• Growing interest in multi-view X-ray technology

    Multi-view X-ray machines offer several different views of objects within each piece of luggage, and they also automatically detect the presence of improvised explosive devices; TranSec World Expo in June will showcase the technology

  • GE Security, Schiphol to collaborate on security technology

    Leading security developer and major European airport will work to develop advanced technology aviation security; collaboration will lead to a real-world evaluation of existing and emerging security products and technologies “from the European perspective”

  • TSA to examine airport passenger screenings

    TSA to undertake a sweeping review of airport security practices; private jets’ owners and passengers will have to provide personal information to be screened by border patrol

  • Heathrow's Terminal 5 will open in two weeks

    The new, beautiful terminal — it also has an impressive view of the airport and its surroundings — will open on 14 March, and begin operations on 27 March; the mixing — and fingerprinting — of both international and domestic travelers; transfers to other airlines; and tight security checks pose problems

  • Northrop Grumman’s Guardian

    Northrop Grumman’s AAQ-24 Nemesis DIRCM antimissile system has been installed on 400 military aircraft representing 33 types of aircraft, both fixed and rotary wing; the company’s Guardian system, which is adapted from Nemesis, aims to protect commercial aviation against shoulder-fired missiles

  • Abu Dhabi International Airport buys two CTX 9000 DSi EDS

    GE Security claims its EDS is the world’s most widely deployed inline checked baggage explosives screening solution; it is certainly popular at Middle East airports

  • Raytheon’s Integrated Security System for Airports (ISSA)

    Defending airports involves more than screening passengers and luggage; airports are large, sprawling facilities, and to defend them properly their perimeter must be tightly monitored and protected; Raytheon ISSA solution offers airports a comprehensive approach to security

  • BAE’s JETEYE

    Of the various technologies and configurations proposed for defending commercial aviation against shoulder-fired missiles, the leading candidates are plane-mounted directed infrared countermeasures systems; BAE’s JETEYE is such a system

  • HSDW conversation with BAE's Burt Keirstead

    Burt Keirstead is BAE Systems’ program director for JETEYE; in a conversation with the Daily Wire, Keirstead offers his view on the JETEYE’s advantages, how BAE’s system compares with Northrop Grumman’s Guardian, and more

  • U.K. trial shows liquids allowed on board can be used for deadly explosive

    Airport security worries after investigators blow hole in plane’s fuselage using liquid explosives; U.K. security experts call for greater emphasis on behavior observation as security measure

  • New Zealand tightens small-plane security measures

    Following a 8 February attack by a passenger on a 19-seater plane — a woman passenger lunged at the pilots with a knife — the New Zealand government orders security training stepped up for airline and airport staff at regional airports and a feasibility study on installing flight deck barriers on small aircraft

  • BlastGard shows new airport security tool

    A mobile suspect package removal unit with blast-mitigating bomb receptacle will help hold and remove suspected explosive packages until the bomb squad arrives; new system would make it unnecessary to shut down an airport for long periods, which is a good thing, since it is estimated that an airport incurs losses of approximately $150,000 for every minute it is shut down

  • Greenpeace activists blatantly -- and easily -- breach Heathrow security

    Greenpeace activists, protesting plans to build a third runaway at Heathrow, manage to breach tight airport security and clamber atop a Boeing 777 on the tarmac; security authorities worry about airport security

  • Maintaining security at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport

    In 2006, Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport handled 9 million international passengers and 405,000 domestic passengers; it did so while being among the world’s most secure — if not the most secure — airports; two Israeli companies, Hi-Tech Solutions and Rontal, made their own contributions to achieving that level of security

  • Airport Security

    Airport security is about more than lighters and scissors; it is about offering efficient and effective answers to this daunting challenge; industry’s innovative technologies, and close cooperation between industry and government, are two essential ingredients of such answers