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Los Angeles Port installs comprehensive radiation detection system
Los Angeles port, among largest in nation, to be equipped with comprehensive radiation detection system
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House passes tough immigration bill, calling for a fence on U.S.-Mexican border
House passes tough immigration bill with a series of unprecedented measures to curb illegal immigration
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Greg Giddens to oversee DHS SBI
New boss at DHS to supervise the Secure Border Initiative
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TSA posts RFI for Registered Traveler, TWIC
Transportation agency posts RFPs for two major transportation security projects
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DHS IG finds confusing supervision of ISIS program
DHS IG says that more than $400 million has been invested in Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System to date, without much to show for it
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TSA considers barring veterans with mental health issues from commercial flights
TSA is looking for a company to create a database which would monitor veterans with mental health problems for possible inclusion in flight Watch List
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Retailers urge DHS to follow C-TPAT
Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is a good model of government-private industry cooperation, and the nation’s retailers call on the government to apply it more broadly
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U.K. secretly buys shoulder-mounted missiles to develop defenses against them
U.K. buys Russian-made shoulder-mounted missiles to use them in practicing anti-missile defenses for civilian aircraft
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Life in a very young civilization
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Undercover air marshals to be placed on trains, busses, and ferries
TSA had an idea: Why not place undercover marshals on ground transportation? A pilot program was launched quietly this week, but complaints from local authorities caused TSA to scale it back
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Canada installs first port radiation detection devices
Canada begins to beef up radiation detection in the country’s seaports, but the U.S.— and Canadian security experts argue that these are only first steps
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Universal Holdings deploys new command and control solution
Protecting ship-borne cargo containers is a massive and important security endeavor, and a new solution which collects information from container-attached RFID tags will help
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Court orders OTI to be reinstated to U.S. ePassport evaluation process
GPO excludes Israeli company OTI from ePassport evaluation program, but OTI wins legal challenge and is reinstated
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TSA shifts from looking for scissors and knives to detecting explosives in checked baggage and cargo carried on passenger planes, and companies offering new approaches and technologies benefit
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ManTech to monitor flight schools for non-U.S. flight trainees
Four years after 9/11, TSA signs up ManTech to monitor non-U.S. applicants for flight training in the U.S.
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