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Home invasion caught on tape

Burglars picked the wrong Maumelle house to rob April 9. They got a bounty of goods, but Maumelle police got the goods on them, thanks to a surveillance system the homeowner had installed.The four men can be seen pulling into Eddie Langford's Yukon Cove driveway at 12:11 p.m., knocking on his door and waiting, then taking two minutes to kick in the front door with 22 kicks. It took less than three minutes for them to steal 10 guns, electronic equipment and jewelry and leave.Police Chief Sam Williams called the four professionals and said he hoped the extensive distribution of their photos in the newspaper and on television would lead to their arrests or at least run them out of town.Langford, who recently retired after selling his business on Maumelle Boulevard, said he installed the security system with multiple cameras years ago and it captured all the images onto a digital hard drive, which is at the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory undergoing scrutiny.The break-in was the latest in a string of burglaries in Maumelle dating to last year.

Stephens County Courthouse security system gets upgrade

The focus of Homeland Security isn't only on airports and border protection, it's also about keeping state, county, and city employees and visitors safe. In Stephens County, the courthouse's existing security is outdated, so the County Commissioner has decided that it's "out with the old and in with the new." They will be completely revamping surveillance with new cameras and sensors in and around the courthouse. The new system will meet standards set by the Department of Homeland Security.

The main focus of the security overhaul is to increase video surveillance. They're in the process of changing to new cameras which will record video to a computer hard drive. Chief Sheriff's Deputy Bob Hill says they usually watch cameras closer during court cases, and the new cameras will make it easier to monitor multiple areas of the building. They also will add motion detectors to the security revamp. "If there's motion in a place where there's not supposed to be motion, well, this will alert us and we can go see what the motion is," says Hill. "If we thought we were going to have something, we'd start recording," he says.

A flower in the polar sky: the POPPY signals intelligence satellite and ocean surveillance

The Lockheed Constellation was one of the most graceful propeller driven airliners to ever take to the skies, considered by many to be the pinnacle of the propliner in the 1950s, soon to be replaced by faster and larger jets. Long and slender, with a gentle curve to its back, like a greyhound, the "Connie" was big for its day and had long range. The US Navy had stuck a shark fin on its back and a squat dome on its belly with radars inside, called it the EC-121M Warning Star, and used it to spy on other countries.

On a cold January day in 1969 one of the Navy's Warning Stars turned south over the Sea of Japan as the pilot slammed his throttles forward and tried to coax every bit of power he could out of the aging propeller-driven airplane. The plane had been on a routine mission, known as Beggar Shadow, to intercept North Korean radar and communications transmissions.

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On December 3, 2007, during a test conducted at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range, a modified AIM-9X Sidewinder missile intercepted an Orion target ballistic missile in the boost phase of flight. The technology responsible for this successful test result is the Raytheon Company's Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) interceptor program, the centerpiece of which is an inexpensive boost-phase missile defense system.[1] Yet the lasting success of this program requires devoting $15 million of the Bush Administration's proposed missile defense budget request to the continued development of the NCADE interceptor.

By providing for NCADE in the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization and appropriations bills, Congress would be able to field an inexpensive boost-phase missile defense system within the next few years.