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StealthGearUSA showcases<br />
premium holsters and gear at NRA<br />
Annual Meeting<br />
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have personally tested the products.<br />
All products were tested first<br />
by SFWA Certified Instructors for<br />
safety and application; however, it<br />
was the thousands of women who<br />
participated in the 4-8 hour training<br />
courses offered by SFWA who<br />
determined the recipients of the<br />
award.<br />
For more information on Stealth-<br />
GearUSA and the company’s products<br />
please visit www.StealthGearU-<br />
SA.com.<br />
About StealthGearUSA<br />
StealthGearUSA, headquartered in<br />
American Fork, UT, is a premium<br />
performance brand that is dedicated<br />
to the design and manufacture<br />
of quality gear meant to work in the<br />
real world, to do a difficult job, and<br />
to do it with consistent excellence.<br />
StealthGearUSA is also the leader<br />
in patented, demonstrably superior,<br />
differentiated technology platforms<br />
for holsters, accessories and support<br />
items.<br />
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Intrusion Detection<br />
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Municipal Security<br />
July<br />
Tech Focus<br />
Perimeter Protection/<br />
Intrusion Detection<br />
Market Focus<br />
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Security<br />
August<br />
Tech Focus<br />
Access Control/<br />
Biometric ID<br />
Market Focus<br />
Maritime/Coastal/<br />
Port Security<br />
September<br />
Tech Focus<br />
School Safety/<br />
Mobile & Surveillance<br />
Solutions<br />
Market Focus<br />
Oil/Gas/Electric Grid<br />
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