Government Security News July 2016 Digital Edition

Government Security News 

JULY 2016 DIGITAL EDITION 

David Samson, former Chairman of Port Authority, surrounded by photographers 

after pleading guilty to felony bribery in United Airline flight probe – Page 4 

Also in this issue: 

BCI & Battelle bring next generation sequencing to BCI’s forensic lab – Page 8 

The need for a national energy grid strategy, by J. Michael Barrett – Page 10 

George Lane describes cycles of violence in his hometown of Baton Rouge from the 1970s to the present – Page 14

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David Sampson, former Chairman of Port Authority 

of New York and New Jersey, 

pleads guilty to felony count of bribery 

BCI and Battelle bring next generation 

sequencing to BCIS forensic lab 

The need for a national Energy Grid Strategy 

GSN Columnist George Lane describes 

ambush of law enforcement officers 

and cycles of violence in his home down of Baton Rouge 

FRA and TxDOT outline passenger rail options 

between Oklahoma City and Southern Texas 

Chemring Countermeaasures USA’s Kilgore Flares 

awarded $24.9 million US Army 

and Air Force contracts 

ABB wins 1 st commercial order for 

breakthrough 14-second flash changing technology 

to enable COZ-free public transport in Geneva, Switzerland 

Intellicheck Mobilisa awarded contract 

for site secure access control classified Federal facility 

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Implant Sciences announces letter of intent 

to acquire Zapata Industries; plan to 

extinguish debt and uplist to NASDAC 

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FEATURES 

SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL RACE SECTION 

Immigration and Border Security – Pages 24-31 

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Tracking record of statements 

of Hillary Clinton By Wendy Feliz 

What should you know about Mike Pence’s 

harsh policy on immigrants and refugees? By Wendy Feliz 

Supreme Court to hear arguments in class action suit challenging detention of 

non-citizens 

Most Americans reject Trump’s nativist agenda, according 

to public surveys 

Senator Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate, 

supports reforming immigration system 

Federal union leader, J. David Cox Sr, says Trump wrong on TSA, wrong on VA 

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Block MEMS wins $9.8 M government contract for 

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Christie appointee David Samson, part-time 

Chairman of Port Authority and full-time owner 

of law firm doing business with the Port, 

pleads guilty to felony count of bribery 

By Adrian Courtenay 

Back in May 2014, Government Security 

News published an article describing 

a speech given by NY Senator 

Charles Schumer, in which the 

Senator called for reforms and Congressional 

oversight of the Port Authority 

of New York and New Jersey, 

which was mired in scandals. These 

included the famous “Bridge Gate” 

scandal, in which lane closures on 

the first day of a new school year 

caused a monumental traffic jam 

on the George Washington Bridge, 

the most heavily traveled bridge 

in the world. The traffic jam lasted 

four days. One elderly woman died 

because they could not get her to a 

hospital in time. 

It was widely believed that the 

shutdown was ordered as a punishment 

to the Mayor of Fort Lee, 

NJ for not supporting Governor 

Christie in a previous election campaign 

(even though the mayor was 

a Democrat). And as it turned out, 

the lane closures had been ordered 

by one David Wildstein, a highschool 

colleague and appointee of 

NJ Governor Christie who worked 

at the Port Authority and got paid 

very well, despite having no job description. 

He later pleaded guilty 

to conspiracy to commit fraud and 

conspiracy against civil rights. In an 

appropriate finale to his memorable 

performance at the Port Authority, 

Attorney Wildstein agreed to testify 

against his colleagues who were involved 

in Bridge Gate. 

As Senator Schumer described the 

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situation, “The Port Authority 

has come to be seen as a proverbial 

honey pot, a cookie jar, 

a rainy day fund – whatever 

metaphor you prefer, for state 

projects outside the Port’s core 

mission. Over the years, said 

the Senator, the ‘honey pot’ 

mentality has turned the Port 

Authority into a 50-50 operation 

between two states that 

has killed the ability of the Port 

Authority to think big and act 

big.” This was a reference to 

the fact that the Port Authority was 

governed by the Governors of the 

two states, who competed with each 

other for how much money they 

could take out of the Port Authority 

for their states, according to Senator 

Schumer. 

Decrying the use of the Port Authority 

to fund pet state projects, 

for example, the Senator cited the 

Christie administration’s use of $1.8 

billion in Port Authority funds to 

pay for repairing state roads such 

as the Pulaski Skyway. “The Pulaski 

Skyway is neither owned nor in any 

way operated by the Port Authority, 

Schumer pointed out. “It is a state 

road system and its maintenance 

and development should be funded 

as such”. 

It was all reminiscent of the famous 

line from Senator Everett 

Dirksen of many years ago: “A few 

billion here and a few billion there 

and pretty soon you’re talking about 

real money.” 

But the revelations about prominent 

Christie appointees in top 

David Samson, former Chairman of the 

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 

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leadership positions in the 

Port Authority of New York 

and New Jersey kept coming. 

Next, the daily newspapers, 

TV stations and online media 

started reporting that the 

eminent Chairman of the Port 

Authority, David Samson, former 

Attorney General of New 

Jersey and another longstanding 

friend (and catastrophic 

appointment) of Governor 

Christie, had accepted the 

chairmanship appointment by 

Christie at the $4-billion-plus per 

year Port Authority on a part-time 

basis, which allowed him to be, according 

to Wikipedia, “the leader 

of a law firm with clients seeking 

favorable outcomes with the Port 

Authority”. 

As later disclosed, Chairman Samson’s 

law firm, Wolff and Samson, 

“had been very close to the state’s 

government for decades and had 

served as outside counsel to state 

agencies, and it had also lobbied 

agencies on behalf of clients seeking 

state contracts, favorable regulation 

changes and approval for large development 

projects” – which must 

be a pretty lucrative job if you’re 

getting a hefty retainer from your 

clients and then walking around to 

the other side of desk to sit down in 

the Chairman’s chair, where you can 

give your clients the good news that

their project has been approved. 

When the Chairman resigned last 

year, his partners changed the name 

of his law firm to Chiesa, Shahinian 

and Giantomasi. 

Meanwhile, the largest newspaper 

in New Jersey, the Star-Ledger, 

found that Chairman Samson voted 

at the Port Authority to award 

million-dollar contracts to Railroad 

Construction Company, Inc, a company 

whose owner was represented 

by the famous lawyer with a chair 

on both sides of his desk --the parttime 

Chairman of the Port Authority 

and full-time head of Wolf and 

Samson -- his honor David Sampson. 

But it wasn’t the flagrant conflict 

of interest in representing legal clients 

before the Port of New York and 

New Jersey, where he was Chairman, 

that brought down the former 

Attorney General of New Jersey. It 

was the gross misuse of his position 

in strong-arming United Airlines to 

overturn the cancellation of a route 

between Newark Liberty International 

Airport and Columbia, South 

Carolina – for his personal convenience 

and pleasure. 

According to the U.S. Attorney 

for New Jersey, Paul Fishman, Mr. 

Samson threatened United that he 

would block the construction of a 

maintenance hangar for United at 

the airport unless the airline restore 

the money-losing flight. When the 

Board of commissioners of the Port 

Authority recommended that the 

Port approve a lease deal, Mr. Samson 

pulled the deal off the agenda 

(something that he was allowed to 

do under the terms of his employment 

as established by his pal Governor). 

It wasn’t long before Mr. Samson 

was flying a plane every Thursday 

evening from Newark to Columbia, 

“a short drive from his home in Aiken, 

S.C.” according to New York Today. 

Samson’s contact that he dealt 

with at United Airlines was Jamie 

Fox, a former Port Authority executive 

and traffic commissioner in 

New Jersey. Not surprisingly, he had 

been appointed for the traffic job by 

Governor Christie, whose record 

of terrible appointments remained 

unblemished. Mr. Fox got into the 

habit of referring to the United 

flight as “the Chairman’s flight” and 

“Samson Air.” 

Here’s how the 

New York Times wrapped up the 

story on July 14, 2016 

“David Samson, a longtime friend 

of Gov. Chris Christie, pleaded 

guilty to a felony count of bribery on 

Thursday and admitted that he had 

pressured United Airlines to operate 

a weekly flight to South Carolina 

for his personal convenience. 

“The plea, which was offered before 

Judge Jose L. Linares of United 

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States District Court in Newark, appears 

to have put an end to Mr. Samson’s 

career as a public official and 

power broker. And it casts a shadow 

over the political fortunes of Mr. 

Christie, a New Jersey Republican 

who until this week had been considered 

a potential running mate for 

Donald J. Trump, the party’s presumptive 

nominee for president. 

“One of the problems with Chris 

Christie is there are skeletons in 

his closet that still have skin on the 

bones,” Patrick Murray, director of 

the Monmouth University Polling 

Institute, said. 

“The prosecution of Mr. Samson 

grew out of a federal investigation 

into the closing of access lanes to 

the George Washington Bridge in 

2013. Federal prosecutors contend 

Paul J. Fishman, United States attorney 

for New Jersey

that allies of Mr. Christie at the Port 

Authority of New York and New 

Jersey conspired to tie up traffic on 

the New Jersey side of the bridge to 

punish a local mayor for declining 

to endorse Mr. Christie’s bid for reelection 

as governor. 

“Mr. Samson, who was Mr. Christie’s 

appointee as chairman of the 

Port Authority at the time of the 

lane closings, has not been charged 

in that case. But two of the governor’s 

former allies, Bill Baroni and 

Bridget Anne Kelly, are scheduled 

to stand trial in September for their 

alleged roles in the bridge-traffic 

scheme. A third, David Wildstein, 

has already pleaded guilty in that 

case. 

“Paul J. Fishman, the United States 

attorney for New Jersey, declined to 

say whether Mr. Samson was cooperating 

with the prosecution of the 

lane-closing case. The Port Authority 

is the nexus of the two matters 

because it operates the bridge and 

the three big commercial airports in 

the New York City area. 

“Mr. Fishman said that Mr. Samson, 

76, had abused his position at 

the agency by coercing United to 

reinstate a canceled route between 

Newark Liberty International Airport 

and Columbia, S.C., near one 

of Mr. Samson’s homes. He said Mr. 

Samson had threatened to block the 

construction of a maintenance hangar 

for United at the airport unless 

the airline restored the money-losing 

flight.” 

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BCI and Battelle bring next generation 

sequencing to BCI’s forensic lab 

LONDON, OH – Ohio Attorney 

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and Battelle President and 

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announced today a groundbreaking 

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Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau 

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Ohio. NGS will enhance BCI’s 

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missing persons cases in Ohio. 

