Technologies for Homeland Security

Contact: Dr. Brijesh kumar

CSO/COO Rapidsoft Systems Inc.

Princeton, NJ 08550

+1 609-439-4775

bkumar@rapidsoftsystems.com

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CURRENT SITUATION

• Many types of threats

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive

(CBRNE)

• Domestic/External origin

• Many delivery systems

• More sophistication

• Materials readily available

The risk of a terrorist acquiring and using a nuclear or

radiological device is one of the greatest threats to the

nation

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CHALLENGE

• Detect multiple threats

• Maximize technology

• Minimize human error

• Very manageable

• Robust, layered defense to reduce terrorist’s

capabilities

• Provide critical information during first 72

hours of event to first responders

• Provide event/post-event forensic analysis

3 KEEP US SAFE

Addressing head-on the low cost

“manpower” issue:

No reason for a rapidly growing country to

replicate the historical technologies and

institutional bureaucracies that older

countries used as they developed.

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The risks:

The roving guard isn't there when the terrorist races across the railroad platform.

The guard is bored and inattentive because it is the 7th hour of his shift.

He was bribed by what he thought were run-of-the-mill smugglers to look the other way but who turned out to be terrorists, as happened in Russia.

Or, as in Afghanistan, the guard himself is a terrorist who has infiltrated the security organization.

Traditional security: armed guards patrolling

a perimeter, peering into darkness, checking

ID’s

Even if the policeman is

conscientious and alert:

Does he have the training to know what to do when he's out on patrol?

The instantaneous right reaction?

Is security dependent upon the individual decisions made under stress by scores of security guards on patrol?

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What’s Wrong With Current

Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear/Explosive/Visual/

Motion/Detection Systems?

• Labor intensive and expensive

• Require security guards to focus over protracted time

periods and respond manually

• Delayed alerts to authorities

• High incidence of innocent and false positive alarms

• How well trained in physics or chemistry are security

personnel manning the computer screens? Does an

8 hour shift affect judgment?

• How will on-site information, critical during the first 72

hours of a crisis event, be provided?

• How will forensic analysis be conducted during and

immediately after the event?

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Department of Homeland Security:

Complete Defense Spectrum

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The Solution

• Intelligent threat networks that monitor chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives sensors; visual analytics and motion detectors can reduce or eliminate misdiagnosis and “false positives”

• Intelligent threat networks can provide early alert of a threat.

• Intelligent threat networks can continue to provide information to first responders during the critical initial 72 hours of a crisis.

• Intelligent threat networks can provide immediate forensic analysis during and after a crisis event.

• Defentect’s DM3™ software is the management, monitoring and messaging component that networks to third party sensors, providing administrative and configuration services for a variety of threat-event detection demands.

• Defentect has unique, low cost, integrated, networked, ubiquitous, wide area, unmanned software architecture and sensor technologies that meet this need.

• Our intellectual property is built upon readily available electro-optical devices.

• Defentect’s products graft readily onto existing security systems, minimizing adoption costs and facilitating widespread distribution.

Defentect DM3

Proven threat awareness solution

• Developed under Chairman Paul Bremer, Ambassador-at-Large for

Counterterrorism and U.S. Administrator of Coalition Provisional

Authority in Iraq.

• Installed, operational and proven in “high value” target facilities in

the US.

• Gathers data from virtually any sensor which can live on a data

network.

• Seeks and identifies anomalies in the data.

• Forwards the new information to an unlimited number of devices on

any platform capable of receiving messages: SMS, email,

smartphones, voicemail, XML.

• Automatically forwards any digitized information—such as floor

plans and the names and photographs of authorized personnel—to

first responders.

• All instantaneously and independent of operating personnel.

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Pilots & Disaster Response Training Exercises

• Participant in Operation Golden Phoenix Federal terrorism response laboratory, San Diego, with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Marine Corps Aircraft Group 46, DOD, DEA, FBI, DOJ, DOE

• At Golden Phoenix, Defentect monitored threat-level radiation at Brown Field Airport and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla

Among installations:

• AIT Worldwide Logistics, Itasca, IL, a global transportation provider

• Bethesda Medical Center, premier Washington Hospital Center for all senior civilian/military in D.C.

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Defentect DM3

Precise and Predictable Security Independent of Personnel

Examples of what DM3 can do: • DM3 can automatically cause video cameras to

rotate to cover an entrance when a radiological threat

is detected at that entrance without the need for

human action.

• DM3 can add sensors as easily as clicking on a

website for instantaneous and continually changing

security.

• DM3 is capable of pulling up data from computer data

banks so that when DM3 delivers the pre-specified

warning message, data from the data storage banks

can be sent along as well

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INSTALLER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Train the Channel

– Product

– Market

– Business Opportunity

• Support the Channel

– Inside and Outside Sales

– Engineering

– Network guidance

• Continue Region-Specific Product Improvement

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DEFENTECT DIFFERENCE

• IP-based alert sensors at commercial

prices.

• IP-based interface to legacy systems

• Web-based management, monitoring,

and messaging system

• Commercial distribution channel.

• Operational, now

• Wisdom of our advisors

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Department of Homeland Security:

Desired End State

Port-centric detection strategy

Passive detection systems

Fixed architecture

Federal efforts

Locally operated detectors

U.S. focused strategy

Targeted scanning

Primarily rad/nuc detection

Multi-layered detection strategy

Integrated passive/active systems

Fixed/mobile/relocatable architecture

Federal/State/local efforts

Networked detectors

Global interconnected strategy

Comprehensive scanning

All signatures detection

CURRENT FUTURE

A fundamental change in the way the United States counters

radiological and nuclear trafficking.

Defentect DM3

• Precise, uniform, predictable response

without relying upon personnel training or

loyalty.

• Trained personnel out in the field patrolling,

not sitting in a darkened room looking at a

computer screen.

• Elimination of variable response from

different security personnel. 17

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Contact:

Dr. Brijesh Kumar,

CSO/COO

Rapidsoft Systems Inc.

Princeton, NJ 08550

+1 609 439 4775

bkumar@rapidsoftsystems.com