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  • DHS OK's Ontario's driver licences as passport alternative

    Business leaders on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border are relieved as DHS confirms Canadian travelers from Ontario can enter the United States with secure documents rather than a passport

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  • Raytheon selected for U.K. e-Borders project

    Massachusetts company will lead a team to implement U.K. ambitious $1.3 billion e-Bordres scheme; plan will allow British authorities to check the background of persons entering and exiting the country against various watch lists

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  • CodaOctopus delivers first of three Underwater Inspection Systems to U.S. Coast Guard

    CodaOctopus delivers first of three Underwater Inspection Systems (UIS) to U.S. Coast Guard; advanced, versatile system features several advanced technologies which allow for real-time 3D underwater inspection with accurate positioning (up to 10cm) for georeferencing

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  • Foreign students face tightened U.K. security checks

    Foreign students applying for graduate study in the U.K. in 41 science and engineering subjects now must pass extra security screening

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  • DHS relaxes, backs off some Real ID requirements

    In the face of persistent opposition from the states, DHS relaxes or backs off some provisions of Real ID, and extends deadlines for compliance; critics say this back-pedaling is but an attempt to deny that Real ID is dying

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  • Australia launches counterterrorism Web site to provide information

    Aussies launch Web site to provide information about what to do in case of terrorist attacks; site would provide information on preparation, mitigation, evacuation routes, and more

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  • Thanksgiving travelers face different wait-times at different airports

    The average pre-screening wait time at U.S. airports shows these tendencies: Wait times at the busiest airports gets a bit shorter, while wait times at mid-size airports increases

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  • FLIR expanding Gulf presence

    FLIR’s sensor technology, used in border protection and perimeter defense, among other applications, has won the company several hefty contracts in the Gulf region; company eager to build on its success

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  • More border posts in Europe removed

    On 21 December, border posts from the Baltics to Budapest will be removed, as nine Central and East European nations join the fifteen nations already members to the Schengen zone: Within the zone, citizens of member states can move freely about without showing papers at the borders

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  • U.S. terror watch list balloons to 860,000 names

    On the day after 9/11, U.S. terror watch list had 20 names on it; today it has 860,000; it is growing at a rate of 20,00 a month; the FBI has removed 100,000 names from the list, but additions outpace deletions; experts say list is unwieldy, and not very useful

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  • Paper-free air freight era begins

    IATA launches six e-freight pilots; air cargo transports 35 percent of the total value of goods traded across borders, generating $55 billion for ailiners; e-freight will make air cargo more competitive

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  • EU to collect, distribute data on American passengers flying to Europe

    New EU proposal calls for collecting personal information on all travelers to Europe — Americans included — and distributing the information to security authorities in EU states; information to be kept for 13 years

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  • Bloomberg comes out against Spitzer’s latest driver's license scheme

    Bloomberg, initially supportive of Governor Spitzer’s three-tier driver’s license scheme, comes out against it

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  • U.K. to relax one-bag luggage rule

    Following the terrorist alert of summer 2006, British aviation security authorities imposed a one-bag carry-on rule on passengers; this rule will soon be relaxed

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  • L.A.-Long Beach ports brace for TWIC registration

    TWIC registration at ports will begin in mid-December; industry worries that about 20 percent of truckers, the majority of whom are Latino immigrants, may not pass the background checks

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