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The Need for a National Energy 

Grid Strategy 

by J. Michael Barrett 

U.S. energy consumers have been 

able to count on reliable, alwayson 

and relatively resilient electrical 

power for so many decades that for 

most people the availability of electrical 

power is essentially taken as a 

given. And yet there is a looming 

sense among many experts of a rise 

in systemic risks that have begun to 

come into the light, ranging from 

threats of physical and cyber attack 

to space weather and other natural 

phenomenon. Indeed, just last year 

the Department of Defense released 

a request for proposals involving 

resilient electrical power that led to 

a recent commentary noting, “The 

declaration of DOD is clear: 

military bases and the civilian 

institutions that they depend 

on are overwhelmingly vulnerable 

to their own near complete 

reliance on unprepared 

civilian power grids. The DOD 

has already started the process 

of changing by developing distributed 

energy systems under 

their own control.” 

And yet the U.S. electric 

power grid remains indispensable 

for continued American prosperity 

and well-being, even as the 

grid’s infrastructure is aging and 

increasingly outdated. The massive 

capital needs of this enormous 

system require constant investment 

and occasional system-wide overhauls. 

These represent a particular 

concern for the investor-owned 

electric utilities, for whom making 

the business case for higher rates 

to enable investments just to tread 

water is hard enough, much less investments 

meant to innovate and 

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programs. 

At the same time, the grid is a very 

large system, with a long list of items 

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This includes everything from 

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equipment 

such as the large power transformers, 

as well as the two-way communications 

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and making the move towards interchangeable 

parts and other standardizations 

that increase efficiency 

of ‘spares and repairs.’ 

While the concerns over a truly 

resilient and “disaster-proof ” electrical 

power system are on the 

rise, however, there is no central 

effort to develop a smart 

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where we are to where we need 

to be. Part of the problem is 

bureaucratic – there are multiple 

competing equities among 

the Departments of Energy, 

Homeland Security, and Defense, 

and that is just on the 

federal side. The power grid is 

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Ambush of law enforcement officers in 

Baton Rouge 

Editor’s Note: In this article, scientist, 

former journalist, lifetime resident 

of Baton Rouge and GSN columnist 

George Lane describes cycles of 

violence in his hometown from the 

1970s to the present 

This past weekend’s ambush and 

targeted killings of three law enforcement 

officers in Baton Rouge 

is part of a recent cycle of violence 

that began with a number of shootings 

of black citizens by law enforcement, 

one here in Baton Rouge 

where I live. Sunday’s shooting in 

Baton Rouge is the latest episode 

in a month of violence and extraordinary 

racial tension and took 

place after Baton Rouge officers 

fatally shot Alton Sterling, a black 

man who was selling CDs outside 

a convenience store on July 5. The 

night after Sterling was killed, another 

black man was killed by the 

police during a traffic stop in a St. 

Paul suburb in Minnesota. The next 

night five police officers were killed 

by a gunman in Dallas who said he 

wanted to kill police officers, particularly 

white officers. 

This weekend brought back painful 

memories of similar cycle of 

violence in the early 1970’s that culminated 

in a shootout in downtown 

Baton Rouge in which I was an unwilling 

participant while working 

as a journalist for a Baton Rouge 

television station. As media I was 

a target in the 1972 shootout by 

self-professed Black Muslims from 

outside of Baton Rouge. I avoided 

injury; however, two East Baton 

Rouge Sheriff ’s Office deputies were 

killed and my friend and anchor of 

the television station was viciously 

beaten and remained in a coma for 

several years, dying in 2010.1 Another 

shootout occurred on November 

16, 1972 at a local university in 

Baton Rouge between students and 

law enforcement in which two black 

students were killed.2 Then in 1973, 

in retribution for the Baton Rouge 

shootings, an ex-military sniper, 

Mark Essex, terrorized downtown 

New Orleans for a week, killing seven 

people, including three police officers, 

and wounding eight.3 

Before the recent ambush, Baton 

Rouge Police Department (BRPD) 

had said they were investigating a 

plot by four people to shoot at police 

officers, and they cited the threat to 

explain the heavy police presence 

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at protests. 

Police said a 

17-year-old 

was arrested 

after running 

George Lane 

from a burglary 

of weapons from a pawn shop in 

Baton Rouge. He and three others 

were believed to have broken into 

the pawnshop. The Baton Rouge 

police chief told reporters that the 

17-year-old told police “that the 

reason the burglary was being done 

was to harm police officers.” 

The chief of BRPD said during a 

press conference today that he believes 

Long would have continued 

to BRPD Headquarters just a handful 

of miles away from the site of 

the ambush attack had he not been 

taken out by a SWAT officer with a 

shot from 100 yards away. “This guy 

was going to another location,” said 

the BRPD chief. “He wasn’t going to 

stop here.” 

Gavin Eugene Long has been identified 

as the gunman who opened fire 

in Baton Rouge. Long, described as 

a 29-year-old black male from Kansas 

City, Missouri, was killed at the 

scene of the shooting. Long’s birth- 

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Ambush of law enforcement 

officers in Baton Rouge 

Continued from page 14 

day was Sunday, July 17, the day of 

the shooting, believed to be a factor 

in selecting the date for the ambush. 

CBS News reports Long served in 

the Marine Corps as a sergeant at 

the E-5 level working as a data network 

specialist from 2005 to 2010, 

including a six-month deployment 

in Iraq. He was a sergeant and a data 

network specialist who earned several 

awards, including one for good 

conduct. He was also assigned to 

Okinawa, Japan, and several locations 

in Southern California. He 

received an honorable discharge in 

2010, so PTSD does not now appear 

to a factor in the shootings. 

Long filed court records last year 

in Kansas City in which he declared 

himself a sovereign citizen and 

identified himself as an indigenous 

member of the United Washitaw 

Nation, comprised of black separatists 

claiming to be descended 

from pre-Columbian inhabitants of 

North America and asserts that it is 

independent from the authority of 

local, state and federal laws.4 Long 

became increasingly outspoken in 

the days following the controversial 

police shooting of Alton Sterling in 

Baton Rouge, and traveled to Dallas 

just days after five police officers 

were fatally shot there. 

FRA and TxDOT outline passenger ra 

Oklahoma City and Southern Texas, 

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department 

of Transportation’s (DOT) 

Federal Railroad Administration 

(FRA) and the Texas Department of 

Transportation (TxDOT) have released 

10 service and route options 

for new and improved conventional 

and high-speed passenger rail service 

connecting Oklahoma City, 

Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, 

and South Texas. The options are 

evaluated in a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (DEIS). 

“This corridor is home to major 

financial, energy, and education 

centers that people rely on every 

day,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary 

Anthony Foxx. “Providing 

efficient, more reliable, and faster 

higher-speed passenger rail options 

References: 

1. “Officer Down Memorial Page”, January 10, 

1972, www.odmp.org/officer/14174-deputysheriff-ralph-dwayne-wilder 

2. “Shootings on Southern campus in the 

’70s”, Baton Rouge Advocate, June 20, 2011, 

www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opin- 

ion/article_5665851c-5585-5dae-a56a- 

32630abb3050.html 

3. “1973: Mark Essex, the Howard Johnson’s 

sniper”, Times-Picayune newspaper, 2011, www. 

nola.com/175years/index.ssf/2011/12/1973_ 

mark_essex_the_howard_joh.html 

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to move between cities is crucial for 

the economy and the population to 

thrive. I encourage those along the 

I-35 corridor to participate in the 

comment and public hearing opportunities 

so that they are able to 

learn more and share their input.” 

4. Jim Mustian, “Gavin Long declared himself 

a ‘sovereign,’ legally changed name before Baton 

Rouge officer shooting”, Baton Rouge Advocate, 

July 18, 2016; www.theadvocate.com/baton_ 

rouge/news/baton_rouge_officer_shooting/ 

article_aa22ff5e-4cf5-11e6-80c3-4fcddb044245. 

html 

George Lane, Director Chemical Security, 

Emergency Response Technology, 

Email, georgelane@hotmail. 

com, Cell: 225-281-3141

il options between 

seek public input 

During a 45-day 

public comment 

period, FRA and 

TxDOT will take 

comments on the 

10 options and the 

seven recommended 

preferred options 

that the two agencies 

identified. Four 

public hearings will 

also be held to give 

residents a chance 

to learn about the Texas-Oklahoma 

Passenger Rail Study, understand 

how their communities may be affected, 

and provide comments. 

Current passenger rail service 

along the Interstate 35 (I-35) corridor 

includes three intercity Amtrak 

services from Oklahoma City 

to Fort Worth (Heartland Flyer), 

Fort Worth to San Antonio (Texas 

Eagle), and Los Angeles to New Orleans 

through San Antonio (Sunset 

Limited). 

The DEIS addresses the relationships 

of the major regional markets 

within the Texas-Oklahoma Passenger 

Rail Program corridor in three 

geographic sections, and preferred 

alternatives are recommended for 

each geographic section separately. 

The three sections of study are: 

• Northern Section: Edmond, 

Oklahoma, to Dallas and Fort 

Worth, Texas 

• Central Section: Dallas and Fort 

Worth to San Antonio 

• Southern Section: San Antonio 

to south Texas (Corpus Christi, 

Brownsville, Laredo, and the Rio 

Grande Valley) 

More than 10 million people currently 

live along the 850-mile corridor, 

which is expected to grow by 

39 percent in Texas and 25 percent 

in Oklahoma City by 2035. As a 

state with some of the largest metropolitan 

areas in the nation, spread 

out over hundreds of miles, Texas is 

now in high demand for alternative 

modes of transportation. Since the 

majority of the state’s population is 

centered in the eastern half of state, 

along I-35 stretching into Oklahoma 

City, the highways have experienced 

increased congestion. 

“More passenger rail service will 

help relieve already congested roads 

along the I-35 corridor and help 

this region manage the significant 

population growth on the way,” 

said FRA Administrator Sarah E. 

Feinberg. “I encourage everyone to 

provide feedback on the 10 options 

that FRA and the Texas DOT have 

presented to continue moving this 

effort forward.” 

In fiscal year 2012, FRA awarded 

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a $5.6 million grant to TxDOT to 

fund a study of new and improved 

passenger rail service to meet future 

intercity travel demand, improve rail 

facilities, reduce travel times, and 

improve connections with regional 

public transit services as an alternative 

to bus, plane, and private auto 

travel. The Texas-Oklahoma Passenger 

Rail Study evaluates routes 

and types of service for passenger 

rail service between Oklahoma City, 

Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and 

South Texas. 

More information about the Texas-Oklahoma 

Passenger Rail Study 

can be found here. The Final EIS 

is projected to be released by early 

2017. 

