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Exhibit of Products Showcases Anti-terror Equipment
Aired July 10, 2002 - 13:02 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Also today on Capitol Hill, there is an exhibit of products designed to fight terror on smaller scales.
CNN's Kate Snow is there to tell us more about that -- hi, Kate.
KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Kyra. Well, where we are at is an expo in the basement of one of the U.S. Capitol rooms right underneath one of the Senate office buildings. They are running this expo to try to feature small businesses that might have a hand in homeland security. Lots of different products on display here, a lot of federal government types walking around, looking at the products to see if it's something that their agency might want to buy.
We're going to show you one of the products on sale here or being displayed here. Armistead Whitney is with the company, Fast-Talk Communications, out of Atlanta. You guys deal in surveillance, basically providing equipment to an agency that might be doing surveillance of phone calls and need to find specific words that would be said over those phone calls.
ARMISTEAD WHITNEY, FAST-TALK COMMUNICATIONS: That's right. Fast-Talk Communications makes very unique voice searching technology that's helping federal agencies sift through and pull relevant information and code words potentially more efficiently and faster than they can today.
SNOW: Show us -- you've got a demonstration lined up for us here.
WHITNEY: Yes. For example, if you are looking for -- when did someone mention the words "device and Logan Airport" all in the same sentence?
SNOW: Logan Airport in Boston.
WHITNEY: I'll do a search, and it immediately comes back, and you can listen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Device and the film to Logan Airport for the final delivery. Device and the film to Logan Airport for the final delivery.
SNOW: Obviously, that's not a real -- that's a sort of a fake phone call... WHITNEY: Correct. That's a...
SNOW: ... that you put on your system to -- a demo.
WHITNEY: That's demo media.
SNOW: But what could they do? Could the FBI, for example, have all kinds of phone calls that they record on a daily basis and feed them into this kind of a system?
WHITNEY: Absolutely. In fact, I'm going to show you -- searching Arabic right now, which is also the language that the agency is interested in searching. And if I search Arabic, this is a word called "Roms (ph) America," which means American landmark. So you are picking up Roms (ph) America. So we work in any language, and...
SNOW: And it can work live as well -- right -- not just with recorded phone calls, but they could actually be doing surveillance...
WHITNEY: That's right.
SNOW: ... and looking for those words on the spot.
WHITNEY: Monitoring in real-time, that's what it's all about.
SNOW: Thank you very much, Armistead.
WHITNEY: Thank you.
SNOW: OK. We are going to move right next door real quick, one more demonstration. If I can interrupt you for one second. We just want to talk with you. We'll wait for a microphone to catch up to us there. Dick Jarman (ph), you are with Scepter Industries (ph). You have got something running here. It's basically an air monitor, right...
DICK JARMAN (ph), SCEPTER INDUSTRIES (ph): Right.
SNOW: ... that you can station these sort of movable kits that you can put out at a big sporting event or in a postal facility. You are monitoring the air and checking it for what?
JARMAN (ph): This device, the Spincon (ph) machine, pulls tremendous volumes of air. And...
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