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Few interested in Registered Traveler
Deloitte & Touche survey finds few Americans have even heard of program, even though most respondents listed long security lines as a top complaint
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Australian airports remain vulnerable
Government has failed to solve problems with unscreened domestic fliers; travellers at Adelaide disembark on the tarmac
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Israeli gambling tycoon bets long on UAVs
Avi Shaked buys a large share of Aeronautics Defense Systems, maker of the Aerostar; company has clients in U.S., Nepal, Spain, and even Nigeria
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TSA issues RFI for airport tracking system
Proposals are expected to include a combination of RFID, biometrics, and sensoer technology; non-proprietary systems preferred
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Tyco wins Iceland airport security contract
Company’s CEM AC2000 access control system is already deployed in Hong Kong, England, Hawaii, and Athens; card readers offer “Schengen mode” option
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British air force tests unmanned jetliner, again
Qinetic’s UAV simulator a success as a Tornado pilot manages to control a passenger jet and three virtual UAVs
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Predator UAVs suffer 40 percent losses
Insatiable demand in the field prompts Air Force to ask for twenty-two additional craft; operator errors continue to plague UAV airspace
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Northrop receives another large Global Hawk contract
Air Force orders $287 million of the crash-prone UAVs; craft have played a major role in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Army and Air Force feud over UAV control
Bad blood brews over repeated Air Force proposals to manage the military’s medium and high altitude drones; Air Force is not being “collegial,” says one general
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Orlando airport to spend $7 million on additional security measures
Faced with mounting criticism, aviation authorities only need three minutes to approve its biggest security overhaul since 9/11; baggage screening, vehicle inspection, and voice stress analysis under consideration
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FAA seeks cockpit GPS systems to prevent crashes
Onboard navigation system will be a step back from an earlier NTSB proposal, but agency calls it “a breakthrough application”
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Elbit claims its Skylark UAV is in Iraq
Although Canadian forces in Afghanistan have found the drone unreliable, American forces find it perfectly suited to counter-terror missions
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Gait-recognition biometrics to assist other biometric measures
Biometric identification measures may be good, but imagine subjecting the 68 million passangers who pass through heathrow every year to the time-consuming facial or iris recogntion test; gait-recogntion may help
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Saab offers MANPAD defense system
Company teams up with Naturelink and Chemring Countermeasures to test an infrared decoy system; deployment possible by 2008
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DHS to test Crossmatch and Identix's ten-print scanners
Fifty of the devices will be deployed to airports nationwide to assist with US-VISIT; DHS also plans to tweak exit procedures
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The long view
Prototype Self-Service Screening System Unveiled
TSA and DHS S&T unveiled a prototype checkpoint technology, the self-service screening system, at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas, NV. The aim is to provide a near self-sufficient passenger screening process while enabling passengers to directly receive on-person alarm information and allow for the passenger self-resolution of those alarms.