Three hearings will be held in 

Laredo, Austin, and Arlington. The 

hearing times and locations are below: 

Dates and Locations 

August 9: Laredo - TxDOT 

Laredo District Office 

August 10: Austin - TxDOT 

Austin District Office 

August 11: Arlington - North 

Central Texas Council of 

Governments 

Times 

5:30 p.m.: Open House 

6:00 p.m.: Presentation

Chemring Countermeasures USA’s Kilgore 

Flares awarded $24.9 million US Army and 

Air Force contract for M206, 

MJU-7A/B and MJU-10/B Flares 

TOONE, TN – June 8,2016, Kilgore 

Flares Company, LLC (KFL) 

of Toone, Tennessee, a Chemring 

Group PLC (“Chemring”) subsidiary, 

announces a contract award 

by the US Army Contracting Command 

at Rock Island Arsenal. The 

$24.9M award includes the manufacture 

and delivery of M206, 

MJU-7A/B and MJU-10/B infrared 

decoy flares. These flares are a key 

component of aircraft survivability 

systems that protect helicopters, 

fighters and transport aircraft 

against infrared guided missile 

threats known as Man Portable 

Air Defense systems. All work 

will be performed at Kilgore’s 

facility in Toone, Tennessee. 

KFL is a business unit within 

Chemring Countermeasures 

USA (CCM USA), which also includes 

Alloy Surfaces Company, 

Inc., located in Chester Township, 

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PA. 

K i l g o r e 

Flares’ President Tank 

Williams stated, “We are pleased 

with our long standing partnership 

with the warfighter and the continued 

confidence in our products by 

the Department of Defense, the Single 

Manager for Conventional Ammunition 

and PEO Ammunition. 

Our workforce takes great pride 

knowing the products we make will 

save the lives of our citizens and international 

partners that serve in 

harm’s way.” 

About Kilgore Flares 

Kilgore Flares, LLC and Alloy Surfaces, 

Inc. (CCM USA) are industry

leaders in the design, development, 

and production of F-22, JSF and covert 

multi-spectral Special Material 

decoys. In addition, Kilgore Flares 

produces other ordnance products, 

including naval shipboard countermeasures, 

marine location markers 

and practice bomb signal cartridges. 

Additional information 

can be found 

online at www. 

kilgoreflares.com 

and www.alloysurfaces.com. 

About Chemring 

Chemring is a market-leading 

manufacturer 

supplying hightechnology 

electronics 

and energetic products 

to over sixty countries 

around the world. 

Chemring has a diverse portfolio of 

products that predominantly protect 

military personnel and platforms, 

providing insurance against 

a constantly changing threat. These 

range from countermeasures that 

protect aircraft, to ground penetrating 

radar that protect troops and 

vehicles from improvised explosive 

devices. 

For more information about Chemring, 

please go to: www.chemring.co.uk. 

ABB wins 1 st commercial order 

for breakthrough 15-second flash 

charging technology to enable 

CO2-free public transport in Geneva 

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, July 

15, 2016 – ABB has been awarded 

orders totaling more than $16 million 

by Transports Publics Genevois 

(TPG), Geneva’s public transport 

operator, and Swiss bus manufacturer 

HESS, to provide flash charging 

and on-board electric vehicle 

technology for 12 TOSA (Trolleybus 

Optimisation Système Alimentation) 

fully electric buses (e-buses) 

which will run on Line 23, connecting 

Geneva’s airport with suburban 

Geneva. The e-buses can help save 

as much as 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide 

per year, when compared with 

existing diesel buses. 

ABB will deliver and deploy 13 

flash-charging stations along an 

urban transit bus route, as well as 

three terminal and four depot feeding 

stations. This will be the world’s 

fastest flash-charging connection 

technology taking less than 1 second 

to connect the bus to the charging 

point. The onboard batteries can 

then be charged in 15 seconds with 

a 600-kilowatt boost of power at the 

bus stop. A further 4 to 5 minute 

charge at the terminus at the end of 

the line enables a full recharge of the 

batteries. The innovative technology 

was developed by ABB engineers in 

Switzerland. 

“We are proud of this breakthrough 

technology to support 

Geneva’s vision of providing a silent 

and zero-emission urban mass 

TOSA bus – Revolutionary technology requires no overhead lines and offers silent and zeroemission 

mass transit solution as a viable alternative to diesel buses, providing a model for future 

urban transportation 

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transportation for the city. It provides 

a model for future urban 

transport and reinforces our vision 

of sustainable mobility for a better 

world” said Claudio Facchin, President 

of ABB’s Power Grids division. 

“As part of our Next Level strategy, 

we are committed to developing 

customer-focused solutions and 

technologies that help lower environmental 

impact.” 

The decision to deploy 

TOSA on Line 23 was 

undertaken after the successful 

pilot of the first 

such e-bus on the route 

from Geneva airport 

to the Palexpo exhibition 

center. The Line 23 

bus route will be slightly 

modified in order to provide a fast 

connection to Praille-Acacias- 

Vernet, a new suburb being built to 

accommodate 11,000 flats and office 

space for about 11,000 employees. 

When fully commissioned in 2018, 

the high-capacity articulated buses 

will depart from both terminuses 

at 10-minute intervals during peak 

times. The line carries more than 

10,000 passengers a day and the replacement 

of diesel buses by TOSA 

e-buses reduces noise as well as 

greenhouse gas emissions. 

As part of a separate award by 

HESS, ABB will supply 12 flexible 

drivetrain solutions for the buses 

including integrated traction and 

auxiliary converters, roof-mounted 

battery units and energy transfer 

systems (ETS), as well as permanent 

magnet traction motors. Both 

contracts include five-year maintenance 

and service agreements to 

ensure operational reliability, efficiency 

and safety. 

“The deployment of TOSA on 

Line 23 is the result of the collaborative 

efforts of the public and private 

sector partners who invested 

in this vision. This innovative project 

opens the way for the future of 

mobility, by providing a sustainable 

and environmentally-friendly mass 

transport solution for the wellbeing 

of our community,” said Luc 

Barthassat, Geneva’s State Councilor 

for Transport and Environment. 

Geneva is one of the world’s leading 

cities, recognized as a global 

center of diplomacy, a financial hub 

and a technology and innovation 

center. It is also a popular tourist 

destination with a high quality of 

life. It hosts the highest number of 

international organizations in the 

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world, including global headquarters 

of institutions like the United 

Nations and the Red Cross. 

ABB provides a range of technologies 

to support mobility applications 

such as railways, metros and electric 

buses and vehicles. Transportation 

and Infrastructure is one of the 

three customer groups, served by 

ABB alongside utilities and industry, 

and sustainable mobility 

is a key focus area 

within ABB’s Next Level 

strategy. 

ABB is celebrating 

125 years of its legacy 

in Switzerland and has 

been actively involved in 

the transportation sector 

including rail. As a recent 

example, ABB technologies are 

helping to power and ventilate the 

recently commissioned 57 km Gotthard 

base tunnel through the Alps 

– the world’s longest railway tunnel. 

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leading 

global technology company in 

power and automation that enables 

utility, industry, and transport & infrastructure 

customers to improve 

their performance while lowering 

environmental impact. The ABB 

Group of companies operates in 

roughly 100 countries and employs 

about 135,000 people.

Intellicheck Mobilisa awarded contract for site 

secure access control at classified Federal facility 

JERICHO, NEW YORK - July 20, 

2016-Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. 

(NYSE MKT:IDN), a leader in 

threat identification and identity 

authentication, verification and validation 

technology solutions, today 

announced it has been awarded a 

federal contract to expand the deployment 

of Defense ID® at a highly 

classified federal government facility 

in the Washington, D.C. area. 

The $250,000 purchase will increase 

the ability of security personnel to 

protect the highly sensitive federal 

installation with Intellicheck’s realtime 

identification authentication 

solution. 

Dr. William Roof, Intellicheck 

CEO, noted, “The world is a very 

different place than it was only a few 

short years ago as threats of violence 

to our citizens at home and abroad 

continue to escalate in frequency, 

complexity and effectiveness. Defense 

ID was designed to address a 

security environment that is fluid 

and constantly evolving. Our expertise 

in addressing security challenges 

is reflected in the advanced 

features and functionality that make 

our application mobile, interoperable 

with multiple standard and 

proprietary information sources 

and responsive with programmable 

rules. We are confident that Defense 

ID will provide an unprecedented 

level of situational awareness and 

security driven by real-time ID document 

authentication and threat 

identification.” 

Security personnel use Defense 

ID to increase situational awareness 

and security at restricted facilities 

by instantly authenticating the 

identification of visitors, vendors, 

and employees seeking site access 

and by enabling rules-based access 

decision support, while improving 

operational efficiencies. Deployment 

of the field-tested and proven 

advanced technology solution provides 

security personnel with the 

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ability to maintain uninterrupted 

line of sight of an individual seeking 

site access as mobile devices scan the 

bar code of driver licenses from all 

U.S. states and Canadian Provinces, 

as well as military and other identification 

documents issued by government 

agencies. Defense ID alerts 

security officers of a potential threat 

by comparing a would-be visitor’s 

identification card information with 

information available from public 

and government data sources and 

other pertinent information contained 

in Intellicheck’s extensive 

proprietary databases. Real-time information 

delivery instantly notifies 

security personnel if the individual 

has presented identification that is

fake or stolen, is on a terrorist watch 

list, Be-On-the-Look-Out (BOLO) 

lists, may be the subject of law enforcement 

wants and warrants, or is 

listed for military base debarments 

and driving suspensions. 

In addition to its other computerbased 

applications, Defense ID’s 

advanced rules-based engine can 

be set to allow visitation only at certain 

pre-designated days and times 

to specific parts of a site. Durable 

handheld mobile devices assure facility 

security personnel maximum 

flexibility for patrol and special 

event requirements. 

“At a time when international terrorism 

and civil unrest present unprecedented 

challenges, this contract 

award underscores the value 

and flexibility of Defense ID in protecting 

critical facilities and the people 

who conduct business at these 

facilities. We expect our militarygrade 

security technology solution 

to see increasing adoption beyond 

the 24 military and federal installations 

and 16 U.S. ports where it is 

already deployed,” said Dr. Roof. 

Intellicheck’s portfolio of 25 patents 

includes many pertaining to 

identification technology. Its identity 

technology solutions support 

customers in the national defense, 

law enforcement, retail, hospitality 

and financial markets. The Company’s 

products scan, authenticate 

and analyze components of identity 

documents including driver licenses, 

military identification cards 

and other government forms of 

identification containing magnetic 

stripe, barcode and smart chip information. 

The information can be 

used to provide safety, security and 

efficiencies across markets. Unlike 

competitive products, Intellicheck’s 

technology solutions are unique 

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in their ability to provide accurate, 

real-time identification authentication 

and situational awareness on 

both mobile and existing fixed infrastructures 

that is fully regulatory 

compliant. 

