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Washington, D.C. to install CCTVs on trains, busses, and in stations
The cameras are installed more for crowd control purposes, but there is the acknowledgment that cameras provide a forensic tool for police when investigating crimes
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TSA awards $8.8 million to California airport for checked baggage screening system
John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, receives $8.8 million for the construction of an inline baggage handling system
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TSA awarded $6.9 to Wichita Mid-Continent Airport for baggage screening
TSA announces $6.9 million award for new checked baggage screening System at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport
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Reveal Imaging wins $30 million TSA deal
Economic stimulus law funds new explosive detection system; the technology is capable of screening 225 bags per hour; the system is designed to inspect checked baggage, carry-on baggage, air freight, and parcels
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Tutor Perini receives USCG contract
Leading civil construction company awarded a Coast Guard contract with maximum value of $500 million
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U.K.'s ubiquitous camera network to be made smarter
U.K. researchers develop behavioral recognition software which will focus CCTVs in public places — and on public transportation — on people behaving in a suspicious or odd manner; developers say their software would have spotted a man carrying a samurai sword to a bus in Leeds — which he used to attack the bus driver
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U.K. Post Office will do biometric enrollment for foreign nationals
The U.K. Post Office has volunteered seventeen offices to collect dabs on a trial basis, with tests to start next week; so far the Identity and Passport Service has issued 90,000 cards mostly to students and people renewing marriage visas. This beats its previous target of 75,000 cards by November 2009
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DHS collects -- and keeps -- large amount of information on U.S. citizens traveling abroad
Are you an American citizen frequently traveling abroad? You may be surprised by how much of your personal information DHS collects — and stores; now you have a way of finding out
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Analyzing Congress's homeland security agenda
Heritage Foundation’s report offers useful analysis of what Congress should — and should not — do on the homeland security legal front
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Congress and homeland security legislation: A different view // Ben Frankel
First, illegal immigration is not, in the main, a security issue; an argument can be made that continued illegal immigration, as is the case with any illegal activity, may erode the rule of law and is costly to the American public, but these are not security arguments; second, if we want to make sure no WMDs are smuggled into the United States, there is no alternative to the 100 percent inspection mandate
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Smiths Detection to unveil new millimeter-wave scanner
The company’s new eqo scanner increases throughput and occupies only a fraction of the floor space of conventional scanners
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Judge allows E-Verify rule to go into effect
The U.S. District Court for Maryland denied an injunction for another delay to five industry groups that are appealing the court’s earlier decision to allow implementation of the rule to go forward
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Improving inspections of agricultural products
Agricultural goods crossing into the United States are subject to Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (AQI) by DHS’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP); current practices call for inspecting 2 percent of the items in a container; a new study says that applying decision-making theory to inspections would improve them and make them more effective
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GAO: More technology can improve security along Southwest border
New GAO report notes that whenever a specific checkpoint received additional resources or personnel, officials typically would see a spike in the number of seizures and apprehensions, followed by a gradual decline as smugglers and criminals looked for a less secure point of entry into the United States
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Businesses seek to delay implementation of E-Verify
A business coalition files suit to prevent DHS from implementing E-verify as of next Tuesday; E-Verify would require federal contractors to verify the legal status of their workers
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The long view
Calls Grow for U.S. to Counter Chinese Control, Influence in Western Ports
Experts say Washington should consider buying back some ports, offer incentives to allies to decouple from China.