ON THE HORIZON
Compiled by KMI Media Group staff
Tactical Comms
New Sniffer Yaacov Shoham, CEO of IDenta Corp., has announced that the company has finished the prototype of the new IDenta Sniffer and has received a provisional patent for the device. For the past few weeks, the prototype has been demonstrated before different homeland security agencies in Israel, among other countries including the U.K., France and Kenya. “The reaction from the different agencies was very positive, actually from one of the Israeli organizations we have already received an order for seven devices,” said Shoham. “We are developing a special marketing program with marketing materials for the new device to be used in the different markets and countries.” The company expects to start to deliver the new Sniffer in the first quarter of 2013 and will include various detectors for illicit drugs, precursor and explosives. The device has been designed to be very user friendly, with very high reliability and gives immediate on-the-spot results. It will be able to collect suspected substances from any possible surface: table, clothes, hand, car, luggage, etc. It has no limitations. IDenta is forecasting to sell approximately 10,000 Sniffer between 2013 and 2015. Each Sniffer with the different detectors included will cost between $4,000 and $5,000. The new Sniffer will be effective in use in airports, ports, borders, by customs, any police and intelligence agency, highway patrol, Coast Guard, military, etc.
Invisio Communications recently launched the Invisio V60, a new advanced tactical communication and hearing protection system for modern military forces. With Invisio V60, the user gets a very light, compact and flexible communication system with built-in hearing protection and full 360 degree situational awareness. The system provides crystalclear communication even in the most extreme and noisy conditions. On today’s military battlefield, efficient communication is essential for reducing risk for the soldier and ensuring mission success. Invisio V60 provides full radio functionality, clear communication and hearing protection for a variety of mission scenarios, for both mounted and dismounted soldiers. “Invisio V60 is designed to meet the demanding requirements that modern military forces have on tactical communication systems,” said Lars Højgård Hansen, CEO of Invisio Communications. “We have put a lot of effort into reducing size and weight while increasing performance and flexibility in terms of functionality and connectivity. We have also simplified the
interface to include only what the soldier needs and nothing else.” The features of the V60 stem from the company’s technical know-how and market knowledge from delivering many thousands of proven mission critical communication systems to demanding users worldwide. With Invisio V60, users get a highly flexible, lightweight system and a compact form factor. The unit is 50 percent smaller and lighter compared to most competitive products on the market. The simplicity and low weight is a big advantage for today’s soldiers, who often face a significant burden, both cognitively and physically.
Coast Guard’s PROTECT Recognized The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has awarded the Daniel H. Wagner Prize by CPMS, the association’s Practice Section, to the U.S. Coast Guard and its research partner, the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. The winners used analytics and operations research to ramp up protection of America’s ports and waterways from unpredictable terrorist attack. “A Deployed Quantal Response Based Patrol Planning System for the US Coast Guard” is by Bo An, Fernando Ordonez, Milind Tambe, Eric Shieh, Rong Yang of the University of Southern California; and Craig Baldwin, Joseph DiRenzo, Ben Maule, Garrett Meyer, and Kathryn Moretti of the United States Coast Guard. Every day the U.S. Coast Guard faces challenges of evolving asymmetric threats in the Maritime Global Commons and also
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within the ports and waterways that make up the United States Maritime Transportation System. “This research addresses a nationally important problem, the modeling of which is quite complex,” said Allen Butler, the competition’s committee chair. “The team has provided a superior solution using innovative mathematical approaches, including a response model to allow for potentially irrational behavior on the part of the adversaries. They deserve praise for the impact of this work and the originality of their methodology.” The objective of this work was to develop and deploy a decision support system, known as PROTECT (Port Resilience Operational/ Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism), to aid the Coast Guard in its mission. The system is based on an attacker-defender game model of the interaction between Coast Guard patrols and attackers.
Given the finite patrolling resources, an optimal use of limited resources takes into account the relative importance of the different targets protected and the presence of adversaries that can observe security measures before deciding to attack. Recent research and applications have used what are known as Stackelberg Security Games to model the interaction between a security provider and attackers. The optimal defensive strategies to these games are mixed strategies over the different patrolling actions, making the optimal decisions unpredictable to the attacker while taking into account the relative importance of the different targets and the strategic behavior of the attackers. PROTECT has been successfully deployed in the port of Boston and is currently undergoing testing at the port of New York, with the potential for nationwide deployment.
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