Tight security produces seven flight security incidents in one day

Aug 29, 2006

Amid new anxiety about air travel and tough new regulations covering what passengers may bring on planes, seven U.S. flights were involved in security incidents on Friday of last week. In one case, a stick of dynamite was found to have been aboard a flight.
The rash of events, safety consultants and others say, reflect heightened emotions and appropriately tightened security in the wake of an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners thwarted this month by British authorities....

Random bag searches outside subways upheld

Aug 24, 2006

A federal appeals court has ruled that random police searches of passengers' bags and backpacks outside New York subway entrances are legal....

New TSA unit focuses on suspicious behavior

Aug 24, 2006

The Transportation Security Administration is experimenting with a new squad whose members do not look for bombs, guns or knives. Instead, the assignment is to find anyone acting suspicious....

Debate in U.S., Britain over airline passenger profiling

Aug 24, 2006

Homeland security officials in both the U.S. and in Britain are calling for expanded government monitoring and airline passenger profiling. House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, (R-N.Y.), even suggests pulling those of Middle Eastern descent out of airport lines for additional questioning....

'Clean bombs' may be the new focus of explosives detection

Aug 24, 2006

Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, says the type of bombs that the alleged London terror group intended to use to crash planes into the Atlantic probably would have slipped through airport detection devices armed even with the latest technology....

Passenger Adjustment Period

Aug 10, 2006

U.S. airline travelers adjust to new rules after alleged terrorist plot foiled....

Front-Line Targets

By Paul Rothman

On an otherwise quiet Tuesday evening in July, the Indian financial capital of Mumbai is rocked by seven explosions on crowded commuter trains and in train stations. At least 464 people are injured — 174 are killed....

What's Wrong With Transportation Security?

By Michael Fickes

R. William Johnstone takes a different view of what went wrong with aviation security on 9/11. Instead of blaming intelligence failures that did not “connect the dots” in the months before the attack, Johnstone fingers failures of the security system in place that day. “That's my opinion,” he says. “It isn't necessarily a majority opinion.”...

Fast-Track Screening

Apr 1, 2006

The Registered Traveler Pilot Program, a 14-month U.S. government project undertaken in conjunction with UNISYS and SITA, came to a close at the end of...

RFID On The Go

By Jacqueline Emigh

TO HELP EASE convoy management and security during military operations, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has teamed up with Savi Technology, Sunnyvale,...

The Private Sector Tackles Public Access Control

By Michael Fickes

Who in that long line at the airport should not be allowed to get on the plane? Looking for that person has cost all of us countless hours since the Sept....

Actionable Intelligence

BY ERIN SEMPLE

In September of 2004, the Harbor Police for the Port of San Diego embarked on a data sharing initiative. The port installed Crossflo Systems' DataExchange...

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