About Intellicheck Mobilisa 

Intellicheck Mobilisa is an industry 

leader in threat identification, identity 

authentication, verification and 

validation systems. Our technology 

makes it possible for our customers 

to enhance the safety and awareness 

of their facilities and people, 

improve customer service, and 

increase operational efficiencies. 

Founded in 1994, Intellicheck has 

grown to serve dozens of Fortune 

500 companies including retail and 

financial industry clients, national 

defense clients at agencies, major 

seaports, and military bases, police 

departments, and diverse state and 

federal government agencies. For 

more information on Intellicheck 

Mobilisa, please visit http://www.intellicheck.com/.

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Immigration and Border Security 

Tracking record of statements of Hillary Clinton 

on immigration reform 

By Wendy Feliz 

By 2050, minorities will become the 

majority in the United States. This is 

the first point Hillary Clinton made 

while speaking before the League 

of United Latin American Citizens 

(LULAC) in Washington D.C. this 

week. In a pointed speech, which 

she spent much of criticizing her 

opponent Donald Trump, Clinton 

discussed “ending the vicious debate 

about immigration reform” 

and made some clear commitments 

around what, if elected, she would 

do to advance needed changes in 

immigration policy. 

Most notably, Clinton said at the 

beginning of her remarks, and later 

repeated, that “in my first 100 days, 

as part of my commitment, I will 

introduce comprehensive immigration 

reform with a path to citizenship” 

and will end the practice of 

family detention. 

She discussed the “growing consensus” 

and “greater agreement” 

that something must be done on 

immigration reform and alluded to 

the point that it would only happen 

if she was elected, noting “whether 

we get it done will depend on this 

election.” 

Clinton went on to 

elaborate on what her 

vision for immigration 

reform would includes: 

“…a credible path 

forward for reform 

that is truly comprehensive, 

addressing all 

aspects of the system, 

including immigrants 

living here today, those who wish to 

come in the days ahead, from highly 

skilled workers to family members 

to those seeking refuge from violence 

wherever that might occur. “ 

She then committed to: 

“…send a proposal to congress 

that will include a path to citizenship 

that will fix the family visa backlog 

and strengthen our economy and 

will enable our country to be what 

it has always been, a place where 

people from around the world come 

to start new businesses, pursue their 

dreams, and apply their talents to 

American growth and innovation. 

And while we are doing that, we 

must do everything we can to keep 

families already here together.” 

She also vigorously defended 

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Photo: Courtesy of CBS News 

presidential executive actions on 

immigration noting: 

“DAPA is squarely within the 

President’s authority and I will keep 

saying that and fighting for it. But 

there is more we can do. We need 

a simple straightforward system 

where people with sympathetic cases, 

can show a history of service to 

their communities can make their 

case and be eligible for deferred action. 

Like people who experience 

and report extreme labor abuses.” 

Finally she committed to ending 

the practice of detaining families 

and rounding up refugees in raids. 

She said: 

“And we must absolutely end 

family detention, close private de- 

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What you should know about Mike Pence’s 

harsh policy record on immigrants and refugees 

By Wendy Felix, 

American Immigration Council 

In Mike Pence, Republican Presidential 

candidate Donald Trump 

has found a kindred spirit in his crusade 

against immigrants. Trump’s 

get tough approach to immigration 

has been no secret and reports of the 

Republican’s official 2016 platform 

note that it includes support for a 

border wall and proposing mandatory 

prison sentences for deportees 

who return to the United States. 

They also change the term “illegal 

immigrants” to “illegal aliens” in the 

platform itself—a highly-offensive 

term. 

Like Trump, Pence takes a harsh, 

enforcement-centric approach to 

immigration. Pence’s record shows 

he used his time in Congress and 

as the Governor of Indiana to pursue 

extreme and punitive immigration 

policies earning him a 100 

percent approval rating by the antiimmigration 

group, Federation for 

American Immigration Reform. 

During his term in the U.S. House 

of Representatives, Pence voted yes 

on H.R. 3722, a 2004 bill that would 

“prohibit Federal reimbursement of 

hospital-provided emergency 

and certain transportation 

services to undocumented 

aliens” and 

allow hospitals to refuse 

care to undocumented individuals 

if they could be 

sent to hospitals in their 

home country. 

In 2006, he unveiled a 

plan which he described Mike Pence, former Governor of Indiana 

as “no amnesty immigration 

reform” which sought to seal and Deferred Action for Parents of 

the U.S. border with Mexico, set up Americans and Lawful Permanent 

a limited guest-worker program, Residents (DAPA). He then praised 

force all undocumented immigrants the non-decision issued by the Supreme 

Court on expanded DACA 

to “self-deport” and apply for reentry 

from their home countries, and and DAPA, which leaves 4-5 million 

end birthright citizenship. 

undocumented immigrants in limbo 

as the challenge to the initiatives 

In 2007, he co-sponsored an English-only 

bill. 

continue in a lower court. 

Later, as governor of Indiana, While Pence’s so-called “reform” 

Pence ordered state agencies not to bill in Congress went nowhere and 

assist in the resettlement of Syrian his efforts to shut out refugees also 

refugees, which resulted in a lawsuit 

being brought against him by tion policy positions demonstrate 

failed miserably, his past immigra- 

the American Civil Liberties Union an impractical and uncharitable 

which Pence lost. 

approach toward immigrants and 

As governor, Pence also signed Indiana 

on to the Texas lawsuit chal- 

well with candidate Trump’s. 

refugees, but one that seems to align 

lenging expanded Deferred Action Despite the fact that anti-immifor 

Childhood Arrivals (DACA) 

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Photo: Gage Skidmore


Supreme Court to hear arguments in class action suit brought 

by ACLU, Stanford Law School challenging prolonged detection 

by DHS of noncitizens, with no right to bond hearing 

Last month, the Supreme Court announced 

that, in fall 2016, it will hear 

arguments in Jennings v. Rodriguez, 

a challenge to the prolonged detention 

of noncitizens in removal proceedings. 

At issue is whether the 

government can keep a noncitizen 

who is fighting her deportation case 

locked up for however long the notoriously 

lengthy proceedings last, 

or whether she must receive a bond 

hearing after she has been detained 

for six months, where an immigration 

judge will decide, on an individualized 

basis, whether continued 

detention is necessary. 

The case, a class action brought 

by the ACLU and the Stanford Law 

School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic 

on behalf of noncitizens in the 

Central District of California, challenged 

the Department of Homeland 

Security’s practice of holding 

immigrants in prolonged civil detention 

without the opportunity for 

a bond hearing during their removal 

proceedings. Immigration detention 

is non-punitive – which means 

that the immigrants involved in the 

case are locked up not as a punishment 

for any crime for which they 

have been convicted, but rather as a 

preventative measure while courts 

consider their deportation cases. 

Yet members of the Rodriguez class 

have been locked up for months or 

years without the opportunity to 

argue that their detention was not 

justified. Class members were detained, 

on average, thirteen months. 

Those class members who vigorously 

argued that they are entitled to 

remain in the United States stayed 

locked up for far longer than those 

who conceded that they could be 

deported, creating an incentive for 

immigrants to give up meritorious 

claims for relief from deportation. 

Last year, 

the Ninth Circuit 

Court of 

Appeals decided 

the case 

in favor of the 

plaintiffs. The 

Court held 

that the government 

must 

provide class 

members with 

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bond hearings 

in front of 

immigration 

judges after six 

months of detention–and, 

if they remain detained, 

that class members must have additional 

bond hearings every six 

months. At those hearings, government 

attorneys must establish by 

clear and convincing evidence that 

the particular individual involved 

is a flight risk or a danger to the 

community in order to justify denial 

of bond. The decision does not 

require the government to release 

any noncitizen held in prolonged 

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James R. Browning Court of Appeals 

Photo: Jeff Kubina

Most Americans reject Trump’s nativist agenda, according 

to survey conducted by Brookings Institution and Public 

Religion Research Institute 

By Walter Ewing 

Republican presidential contender 

Donald Trump may claim to 

speak in the name of the “American 

people,” but the fact is that 

most Americans continue to reject 

his nativist rhetoric of fear 

and hate. This is apparent from 

the results of a survey conducted 

by the Brookings Institution and 

Public Religion Research Institute 

between April 4 and May 

2, 2016. The survey reveals that, 

despite a great deal of collective 

anxiety over terrorism and the 

impact of growing immigrant 

communities on U.S. society, 

most Americans 

do not buy into 

harsh views on 

immigration. 

As a starting 

point, the survey 

examined how many Americans 

are worried about a terrorist attack. 

Given the terrorist shootings 

in San Bernardino and in Paris at 

the end of 2015 (the 

survey was conducted 

before the Orlando 

massacre), it comes as 

no surprise that just 

over half (51 percent) 

of survey respondents 

“report feeling somewhat 

or very worried that they or 

a member of their family will become 

a victim of terrorism.” This 

marks an increase of 18 percentage 

points since late 2014, when 

only 33 percent of respondents 

harbored such a fear. 

Yet, despite these fears, most 

respondents did not succumb to 

the temptation to scapegoat all 

immigrants or all 

Muslims for the 

actions of a relatively 

small numbers 

of terrorists. 

For instance, 58 

percent “oppose placing a temporary 

ban on Muslims from other 

countries entering the U.S.,” compared 

to 40 percent who support 

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such a measure. Likewise, 55 percent 

“oppose passing a law that 

would deny Syrian refugees entrance 

to the U.S.,” while 44 percent 

support such a law. 

Nor did most respondents buy 

into Trump’s views on the U.S.- 

Mexico border, undocumented 

immigration, or the economic 

impact of immigrants. Among 

the respondents: 

• 61 percent “say immigrants 

living in the U.S. illegally 

should be allowed a way to become 

citizens,” compared to 21 

percent say that they should be 

deported. 

• 58 percent oppose building a 

wall along the U.S.-Mexico bor- 

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Senator Tim Kaine, Democratic VP candidate, 

supports reforming immigration system 

Democratic Presidential Candidate, 

Hilary Clinton has named Senator 

Tim Kaine of Virginia as her Vice- 

Presidential running mate. 

A look into Tim Kaine’s past positions 

on immigration reveal that 

he has supported steps towards reforming 

America’s immigration system, 

has spoken out against punitive, 

anti-immigrant measures at the 

state level, and has made significant 

efforts to reach out to the immigrant 

community. 

In 2010, while serving as Chairman 

of the Democratic National 

Committee he admonished Arizona’s 

notorious, anti-immigrant 

measure SB 1070, calling it “smallminded 

and short-sighted.” 

