Business / Finance

  • UAV updateFlying ambulance: UAV will extract wounded soldiers from the battlefield

    There is one more mission being added to the ever-expanding list of operational, intelligence, surveillance, law-enforcement, first response, and disaster recovery missions assigned to UAVs: evacuating critically injured casualties directly from the battlefield to the hospital

  • Smiths Detection's mid-sized X-ray system added to TSA's Air Cargo Screening Qualified List

    By August 2010, all cargo carried on passenger planes will have to be screened; Smiths Detection's latest addition to its list of cargo screening machines -- a pallet-sized scanner -- is the company's sixth technology approved to help shippers meet TSA August 2010 100 percent air cargo screening deadline

  • World's first practical jetpack commercially available for $75,000

    Kiwi company Martin Aircraft is offering the world's first commercial jetpacks; the machine is expected to revolutionize the military and be taken up by emergency services; the jetpack travels for about 30 minutes on a five-gallon tank of premium gasoline, has top speeds of 60 mph, and reaches heights of 2,400 meters (about 1.5 miles)

  • Security professionals -- ISC West, March 23-26, 2010, Las Vegas

  • Shape of things to comeNew surveillance camera offers panoramic view, zoom-in capabilities

    Not unlike the surveillance cameras that tracked Will Smith's every move in the movie "Enemy of the State," Adaptive Imaging Technologies' "panoramic telescope" may yet revolutionize the field of surveillance: the camera can, at the same time, monitor a panoramic field of view and zoom in on any spot in real time with exceptional clarity

  • Tiny sensor "listens" to gunshots to identify source of fire and type of weapon

    The sensor, developed by a Dutch company, is smaller than the head of a match, made of two 200-nanometer-thick, 10-micrometer-wide platinum strips that are heated to 200 degrees Celsius; the sensor does not truly “listen” to sounds; rather, it senses air particles that flow past the platinum strips and cool them unevenly

  • Proposed bill calls for ID card for U.S. workers to curb illegal immigration

    Advocates of immigration reform are pushing for a bill in the Senate which would create a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain; the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand; employers will not be able to hire applicants who do not present a valid ID

  • Border Security Expo & Conference, Phoenix, Arizona – April 23 & 24, 2010

  • Seeing through the Earth's crust, clearlyGeospatial Corporation maps the world under the Earth's crust

    Pennsylvania-based Geospatial Corporation -- company's motto: "Mapping the underground / Managing the global infrastructure" -- offers a solution which creates detailed 3D maps of underground regions; the Pentagon has already contracted Geospatial to create 3D maps of the deep earth beneath their "critical facilities"

  • Boeing develops Phantom Eye UAV, hopes for bigger share of UAV market

    The unmanned aircraft market is currently dominated by Northrop Grumman and General Atomic; Boeing wants to change that, and it is working on the Phantom Eye -- a UAV with a 150-foot wingspan which will carry a payload of as much as 450 pounds up to 65,000 feet in altitude; the UAV will be powered by a hydrogen-fueled Ford compact truck engine

  • Passive millimeter-wave technology promoted as solving privacy, health concerns

    There are three leading technologies in whole-body scanning: backscatter X-ray, active millimeter wave, and passive millimeter wave; the first raises privacy issue; the second raises health concerns; Florida-based Brijot, a champion of passive millimeter wave, says its technology addresses both sets of concerns

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  • Homeland security incubator opens on Long Island

    The Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, Long Island, occupies a 90,000-square foot facility which once was Grumman Plant 5; the lunar module was built there in the 1960s and 1970s

  • CybersecurityFBI: Cyber-terrorism a real and growing threat to U.S.

    FBI director Robert Mueller: "The risks are right at our doorsteps and in some cases they are in the house"; Richard Clarke, former White House terrorism czar: "Every major company in the U.S. and Europe has been penetrated -- it's industrial warfare"

  • CybersecurityU.S. unveils cybersecurity strategy

    The Obama administration on Tuesday declassifies part of the secret cybersecurity plan aiming to bolster U.S. cyberdefenses; the plan has twelve directives that cover the government’s strategy to protect U.S. networks -- including military, civilian, government networks, and critical infrastructure systems -- as well as the government’s offensive strategy to combat cyberwarfare

  • IBM completes acquisition of NISC

    IBM is strengthening its position in the security services market by National Interest Security Company, a privately held company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia; (NISC), which has 1,000 employees, has expertise in systems engineering, biometrics, document and media exploitation, systems integration, software development, enterprise architecture, security, information assurance, analysis support, and critical infrastructure protection

  • Unisys withdraws protest to GAO over TSA's ITIP contact

    Unisys filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over the awarding the TSA's Information Technology Infrastructure Program (ITIP) contract to Computer Sciences Corp; the ITIP award has been worth over $1 billion to Unisys and going forward was valued at $500 million over five years to run TSA’s information technology infrastructure; Unisys has now withdrawn the protest

  • ISC West: Premier security event, showcase for the latest security technology

    ISC West is the premier showcase for security technology and solutions; more than 20,000 attendees, and nearly 1,000 exhibitors will meet in Las Vegas to exhibit -- and to examine -- the best and the latest in security technology

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The Long View

  • TrendGlobal UAV sales boom, but South Africa's UAV sector flounders

    South Africa was among the world's leaders in designing and manufacturing UAVs; UAVs are the most dynamic segment growth sector in the global aerospace industry; South Africa could have benefited from the growing interest in UAVs, lack of investment in R&D and in finished products may cause South Africa to abdicate the UAV lead it once held

  • Spyware big seller in China

    The Chinese government no longer has a monopoly over domestic spying; sales of James Bond-like hidden surveillance tools such as cameras disguised as pens or buttons to companies and individuals soar

  • The business of innovationEconomists: Markets outperform patents in promoting intellectual discovery

    Researchers say that the problem with patents is that they give the prize to the winner only; whoever comes in second or third walks away empty-handed; allowing people to benefit even if they only tackle a part of a problem might well lead to more collaboration, and to the faster development of an ultimate solution to the whole problem

  • India's private security companies flourish

    As a result of the Mumbai attacks, the Indian private security industry has been growing by leaps and bounds; already the country's private security force numbers 5 million, 1.3 million more than India's police forces

  • The 25 most dangerous places for offshore outsourcing

    Are you thinking about outsourcing your company's back-room work to companies in Bogota, Bangkok, or Johannesburg? Think again; here is a list of the 25 worst outsourcing cities

  • Calm amid the stormNorthrop Grumman is attractive

    Northrop Grumman is in a good position, as they really only need to perform as "average" to deserve a higher stock price appreciation; as the worst performing of the "big" defense contractors in 2008, it should be the year for a turnaround at Northrop

  • Globalization and its discontentsRegulators cannot cope with food counterfeiting, contamination

    New worry: Between the extremes of accidentally contaminated food and terrorism via intentional contamination, lies the counterfeiter, seeking not to harm but to hide the act for profit