MC2 Fabrizio holds the mobile barricade's removable side panels with Brook Thomas from Patriot 3 Inc., Ballistics Division. (Photo: Patrick Raffaele)

Tech Tuesday: Inside the Pentagon Technology Expo
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TechTuesdayBy Petty Officer 2nd Class Elliott Fabrizio

The Pentagon held it’s Technology Expo on Tuesday, with more than 40 companies displaying the latest in defense hardware and software.

For this week’s Tech Tuesday, I navigated my way through an ocean of business cards and free pens to highlight a few of the expo’s more interesting exhibits.

Just to get this out of the way, all of the booths were thrilling (especially the caterer’s booth with the chicken wings). These three represent the ones I personally thought were the most interesting and in no way reflects an official ranking system or a lack of quality in another exhibit. No angry letters please.

Patriot 3, a tactical ops company, has recently begun marketing their new X-treme Protection Series XPS Shield Line to police agencies and the military, and it definitely has the elite Special Forces look. The XPS-G2 is a rolling bunker, so whether clearing a building or working a security checkpoint, this foldable ballistic shield can provide an ideal source of cover.

It’s made up of six panels, each able to withstand high-powered rifle rounds. The four side panels can be removed and used as individual bullet-proof shields. Fully assembled, it forms a three-person-wide wall on wheels. The side panels can fold like wings, enabling the unit to move through all commercial doorways. It’s topped off with three ballistic viewing ports and a small gun port in the center from which to shoot, so there’s no reason to leave the safety of this mobile barricade.

“You can actually do offenses with this, as oppose to just being in a defensive position. You’ve got a rolling bunker you can move forward as you advance,” said Brook Thomas, Patriot 3 Inc., Ballistics Division.

Let’s imagine being on wrong side of that. Instead of having a Special Forces team advancing on your position, you’ve got the walls literally closing in on you—one bullet-proof wall specifically, with guns poking out. Unless you’re Neo from The Matrix, that’s game over.

The RPD program is directed towards current users of Patriot3 shields whose ballistic liability has reached its 5 year (60 months) life span. The RPD Program provides a 10% discount on the current market price for the shields which that department is currently using. Please contact us at 540-891-7353 or via email at info@patriot3.com.

Congrats to Mesa AZ Police Department on their purchase of their new Liberator HX mounted to their Lenco Bearcat.

Congrats to the City of Portland Police Department on their purchase of Minuteman I units to outfit their Patrol Division.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS), in partnership with our colleagues at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is delighted to announce the opening of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Emergency Management for Higher Education (EMHE) grant competition (CFDA #84.184T). 

The EMHE Grant program supports efforts by institutions of higher education (IHEs) to develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate, campus-based all-hazards emergency management planning efforts within the framework of the four phases of emergency management (Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery).  To be considered for an award under this competition, an applicant must be considered an IHE, or a consortia thereof and cannot have previously received a grant under the EMHE program (CFDA #84.184T).

The Notice of Final Requirements and Priorities (NFP) and the Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for this competition were published in the Federal Register on April 1, 2010.  To view the NFP, please visit: http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/2010-1/040110c.html.

The “Information and Application Procedures for Fiscal Year 2010″ for the EMHE grant program are also now available online.  The application procedures can be accessed at:

http://rems.ed.gov/docs/EMHE_GrantApplication_2010.pdf.  In addition, the electronic application package is now posted for EMHE on the e-Grants Web site (under e-Application) and is available at the following link:  http://e-grants.ed.gov.

Applications for the FY 2010 EMHE competition are due on May 12, 2010.   Complete instructions are available in the Application Procedures booklet. 

OSDFS will be hosting a series of four EMHE Grant Question and Answer Calls during the competition period to answer any questions applicants may have about the program or how to apply.  For information on the calls, and call-in instructions, please visit: http://rems.ed.gov/index.php?page=EMHE_Grant_Application. 

If you have any further questions about the EMHE program, please feel free to contact the Competition Manager, Tara Hill, at: Tara.Hill@ed.gov

Over at the GovSec conference, running concurrently with FOSE at the Washington Convention Center, Security Products magazine today announced the winners of its GovSec Awards, which honors outstanding products being exhibited at GovSec. Patriot3 won in the Homeland Security category: for the XPS-G2 Extreme Protection Series.