Tim Kaine also supported the 

DREAM Act and as a Senator voted 

yes on S. 744, the last immigration 

reform bill to pass the senate. He 

also famously gave a floor speech on 

the need for immigration reform in 

fluent Spanish while the debate over 

the legislation waged. 

In 2015, he made public statements 

in support of the Deferred 

Action for Childhood Arrivals 

(DACA) initiative noting that the 

“DACA program announced by the 

President has allowed young people 

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia 

to contribute to our communities, 

live without constant fear of deportation, 

keep families together and 

provide economic and educational 

opportunities for these young recipients.” 

His current Senate website notes 

that he supports the Obama Administration’s 

ongoing efforts to expand 

DACA and implement DAPA. 

He writes: “I also support efforts 

to expand the Deferred Action for 

Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and 

Deferred Action for Parental Accountability 

(DAPA) programs.” 

Earlier this year, he participated in 

the DAPA dinners campaign where 

he shared a meal with a family who 

would be eligible for these deferred 

action initiatives in an effort to bring 

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attention to the needs and struggles 

of mixed-status families. 

His Senate website describes his 

current vision for reforming immigration: 

For far too long, our immigration 

system has placed undue burdens 

on legal immigrants and kept millions 

of others living in the shadows 

of our society. I support a bipartisan 

approach to immigration reform 

that will provide a better visa system 

to encourage growth of a talented 

workforce, enhance our border security, 

create a path to normalizing 

the legal status of those here unlawfully 

– following compliance with 

various requirements such as payment 

of taxes and a fine – and establish 

a better system for companies 

to verify the immigration status of 

their employees. 

According to the New York Times 

“Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Kaine have 

similar positions on the issues and 

they are said to share an easy rapport 

and a love of granular policymaking.” 

It also seems Ms. Clinton 

has found a running mate whose 

current thinking on immigration 

policy aligns with hers. 

Photo: Fort Belvoir Community Hospital

Federal union leader J. David Cox Sr. 

says Trump wrong on TSA, wrong on VA 

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2016 / 

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Republican 

Party presidential nominee 

Donald Trump used his nomination 

speech Thursday night to disparage 

the dedicated public servants who 

deliver health care to our nation’s 

veterans and ensure the safety of the 

flying public, American Federation 

of Government Employees National 

President J. David Cox Sr. said today. 

“Donald Trump’s proposals would 

endanger the flying public and harm 

our veterans, and no one should be 

fooled by his smoke and 

mirrors magic show,” 

Cox said. 

“He wants to privatize 

veterans’ health care, 

even though the vast 

majority of veterans say 

they want their care delivered 

by VA doctors and nurses. 

Private health care for veterans 

would be an expensive disaster, and 

no one should be fooled into believing 

otherwise,” Cox said. 

During his nomination speech 

Thursday, Trump also called the 

Transportation Security Administration 

a “total disaster” and vowed 

J. David Cox Sr., President, AFGE 

to “fix TSA.” 

“I have no doubt that Donald 

Trump’s idea of fixing TSA would 

be the same as his prescription for 

the VA: privatize to the lowest bidder 

and to hell with the 

safety and security of the 

flying public. What the 

TSA needs is for Congress 

to lift the arbitrary 

staffing cap and provide 

TSA with a realistic budget 

so the agency can 

hire the officers it needs to do its 

job,” Cox said. 

The American Federation of Government 

Employees (AFGE) is the 

largest federal employee union, representing 

670,000 workers in the 

federal government and the government 

of the District of Columbia. 

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Most Americans reject Trump’s 

nativist agenda 


der, while 41 percent support 

the wall. 

• 47 percent believe that “immigrants 

strengthen our country 

because of their hard work 

and talents,” while 43 percent 

say that “immigrants are a burden 

on the country because 

they take jobs, housing, and 

healthcare.” 

• 68 percent say that “new immigrants 

mostly take jobs 

Americans do not want,” compared 

to 25 percent who believe 

that these “immigrants take 

jobs away from American citizens.” 

While these findings are in 

some ways welcome, the fact remains 

that a significant minority 

of respondents believe that immigrants 

are an economic drain, 

that Muslim immigrants should 

be temporarily banned from entering 

the country, and that we 

should build a wall between the 

United States and Mexico. However 

these beliefs are built on fear 

and ignorance, not evidence.


Senate rejects two anti-immigrant bills before going 

out on recess 

By Joshua Breisblatt 

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Photo: Nicolas Raymond 

Senate defeats cloture on motions 

to proceed—a motion to begin debate—on 

two “Sanctuary City” bills 

sponsored by Senator Pat Toomey 

(R-PA) and Senator Ted Cruz (R- 

TX). Both bills take an enforcement-only 

approach to immigration 

reform and fail to address the 

nation’s outdated immigration laws 

or the need to enact comprehensive 

reforms. 

Senator Toomey’s “Stop Dangerous 

Sanctuary Cities Act” (S. 3100) 

literally transforms state and local 

law enforcement officers into federal 

immigration enforcement agents 

and distracts from their ability to 

protect and serve their local community. 

The bill also attempts to 

punish these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions 

by taking away millions 

of dollars in federal funding for 

programs that make communities 

stronger, including the Community 

Development Block Grant from 

any city, state or county that does 

not fully comply with Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 

detainers and notification requests. 

Senator Cruz’s bill, the “Stop Illegal 

Reentry Act” (S. 2193), would 

increase mandatory minimums for 

individuals convicted of “illegal reentry” 

into the United States. 

The term “sanctuary city” is often 

used incorrectly to describe a trust 

act or community policing policy 

that limits entanglement between 

local police and federal immigration 

authorities. These policies, in 

fact, make communities safer and 

increase communication between 

police and residents without imposing 

any restrictions on federal 

immigration agents in carrying out 

their job of enforcing immigration 

laws. 

Tom Manger, Chief of Police for 

Montgomery County and President 

of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, 

supports community policing 

policies that place limits on how local 

law enforcement is asked to enforce 

federal immigration laws. He 

said: 

“To do our job we must have the 

trust and respect of the communities 

we serve. We fail if the public 

fears their police and will not 

come forward when we need them. 

Whether we seek to stop child predators, 

drug dealers, rapists or robbers 

–we need the full cooperation 

of victims and witness. Cooperation 

is not forthcoming from persons 

who see their police as immigration 

agents. When immigrants come to 

view their local police and sheriffs 

with distrust because they fear de- 

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Who wins if Donald Trump’s views on immigration 

policy are accepted by voters in November? 

By Wendy Felix 

Historically, America has done well 

when everyone works together towards 

common goals that pool our 

collective strengths. We have built a 

great nation, and much of our success 

continues to derive from the 

fact that we are a nation that welcomes 

and integrates people from 

around the world. 

Yet, most of Mr. Trump’s 

speech at the Republic 

National Convention on 

Thursday night sought to 

convince all who were listening 

that none of that 

history is true, and Americans 

are losing because 

someone else is taking 

something from them, including 

immigrants. 

Trump once again cast the foreign-born 

as a grave threat to natives, 

and he continues to blame 

them for unemployment and crime 

and proposes that anything short of 

mass expulsion of undocumented 

immigrants is tantamount to ignoring 

the rule of law. He also cast immigration 

reform as “amnesty.” 

Trump’s now well-established 

views on immigration policy are 

not only unsupported by the facts, 

but they are dangerous as well. If 

Trump’s immigration policies were 

ever implemented, they would have 

devastating impacts on American 

society, the economy, and our 

standing in the world. 

Oddly for a businessman, Trump’s 

view of the American economy is 

that it is finite and cannot be grown 

when more workers, taxpayers, and 

consumers are added to it. It is nonsensical 

to assert that the economic 

growth attributed to immigrants (as 

found in numerous studies) over 

the years does not in any way benefit 

native-born workers who participate 

in the same economy. 

The Republican nominee also 

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continues his crusade to cast all immigrants 

as criminals even when 

there is abundant evidence that immigration 

is not linked to higher 

crime rates and hasn’t been for the 

past century. 

The truth is, the vast majority of 

Americans disagree that immigrants 

are the source of our problems, 

and a majority from both 

political parties support a 

more generous and pragmatic 

approach towards 

immigration policy. 

Yet, Trump’s commitment 

to his uninformed 

views on immigration remains 

strong. The fact that 

he believes natives only do 

well when immigrants are 

removed from the country 

demonstrates not only that 

he is out of touch with the majority 

of Americans, but that he is a bad 

student of history and economics 

and is willing to blindly pursue policies 

that play well politically among 

a small fringe group of his supporters. 

Trump’s immigration policies, if 

implemented, will make losers of us 

all.

Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection 

False certifications by under vehicle inspection manufacturers 

are putting lives and property at risk, says Chris Millar, who 

advises testing all security products before purchase 

By Christopher Millar, 

CEO, Gatekeeper Security 

Over the past few years I 

have seen and been personally 

involved in debunking 

numerous false and I maintain 

deliberately misleading 

(fraudulent) performance claims 

made by many “under vehicle inspection 

system” manufacturers. 

These fraudulent claims have now 

reached epidemic proportion. For 

Gatekeeper Security, the only manufacturer 

of independently tested 

and approved fully automatic under 

vehicle inspection systems available 

on the market today, it is extremely 

alarming to see how many buyers 

of under vehicle inspection systems 

simply believe the glossy brochures 

or the pitch of a sales person without 

once requesting independent testing 

of equipment prior to purchase. 

It is truly amazing to me, and to 

many other security professionals I 

have discussed this problem with, 

how security equipment manufacturers 

can blatantly produce deliberately 

false compliance certificates 

and brochures for the 

purpose of selling nonqualifying, 

and more 

often than not, inferior 

equipment. Providing 

false, or at best misleading 

information 

about a technology 

affects many parties, all of whom 

could easily protect themselves 

from such damage by simply testing 

the equipment before purchase. 

Alternatively, and more practically, 

require side by side testing where 

all “qualified” manufacturers provide 

a system and these systems are 

put through the same performance 

tests to see which one performs the 

best or at the very least, perform the 

tasks that are claimed by the manufacturer 

they can perform. 

What happens in reality is the 

purchaser of the equipment, be it 

an end user or a system’s integrator, 

just looks at the price and pays no 

attention to the reasonableness of 

the compliance certificate – as long 

as they have one marked COM- 

PLY signed and stamped they are – 

“good to go”. If you are hoping the 

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consultant will pick up on 

the falsified claims you are 

wrong, as they too rely on 

the compliance certificates. 

Therefore, the acquisition 

process is in actuality 

one of trust, a structure 

that is doomed 

from the start when 

the main player, the equipment 

manufacturer, in a number of cases, 

is proven to be not trust worthy. 

