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Military & Aerospace
U.S. military researchers are reaching out to industry to find relative mature harbor and port security technologies able to detect and track swimmers and divers violating security perimeters in heavily protected harbors. Officials of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office in Falls Church, Virginia issued a request for information recently (RRTO-19-1-RFI-01) for the Stiletto/Thunderstorm Technology Demonstration set for next February in Key West, Florida.
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NMLEA
The Academy is sponsoring the 6th Annual Maritime Security West Conference in San Diego Aug. 27–29.Christopher Coyle, our Director of Cyber Risk Management, will be presenting a workshop on Cybersecurity Risk Identification and Management, and will also be presenting the NMLEA sponsored National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) Maritime Domain Awareness Excellence Award
2018 Port Security Grant allocations to be announced
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NMLEA
The public final allocation announcement for 2018 Port Security Grants is currently scheduled for Friday, 24 August. The PSG field review concluded on July 13 with all the local USCG Captain of the Ports across the nation reviewing and scoring of 776 investment justifications requesting $215 Million in funding (there is $100 million available). FEMA conducted an administrative/budget review as well as hosted a national concurrence review with participation from MARAD, TSA, and USCG Headquarters. FEMA was scheduled to provide funding recommendations to the Secretary of Homeland Security for approval the week of 6 August. This will be followed by final allocations briefings to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees this week (the week of 13 August), as well as to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and House Committee on Homeland Security the week of 20 August. The public final allocation announcement is currently scheduled for Friday, 24 August.
San Francisco Chronicle
The Los Angeles subway will become the first mass transit system in the country to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said recently. The use of the portable scanners, which project waves to do full-body screenings of passengers walking through a station without slowing them down, will begin in the coming months, said Alex Wiggins, who runs the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's law enforcement division.
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Reuters
Hackers operating from an elite Chinese university probed American companies and government departments for espionage opportunities following a U.S. trade delegation visit to China earlier this year, security researchers told Reuters. Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said the group used computers at China's Tsinghua University to target U.S. energy and communications companies, and the Alaskan state government, in the weeks before and after Alaska's trade mission to China. Led by Gov. Bill Walker, companies and economic development agencies spent a week in China in May.
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Reuters
Five adults charged with abusing 11 children at a New Mexico compound, where they were found ragged and starving, were training those children to use firearms to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents. The principal suspect, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, also was charged with abducting his 3-year-old son from his home in Atlanta last December, prompting a cross-country manhunt that led authorities to the compound they raided north of Taos, New Mexico.
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By Bambi Majumdar
In Florida, database integration will be the new tool to combat school shootings. Following the Parkland tragedy, state authorities convened and passed a law to this effect. A centralized database will be created to help officers and school authorities prevent such shootings in future. One of the significant catalysts for this move was the fact that the Parkland shooter had left many warning signs in his social media posts that were overlooked.
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eWeek
Cyber-security can be stressful job, which should come as a surprise to no one who works in the IT industry. But what precisely is the impact of stress on work performance in cyber-security? That's a question that the U.S. National Security Agency has attempted to answer.
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Bloomberg
China is developing a satellite system that will allow it to closely watch the South China Sea, the China News Service reported, helping it to consolidate control over the disputed waters. The first of 10 satellites is expected to be launched in the second half of 2019, China News said, citing the Sanya Institute of Remote Sensing, which is heading the project with sponsorship from the government of Hainan, China’s southernmost island province.
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