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Oshkosh Trucks acquires AK Specialty Vehicles
A maker of specialty vehicles for law enforcement and homeland security acquires a specialist in medical and command and control trucks to augment its offering
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TWIC hobbeled by politics-as-usual in Congress
Pork-barrel politics is as old as politics; still, the length to which one Kentucky congressman went to make sure that his home district and donors to his political campaigns benefit from an important DHS program, ,ay appear excessive; to say nothing of the damage the “bring home the bacon” approach did to the program, and to U.S. port security
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U.S. Air Force to experiment with chepaer synthetic fueld for planes
The U.S. Air Force consumes more than half of all the fuel consumed by the U.S. government; the service’s 2005 bill for jet fuel exceeded $4.7 billion; now the Air Force has decided to do something about (the Army is participating)
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Tupelo airport joins SPP
TSA has established the Screening Partnership Program (SPP) o allow airports to use private contractors for screening; Tupelo has joined five other airports already in the system, contracting a Virgnia company to run screening operations
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InfoZen wins large TSA contract
Maryland company wins contract to support TSA transportation worker program
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Industry: TWIC will cost thousands of jobs
The implementation of new ID cards has some worried that illegal immigrants and individuals with criminal convictions who now hold transportation positions may lose their job
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Analysis: Rail industry caught between cities, federal, and chemical industry preferences
This is another case of security as a public good, and who should pay for it: The rail industry is caught between different forces pushing in different directions on the issue of transporting hazardous chemicals; as more and more cities move to reroute shipments of such materials unless they are destined for the city, the issue will come to a head sooner rather than later
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Scanners to be used at U.K. rail stations
If metal detectors and explosive scanners are good enough for airports, they should also be useful in protecting ground transportation, say U.K. railroad authorities
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Calls for banning shipment of Canadian garbage into U.S.
Hundreds of trucks every day haul garbage from Canada for burial in Michigan landfills; the trouble is that these trucks are not thoroughly searched, and two senators now say this is too risky to be allowed to continue
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Shape of things to come: On-board CCTV
Some airlines already deploy CCTV in cabins so pilots can monitor passenger behavior; more and more rail and bus services want to do the same in the vehicles they operate
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Bomb-resistant trash cans may not be suitable for New York subway stations
New York congressman calls on MTA to install bomb-resistant trash cans at MTA’s more than 400 subway stations, but the transportation organizations says that the architecture of many of the rail stations make them unsuitable for such trash cans
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Analysis: Even if chemical plants are more secure, transportation of chemicals will not be
Congress and the administration are inching — the more accurate word would be “millimetering” — toward formulating safety standards for U.S. chemical facilities; trouble is, even if security is enhanced at these facilities, the transportation of deadly chemicals will remain frighteningly vulnerable to attack
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Transportation, border security largest homeland security allocations in proposed budget
An analysis of government-wide homeland security allocations in President Bush’s proposed budget shows that transportation and border security will receive the most money
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M2SYS, Dearman in deal to secure transportation of hazardous materials
Robots can save lives, and the ever-alert CCAT identifies an innovative robotics company to support
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