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to locate historic shipwrecks and
map other underwater sites of significance.
Evgeniy Pozharsky is a Polish
patriot. He has taken it upon himself
to try and locate and remove
as many UXO as possible from his
native land. Using his Fisher Pulse
10 metal detector with a detection
range of over 2 meters, Evgeniy has
searched lakes, rivers and fields all
over the country. Through hard
work and dogged determination he
has been able to locate a and recover
a significant number of WWII munitions
from sites on land and underwater.
Evgeniy has put his life on
the line to ensure no one else will be
killed or injured
by these perilous
weapons.
Law enforcement
agencies
around the
world are acquiring
underwater
metal detectors
(UMD)
to ensure their
dive teams have the right equipment
to effectively do their job. An
essential tool for locating evidence
disposed of in a waterway, metal detectors
routinely assist public safety
divers in finding weapons, shell casings,
stolen objects, and explosive
devices. UMD are so effective, and
their use has become so widespread,
that agencies
training public
safety divers
are developing
courses
on how to best
utilize these
devices. Dive
Rescue International
in Colorado
and Lifeguard
Systems
in New York
offer courses
in aquatic preparedness to ensure
public safety dive teams respond
effectively to water incident scenes.
Their instructors combine knowledge
with experience
in the use
of state of the
equipment. The
detectors both
companies are
using in their
evidence recovery
training
are JW Fishers
Pulse 8X.
Goodhue County Sheriff ’s Office
in Minnesota is employing this
technology in their underwater
search operations. Dive Team Leader
Steve Sutton-Brown reports using
Fishers new SAR-1 detector in a recent
training exercise. “We’re regularly
called on to search for evidence
such as guns, knives, bullet casings,
etc. We generally dive in visibility
that is zero to one foot, which is one
of the reasons we choose this machine.
In this exercise we planted a
pistol on the lake bottom. The diver
was given only an approximate area
of where the weapon might be, just
as would happen in a real call out.
Although visibility was almost zero,
each diver was able to quickly located
the weapon. The high intensity
LED light bar was fairly easy to see
and the vibration feature was appreciated
by all. We really like that
there are no exposed wires since we
already have enough entanglement
issues to deal with. The consensus
is; the SAR-1 works awesome!”
For more information on JW Fishers
complete line of underwater
search equipment go to www.jwfishers.com.
Raytheon wins $375M contract to
modernize Air Force air and space
operations centers
Dave Wajsgras
HAMPTON, VA April 26, 2017 The
U.S. Air Force Materiel Command
has awarded Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) a contract with an initial
value of up to $375 million over
six years to sustain and modernize
the Air and Space Operations
Center Weapon System,
or AOC WS. Under
the contract, Raytheon will
update the existing AOC WS
baseline software and develop
and deploy new software
upgrades to improve air and
space command and control
operations.
Air and Space Operations Centers
provide a strategic capability for the
U.S. Air Force with operators at 22
global locations using the AOC WS
to command and control aircraft
through all of the Air Force’s critical
missions.
“Raytheon will use our unmatched
cyber, automation and analytics expertise
to modernize the Air Force’s
weapons system, providing an advantage
in everything from security to
actionable insight in the digital battlespace,”
said Dave Wajsgras, president
of Raytheon Intelligence, Information
and Services.
“Raytheon’s innovative modernization
through sustainment approach
incrementally improves systems without
interruption to critical missions,”
said Todd Probert, vice president of
Mission Support and Modernization
at Raytheon IIS. “In addition, the use
of software development best
practices, such as Agile and
DevOps, speeds up the delivery
of these systems to the
warfighter.”
Raytheon is hiring for the
new team based in Hampton,
Virginia. Open positions include
system architects, software
developers, cyber engineers, IT
help desk and more.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales
of $24 billion and 63,000 employees,
is a technology and innovation leader
specializing in defense, civil government
and cybersecurity solutions.
With a history of innovation spanning
95 years, Raytheon provides state-ofthe-art
electronics, mission systems
integration, C5ITM products and
services, sensing, effects, and mission
support for customers in more than
80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered
in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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For proactive security,
build an aquarium
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requires us to build an aquarium
again – a fusion of technologies that
provide speed and accuracy, and are
simple for the end-user.
The most secure and convenient
biometric technology identity verification
must use ‘the power of fusion.’
By fusing face recognition,
body behavior analytics – including
height, gait and body type – and
even voice recognition, we create a
fusion that is highly accurate, and
does not require a user to stop for
identification. This fusion of sensors
allows us to understand a person’s
identity in real-time, with high accuracy
and speed.
Building this aquarium and utilizing
a fusion of technologies for
multimodal biometrics, we can
make identification and secure access
simple and secure. And most
importantly, we can apply the power
of fusion to prevent incidents before
they happen.