It is my opinion after speaking 

with many security professionals 

with firsthand experience in these 

matters that equipment is rarely, 

if ever tested by integrators or end 

users prior to purchase. This is because 

proof that equipment does not 

comply with required specifications 

may result in having to pay more for 

equipment that does. Failure to test 

claimed capabilities puts lives and 

property at risk. It is evident, from 

my research, that very few purchasers 

of non-compliant equipment 

ever raise the issue with the manufacturer 

of the equipment for fear of 

admitting a mistake or of wasting 

their employer’s money. As budgets 

APPROV 

THE DEPARTMEN

are planned years in advance, the 

misuse of funds to purchase noncompliant 

equipment results in a 

facility going for years without 

the necessary security equipment 

or until further funds 

can be allocated to purchase 

qualified equipment. 

This concept of cheap is 

actually expensive when 

a buyer needs to purchase 

equipment twice to 

achieve the required 

security function. 

To help combat 

this plague of filing false compliance 

certificates or producing brochures 

about fictional equipment in 

the under vehicle inspection business, 

Gatekeeper set up a competition 

mid 2014 with a USD100,000 

prize. Under the competition, system 

manufacturers that claim they 

can provide all the same features 

and have the same environmental 

certifications as Gatekeeper equipment 

get a chance to prove it and if 

successful collect USD100,000 from 

Gatekeeper. To date not one manufacturer 

has come forward, however 

Gatekeeper is in possession of numerous 

compliance certificates and 

a brochure collected over the same 

period where “alternative technologies” 

(other under vehicle inspection 

systems) have under seal and 

ED BY 

T OF DEFENSE 

signature vowed 

they provide the 

same, and often better 

specifications 

to Gatekeeper. Perhaps 

it is because 

they make so much 

money from selling 

non-compliant 

equipment to naive 

end users and/or integrators they 

don’t need to come and collect the 

easy USD100,000 from Gatekeeper. 

To provide a snap shot of how 

serious this situation has become, 

over the last year Gatekeeper has 

been provided with the following 

amazing claims – in some cases we 

were able to convince the end user 

to test the claims as they were so 

outrageous: 

• Running video systems claiming 

they can perform automatic 

foreign object detection 

• Line scanners claiming they 

are not affected when a vehicle 

is scanned at different speeds or 

stops on top of the scanner 

• Single 90⁰ view running video 

and line scanners providing two 

views at 60⁰ 

• A line scanning company 

claiming they have an area scan 

system identical to Gatekeeper 

and produced a brochure to support 

their claim however when 

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the end user called the company 

about the technology, was told 

they do not have such a system. 

• A Singapore company, when 

bidding on a transaction in Indonesia, 

claimed they manufactured 

their systems in the US, 

as this was a requirement of the 

tender, could not produce the address 

of their manufacturing facility 

in the US when challenged. 

• On a tender in Kenya, one US 

running video system manufacturer 

made a series of impossible 

performance claims, only to have 

7 of their 10 claimed performances 

proven not to be true after the 

end user insisted on testing. 

The list goes on and unfortunately 

the damage that is caused by such 

fraudulent behavior may result in 

the loss of lives and property. The 

answer is very simple: test all security 

equipment before purchase.


Battelle Wins Major Contract to Build Armored 

Trucks for U.S. Special Operations Command Force 

COLUMBUS, OH (July 19, 2016)— 

Building on the success of a previous 

contract to build Non Standard 

Commercial Vehicles (NSCVs), 

Battelle has been awarded a second 

contract worth $170 million. 

The U.S. Special Operations Command 

(SOCOM) announced the 

award July 14, naming Battelle as 

the contract winner in a competitive 

procurement. 

Under terms of the contract, Battelle 

will build armored and unarmored 

vehicles for the next five 

years at its manufacturing facility in 

West Columbus. The contract also 

includes an option for two more 

years. 

For more than 11 years Battelle 

has been designing, building and 

delivering commercial-style armored 

vehicles. The ground vehicle 

team takes existing vehicles, reengineers 

them with protective armor 

and adds other durability features, 

such as stronger suspensions for 

operations in rugged terrain and 

enhanced alternators to withstand 

extreme climates. Battelle vehicles 

have previously completed formal 

durability testing and system level 

armor testing. 

“Battelle has a proven track record 

of performing sophisticated 

systems integration for military and 

commercial applications,” said Fred 

Byus, vice president of Battelle’s 

Mission and Defense Technologies 

business. “Under this contract, our 

vehicle systems team will execute 

on its custom designs and integrate 

complex systems to meet mission 

requirements—at a competitive 

cost.” 

Battelle’s armored vehicles retain 

the Original Equipment Manufacturer 

(OEM) appearance, whether 

Hilux, Land Cruiser and Ford 

platforms. The vehicles are re-engineered 

with crew protection, enhanced 

suspension for improved 

off-road mobility, and a reinforced 

chassis for durability. 

Battelle has a long history of helping 

U.S. armed forces with 

protected vehicles, all the 

way back to its work on tank 

armor in World War II. More 

recent work has included armoring 

High Mobility Multipurpose 

Wheeled Vehicles 

(HMMWVs) and training 

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military personnel and contractors 

to install more than 500 protective 

armor kits onto existing vehicles. 

Every day, the people of Battelle 

apply science and technology to 

solving what matters most. At major 

technology centers and national 

laboratories around the world, Battelle 

conducts research and development, 

designs and manufactures 

products, and delivers critical services 

for government and commercial 

customers. Headquartered in 

Columbus, Ohio since its founding 

in 1929, Battelle serves the national 

security, health and life sciences, 

and energy and environmental industries. 

For more information, visit 

www.battelle.org.

Cinch Systems, producer of the Award-Winning Rampart 

Vehicle Barrier System, describes its Vehicle Barrier, 

Intrusion Detection, Door and Gate Control systems that are 

used by scores of government, military, law enforcement, 

energy and other agencies. 

ST. MICHAEL, MN – Cinch System’s 

Rampart Vehicle Barrier System 

is a high-security and data logging 

system that provides precise vehicle 

barrier, bollard, gate/security for access 

to the perimeter of high profile 

facilities. 

“It’s all we do,” said CEO Joel Christianson. 

“When something really 

matters, like security… you want the 

best – and the most experienced. 

CINCH systems products are used 

and trusted by: The U.S. Government, 

Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. 

Department of State, U.S. Supreme 

Court, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, 

U.S. Capital Police, GSA Public Building, 

Service Government Contractors, 

Energy Infrastructure, SCIF’s 

and Transportation facilities.” 

The Rampart utilizes patented End- 

To-End AES Encryption for secure 

system communication with a memory 

capacity to log and store 233 million 

entry/exit events—delivering reliable, 

split-second barrier activation 

and forensic data. When a barrier/ 

bollard is deployed to prevent entry, it 

will stop and 

render a suspect 

vehicle 

completely 

inoperable. 

The Rampart VBS control system is 

designed to fit the need for high security 

in both retrofit and new installations,” 

Christianson added. “Products 

feature our patented AES Encrypted 

End-To-End communication. This 

provides complete data encryption 

from the device (sender) with only 

the control panel (recipient) able to 

decrypt it. Nothing other than the 

control panel can read the signal or 

tamper with it — eliminating hacking 

and tampering directly or via the 

internet.” 

The CINCH systems 

Product Portfolio Includes: 

• Intrusion Detection Systems 

(IDS) – Four platforms ranging 

from SCIF to campus style intrusion 

products provide an easy to 

design with fast implementation to 

help ensure project success. 

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• Vehicle Barrier System Controls – 

CINCH delivers the industry’s first 

AES Encrypted End-To-End VBS 

controller. Embedded, standardized 

and configurable with greater 

performance and security integrity 

than PLC controls. Scalable to meet 

your current and future requirements. 

• Door and Security Gate Controls 

– An easy to design, configure and 

deploy control system with more 

processing power than most access 

control systems. System success 

is ensured for new construction 

and retrofit projects with CINCH’s 

modular design for rapid changeout 

with minimal wire requirements. 

Products Designed for 

High Security: 

• Systems Engineered – CINCH


evaluates your existing environment 

and delivers recommendations 

as well as options to meet or 

exceed security priorities and requirements 

for security scope. 

• Security Rationalization – We access 

your security infrastructure 

needs along with your agency or 

corporate standards to optimize a 

system designed for high security 

and cost containment. Our controls 

report and log millions 

of discrete recorded and performance 

events. 

• Infrastructure Positive 

– Leverage existing infrastructure 

to improve overall 

system integrity and security 

performance. Gain advantages 

in project timelines with easy 

to understand system architecture 

to meet aggressive deadline schedules. 

• Optimal Communication – Ce- 

Lan communication evaluates 

packet usage to best utilize cable 

and automate signal performance 

inside your CINCH systems security 

solution. 

Product Warranty: 

Click Here for product warranty. 

With over 200 years of combined 

high security industry experience, 

CINCH systems has some of the 

deepest security engineering talent in 

the world. This collective experience 

has been used for more than 35 years 

working on thousands of successful 

products and security applications. 

CINCH systems security products 

are in service in more high security 

environments world-wide than any 

other. Whether it’s in Washington DC 

or a US Embassy in the Middle East, 

CINCH AES Encrypted Systems are 

on-duty protecting people and property. 

Experience that pays off for: 

• The best practices for the common 

to the rarest of security requirements. 

• High security in diverse environments 

and complex architectures. 

• Installations with combinations of 

almost every conceivable physical 

security product. 

• The most challenging security 

needs and project timelines. 

Whether you are implementing 

CINCH systems Intrusion Detection 

System, Vehicle Barrier System 

or Door/Security Gate control system, 

CINCH systems has the security 

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knowledge and application experience 

of thousands of demanding and 

successful security projects. 

To learn more about what Cinch 

Systems can do for your organization, 

contact the company in St Michael, 

MN at http://www.cinchsystems.com/ 

contact-cinch-systems.html. 

About CINCH systems, Inc. 

www.cinchsystems.com 

CINCH systems, Inc. is a leading 

supplier of high security 

and life safety technologies 

with offices based in St. Michael, 

Minnesota. CINCH systems 

offers the industry’s latest 

high security product portfolios, 

including intrusion detection 

for the U.S. Government, SCIFs 

(Sensitive Compartmented Information 

Facility), Vehicle Barrier Systems 

Controls and Door and Security Gate 

Controls. CINCH systems products 

provide complete patented End-To- 

End AES Encryption, secure fiber 

conversion and the industry’s easiest 

to use touch screen interface. Products 

are used to protect people and 

property across a wide-range of industries, 

U.S. Government, U.S. Military 

and law enforcement. For more 

information call (763) 497-1059 or 

email: info@cinchsystems.com

Delta Scientific anti-terrorist barriers to protect 

against vehicle threats at Democratic Convention 

PALMDALE, CA - July 20, 2016 - 

Delta Scientific, the leading manufacturer 

of counter-terrorist vehicle 

control systems used in the United 

States and internationally, today announced 

that Delta MP5000 mobile 

deployable vehicle crash barriers 

were ordered by the Secret Service 

for the upcoming Democratic Convention 

running July 25-28 in Philadelphia. 

