We are building on our systems integration experience, technologies and the established presence of our smart card technology in key metropolitan areas to develop solutions for high-security access control for borders, airports and other public and private locations.

Cubic's leadership in military training and readiness already has the company engaged in helping agencies plan and prepare for contingencies through high-level simulations and exercises involving real-world scenarios. This effort provides basic insights for products, services and systems to deter, counter or manage the consequences of a wide range of future threats.

Homeland Security Task Force
In 2002, Cubic created a Homeland Security Task Force. The team comprises professionals from both sides of the business with the objective of aggressively and strategically pursuing homeland security business opportunities.

The group includes leaders from the company's defense unit with extensive experience in training, readiness, communications, security, federal marketing and technology applications. The team's transportation experts include scientists, engineers and marketing executives who bring a deep knowledge of access control and smart card technology applications for public transportation.

(For contacts & addresses, see Homeland Security Contact Information)

Key Technologies

• Cubic has incorporated biometric technology with its systems integration and established contactless smart card capabilities to offer a new open systems approach to providing a highly secure method for monitoring and controlling border and transportation access.
  
  
• The company's new 32K contactless smart card can be used for various security applications. Facial verification and other security data stored on the smart card can be used by security agents for security spot checks at remote locations at airports, seaports, borders and transportation facilities. Cubic sees potential smart card security applications opportunities in both military and civilian markets at the federal, state and local levels.

• Cubic's information protection and physical security systems technologies offer trusted identification for access to facilities, networks or workstations by using biometrics feature identification and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) digital certificates stored on contactless smart cards or badges. Authorization can be granted and denied by security personnel located locally or at remote locations.

• With Cubic's High-Speed Mobile Radio Data Link, public safety personnel can obtain mission-critical information in real time, improving emergency response times and enhancing officer safety. The new technology allows the construction of one common radio infrastructure that will support data rates three-to-five times the current industry standard to support voice, data and video.

• Cubic's direction-finding (DF) technologies provide spectrum monitoring and interference location capabilities. Government agencies can detect and locate interference directed towards communications and navigation systems used by U.S. ships and aircraft.

• The company's new airborne combat search-and-rescue system uses GPS technology to precisely locate survivors. The system is interoperable with Cubic's URX-3000 and 4000 handheld survivor radios and can be used for both military and civilian search-and-rescue missions.

• Cubic's Deployable System for Training and Readiness (DSTAR) and PC-based Range Instrumentation System (PC-RIS) tracking software creates a unique command and control center mobile package that provides "situational awareness" for urban combat training, search-and-rescue and counterterrorism operations.
  
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