Personnel Protection Using Interior Activated Barriers

This paper addresses equipment that will protect personnel and classified information in sensitive locations. The protection is afforded by a new type delay system called an Interior Activated Barrier (IAB). The interior activated barrier may be deployed with or in tandem with conventional hardline barriers. The total delay time afforded to protect personnel and information is measured in hours uniformly against attacks utilizing hand tools, power tools, and small explosives (less than four pounds). Delay is the central element in the defense of fixed installations. It provides valuable time in which to coordinate and execute orderly policies and procedures such as moving personnel into safe havens, destroying sensitive materials, bringing to bear outside forces, and executing if appropriate. security evacuations Delay is extremely difficult to achieve in appreciable quantities by either adding or improving fixed barriers or by increasing the size of the protective force. Improvements in fixed barriers generally consist of more, thicker, or bigger, but such improvements of ten quickly become rather expensive for relatively small gains in delay. In some locations, it may be prudent to avoid adding highly visible fixed barriers. Adding more people is also a very expensive alternative, and in some instances, may be impractical, politically unwise, or of little read delay benefit. The effectiveness of a physical protection system can be significantly enhanced by the inclusion of properly designed and installed interior activated barriers. Development of these IAB technologies has made additional components available to the physical security system designer for a wide variety of applications.