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NIGHT VISION IN COLOR

A new line of security cameras provides color video in lighting conditions from full daylight to starlight, without the need for additional illumination. The cameras offer visual details that help security professionals identify people, vehicles and other objects.

Integrating the Color Night Vision cameras and thermal security cameras into an Internet protocol video security system creates a round-theclock visual security coverage umbrella. By extending color imaging to 24-hour operation, security professionals benefit from full-color imagery in less than optimal lighting conditions. Because the cameras do not need auxiliary lighting, facilities can cut costs and reduce light pollution.

The cameras are built around an advanced electron multiplied charge-coupled device imaging core, and they feature proprietary algorithms to bring out hidden details, even in difficult imaging conditions. They also are designed io survive demanding environmental situations, oner both digital and analog video simultaneously and use open Internet protocol for easy integration.

For more information, contact FLIR Systems Incorporated, 27700 Southwest Parkway Avenue, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070. (503) 498-3547. www.flir.com/US/.

UNMANNED SYSTEM COMMON CONTROLLER

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently tested a common controller for unmanned systems. The device weighs approximately three pounds and is designed to control several unmanned systems, including ground and aerial robotic vehicles and unmanned ground sensors. It also can monitor other unmanned assets and can provide a common operating picture of the battlefield, along with information up and down the network chain.

A deployed soldier can command and control an unmanned system, use mapping technology and create and receive spot reports and other important information, such as pictures. The system should be lielded in theater next November.

During testing, the Army provided more than 500 assessment ratings about common controller usability during day and night operations, including usage with night vision goggles. The service also tested screen readability, user interface and soldiers' ability to use the system while wearing gloves normally worn in a variety of scenarios, including tactical, cold weather and nuclear, biological or chemical environments.

For more information, contact U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Attention: RDRL-LOP, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi. Maryland 20783-1 197. (301) 394-3590. www.arl.army.mil.

CROSSHAIRS COUNTER-SHOOTER

The U.S. military recently deployed to Afghanistan a new system designed to detect and classify incoming threats, including small arms fire, rifie-propelled grenades (RPG). mortar fire and anti-tank guided missiles. The system tracks the threat, determines its point of impact, identifies the assailant's location and broadcasts that location throughout the convoy.

The Counter RPG Shooter System with Highly Accurate Immediate Responses (CROSSHAIRS) technology, which was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), geolocates and displays shooter location on a vehicle-mounted interactive map. It distributes the data in real time to other vehicles via a network radio. It also provides slew-to-cue assisted turret control for vehicles equipped with remote weapons systems. In addition. CROSSHAIRS offers threat cueing for an active protection system to safeguard vehicles. The system uses radar with signal processing to detect projectiles. It is used in tandem with another DARPA technology, the Boomerang II. which uses acoustic sensors to identify the shockwave and muzzle blast generated from small arms fire. CROSSHAIRS provides situational awareness for multiple incoming threats with 360-degree coverage around a vehicle.

Prior to deployment to Afghanistan, the CROSSHAIRS system was integrated onto two Cougar Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, vehicles that successfully completed testing by the Army Test and Evaluation Command.

For more information, contact Mustang Technology Group, 400 West Bethany Drive, Suite 1 10. Alien. Texas 750133714. (972) 747-0707. http://mustangtechnology.com/.

CYBER RANGE IN A BOX

The recently patented Storm cybertomography machine, a cyber range in a box, is designed to safely test cyberdefenses against an array of attacks without using a multimillion dollar, large-scale laboratory. The system uses customprogrammed network processors to offer a realistic mix of applications, attacks and user load that organizations are likely to experience on their own networks. The network processor architecture is capable of recreating Library of Congress levels of data within one hour.

Billed as a compact, easy-to-use and low-maintenance device capable of measuring network and data center resiliency, the system offers Internet-scale network conditions with 40 gigabytes per second of traffic, more than 130 application protocols, and more than 4,500 live security attacks. It also is designed to emulate 30 million simultaneous transmission control protocol sessions - more than 1 million per second - and 80,000 secure sockets layer sessions per second. It provides potentially limitless performance levels with a single interface and integrated reporting. In addition, it is updated on a weekly basis with the latest application protocols and security attacks.

For more information, contact BreakingPoint Systems Incorported, 3900 North Capital of Texas Highway. Austin. Texas 78746. (512) 821-6000. www.breakingpointsystems. com/company/contact/.