Archive for January 20th, 2009

FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Jan. 14 (UPI) — The U.S. Air Force has contracted Telephonics Corp. for its communication technologies to support military medical evacuations.

New York-based Telephonics was awarded a follow-on contract to deliver its TruLink Wireless Intercommunication Systems to the Air Force. Under the $2 million deal, Telephonics’ TruLink technology will support the communication capabilities of Air Force aeromedical evacuation teams.

Company officials say TruLink is designed to enable wireless and clear voice communications aboard the high-noise environment of an aircraft between medical technicians and other crew members to ensure the safety of soldiers being airlifted.

“We are pleased to continue to provide these systems that enhance the operational safety and capability of the personnel during these critical aeromedical evacuation missions,” Phil Nicholas, Telephonics Communication Systems division president, said in a statement.

“The TruLink wireless voice communication system continues to be used across the Army, Navy, Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard to enhance the safety of our military personnel during dangerous and critical operational missions.”

Lincoln Police Department Commits to Additional MobileCop Units

WALL, N.J., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety, announced today an add-on contract from the Lincoln, NE Police Department. The award was funded through a federal Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) grant from the Department of Homeland Security and includes additional licenses of MobileCop(R), BIO-key’s laptop-based mobile data product.

Under terms of the contract, MobileCop will be made available to law enforcement agencies throughout Southeastern Nebraska, which will enable officers to access outstanding warrants, stolen vehicle reports and other critical federal and state data directly from their patrol vehicles. The deployment of additional MobileCop licenses to these agencies represents the first phase of a new regional system, to be hosted by the Lincoln Police Department, which will ultimately serve as many as twenty-seven agencies across thirteen Nebraska counties. Officers from different departments will be able communicate with each other silently and securely in mutual aid situations, meeting the region’s interoperability objective as required under the PSIC grant.

The award also provides the Lincoln Police Department with licenses of BIO-key’s recently launched SecureMessage(TM) data communications software. SecureMessage delivers fully-encrypted, scanner-proof text-based messages, announcements and email to groups within departments thereby allowing first responders to communicate with each other. SecureMessage will be initially deployed to dispatchers and other staff in public safety communications centers located throughout the counties utilizing the MobileCop licenses.

Lincoln Police Department Sergeant, Todd Beam, stated, “What attracted us to SecureMessage was the ability to integrate the communications centers involved in the regional mobile data network into a broader command and control strategy.” Sergeant Beam added, “In many cases today, these centers can only communicate with each other by phone, which makes it difficult to collaborate and share information.”

SecureMessage can link emergency management, police, fire, rescue and other responder agencies, as well as hospitals and other support resources. “We, like almost everyone else, have made significant progress with interoperable radio communications,” Sergeant Beam added. “SecureMessage will allow us to reach an even higher level of interoperability in the future by incorporating emergency operations centers, incident command posts and other branches of our regional Incident Command System in a way that radio communications is not well suited to accomplish. SecureMessage will give us a much more targeted ability to communicate - as broad or selective as we need to be - in responding to an incident.”

Ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key’s Law Enforcement Division, noted, “Utilizing radio communications as the primary communications tool requires agencies to pay for and deploy extra units to personnel who may use them only during emergencies. SecureMessage runs on the devices they already have and use everyday, including BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones, as well as laptops and desktops. As a result, everyone gets the message.”

About BIO-key

BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey, develops and delivers advanced identification solutions and information services to law enforcement departments, public safety agencies, government and private sector customers. BIO-key’s mobile wireless technology provides first responders with critical, reliable, real-time data and images from local, state and national databases. BIO-key’s high performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise data to improve security, convenience and privacy and to reduce identity theft. Over 1,000 police departments in North America use BIO-key solutions, making BIO-key the leading supplier of mobile and wireless solutions for law enforcement. (http://www.bio-key.com)

(C) Copyright 2008 by BIO-key International, Inc.

Company Contact: BIO-key International, Inc.

Bud Yanak

732-359-1100

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced a high-performance Band 8 WCDMA duplexer. Leveraging the industry best Q values of its FBAR (Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator) technology, Avago’s ACMD-7605 successfully demonstrates a superior 1.3dB typical Tx insertion loss (IL) and 3.5dB max IL over-temperature which significantly lowers power consumption and improves talk time. Achieving superior IL for Band 8 devices is especially difficult due to its wide bandwidth and the close spacing between transmit and receive bands. ACMD-7605 also provides excellent over-temperature isolation performance of 51dB min in the Tx band and 48dB min in the Rx band, which in combination with Avago’s best-in-class insertion loss minimizes sensitivity degradation experienced in over temperature conditions.

The simplified routing architecture in Avago’s ACMD-7605 duplexer eases integration into PCB designs. Additionally, the ACMD-7605 comes packaged in a miniature 3.0 x 3.0 mm module and is RoHS-compliant. ACMD-7605 is ideal for UMTS-based mobile phones, femtocells, repeaters and data terminal applications.

Pricing and Availability

Products are available now with pricing starting from $2.00 in 10,000 volumes.

More information about Avago Technologies’ wireless products can be found at: www.avagotechwireless.com.

