Transportation

Education in fighting terrorism goes to the source
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More attention paid to luggage security at airports
The recent evacuation of a terminal at San Francisco airport draws even more attention to the need for explosive detection at airports
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TSA to launch Registered Traveler on 20 June
Security and privacy concerns about Register Traveler have not subsided, but TSA sets mid-June as launch date for the controversial program, and calls on private companies to apply for the right to run it
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DHS consolidates all marine, air operations
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Growing concern over transportation of hazardous materials
Security measures for handling toxic chemicals should apply not only to the nation’s 15,000 chemical plants, but also the rails and trucks transporting them; too bad there are no meaningful security measures
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GE, Siemens in port security collaborative effort
Two conglomerates create joint venture to manufacture tamper-proof devices to track the 60 million cargo containers being ferried across the oceans every year
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Travel industry praises new DHS-State passenger screening initiatives
The travel industry, usually grumpy about security initiatives, welcomes the administration’s latest travel security initiatives
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New RFID ID card to replace passports among Western Hemisphere countries
U.S. government unveils a plan to equip citizens of several countries in the Western Hemisphere with a biometric card which could serve as a passport substitute
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Questions raised about traveler screening programs
Remember the nine-month old Pennsylvania toddler who was not allowed to board a plane with her mother because her name was on the TSA No-Fly list? And Senator Ted Kennedy is still being pulled over every time he walks through a security line; who is on this list, anyway?
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Growing investment in airport IT services, including biometric check-in
Airport-related IT services and products constituted a $2.5 billion market in 2005; the growing interest in biometric travel documents will increase the size of this market in the next three years
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Live test of ePassports begins at San Francisco International
In second live test of its kind, four countries cooperate in testing ePassports, their readers, and the software which operates the system
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Unisys receives large TSA IT contract despite steep overbilling on early version of contract
Overbilling is not exactly unknown among government contractors, but Unisys “overbilling on a large (nearly $1 billion) TSA IT contract” the company charged three times per-hour than what it said it would surprised even jaded Washington veterans; still, TSA has just given Unisys another contract to complete the work it did not finish on the first contract (the work was not completed because the money allocated to it ran out; the money ran out because the company overbilled, etc.)
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Smith installs IMS EDS at three additional airports
Innovative EDS company installs IMS-based detectors in more of the country’s airports
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PierPASS to use active RFID to secure trucks at California seaports
Trucks entering two of California’s — and the nation’s — largest ports to be equipped with active RFIDs for added protection
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Promising Aussie company benefits from emphasis on explosive detection
We like restless, innovative companies, and this Australian company is intellectually restless and innovative company — and what also helps, is that it is in a growing homeland security subfield
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