Hikvision, one of the world’s leading suppliers of video surveillance equipment, partnered with St. Louis, MO, based NexGen Integration, a full-service security company, to equip the U.S. Army with a comprehensive security system at Fort Leonard Wood, a major U.S military facility. Hikvision’s products passed a rigorous battery of tests to gain Risk Management Framework (RMF) certification, proving their resilience to vulnerabilities such as malware that would put the system at risk.

The system was thoroughly custom-tailored by NexGen and Hikvision in order to deliver a superior performance that surpassed the military’s high standards.

The most impressive aspect of this installation is its Certificate of Networthiness, as awarded by the United States Department of Defense.

“Very few products and systems, past or present, carry this elite designation and meet the requirements of the RMF (and, previously, DIACAP) certification processes,” affirmed Chris Nickelson, co-owner of NexGen.

“Hikvision equipment and support stand apart from the competitors,” added Dennis Deschler, NexGen co-owner. “The equipment is now riding on the government network and if they want it, it is a component of the DoD’s Global Information Grid.”

An advanced security system was imperative for Fort Leonard Wood, a key military facility in the Midwest that serves as the headquarters of the Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, as well as the training center for the Military Police.

To secure the facility and its perimeter, it was crucial to record and stream at 30 FPS, but limited bandwidth, remote connection requirements, network policies, and integration with existing equipment were challenging.

?They needed 30 frames per second real time, all the time. You can miss things with motion detection,? Mr. Deschler reasoned. ?Someone could drive back and forth for an hour before he drives into the motion detection grid.? Boasting an extremely minimal latency with their H.264 video compression, Hikvision’s 9000 series Hybrid DVRs, 6701 / 6704 encoder modules and iVMS-4200 software proved to be the winning back-end solution for ensuring real-time streaming and recording with minimal bandwidth use.