Commonwealth of Kentucky Launches Public Safety Network With Harris Stratex Networks
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 11  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Commonwealth of Kentucky last week tested the first traffic on its new high- capacity, digital wireless information network designed to support public safety communications and a wide range of voice, video and data services.
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DigitalNet Holdings Inc. of Herndon will provide fingerprint identification services to the Homeland Security Department under a new $25 million contract.
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By JEFFREY KELLEY  A new company specializing in an advanced technology called IPv6 wants to educate people about that acronym.  To do it, Herndon-based Command Information Inc.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Mar. 14-- -- A task force recruiting a 1,000-job spent nuclear fuel recycling plant is using a new Web site, speakers' bureau, community meetings and 65,000 color fact sheets to take its case to the public.
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The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a private, non-profit organization that lends its support to the Department of Homeland Security&#39;s (DHS) efforts in promoting computer security, is using the month of October to reach out to the Internet
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sept. 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Africa Aerospace, hall #8, booth B5) - Harris Corporation  today introduced the RF-300U, its new Secure Personal Radio (SPR) for the worldwide market.
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Blog: Some towns are using public safety grants for law enforcement wireless networks to cover their initial costs for building a broadband infrastructure.
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(InfoWorld) - A coalition of technology and telecommunications vendors will oppose a plan to give public safety agencies across the U.S. new wireless spectrum, saying it could jeopardize an agreement already in place that would provide spectrum for interoperable emergency communications by early 2009. Members of the High Tech DTV Coalition on Tuesday sent a letter to leaders in the U.S. Congress urging them to reject a proposal that would carve out 30MHz of wireless spectrum for public safety interoperability, instead sticking to legislation passed last year that would give emergency response agencies 24MHz of spectrum. The legislation requires U.S. television stations to move from analog broadcasts to digital television, or DTV. The alternate plan, advanced by Cyren Call Communications, could endanger the compromises in the Digital Television Transition Act, representatives of the High Tech DTV Coalition said at a press conference. Debate over the Cyren Call proposal, echoed in a January proposal from Senator John McCain, could push back by years the date when spectrum is available to emergency responders, said the coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Intel, Dell, and Verizon Wireless. The Cyren Call proposal would take a significant chunk of spectrum slated to be auctioned by the government, with the $10 billion or more in proceeds going for federal deficit reduction and emergency communications interoperability programs, the group said. "We think [the proposal] threatens the progress Congress made last year," said Jeffrey Connaughton, executive director of the coalition. "It's a distraction from what are better solutions for public safety." The High Tech DTV Coalition lobbied hard last year for a bill that frees up spectrum for public safety uses by requiring TV broadcasters to move off the upper 700MHz spectrum band by Feb. 17, 2009. After much debate in Congress, President George Bush signed the bill a year ago. The DTV transition bill represented a fragile compromise, said Jeffrey Eisenach, chairman of Criterion Economics and co-author of a report criticizing the Cyren Call plan. "It would throw, at best, sand in the gears of a process that's been going on for a long time," he said. "I don't think there's a way to unwind this and put it back together simply." The Cyren Call proposal, first advanced last April, calls on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to put 30MHz of spectrum into a "public safety broadband trust" controlled by the agency. The spectrum would be used for commercial purposes after police, fire, and other public safety agencies' needs are met. Representatives of Cyren Call and McCain didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the High Tech DTV Coalition. But McCain, an Arizona Republican, called for the government to do more to help emergency responders when he announced plans for public safety spectrum legislation in January. "If we do not act now, this valuable spectrum will be auctioned off, and this opportunity will be lost forever," McCain said in a statement. McCain has been calling for more public safety spectrum since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. The 9/11 Commission investigating the attacks and their aftermath recommended additional radio spectrum for first responders because police and firefighters on the scene reported being unable to communicate with each other or with rescue vehicles. The Cyren Call proposal has been endorsed by several public safety organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Major Cities Chiefs Association, and National Sheriffs Association.
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Company also plans to launch a business-class Net phone service in Roanoke, Va., as cable providers battle to gain market share.
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By KELLY HOLLERAN  The West Virginia State Police has updated its Web site to make it easier to identify sexually violent predators, information that previously was difficult to find.
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Law Enforcement agencies across the country are adding a new technology known as LPR, or License Plate Recognition, to help them fight crime, child abductions and terrorism.
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By JESSE NOYES  Mayor Thomas M. Menino is expected to announce an expansion of an Internet safety campaign for youth in Boston public schools today, adding a program for local high schoolers to mentor kids about keeping safe online and a brand-new Web site.
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The Department of Homeland Security has launched several new cybersecurity initiatives that it hopes to add to pilot projects and operational systems and that can be deployed throughout the government and the private sector.
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Entrepreneur Vanu Bose says the FCC spectrum auction should include a nationwide public safety network that supports interoperability.
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By Dave Tompkins  LEXINGTON - Social networking, a new term for online personal sites like MySpace and Facebook, is unfamiliar to most people, but Lexington school Superintendent Brent McArdle is committed to educating parents, students and teachers to its dangers.
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In 'Marius' project, helicopters are used to set up temporary SMS networks in the case of a crisis.
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MIAMI, Feb. 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Connected Media Technologies, Inc.  (BULLETIN BOARD: CNCM) , a digital media and content provider, announced today that WHAS 11 in Louisville, Kentucky has renewed its market exclusive subscription to the "SWEEPSFEED" and "HEADSUP!" news services.