The drill simulated a terrorist attack at the Port of Redwood City, providing an opportunity for city, state, county, and national agencies to train and rehearse their disaster and terrorism preparedness capabilities to meet a large-scale emergency. Over 200 trainees from approximately 20 hospitals, and the University of California San Diego Medical Center, activated the CommandAware web-based incident management system to ensure effective emergency response & collaborative networking for the drill.
Featuring the smallest multi-view footprint available, the ACX6.4-MV is an upgradeable Advanced Technology (AT) platform that provides investment protection through its modular design, which can be easily expanded in the field from one or two views up to a three-view configuration to address emerging threats.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the United States & France have established an arrangement to implement the Immigration Advisory Program (IAP) - which allows for the identification of high-risk travelers at foreign airports before they board aircraft bound for the United States - at Paris' Charles De Gaulle International Airport.
The five call taking positions at the Transylvania County 9-1-1 Center, now equipped with the Sentinel Patriot call processing solution, serve as the primary public safety answering point (PSAP) for handling emergency and administrative calls. The same call processing solutions also are installed on one remote workstation as a backup.
U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China on Supply Chain Security and Facilitation. The CBP-China Customs MOU will serve as a key component of a cooperative security and trade relationship between the two nations' customs agencies.
Avon Protection will supply 7,000 of its CBRN S10 respirators to the Australian Department of Defence (DoD), thereby reinforcing the strong relationship between the two that dates back to the 1990s. The S10 has been, and still is, the trusted respiratory system of the UK MoD (Ministry of Defence). It also continues to play an important part within many other international defence forces, and is widely regarded as offering the highest protection levels of any mask currently in service worldwide.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to the United Arab Emirates, at the invitation of UAE Minister of the Economy Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, to meet with her counterparts from the Middle East region and officials from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to discuss ways to bolster global aviation security.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with its partners in the Water Sector, is sponsoring the second Water Laboratory Alliance (WLA) Security Summit in San Francisco on June 16-17, 2010. The WLA gives the Water Sector an integrated network of laboratories and provides the capabilities needed to analyze water samples in the event of water supply contamination.
ESi helped establish the Embassy's Command Center within 48 hours after the earthquake hit. WebEOC, the world's first Web-enabled emergency management communication software, was used in the Haitian Embassy Command Center to track missing persons, manage volunteers, and accept donations.
Memex Inc., a leading provider of intelligence management, data sharing, and search and analysis solutions, announced its support of the National SAR Initiative (NSI), enabling municipal and state law enforcement agencies to share Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
