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  • EDO eyeing UAV market

    Large contractor has grown substantially through strategic acquisitions; its
    latest target: A Tennessee company making composites used in UAV
     construction

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  • Radiation therapy traces set off radiation monitors at airports

    Hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States and Europe – and millions around the world – receive radiation therapy for various ailments, and nuclear material are also widely used for diagnostic purposes; trouble is, these procedure leave radiation traces in the body for weeks, and these traces set off sensitive nuclear detection systems at airports

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  • SFO testing video analytics

    Speaking of rail security, Congress may want to consider the use of video analytics — now under testing at several of the nation’s airports — in mitigating suspicious activity at rail stations

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  • Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works demonstrates new UAV

    Unmanned vehicles — in the air, on land, and at sea — are the wave of the future; Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works demonstrates a third-generation UAV/UCAV, nicknamed Polecat, made of composite materials; the Polecat is the company’s best hope of gaining ground in the UAV race — ground it has lost during the past ten years to Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and General Atomics

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  • Northrop Grumman in $49.5 million contract to defend U.S. Air Force planes • Part of contract for LAIRCM aircraft defense systems worth up to $3.2 billion

    Iran and Syria have supplied Hezbollah with nearly 12,000 missiles and rockets; how many shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles have these two countries given to Hezbollah – and other terrorist organizations? The U.S. Air Force is not taking any chances, buying defensive measures for its Big Birds; some of these defensive measures may be modified and deployed on civilian aircraft

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  • World’s first battery-operated manned airplane

    A milestone in aviation history: Japanese students fly the first battery-powered man-operated plane

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  • Europe warms up to UAVs

    UVAs are a big thing in the U.S., and the Europeans are becoming more and more interested as well

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  • Senate votes to bolster border security; rejects increased tax on airline tickets

    Senate approves homeland security budget which includes major allocations for border security; for second year in a row Congress rejects administration’s plan to increase tax on airline tickets

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  • DHS modifies airline passenger information program

    DHS wants international airlines to help it check for suspected terrorists who try to board U.S.-bound planes, and for domestic airlines to provide it with lists of all passengers getting on board; DHS checks the lists thus provided against the department’s no-fly watch-list and alert the airlines; trouble is, the no-fly list contains so many inaccuracies that this checking procedure has resulted in many delays – and even in planes being forced to go back to the port of origin, only to discover that a suspected terrorist on board was not a terrorist after all; DHS is now giving airlines more time to implement an improved system

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  • Foreign companies line up to bid on Midway airport

    Earlier this year the firestorm over a Dubai-based company’s plans to run operations in several U.S. ports caused many to rethink the question of foreign ownership of U.S. critical infrastructure assets; still, as the city of Chicago is getting set to lease its Midway airport, all the likely bidders are non-U.S. companies

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  • Airports security measure may spread foot fungus -- and more

    Taking off shoes may help in increasing airline security, but study now finds that it exposes passengers to other risks such as foot fungus and gonorrhea

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  • Australia considers sole-source Global Hawk purchase

    UAVs are increasingly popular among militaries, homeland security agencies, and law enforcements units; the Australian government is on the verge of making a major UAV purchasing decision, and there are four companies competing for the contract and three options on how to buy the drones

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  • BlastGard raises $1.2 million; expands activities to unit loading device market

    A developer of blast mitigation trash cans and other blast-resistant gear receives funding and expands its reach into the airplane-loading market

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  • Analysis: Growing opposition to administration’s plan to relax foreign ownership rule of U.S. airlines

    The administration wants to relax the rules prohibiting foreign ownership of U.S. airlines; critics argue that the administration’s agile word parsing with regard to the term “actual control” of airlines short-changes U.S. national security

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  • Aussie company, GE to market quadruple resonance shoe-scanning device

    An innovative Australian company is licensing its technology to GE to build and market shoe-scanning devices; passengers fumbling with their footwear at airport checkpoints have been a source of logjams and delays, and the TSA is looking for a solution

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