• Mounties smash massive identity-theft ring

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police discover thousands of stolen and forged credit cards, licences, passports, personal records — and printing and embossing machines to manufacture IDs, passports, and print forged money; largest such ring in Canadian history

  • Coast Guard, US-VISIT expands biometrics-at-sea to Florida Straits

    Since the program began in November 2006, the Coast Guard has collected biometric data from 1,526 migrants and prosecuted 118 of those migrants; program was tested in the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and judged successful, is now being expanded to the Florida Straits

  • Maryland leaders worry about shift in DHS priorities after elections

    Because of its proximity to the nation’s capital, the Baltimore metro area and Washington suburbs are particularly vulnerable to terrorist activity, Maryland leaders say; they want attention to security increased, not decreased

  • Fence to nowhere

    DHS received the keys from Boeing — behind schedule, it should be noted — to Project 28, only to find out that it fell short of the promise the department made to Congress, and that Boeing made to the department; Boeing has now received a three-year extension; the Arizona Republic says the failure of Project 28 has deeper meaning for technology and policy

  • DHS defends handling of Project 28

    Project 28, built by Boeing along twenty-eight miles of the Arizona-Mexico border, was meant to showcase advanced border security technologies which DHS would use in the more ambitious $8 billion border surveillance system along the U.S.-Mexico border; DHS initially said that the project’s technology failed to deliver on its promise, and gave Boeing a three-year extension; DHS now defends its handling of the project

  • 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

  • Project 28 falls short of promise, requiring three year extension

    After Boeing delivers Project 28 — a system of cameras, sensors, towers, and software to secure a twenty-eight-mile stretch of the Arizona border — to DHS, department concludes that the project lacks the operational capabilities DHS and Congress expected it to have; first phase of project now extended by three years

  • 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