Cleared For Takeoff
Jun 1, 2005
Compared to the complex and challenging technical problems solved by a Navy training facility for pilots in North Carolina, finding a way to improve the...
DOORWAYS TO PROGRESS
Jun 1, 2005
With the recent opening of its Phase V expansion, Florida's Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando became the second-largest convention center...
Simulated Terror
BY MICHAEL FICKES
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, more than a dozen of New York's police and fire officials stared at a burning 70-story building with a jet airplane...
Validating DoD
BY MICHAEL FICKES
The Department of Defense (DoD) may have overcome a major barrier to implementing a secure, government-wide credential for physical and logical access:...
SECURE PASSAGE
BY CAROL CAREY
The breathtakingly beautiful journey across the Niagara River between the United States and Ontario, Canada, has been made significantly more secure by...
Overcoming Signal Barriers
BY MICHAEL FICKES
Enabling wireless communications devices inside high-rise buildings moved to the top of first responder agendas following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
MANAGING MULTIPLE SITES
Feb 1, 2005
Innovations are enabling the Montral Police force to change its approach to law enforcement while advancing its own security. With more than 80 department...
Disaster Hospitals
By Michael Fickes
What would happen if casualties from a bio-terror attack overwhelmed the capacity of hospitals in the surrounding area? Conventional disaster plans authorize...
Cryptography Requirements for Wireless Security
by Roy Pereira
Imagine the confusion if military personnel in the field used wireless devices to update headquarters on an urgent situation, but headquarters ignored...
Addition By Subtraction
Dec 1, 2004
Northborough, Mass., is a quiet community spread across 18.69 square miles of rural splendor in Worcester County. It is home to 14,200 residents and,...
Fewer False Alarms
by Roy Pierce
We go where you go, says the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES). The customers of AAFES are soldiers, airmen and their families on Army and Air...
The First Line of Defense
by James Gompers
The first line of defense against any intrusion to a facility is the perimeter. Concentric rings of protection comprise the strategy for the design and...
Remotely Secured
by Michael Fickes
The City of Pasadena, Calif., is home to nearly 140,000 people and numerous public facilities where 3,000 residents work each day. Among them is a remote...
RFID AT THE DoD
BY MICHAEL FICKES
RADIO TECHNOLOGY is enabling the Department of Defense to streamline and improve the world's largest supply chain...
What is Truth?
by Michael Fickes
New Mexico's Department of Insurance has been using a lie- (or truth-) detection technology to question witnesses and suspects in fraud investigations...
FIGHTING TERROR WITH TECHNOLOGY
BY MICHAEL FICKES
The security technology industry is transforming itself to fight the war on terror. Just three years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, conventional...
Government's Emergency Phone Number
by Michael Fickes
At 6:14 a.m. on July 16, the National Response Center (NRC), a small federal agency, received an emergency call: A tugboat guiding a barge up the St....
HIDING SECURITY IN PLAIN SIGHT
By ROBERT A. CIZMADIA
Given the spread of terrorism in recent decades, and the third year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, it is not surprising that security has become...
Protecting The Protectors
By Carol Carey
Often cited as a retirement and vacation Mecca, Sarasota, Fla., with its 35 miles of beaches and ample opportunities for recreational and cultural activities...
Standing Watch for Liberty
Oct 1, 2004
Just three years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 closed the Statue of Liberty, America's great monument to freedom reopened in August. While closed,...
NEW JERSEY'S MEGA-SYSTEM
JEFF RECHTSTEINER
In New Jersey state government, the Treasury Department's Division of Property Management and Construction is a single end-user, with some 60 client buildings...
Looking Down, Locking Up
JENNIFER PERO
Many people never notice the numerous manholes on sidewalks and streets, but those manholes serve as entryways to the nation's extensive underground infrastructure....
Protecting Against Airborne Chemicals
DEAN PHILPOT
Several months after Sept. 11, the chief engineer of a 40-story office building realized he had a problem. The building had been designed with the outside...
The Blair House Project
Jun 1, 2004
The Blair House is a National Historic Landmark and the official guest house of the President of the United States. Located across from the White House,...
Disposing of Bomb Threats
Grant Haber
Blast mitigation devices, such as bomb-resistant waste receptacles, are being deployed to defend one of the softest terrorist targets. A necessity for...
