Homeland Security

By Calvin Biesecker Cross Match Technologies and L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] have received initial orders for both companies’ 10-print fingerprint systems as part of an upgrade of the Department of […]

The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Movement Possible. A House leadership aide confirmed the House is likely to appoint conferees this week for the defense […]

The Border Patrol will permanently assign intelligence agents to the Coast Guard’s operations center in San Juan Puerto Rico under a new agreement aimed at improving the flow of information […]

A limited trial by the Coast Guard of fingerprint capture and identification technology has helped reduce the flow of illegal immigration by nearly 50 percent in the Mona Passage, which […]

Reveal Imaging Technologies has shipped its first Mobile CT-80 automated Explosive Detection System (EDS) to a government customer in the Middle East for event security at high profile facilities. The […]

Based on its apparent success reducing illegal migrant traffic in the Mona Passage, the Coast Guard soon will expand a biometric pilot project to a dozen of its cutters operating […]

Acro, Inc. [ACRI], which sells a pen-like device that tests for improvised peroxide-based explosives such as TATP, has introduced a similar device called the ACRO-N.E.T., which is a nitro explosive […]

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has postponed a decision on certifying the cost benefits of new radiation detection portal monitors based on the concerns of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), […]

Britain’s QinetiQ has launched OptaSense, a buried cable fiber optic sensor solution that detects multiple, simultaneous disturbances every 10 meters over a 40 kilometer length of installed cable. QinetiQ says […]

Cubic Corp. [CUB] has launched a new business initiative focused on port and maritime security and hopes to assist federal regulators and the domestic and international port and shipping communities […]