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Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video, a business unit of Toshiba America Information, Systems, Inc., today expanded its development of network-centric video surveillance products by unveiling its first wireless two-megapixel IP camera, the IK-WB16A-W.

The Kingdom of Jordan has successfully deployed Intergraph public safety and security incident management software as part of a comprehensive, nationwide homeland security initiative to prevent and respond to local and regional terrorism threats.

On August 31, the White House was forthcoming enough to announce that President Obama had just signed a new Executive Order that supposedly amends the Manual for Courts-Martial, but was not forthcoming enough to explain in any way how these amendments will actually change the rules under which courts-martial are conducted.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that its request to collect additional information from owners and operators of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities about any expansion plans they may be contemplating has recently been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and that the Coast Guard will require this additional information from LNG facilities beginning on September 3.

ArcSight, Inc., a producer of cybersecurity and compliance solutions, has previewed a wide array of new and existing features that will highlight its 6^th annual users’ conference, called Protect ’10, scheduled for September 19-22 in Washington, DC.

Leading the expanded program will be presentations by ArcSight executives Tom Reilly, President and CEO; Dr. Prescott Winter, CTO Public Sector; and Hugh Njemanze, Executive VP of Research and Development, as well as major customers and experts, including:

The folks at the National Protection and Programs Directorate of DHS are offering voluntary online training to improve security at chemical plants in the U.S. and expect about 400,000 employees in the chemical sector to take advantage of this education program.

If those estimates turn out to be accurate, it would mean that approximately 47 percent of the 850,000 chemical industry employees nationwide would take the online training.

The National Biodefense Science Board, an advisory council set up to provide expert advice to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological agents and their effects, will hold a public meeting in the Washington, DC area on September 22 to hear a report from its subcommittee on disaster mental health.

The meeting will run from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, but the precise venue has not yet been announced.

The DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting in Washington, DC, on September 28 to discuss accountability of the department’s compliance assessment process, privacy training at DHS and implementation of DHS privacy policy by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The meeting will be held in the Carl; Hayden Room of the U.S. Government Printing Office at 732 North Capitol Street, NW, 8^th floor, Washington, DC 20401.

The session is scheduled to run from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM, but may end early if the committee’s business is completed.

Honeywell announced on September 1 that JoAnna Sohovich, a company executive  who has held positions in several of its business divisions, has been appointed president of Honeywell Security & Communications for the Americas. Sohovich will report to Ron Rothman, president of Honeywell Security Group.

The Science and Technology Directorate at DHS is planning to gather “comprehensive real-world data” about cyber-attack phenomena, so it can make those data sets available to an estimated 200 different research organizations attempting to develop products and technologies that can better protect the nation’s computing infrastructure.