Transportation

Crocodile smuggler disrupts Rafah crossing
“Strangely fat” woman detained trying to enter Gaza with three reptiles tied to her legs
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New York City plans subway cameras (again)
After an aborted attempt in 2000, transit authorities ask two subway car manufacturers to propose ways of installing digital cameras
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Army and Air Force feud over UAV control
Bad blood brews over repeated Air Force proposals to manage the military’s medium and high altitude drones; Air Force is not being “collegial,” says one general
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DHS fights back on REAL-ID privacy complaints
As Danny Glover rallies the opposition, DHS officials tell Congress that they see no relevant privacy issues
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Orlando airport to spend $7 million on additional security measures
Faced with mounting criticism, aviation authorities only need three minutes to approve its biggest security overhaul since 9/11; baggage screening, vehicle inspection, and voice stress analysis under consideration
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FAA seeks cockpit GPS systems to prevent crashes
Onboard navigation system will be a step back from an earlier NTSB proposal, but agency calls it “a breakthrough application”
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CBP to extend Remote Location Filing to overseas companies
System permits importers and brokers to file electronic manifests from locations other than the port of arrival; China, Brazil, and South Korea to be the first foreign countries to participate
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Elbit claims its Skylark UAV is in Iraq
Although Canadian forces in Afghanistan have found the drone unreliable, American forces find it perfectly suited to counter-terror missions
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Gait-recognition biometrics to assist other biometric measures
Biometric identification measures may be good, but imagine subjecting the 68 million passangers who pass through heathrow every year to the time-consuming facial or iris recogntion test; gait-recogntion may help
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Industry heavyweights share $500 million in Navy protection contracts
Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon all claim a slice of the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Ashore Program pie
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Saab offers MANPAD defense system
Company teams up with Naturelink and Chemring Countermeasures to test an infrared decoy system; deployment possible by 2008
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DHS to test Crossmatch and Identix's ten-print scanners
Fifty of the devices will be deployed to airports nationwide to assist with US-VISIT; DHS also plans to tweak exit procedures
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Final costs set for TWIC
Transportation workers receive a $2 discount off earlier estimates
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ACRO shows a detector for peroxide-based explosives
Peroxide-based explosives are nearly impossible to identify because they do not contain nitro groups and are colorless; ACRO offers a solution
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Israelis look to break solar UAV record
Technion researchers intend to exceed 190 kilometers of uninterrupted flight; control problems, however, continue to plague the industry
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