Terror Response Technology Report articles

Recent articles from Terror Response Technology Report

Briefing.
May 13, 2009... *President Obama plans to nominate Dr. Tara O'Toole as Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. O'Toole is founder, CEO and Director of the Center for Biosecurity at the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center and has been focused on...

SBInet Construction Begins On Southern Border but Sensor Deployment Awaits DHS Nod.
May 13, 2009... Construction began last Monday on sensor and communication towers along 23 miles of Arizona's border with Mexico for the first deployment of the technology component of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) although the Department of Homeland Security must still approve the use of the cameras...

Cogent Says Not Selected for NGI Fingerprint Matching Effort.
May 13, 2009... Cogent Systems [COGT] says that Lockheed Martin [LMT], the prime contractor for the FBI's next-generation biometric database, did not select if for the fingerprint matching portion of the program. Industry analysts had already begun reporting that Lockheed Martin had selected Sagem...

AMREL Plans to Offer New Handheld Biometric Device for Army Competition.
May 13, 2009... American Reliance, Inc. (AMREL), the first company to introduce notebook computers in the U.S. market in the early 1990s, has been developing a rugged handheld biometric collection device that it plans to submit for an upcoming evaluation by Army testers as part of a potential competition...

Netherlands Forms Public Private Partnership to Aid Security Integration.
May 13, 2009... THE HAGUE--A new public private partnership here is being formed by 19 small and medium-size companies, including several U.S. firms, to improve technology integration and interoperability and also to give these firms access to expertise to better manage their businesses and at the same...