Hi-G-Tek, a provider of RFID tracking solutions, was selected as a winner of the American Security Challenge, an honor accompanied by a $2 million prize from a venture capital firm. The competition is open to small technology companies with products that may offer solutions to homeland security issues. The American Security Challenge is administered by […]

Visibility solutions provider RFID Global Solutions, Inc. (RFIDGS), has announced it has joined the Dakota Defense Alliance (DDA), an organization of small and medium-sized manufacturers based in the Dakotas. RFIDGS will provide RFID solutions and expertise to the member companies. The DDA, which consists mainly of defense contractors and suppliers for Boeing, was founded to […]

LifeMed Card Inc. announced that it has installed its new smart card-based patient access system called “LifeMed” at The Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H. LifeMed has been developed for hospitals identify patients and help manage them through the admissions process. Patients also have the ability to view and contribute to their overall medical records. […]

CGN & Associates Inc., a business consulting firm, provided program management for the State of Illinois FIPS 201 Interoperable Secure Credentialing Project. Last week the State of Illinois participated in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC)’s, Spring Ahead, a Federal and Mutual Aid multi-jurisdictional electronic validation demonstration leveraging […]

U.S. immigration officials held a Singapore cancer patient for four hours when they could not detect his fingerprints because of a drug he was taking, according to a Reuters news report. The drug, capecitabine, is used to treat cancers in the head and neck, breast, stomach and colorectum. A side-effect is chronic inflammation of the […]

While using a hand instead of an ID card to gain entrance to university facilities, particularly recreation centers, is gaining prominence, a pioneer in the use of hand scanners, San Diego State University, has been using the devices since 1998. That’s when Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies installed 12 hand geometry readers at the six entrances […]

Law enforcement personnel of the Sheriff’s Department of San Diego County in California have become the first to receive biometric-based immigration information on the prisoners they oversee, according to an Imperial Valley News article. The system, which is part of the Secure Communities program administered by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), works by […]