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Security

Protecting People, Assets and Missions

ENSCO’s advanced engineering, science and technology make the world a safer place. Our commitment to the essential mission of security is demonstrated by our work in enterprise protection, security engineering, surveillance, surface chemistry, and international treaty monitoring.
 

Data Integration and Enterprise Protection

ENSCO has continued developing, improving and maintaining our chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) early warning detection and response system, SENTRY, since installing the first system at a large government facility in 2002.

Over the past six years, our engineers have improved the system’s flexibility by developing SENTRY interfaces for nearly all existing CBRN sensors. Plug-and-play interfaces allow for rapid configurability to suit a customer’s needs. SENTRY’s extensible architecture can also accommodate and grow with a site as more sensors are added or modified.

This year, ENSCO won an extension of a U.S. government operations and maintenance contract, and was awarded an additional contract to expand and enhance a critical SENTRY installation. We also installed SENTRY at the Johns Hopkins National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER). The PACER system produces raw sensor data feeds for a comprehensive distributed simulation system in addition to performing data integration, event detection and response.

Security Engineering for Government and Commercial Organizations

ENSCO’s years of experience have resulted in recognition as a premier provider of multi-disciplined, integrated security assessments. Our experts furnish training, assessments, risk analysis, countermeasure evaluation and recommend security solutions. Our professionals are highly trained in physical security; surveillance operations; protection and mitigation planning for chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological events; and emergency preparedness.

This past year, we continued to directly assist the missions of defense agencies by providing balanced survivability assessments, physical security and surveillance operations, and security assessments of communications and critical infrastructure. This work is being performed under a five-year contract that includes assessments of key facilities for government agencies as well as the country’s industrial defense segment.

MicroSearch® Moves to the Next Level in Sales

Sales of MicroSearch®, ENSCO’s human presence detection system, experienced tremendous growth this year both in the United States and overseas, more than doubling. Romania strengthened its customs and border security by purchasing 36 units for training and operations. Germany and Australia continued to equip their prison systems with MicroSearch units. Her Majesty’s Prison System in the United Kingdom deployed new units and replaced legacy units, contracting for 12 new units. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, a long-standing customer, purchased and deployed 20 new systems to ensure that every state institution has a system.

To keep our technology fresh and our product line dynamic, ENSCO scientists and engineers completed the next-generation MicroSearch prototype development program and will roll out an even more robust and capable human presence detection system in FY09.

GPS-denied Geolocation

ENSCO is developing GPS-denied geolocation and navigation (geonav) solutions to meet requirements for tracking and aiding first responders, American soldiers and others working in exacting circumstances where GPS signals are unreliable or non-existent. Among our geonav technologies is Dalmatian, a product that can accurately locate first responders in environments where traditional GPS tracking methods are ineffective. Exclusively licensed to Rex Systems Inc., this accurate, self-contained indoor navigation system uses sophisticated modeling tools and signal processing algorithms to deliver performance levels comparable to expensive navigation-grade inertial measurement units while using significantly less expensive tactical and industrial-grade components.

ENSCO’s engineers and scientists have also developed a versatile geonav system based on radio frequency ranging. This system assists first responders, special operations, soldiers on the battlefield or in training scenarios, and others for real-time geolocation of pedestrians.

Another ENSCO-developed system with precise geolocation capabilities is SAINT, Small Area Inertial Navigation Tracking System, which locates and discriminates detected electromagnetic anomalies found when conducting unexploded ordnance (UXO) remediation activities. The system incorporates a small, tactical inertial measurement unit integrated with a microcomputer mounted on a staff equipped with an electromagnetic induction sensor. Through signal processing, SAINT supplies the millimeter-level precision necessary to discriminate between types of UXO based on their size and shape. This technology allows UXO technicians to better determine the danger potential of any detected object, reducing remediation costs and potentially saving lives.

IT Contributions to the U.S. Government

ENSCO’s services to the U.S. government expanded in FY08 with a contract to capture and digitize archived information. We capture data from existing documents, and through a comprehensive Web site that we developed, enable efficient and secure access to the information.

Furthering ENSCO’s information technology operations for the government, our computer scientists are developing a user-friendly software product that will allow disparate information across multiple government agencies to be easily and quickly gathered and analyzed. The tool is composed of two modules—the first module captures information, and the second module generates reports, which allows users to consolidate information from disparate sources and have the ability to effectively retrieve and assess pertinent data.

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