Infrastructure Protection

UK-based CCTV manufacturer Conway Security Products is supplying camera housings and tailor-made bracketry to a highways agency project in Hertfordshire, England, that is seeing the Hatfield Tunnel on the A1(M) motorway refurbished to meet new European Union standards.

ATG Access Inc., based in Lillington, NC, has announced that it has acquired the vehicle barrier and gate division of the Canadian group Allen-Vanguard Corp. ATG Access engineers and produces high impact vehicle security barriers (HIVB), traffic bollard systems and manual bollard ram raid deterrent bollards which can be seen in situ in most major cities and venues globally. 

Hughes Network Systems, LLC, of Germantown, MD, a provider of broadband satellite networks and services, announced on July 26 it has completed a successful demonstration of its advanced airborne video solution to a key government agency, confirming full D-1 video resolution at air-to-ground user data rates of over 2 Mbps. 

The Veterans Corp of America, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business which is led by two grandsons of deceased Vietnam War-era Army General Earle Wheeler, the longest serving Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has won a contract from the General Services Administration to supply CBRN equipment to DoD and DHS which could be worth as much as $200 million.

Keri Systems, Inc. has released its V-Track Vehicle ID System, an RFID product designed to automatically identify vehicles for such applications as gated community access control, parking lot access and fleet management.

LRT-10 Transponders are placed in the vehicle's windshield and can be activated at distances up to 30 feet by the EX-10 Exciter antenna and read by the RXR-10 receiver from up to 100 feet away, allowing for simple and flexible installation that in most cases does not require trenching.

Feeling Software Inc., of Montreal, Canada, has announced the latest product in its Omnipresence 3D suite of advanced physical security applications. Designed for architecture & engineering (A&E) firms, security integrators and security directors, Pro Design provides a never-before-seen approach to surveillance planning using 3D floor plans and maps.