To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. HOMELAND SEC INDUSTRY NEWS Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office selects BI Inc. for offender electronic monitoring The Virginia Beach, Va., sheriff’s office has selected BI Inc., Boulder, Colo., a community corrections technology, treatment and supervision company, to supply offender monitoring equipment and services for sentenced inmates who are released to the department’s home electronic monitoring and work release programs. The two devices being used in Virginia Beach are BI ExacuTrack AT, an active global positioning system (GPS) tracking system that monitors offenders as they move about the community in near real time, maintaining curfews and schedules and confining individuals to certain areas and restricting them from others. The other is BI Sobrietor, a remote alcohol monitoring system that accurately measures sobriety by having offenders submit breath tests using a handheld device and transmitting results via phone lines. The sheriff expanded use of its electronic home monitoring and work release programs to help alleviate inmate overcrowding at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center. Under terms of a long-term agreement, BI provided active GPS tracking and alcohol compliance monitoring systems for inmates in both programs. (Source: BI Inc.) INDUSTRY ROSTER EMS Innovations named exclusive distributor of the PICS System EMS Innovations, Pasadena, Md., a provider of disaster mitigation products, medical supplies, personal protection, HAZMAT and response recovery products, has announced its exclusive distributorship of the Patient Isolation and Containment System (PICS) designed to isolate patients during transport. PICS creates a negative air pressure environment when connected to a HEPA Air Filtration System to reduce risk of cross-contamination and to protect health care providers. PICS also can be a positive pressure system for transport of burn patients. (Source: EMS Innovations) Paul McHale, former assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense, has joined McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. … Microsoft Corp. has promoted Linda Zecher to corporate vice president of its Worldwide Public Sector. … Hughes Network Systems LLC has appointed Richard Lober as Defense and Intelligence Systems vice president and general manager. … Dortronics Systems Inc. has appointed Paul Sciandra to its national sales network. … James Jones resigned from the board of Cross Match Technologies Inc. to become national security advisor to President Barack Obama and the company named Jerry Zionic to its board of directors. … Roger Echeandia has joined eVigilant Security as director of sales. … Jack Derrico will manage Hirsch Electronic‘s mid-Atlantic sales. … ioimage has appointed Zeev Farkash to the position of chief executive officer. … Knowledge Link has appointed Carleton Jones and Robert Wallace to its board of directors. … Matrix Systems has named Jim Russell vice president for sales and marketing and Rick Oskam as regional sales manager for the Northeast. … videoNEXT has appointed Christopher Gettings as president and CEO and James Hunt as chairman of the board of directors. Tampa authorities deploy collaborative technology for Super Bowl security E•SPONDER, O’Fallon, Mo., a provider of collaborative communications solutions, partnered with 60 federal, state, regional, local and municipal authorities to plan the security details for Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 1. In preparation for and during the game, E•SPONDER connected onsite and remote authorities, allowing them to remotely track all activities in real time with mapping as well as 3-D displays, 2-way radio integration and immediate communication. The Tampa Incident Command staff used the E•SPONDER portal to visualize all aspects of the Super Bowl activities and to track events, incidents, resources and tasks in real time using its large display, multi-user, multi-touch and interactive capabilities, which also allowed it to communicate with remote devices and personal computers. (Source:E•Sponder) FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Are You Getting Your Daily Briefing? April 2009 You should be. Homeland Security Today delivers you the latest homeland security headlines, analysis and business news, each day in the HSToday Daily Briefing enewsletter. Go to www.HSToday.us and sign up for your Daily Briefing. 18 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…