Updates

Homeland Security Executive Launches Strategic Homeland Consulting Firm

Provisum Strategies services will include assisting clients with preparedness strategy and planning, state and local grants, exercise and training, critical infrastructure protection, crisis management, emergency response, and much more.

TSA Unveils Backscatter Technology Testing at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

TSA's privacy-filtered image looks like a chalk outline of the person's body, and shows any concealed items - including weapons, explosives, and various metallic and non-metallic threat items.

DHS Secretary Chertoff Notes Progress on Border During Visit to Yuma, Arizona

DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that, as a result of the success of the border measures taken, increases in the number of Border Patrol agents annually deployed to the Arizona border during summer months.

Transportation Security Agency (TSA) Joins National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to Launch AMBER Alert at Nation's Airports

"Our 43,000 TSOs come in direct contact with two million passengers each day," said Kip Hawley, TSA administrator. "By putting TSOs on alert to a potential child abduction, we greatly increase the effectiveness of the AMBER Alert distribution."

Bruker Daltonics to Introduce RAID-AFM Autonomous Facility Monitor for Chemical Agents and Toxic Chemicals at PITTCON 2007

The RAID-AFM is designed to monitor large buildings and other facilities for accidents or attacks involving toxic industrial chemicals and/or chemical warfare agents.

Embassies Upgrading Perimeter Security with Delta Barriers

U.S. embassies, including those in Beijing, Sarajevo, Vienna and certain cities in Germany, Greece, Macedonia and Saudi Arabia, are upgrading vehicle control access by installing Delta's most advanced DSC501 and DSC2000 shallow foundation barriers.

Schlage Wireless Access Solution Rescues Parker Fire District

The wireless on-line locking system solution seamlessly integrates into the access control panel, eliminating wire between the lock and the access control panel and providing a complete solution at each opening.

FBI Announces Contract Award in Information-Sharing Program

N-DEx will allow for the sharing of complete, accurate, timely, and useful criminal-justice information across jurisdictional boundaries and will provide new investigative tools that enhance the nation's ability to fight crime and terrorism.

IBI Announces Expansion of Senior Management Team

IBI announced the expansion of its Senior Management Team to increase the breadth of resources dedicated to the commercialization of the technology used to develop rapid, ultra-sensitive tests that detect harmful pathogens.

WHO reports some promising results on avian influenza vaccines

Experts meeting on advances in pandemic influenza vaccine development reported encouraging progress.