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MDI providing security system for Army base

Thursday, October 30, 2008

MDI Inc. announced that its MDI Security Systems division was awarded a security contract and multiple product orders totaling $606,000 from a Department of Defense Army base facility.

The total sale includes security products, technical integration and services. The MDI System and all component products required for this project are scheduled for shipment during the month of November.


MDI’s solution will deliver complete video integration capabilities to the client’s security managers and empower compliance with HSPD-12 and FIPS-201 mandates. The contract consists of two project phases. In the first project, MDI will modernize the Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System II physical security system. In the second project, MDI will install upgraded servers, configure the databases and transition the information systems.

With more than 50,000 soldiers, 12,000 civilian employees and a combination of 23 battalions, brigades, companies, commands and divisions on base, MDI’s customer is one of the largest and military posts in the world. The facility trains, sustains, mobilizes, and deploys troops to conduct global, full spectrum operations in support of U.S. military strategy. [end] 

HID Global announced the acquisition of EasyLobby, a provider of secure visitor management solutions.

EasyLobby’s product suite provides enterprise-class visitor registration, tracking, reporting, badge printing, asset and package management, Web-based pre-registration and employee/contractor time and attendance functionality.

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The Ralph Carr Judicial Center in Denver, Colorado has selected AMAG Technology’s Symmetry Homeland V7 Security Management System,to provide integrated access control and security management solutions from HID Global.

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The White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in south central New Mexico is doing away with its own badges and coming in line with HSPD-12 and PIV.

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GTSI Corp, an information technology systems integrator, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense that will see the company provide Army personnel with mobile biometric solutions enabling them to better identify persons of interest in the field.

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Human recognition Systems announced a partnership with the Olive Group, a provider of safety, security and technology solutions, that will see the Olive Group distributing HRS’s solutions in the Middle East and North Africa regions.

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The U.S. Government Printing Office designed and printed an FBI special events credential that was used at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis by public safety personnel.

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