About Avago Technologies

Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. By leveraging its core competencies in III-V compound and silicon semiconductor design and processing, the company provides an extensive range of analog, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems to approximately 40,000 end customers. Backed by strong customer service support, the company’s products serve four diverse end markets: industrial and automotive electronics, wired infrastructure, wireless communications, and consumer and computer peripherals. Avago has a global employee presence and heritage of technical innovation dating back 40 years to its Hewlett-Packard roots. Information about Avago is available on the Web at www.avagotech.com.

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFJI) today introduced the Discover™ GPS Speaker Microphone. The Discover™ GPS Speaker Microphone transmits location, text messages, and tracking information over the award-winning EFJohnson 5100 ES series P25 portable radios.

“Military users and search-and-rescue teams need a reliable tool for accurate real time locating and tracking information,” said Michael Jalbert, president and chief executive officer of EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. “Our new Discover GPS Speaker Microphone is an excellent tool for coordinating field operations and seeing the location of group members in real time.” A large, backlit LCD screen provides an easy to use icon-based operation and allows for graphic representation of relative distance and direction to other team members. Text messages and waypoints can be transmitted to groups, individuals or dispatch. Highly accurate location data can be transmitted over analog or digital channels, clear or encrypted, with every push-to-talk or at pre-determined time or distance intervals. The Discover GPS Speaker Microphone is compatible with a number of commercially available graphic and mapping applications for complete real time situational awareness and group coordination.

“Our new GPS offering is more than just an accessory – it is a complete GPS location solution. The real time location of personnel can be transmitted to other group members or back to a central location. This data can be used in conjunction with compatible mapping and tracking software to provide new information beneficial for maximum efficiency and safety of personnel,” Jalbert said.

About EF Johnson Technologies, Inc

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. focuses on innovating, developing and marketing the highest quality secure communications solutions to organizations whose mission is to protect and save lives. The Company’s customers include first responders in public safety and public service, the federal government, and industrial organizations. The Company’s products are marketed under the EFJohnson, 3e Technologies International, and Transcrypt International names. For more information, visit http://www.EFJohnsonTechnologies.com.

Nearly 100 agencies boosted their law enforcement abilities with Spillman Technologies software in the second and third quarters of 2008.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho became part of a shared Spillman system with Utah host agency Cache County Sheriff’s Office. Franklin and Cache counties are located on either side of the Idaho-Utah border. By sharing an integrated data system, both counties can improve interoperability and better identify crime trends. Franklin County was one of 50 agencies to purchase Spillman software in the third quarter of this year.

In June, the University of Utah Police Department purchased software from Spillman’s Records Management, Dispatch, and Mobile Solutions. Using InSight, the University of Utah Police Department will be able to easily share data with other agencies across the Salt Lake Valley. With the State Link module, university police officers will also be able to access information from state and national databases.

Salt Lake City’s Unified Fire Authority was one of 45 customers to purchase Spillman software in the second quarter of 2008. The agency can use Spillman’s Voiceless Dispatch module to communicate instantly with dispatchers and access call information while working in the field. With Spillman’s Quickest Route feature, UFA personnel will be able to easily determine the fastest way to a call based on factors like traffic and road construction.

Spillman customer sales during the second quarter of 2008 include:

Chelan County Sheriff’s Office, Wash. – Spillman’s Mobile Solution and Law Records module.

Logan Police Department, Utah – ProQA® Interface.

Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, Utah – Spillman InSight and Pin Mapping, Equipment Maintenance and State Link modules.

Mesquite Police Department, Nev. – Spillman InSight, and AVL Mapping with Quickest Route, State Link and Mobile State Link and modules.

Paris Police Department, Ky. – Spillman’s Mobile Records and Voiceless Dispatch modules.

Spillman customer sales during the third quarter of 2008 include:

Fallon Police Department, Nev. – Spillman’s Mobile solution, Geobase, Imaging, CAD Mapping, State Link, and Pin Mapping modules.

Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, Idaho – Spillman’s Voiceless Dispatch and State Link modules and additional licenses for Spillman’s Mobile solution.

Knox County, Maine – Spillman’s State Link and Mobile State Link modules.

Penobscot Safety Information Management System, Maine – Spillman InSight™

Spillman Technologies provides a full range of software solutions for public safety agencies, including Records Management, Computer-Aided Dispatch, Mobile Communications, Corrections Management, Fire/EMS Management, Resource Management, and Data Sharing. Spillman serves more than 750 agencies across the nation.

ProQA is a registered trademark of Priority Dispatch Corp.™

Irving, TX – January 20, 2009 – EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFJI) today announced that it has been selected by a major systems integrator to add Over the Air Programming (OTAP) functionality to its Project 25 compliant radios presently operating on the customer’s system. The order is for a Department of Defense customer in support on the war on terrorism and is valued at $955,000.

“We are adding Over the Air Programming (OTAP) to EFJohnson radios that our customer is already using,” said Michael Jalbert, president and chief executive officer of EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. “OTAP enables you to provision new radio personalities without having to send the radios to a service shop. The radios are programmed over the air, which saves considerable time and administrative costs.” The company plans to ship the order in the first quarter, Jalbert added.

About EF Johnson Technologies, Inc.

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. focuses on innovating, developing and marketing the highest quality secure communications solutions to organizations whose mission is to protect and save lives. The Company’s customers include first responders in public safety and public service, the federal government, and industrial organizations. The Company’s products are marketed under the EFJohnson, 3e Technologies International, and Transcrypt International names. For more information, visit http://www.EFJohnsonTechnologies.com.