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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
General Mike DeWine
and Battelle President and
CEO Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth
announced today a groundbreaking
Next Generation Sequencing
(NGS) project at the
Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau
of Criminal Investigation
(BCI) Laboratory in London,
Ohio. NGS will enhance BCI’s
DNA testing capabilities in solving
missing persons cases in Ohio.
“This will position BCI to be a
national leader in DNA forensics,”
said Ohio Attorney General Mike
DeWine. “I am proud to work with
Battelle on the future applications
of this cutting-edge technology
because it’s a clear benefit to Ohio
families of missing loved ones. With
NGS at BCI, we hope to generate
faster DNA results and obtain an expanded
range of DNA information
to help investigators make identifications.”
Headquartered in Columbus, Battelle
has spent five years implementing
NGS technology in the field for
the U.S. Department of Defense and
was chosen to lead a National Institute
of Justice (NIJ) project evaluating
NGS methods in forensic labs
around the country.
BCI and Battelle forensic scientists
are now working together in
the BCI London lab to validate and
implement NGS technology in the
BCI laboratory with the hope that
this new technology can be used
in Ohio missing persons forensic
cases.
“Collaborating with the Ohio Attorney
General’s Office and the illustrious
BCI laboratory is a great
opportunity for our scientists who
are advancing this important technology,”
said Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth.
“It puts Ohio in the leadership position
of doing what others in the
nation have not yet achieved and
aligns with Battelle’s core mission
of investing in original research that
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will provide societal benefits.”
Solving missing persons
cases requires testing of DNA
from human remains, often
degraded tissue or weathered
bones. The human remains
are then compared with DNA
samples from potential family
members of missing loved
ones. Specialized DNA testing
required in these cases is not
currently available at BCI. The specialized
testing is done at a federallyfunded
out-of-state lab, which can
take up to six months for results, a
long time for a family to wait.
With this partnership, NGS testing
will be done at the BCI laboratory
in London, speeding up results.
And while the current specialized
testing does not always return results
if samples are extremely degraded,
NGS testing can often do
better and return a DNA profile.
The goal is to solve more missing
persons investigations for Ohio
families. Currently, there are approximately
600 missing children
and 600 missing adults in Ohio.
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To find out more about Ohio’s
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About BCI
BCI includes investigations, laboratory
and identification divisions.
Last year, BCI labs (London, Richfield,
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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
implement large-scale modernization
programs.
At the same time, the grid is a very
large system, with a long list of items
that need to be replaced for a variety
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of reasons including: physical wear
and tear, technical obsolescence,
and the critical importance of meeting
the security and power surety
needs of Americans in the 21st century.
This includes everything from
integration of environmentally
friendly alternative means of power
generation to replacing the beyondexpected-service-life
equipment
such as the large power transformers,
as well as the two-way communications
built into smart meters
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
roadmap to get the nation from
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
Immigration and Border Security
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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Immigration and Border Security
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
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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.
Immigration and Border Security
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
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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
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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.
Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection
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
Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection
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.
Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection
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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Perimeter Protection/Intrusion Detection
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
Continued from page 10
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
Continued from page 24
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
Continued from page 25
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
Continued from page 26
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
Continued from page 30
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
Continued from page 38
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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