As at the GOP Convention 

this week, the certified crash 

vehicles will protect attendees from 

terrorist vehicle attacks and errant 

driver mistakes. Provided through 

Global Access Control Systems 

(Pittsburgh), these mobile deployable 

vehicle crash barriers carry a 

K8 rating (M40 ASTM rating), stopping 

7.5 ton (6400 Kg) vehicles traveling 

40 mph (64 kph). 

“The fact that these barriers were 

ordered well in advance of the tragedy 

in Nice is indicative of the great 

foresight and planning that is undertaken 

by the United States Secret 

Service,” avows Greg Hamm, 

Delta Scientific vice president of 

sales and marketing. “Not only are 

these portable barriers being used at 

this year’s conventions, they were at 

both political conventions in 2012 

in Tampa and Charlotte as well as 

at the following Inauguration. Last 

September, here in Philadelphia, 

they protected the Pope on his visit 

to the United States.” 

The totally self-contained 

MP5000s tow into position to control 

vehicle access within 15 minutes. 

No excavation or sub-surface 

preparation is required. Once positioned, 

the mobile barricades will 

unpack themselves by using hydraulics 

to raise and lower the barriers 

off their wheels. DC-powered 

pumps will then raise or lower the 

barriers. 

Delta always keeps an inventory 

of the MP5000s for purchase and 

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quick delivery at their manufacturing 

facility in Palmdale, Calif. 

In many cases, they are needed for 

events that come up quickly, such 

as politician or celebrity visits and 

other unexpected incidents. 

About Delta Scientific 

Delta Scientific Corporation is the 

leading manufacturer of vehicle access 

control equipment with over 

260,000 square feet of production 

facilities in Palmdale, Calif. Delta’s 

three product lines consist of highsecurity 

vehicle barricade systems, 

parking control equipment and 

guard booths. Delta Scientific has 

been engineering and manufacturing 

vehicle access control equipment 

since 1974 and sells its products 

worldwide. 

Corporate headquarters, equipment 

sales, systems engineering 

and technical service are located at 

40355 Delta Lane, Palmdale, Calif. 

93551. Phone is (661) 575-1100. 

Website is www.deltascientific.com. 

Product installation and maintenance 

services are provided through 

Delta’s Fredericksburg, Va. office.


Middle East government agency awards American 

Science and Engineering order to upgrade their ZBV fleet 

with Tx-View for use in counterterrorism applications 

Earlier this year American Science 

and Engineering, Inc 

(NASDAQ:ASEI) (“AS&E”) announced 

the receipt of an order 

from a Middle East government 

agency to upgrade seven of its currently 

deployed ZBV® mobile cargo 

and vehicle inspection systems 

with AS&E’s innovative Tx-View 

option. The Tx-View option provides 

simultaneous dual-energy 

transmission imaging to complement 

the ZBV system’s proven Z 

Backscatter® imaging for enhanced 

detection of metallic threats. The 

ZBV systems with Tx-View will be 

utilized in counterterrorism applications 

to secure high-threat checkpoints, 

facilities, and high-profile 

events. 

“The Tx-View option enhances 

the ZBV system’s detection capabilities 

for vehicle-borne improvised 

explosive devices or VBIEDs, weapons, 

and artillery shells, expanding 

the application reach for military 

and counterterrorism applications,” 

said Chuck Dougherty, AS&E’s 

President and CEO. “Tx-View — 

like the CarView portal and the 

next generation Z Portal® system 

— is another new, multi-technology 

offering that leverages our innovative 

wavelength-shifting fiber 

(WSF) X-ray detector technology 

to further differentiate AS&E in the 

security detection market.” 

ZBV with Tx-View: Dual-energy 

transmission option for the ZBV 

system 

AS&E’s Tx-View option for ZBV 

provides Customs and security officials 

with the lowest cost, most 

versatile, multi- technology, mobile 

cargo and vehicle screening 

system available today. Deployed 

quickly and easily, the Tx-View option 

is completely self-contained in 

a trailer for storage and transport. 

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ZBV with Tx-View uses patented 

wavelength-shifting fiber (WSF) 

X-ray detector technology to provide 

dual-energy transmission 

imaging for material discrimination. 

WSF detector technology 

has enabled the development of 

more powerful, efficient, compact, 

and rugged AS&E X-ray systems. 

Watch a single operator set-up the 

Tx-View. 

ZBV: Proven detection results 

and an unmatched reputation for 

reliability and effectiveness 

The ZBV system is the number-one 

selling cargo and vehicle screening 

system in the world. With nearly 

800 systems sold to date, AS&E’s 

ZBV system is used by leading government 

agencies, border authorities, 

law enforcement personnel, 

military organizations, and security 

agencies in more than 65 countries. 

Since its introduction, the ZBV system 

has consistently received the 

highest marks for quality, reliability, 

performance, and safety with a 

proven record of detection results.

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Block MEMS Wins $9.8M Government 

Contract for Standoff Detection of 

Chemical Threats 

MARLBOROUGH, MA, July 6, 

2016 – Block MEMS, a leading developer 

of Quantum Cascade Laser 

(QCL) based infrared detection 

systems, has been awarded a $9.8M 

contract from the Intelligence Advanced 

Research Projects Activity 

(IARPA) to develop a system that 

can detect trace quantities of chemicals 

at standoff distances of at least 

100 ft. The award is part of IARPA’s 

Standoff Illuminator for Measuring 

Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared 

Light Signatures (SILMARILS) 

program and is managed by the U.S. 

Air Force Research Laboratory at 

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 

Ohio. 

Dr. Anish Goyal, Block’s VP of 

Technology and Principal Investigator 

of the contract, commented, 

“Standoff detection of trace chemicals, 

such as explosive residues, 

chemical warfare agents and toxic 

industrial materials, is a critical 

unmet need within the Intelligence 

Community, Department of Defense, 

and Department of Homeland 

Security. There are also many 

commercial applications for sensitive, 

standoff chemical detection. 

Block’s QCL technology combined 

with advanced data analytics makes 

it possible to meet the challenging 

performance goals of the SILMAR- 

ILS Program.” 

Under this contract, Block will develop 

a new class of widely tunable, 

high-pulse energy Quantum Cascade 

Lasers and also next-generation 

detection algorithms to detect 

and identify hundreds of chemicals 

on a wide range of surfaces. Block 

has previously been successful in 

demonstrating standoff chemical 

detection capability under several 

prior government programs and 

this award will significantly advance 

the technology for use in real-world 

situations. 

Dr. Petros Kotidis, CEO of Block, 

added, “Block is very pleased to 

receive this award and grateful to 

IARPA for their confidence in our 

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technologies and products. Block 

has strong capabilities in developing 

sophisticated standoff chemical 

detectors and deep, decades-long 

understanding of infrared spectroscopy. 

We really look forward to 

expanding the operating envelope 

of our chemical detection systems 

through this award and providing 

more tools to the intelligence community 

and to the warfighter.” 

About Block MEMS LLC 

Block MEMS, LLC is an engineering 

and development company focusing 

on the R&D of high performance 

Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) 

and FTIR spectrometers. Block 

MEMS has been awarded numerous 

government contracts over the 

past decade for the application of its 

technologies toward the detection 

of explosives, buried IEDs, chemical 

warfare agents, toxic industrial 

materials and chemical clouds. Both 

standoff and sampling systems have 

been developed and delivered to the 

government for additional testing 

and evaluation. For example, Block’s 

PORTHOS (TM) is a man-portable, 

passive FTIR spectrometer system 

that remotely detects chemical 

threats as far as three miles away 

and protects against chemical warfare 

agents and weapons of mass 

destruction. LaserWarn (TM) is 

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Implant Sciences announces letter of intent to acquire Zapata 

Industries, plan to extinguish debt and uplist to NASDAQ 

Zapata’s breakthrough disruptive technology makes personal flight a commercial 

reality - the dawn of an exciting new industry 

WILMINGTON, MA, July 21, 2016 

/PRNewswire/ – Implant Sciences 

Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a 

leading manufacturer of explosives 

trace detection (ETD) solutions for 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) applications, is pleased to 

announce the signing of a letter 

of intent to acquire Zapata 

Industries SAS of Marseilles, 

France. Zapata is a profitable 

and debt-free company with 

commercial, defense, and 

homeland security technology 

applications. 

Zapata Industries (www. 

zapata-industries.com) is 

the undisputed leader in developing 

and manufacturing single user 

hydro-and jet-powered technologies 

and products. Zapata’s proprietary 

methodology, algorithms, and 

patented designs are currently commercialized 

and in development 

within recreation, entertainment, 

military, medical, and industrial 

sectors. 

In 2016 Zapata achieved its proof 

of concept milestone by producing 

the safest, most reliable, lightest, 

fastest, and least expensive personal 

flight system ever created with the 

unveiling of the Flyboard Air®. The 

Flyboard Air® utilizes Zapata Industries’ 

proprietary algorithms and 

balance methodology to direct jet 

engines to act both independently 

and harmoniously. This unique 

technology not only provides unparalleled 

maneuverability speed 

and ease of use but it also provides 

full flight redundancy, making the 

platform as safe as any airplane with 

as little as 20 hours of training. Zapata 

Industries can commercialize 

its breakthrough technology 

with products ranging from flying 

medical stretchers and Jetbikes to 

floating rescue stations, scaffoldings 

and unmanned heavy payload 

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delivery drones. The performance 

parameters of the Flyboard Air® 

provide undisputed proof that Zapata 

technology is commercially 

viable for advanced applications 

within the military, industrial, and 

medical fields. Aviation Experts see 

this revolutionary transportation 

platform as meaningfully 

disruptive to the air transportation 

industry. Early industry 

reaction to the Flyboard Air®, 

has been overwhelming and the 

Flyboard Air® has become an internet 

sensation. Digital Trends, 

April 14, 2016, calls it “awesome 

beyond words … we see no limit 

to the future of a device like the 

Flyboard Air, including search and 

rescue, military applications and of 

course, the best way to get to just 

about anywhere.” (http://www.digitaltrends.com/dt-daily/hoax-orbreakthrough-flyboard-air-videosstun-the-internet/) 

See the following video, Zapata 

Industries — The Leader in Personal 

Flight & Aviation: https://youtu. 

be/_A0sdkZ4Vlk 

Implant Sciences continues to

evolve and innovate to provide leading 

edge Homeland and Defense Security 

Solutions and has emerged as 

the market leader in Explosive Trace 

Detection (ETD) technologies. Late 

last year, the company announced 

that it had begun a process to evaluate 

strategic opportunities in response 

to its rapid growth (400% in 

2016) and changing market conditions. 

