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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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DAE interested in acquiring U.S. defence companies
DPW waded into a firestorm last year when it acquired management rights in major U.S. seaports; now DAE is risking a similar firestorm as it tries to buy into the U.S. aircraft maintenance and service sector
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Coast Guard cancels Northrop and Lockheed's Deepwater contract
Cost overruns and quality control cited as reasons to bring project in-house
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Lockheed stumbles out of the UAV gate
Polecat crashes in the Nevada desert, but at least the self-destruct mechanism works okay
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TSA strikes back at dope smuggling employees
Agency sends 160 officers to Florida after drug runners infiltrate Orlando airport
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UAVs to protect US airports
DHS chooses an unexpected technology for its counter-MANPAD effort; but is it safe?
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Rail safety in the news again
After Oneida accident, Schumer calls for a task force to investigate; angry senator reintroduces safety bill
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K-9's trained to detect pirated music
Motion Picture Association teams up with Malaysia to train the first pooches capable of identifying polycarbonate
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Boeing graduates first military ScanEagle
Seven Georgia airmen will be the first to operate the UAV without Boeing’s assistance
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Germans publish rogue wave atlas
Sensor-based instraments prove incapable of measuring these unpredictable forces; near-sinking of the Bremen may have spurred interest in SAR satelite approach; high risk zones identified
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The long view
New Technology is Keeping the Skies Safe
DHS S&T Baggage, Cargo, and People Screening (BCP) Program develops state-of-the-art screening solutions to help secure airspace, communities, and borders