Homeland Security News

IDO Security, Inc. exhibits MagShoe(TM) shoes-on scanning device at Israel’s defense and security expo, ISDEF 2011. The MagShoe has already been successfully installed, among other places, at the Israeli Parliament House - (Knesset), Ben Gurion - Israeli International Airport and at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.

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Difficulty of the U.K. authorities to deal with gang violence that has taken over the London streets in the recent weeks once again demonstrates that law enforcement needs new approaches to prevent and fight the crime. Help may come from rather obscure academic field - Semantic Graph Database (SGD).
A few months ago, in April [...]

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The FBI has announced a new technology designed to revolutionize law enforcement’s ability to process fingerprints. The Next Generation Identification System (NGI), built by Lockheed Martin, delivers an incremental replacement of the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). NGI provides automated fingerprint and latent search capabilities, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints [...]

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Mantissa Ltd., a small Israeli startup company, announced successfull completion of the demo stage of its miniature radar, the size of a household camera. The patented system includes a sensor that combines high-frequency millimeter wave technology with innovative software algorithms that enable the radar to function in all weather and to identify threats with [...]

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Biomatrica, Inc., a developer of room temperature biostability technology, announced a strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT). Biomatrica has developed SampleMatrix® technology which has pioneered recent innovations in ambient storage of biological samples from purified DNA, RNA, and proteins as well as in complex systems such as tissue, cell lines, biopsies and whole blood.
SampleMatrix® [...]

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Designing and maintaining databases for homeland security and defense applications is a challenge of cosmic proportions, considering a number of requirements to meet:

Resilience
Scalability
Speed of data access
No single point of failure
Distributed data acquisition and common data sharing
Managing massive unstructured data

For example, rapid image acquisition and analysis is an important initial source of information that can detail [...]

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In-Q-Tel (IQT), the venture arm of CIA, has announced a strategic investment and development agreement with Cleversafe Inc., a provider of resilient storage solutions for storage clouds to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The Cleversafe platform is ideal for storing mission critical data by addressing the core principles of data confidentiality, [...]

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Market Research Media Ltd, a technology market research firm, reports upsurge in demand for Deep Packet Inspection technology from U.S. Government agencies. According to Deep Packet Inspection (DPI): U.S. Government Market Forecast 2010-2015, the U.S Government will invest about $7 Billion in deployment of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology in 2010 - 2015 to protect [...]

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U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010-2015

Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a provider of managed IT infrastructure services, has launched cloud-enabled disaster recovery services. Terremark’s Virtualized Disaster Recovery solution provides disaster recovery solution, which supports a variety of operating systems and enterprise applications and databases, customers protection for their business-critical environments without the [...]

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The Canadian Government has announced investment of more than $35 million in the following new research projects in the fields of CBRN protection. These projects will improve Canada’s ability to withstand potential chemical, biological, radiological-nuclear and explosives threats.

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