While the Board continues to 

evaluate a number of offers it has received 

to sell the ETD business, the 

company believes that the opportunity 

afforded by the acquisition 

of Zapata Industries, with its revolutionary 

technology and robust 

growth, will build on the success 

achieved with the ETD business and 

add significant shareholder value to 

allow the company to remain a leading 

innovator for Homeland Security 

and Defense technologies. 

The company’s agreement with 

Zapata, subject to shareholder approval, 

positions the company to 

emerge debt-free (pending the restructuring 

which could include a 

sale of the ETD business or a capital 

raise) with at least $20 million 

in cash for working capital on the 

balance sheet in exchange for $15 

million, 60% equity and 50 million 

warrants exercisable at $1.50 per 

share. Upon conclusion of the restructuring 

and meeting NASDAQ 

listing requirements, the company 

will pursue an uplisting to the NAS- 

DAQ Marketplace. 

Robert Liscouski, President and 

Board Member of Implant Sciences, 

commented, “The potential 

acquisition of 

Zapata brings Implant 

Sciences a best-in-class 

personal balance and 

flight technology that 

has far reaching military 

and consumer applications. 

We are beyond 

excited to have 

visionaries like Franky 

Zapata and his team on board and 

we are thrilled to allow for shareholders 

to benefit from the many 

breakthrough products he has already 

invented and the new innovations 

he will be unveiling in coming 

months and years.” 

Coinciding with this press release, 

the company is filing a detailed 8-K 

in accordance with SEC guidelines. 

About Zapata Industries 

Zapata Industries is the undisputed 

leader in developing and manufacturing 

hydro- and jet-powered technologies 

and products. Zapata’s proprietary 

methodology, algorithms, 

and patented designs are currently 

commercialized and in development 

within the recreation, entertainment, 

military, medical, and industrial 

sectors. 

Zapata Industries’ founder, world 

champion jetski racer Franky Zapata, 

launched Zapata Racing to satisfy 

his passion to invent aftermarket 

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Robert Liscouski, 

President, Implant Sciences 

products to make the world’s fastest 

personal water craft. With unparalleled 

performance, 

Zapata products quickly 

became a racing requirement 

to achieve the competitive 

edge necessary 

to win. With the desire 

to go even faster, Zapata 

shifted focus, and began 

manufacturing the fastest 

sit down and stand 

up jetskis in the racing 

world. 

In 2012 Zapata launched the revolutionary 

Flyboard®, kickstarting 

a niche $200 million Hydroflight 

Sports and Recreation industry. Hydroflight 

is still in its earliest stages 

of growth and development, and the 

unwaning market demand provides 

a view for Zapata’s opportunity to 

further commercialize the industry 

in the coming years. 

In 2016 Zapata achieved it’s proof 

of concept goal producing the safest, 

most reliable, lightest, fastest, 

and least expensive personal flight 

system ever created with the unveiling 

of the Flyboard Air®. The 

Flyboard Air® utilizes Zapata Industries’ 

proprietary algorithms and 

balance methodology to direct jet 

engines to act both independently 

and harmoniously. The performance 

parameters of the Flyboard 

Air® provide undisputed proof that 

Zapata technology is commercially 

viable for advanced applications

within the military, industrial, and 

medical fields. 

About Implant Sciences 

Implant Sciences is a leader in developing 

and manufacturing advanced 

detection capabilities to counter and 

eliminate the ever-evolving threats 

from explosives and drugs. The 

company’s team of dedicated trace 

detection experts has developed 

proprietary technologies used in its 

commercial products, thousands of 

which have been sold across more 

than 70 countries worldwide. The 

company’s explosive trace detection 

products have received approvals 

and certifications from several international 

regulatory agencies, including 

the TSA in the U.S., STAC 

in France, the German Ministry of 

the Interior, and the Ministry of 

Public Safety in China. It also received 

a GSN 2013 Homeland Security 

Award for “Best Explosives 

Detection Solution”. All Implant 

Sciences products are recognized as 

Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technologies 

by the Department of Homeland 

Security. For further details on 

Implant Sciences and its products, 

please visit the Company’s website 

at http://www.implantsciences.com. 

The Need for a National Energy 

Grid Strategy 


also awash in competing demands 

from state and local regulations as 

well as increasing public desires for 

“green” energy. 

Perhaps more importantly, there 

also is a need to modernize the 

100-year-old business model of the 

industry, one that relies on selling 

watts to earn revenue and requires 

decades-long massive infrastructure 

investments – neither of which fits 

the growing imperative to harness 

technologies that encourage greater 

user efficiency and greater dependence 

on distributed energy such as 

rooftop solar. And that daunting list 

of challenges doesn’t even include 

the issue of who is going to pay for 

the necessary changes – which include 

everything from more sensors 

and massive data aggregation to the 

newly trained grid operators that 

can assimilate and make best use of 

such data. With estimates of a necessary 

expenditure of $2 trillion in 

upgrades over the next ten to fifteen 

years, surely there should be some 

deliberate consideration given to 

how best to manage all the potential 

promise – and to mitigation of risks 

associated with – the already evolving 

and newly invigorated U.S. electrical 

power delivery system. 

What is needed, then, is some sober 

analysis and a deliberate plan 

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jointly developed by and agreeable 

to industry leaders and the people 

they serve. In other words, the grid 

represents another complex and 

critical area which requires a true 

“public-private partnership”, one 

that can address the issues of system 

design, integration of key factors 

such as smart meters and alternative 

energy sources, and appropriate 

cost-sharing over time. To do any 

less would be a disservice not only 

to the future, but also to the all the 

past good that has been enabled by 

the revolutionary accomplishments 

enabled by widespread and reliable 

access to electrical power. 

J. Michael Barrett is Director of the 

Center for Homeland Security & 

Resilience and a former Director of 

Strategy for the White House Homeland 

Security Council. This article 

is drawn from the author’s recent 

White Paper, “Challenges and Requirements 

for Tomorrows Electrical 

Power Grid”, published by the 

Lexington Institute and available at 

http://lexingtoninstitute.org/wp-con- 

tent/uploads/2016/06/Tomorrows- 

Electrical-Power-Grid.pdf.

Tracking record of statements of 

Clinton on immigration reform 


tention facilities and stop the raids 

and roundups. These actions are 

not consistent with our values. 

Too many children in our country 

say goodbye to their parents every 

morning not knowing if mom and 

dad will be there when we get home. 

I want to do everything I can to keep 

families together.” 

Hilary Clinton clearly understood 

what her audience at LULAC 

wanted to hear and it’s not difficult 

to project herself as more progressive 

on immigration policy than her 

Republican opponent. However, 

if elected, the communities she is 

making commitments to must hold 

her to account and ensure she delivers 

on her promises. 

What you should know about 

Pence’s record on immigrants 


grant policies imperil any campaign 

that seeks the Latino and immigrant 

vote, and that past presidential campaigns 

with a strong anti-immigrant 

platform have failed, Trump seems 

committed to his impractical and 

punishing ways towards immigration 

policy. In this regard, Mike 

Pence makes the perfect running 

mate. 

Supreme Court to hear arguments 

in class action suit by ACLU 


detention – it merely requires that 

immigrants who have been locked 

up for more than six months get a 

chance to go before an immigration 

judge who will decide whether continued 

detention is necessary. Yet 

now, the government is challenging 

the Ninth Circuit in front of the 

Supreme Court, claiming that the 

decision interferes with its ability to 

“secur[e] the border and remov[e] 

serious criminals.” 

The government’s claim is preposterous. 

Providing people with a day 

in court to challenge prolonged immigration 

detention doesn’t prevent 

the government from seeking to deport 

those noncitizens it considers 

enforcement priorities. Instead, the 

decision at issue in this case ensures 

that our immigration courts operate 

within the bounds of the Constitution. 

Noncitizens held in remote detention 

centers are less likely to get 

legal help and successfully explain 

their cases to immigration judges. 

They may give up valid claims simply 

to avoid remaining locked up 

for months or even years while their 

deportation cases proceed through 

the courts. Hopefully, the Supreme 

Court will recognize that immigrants 

in prolonged detention deserve 

their day in court for a bond 

hearing. 

Senate Rejects two anti-immigrant 

bills before going out on recess 


portation, it creates conditions that 

encourage criminals to prey upon 

victims and witnesses alike.” 

Community policing policies also 

help ensure that law enforcement officers 

do not run afoul of the law by 

detaining persons they do not have 

legal authority to hold (i.e., in violation 

of the constitutional requirements 

of the Fourth Amendment as 

many courts have ruled). 

Senator Cruz’s bill which seeks 

to increase mandatory minimums 

for certain immigration penalties, 

would further criminalize immigration 

which has proven to do nothing 

to deter unauthorized immigration 

and would cost tax payers billions. 

According to the Center for American 

Progress (CAP) and the American 

Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 

this provision would cost U.S. taxpayers 

at least $3.1 billion over the 

next decade. 

Instead of spinning their wheels 

on punitive, piecemeal legislation, 

Senators should focus on passing 

more meaningful reforms that move 

our nation forward. 

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Block MEMS Wins $9.8M 

Government Contract 


a QCL-based system that is used 

to protect critical facilities against 

chemical attacks by establishing a 

“chemical trip-wire” using eye-safe 

laser beams. 

About Block Engineering, LLC 

Founded in 1956, Block Engineering, 

LLC is a leading manufacturer 

and marketer of high performance 

Quantum Cascade Laser and Fourier 

Transform Infrared analyzers 

and spectrometers for commercial, 

industrial, military and government 

customers. Block’s unique 

QCL-based analyzers include the 

LaserSense (TM) Gas Analyzer for 

the detection and quantification of 

a wide variety of gases for process 

control and field applications in the 

oil, gas and chemical industries. In 

addition, the LaserWarn (TM) Gas 

Analyzer is used for safety, environmental, 

and fence-line monitoring 

of toxic and fugitive gases over 

a large area. The LaserTune (TM) 

product line of QCL-based Infrared 

Sources is used for corporate research 

and academic markets. 

Block MEMS and Block Engineering 

are affiliated through common 

ownership and share headquarters 

in Marlborough, Massachusetts, 

USA. For more information, visit 

http://www.blockeng.com. 

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