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U.K. secretly buys shoulder-mounted missiles to develop defenses against them
U.K. buys Russian-made shoulder-mounted missiles to use them in practicing anti-missile defenses for civilian aircraft
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Undercover air marshals to be placed on trains, busses, and ferries
TSA had an idea: Why not place undercover marshals on ground transportation? A pilot program was launched quietly this week, but complaints from local authorities caused TSA to scale it back
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Universal Holdings deploys new command and control solution
Protecting ship-borne cargo containers is a massive and important security endeavor, and a new solution which collects information from container-attached RFID tags will help
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Court orders OTI to be reinstated to U.S. ePassport evaluation process
GPO excludes Israeli company OTI from ePassport evaluation program, but OTI wins legal challenge and is reinstated
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TSA shifts from looking for scissors and knives to detecting explosives in checked baggage and cargo carried on passenger planes, and companies offering new approaches and technologies benefit
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ManTech to monitor flight schools for non-U.S. flight trainees
Four years after 9/11, TSA signs up ManTech to monitor non-U.S. applicants for flight training in the U.S.
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Mexican market for cockpit door surveillance estimated at $6.4 million
There are nearly 300 commercial aviation planes in Mexico, and the Mexican government requires that they install cockpit door monitoring systems, which is good business for eGlobal
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Reveal CT-80 receives coveted SAFETY Act certification
Reveal is one of the companies producing explosive detection systems for airports; it has already received many orders for its systems, and now has received a prized DHS certification, too
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Canada begins mandatory employee biometric ID information collection at airports
Toronto airport leads the way in requiring employees to carry biometric ID to work
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Congress makes pointing lasers at aircraft a federal crime: Civilian aircraft defense measure enacted
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Reveal Imaging contracted to deliver air cargo explosives detection system: TSA intensifies focus on bomb detection, and Reveal benefits
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Thousands successfully remove their names from terror watch list: Nearly 30,000 purged from terror watch list
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CyberKey receives multimillion dollar order from DHS
A nifty solution to storing emergency response information
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9/11 Commission: Administrations homeland security shortcomings
Administration receives failing grade, but lesson too costly to be repeated
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Gabriel moves into GPS-enabled cargo containers security
Company launches new product to make container shipping safer and traceable
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