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Tracking elusive shipping containers
As you read this, there are some 40,000 large cargo ships plying the world’s waterways and oceans, not to mention innumerable smaller merchant craft, all pulling in and out of ports, loading, unloading, changing out crews and cargos, and steaming from one location to the next; who tracks the millions of containers they carry every year?
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DC Metro disrupted yet again
Smoke pouring into Metro stations forces trains to halt and evacuate pasengers to rely of shuttle buses; fire chief calls the rate of smoke incidents alarming; “We’d like for them to stop,” he said
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Shoes-on shoe inspection system comes to U.S.
IDO Security introcues a high-speed shoes-on portable footwear weapons detection system
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Sharp rise in forged Indian applications for U.S. visas
More Indians — especially business people and students — arrive in the U.S. every year, but there is also a sharp increase in the number of Indians trying to enter the U.S. illegally
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FAA makes changes to restriced air zone over Washington, D.C.
Following more than 20,000 public comments on the 1,800 square miles of restricted airspace over the U.S. capital, the FAA is making changes to the shape, rules of the restricted zone; changes to go into effect by the end of the month
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The difficult experience of being on DHS's no-fly watch list
For many travelers, airports have all the charm of purgatory; some have it much tougher, though: They are those whose names happen to be on the no-fly watch list
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Arizona, DHS in enhanced driver's licnese development project
Arziona becomes the third border state — the others are Washington and Vermont — to cooperate with DHS on an enhanced driver’s license which will meet the strictures of the Real ID Act and WHTI
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Nortel wins $39 million immigration management contract
As more attention is being paid to legal — and illegal — immigration, more money is flowing into the management of various immigration-related operations; Norton Government Solutions benefits
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Danish company pays ransom to release pirated ship, crew
In the lawless land — and terrotorial water — of Somalia, piracy is a thriving business; Danish company pays $1.5 million ransom to have cargo ship, crew release after two-months ordeal
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New tire deflating device obviates need for police car chases
Car-chasing a fleeing criminal at high speeds is dangerous to the police and to innocent bystanders; a Wisconsin company, with help from NASA, designs a “throwable” tire deflating device allowing law enforcement to force fleeing car to stop without giving chase
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DHS, Vermont agree to develop enhanced driver's license
The Vermont project to produce an acceptable, WHTI-compliant alternative document for crossing the U.S. land and sea borders
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Boeing's Project 28 high-tech border suffering delays
Boeing’s Project 28, part of the large SBInet program, is more than two months behind schedule; comapny changes project management
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U.S. passport crunch not to ease anytime soon
State Department has a huge backlog of passport applications, so it changes “expedited” passport service from one week to three weeks; those who want the service will have to pay $60 extra
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Robot pilots prove adept at refuelling tasks
Mid-air refueling is tricky, but DARPA has been testing robots that perform the mission impressively
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Man accused of pointing lasers at planes
Texas man, angry with planes flying low over his home during landing and take off in near-by airport, tries to disrupt flights by shining banned laser beams at pilots
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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.