Cubic Global Tracking Solutions has been awarded a contract of approximately $3.5 million for the U.S. Army to expand the use of the Next Generation Wireless Communications (NGWC) solution, which employs Cubic's wireless mesh network, for yard management applications at three U.S. bases in Kuwait.
President Barack Obama has declared December as Critical Infrastructure Protection Month. During Critical Infrastructure Protection Month, Americans should reflect on their collective responsibility to protect the vital systems and assets that sustain the nation and the American people. Strengthening U.S. national security and resilience is a task for all Americans.
ElanTech has announced that the software Version 1.1 of its Incident Management Decision Support System (IMDSS) is now available. IMDSS provides an innovative web-based software product for simple, secure information sharing to incident response teams.
The Public Safety Alliance (PSA) has announced that it is pleased that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee took action to allocate 10 MHz of spectrum within the 700 MHz band, or D block, to public safety while providing up to $6.5 billion for construction of a nationwide 20 MHz interoperable public safety broadband network for the nation's first responders.
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's commitment to enhance the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's chemicals management program and increase transparency, the agency is making hundreds of studies available to the public on chemicals that previously had been treated as confidential business information (CBI). It is hoped that releasing this data will expand the public's access to critical health and safety information on chemicals that are manufactured and processed in the United States itself.
American Technologies Network (ATN), makers of military, law enforcement, security and outdoor night vision, and thermal applications, is introducing the latest product in their ThOR series of thermal optical rifle scopes; the ATN ThOR-320. The new ATN ThOR-320 is the smallest, most compact, and lightweight thermal optical rifle scope of the ThOR series.
Program Global Shield is an international effort to eliminate the smuggling of chemicals used in attacks like these. Conceptualized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2010, the program is being led by the World Customs Organization (WCO) in partnership with Interpol and the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime.
Nixle Connect allows Newark Police to communicate with the public via text/SMS, e-mail, and Internet posts at no cost. Communications can range from emergency alerts to routine day-to-day information (traffic and missing persons reports, safety tips, crime information, community outreach programs, news about various agencies, etc.).
"The United States is strongly committed to working with our European partners to combat threats to our mutual security and economic stability," said Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. "Together, we will continue joint efforts to enhance information sharing, strengthen cybersecurity and ensure the security and resilience of our global supply chain systems against terrorism and transnational crime."
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate praised the Senate for confirming Ernest Mitchell Jr. as the Administrator of the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). USFA, a component of FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is the lead federal entity responsible for providing support to the nation's fire departments and fire services organizations.
