Category: TSA

CBP Seizes Counterfeit DVDs at California Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials today announced the seizure of a single truckload containing more than 6,300 counterfeit DVDs last month at the Otay Mesa cargo export facility.  click for hi-res At about...

DRS Awarded $15 M to Provide Satellite Connectivity and Services

DRS Awarded $15 M to Provide Satellite Connectivity and Services

DRS Defense Solutions, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DRS Technologies, Inc.,Finmeccanica Group,  announced its Global Enterprise Solutions business unit was awarded a $15 million task order to provide X-band satellite connectivity and terrestrial transport...

U.S. Homeland Security Chief Meets Europe Counterparts

U.S. Homeland Security Chief Meets Europe Counterparts

European officials agreed at last Jan Madrid Meeting to accelerate the drafting of a common strategy with the United States to improve airline security during a meeting with Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of...

No MEADS Decision From U.S. Army-MDA Meeting

No MEADS Decision From U.S. Army-MDA Meeting

Senior U.S. Army officials who met with representatives from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) March 10 reached no decision on whether to transfer management of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program to...

100315 AOfS Newsletter

100315 AOfS Newsletter

click here to read 100315 NEWSLETTER Atlantic Organization for Security The 100315 NEWSLETTER includes the intervention of the RADM Pollastrini, Commander of the Italian Coast Guard, on proactive role in the Mediterranean sea performed by the...

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA: PORT SECURITY

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA: PORT SECURITY

U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) today pushed the issues of port security and international piracy on to the agenda of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA). Participating in...

Upgraded Biometric Technology Facilitates Visitors’ Entry to the United States

Upgraded Biometric Technology Facilitates Visitors’ Entry to the United States

An upgraded biometric technology is in place at major U.S. ports of entry, and most international visitors should expect to use the new technology when they enter the United States. DHS’s US-VISIT program began upgrading...

Radiation Detection Portals at Port Hueneme

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today the deployment of Radiation Portal Monitors at Port Hueneme to prevent terrorists from attempting to smuggle radiological materials used in nuclear and radiological dispersal devices. “This advanced...

TSA: X-ray Technology Capability at Checkpoints Nationwide

TSA: X-ray Technology Capability at Checkpoints Nationwide

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced it is further bolstering existing explosives detection capabilities by deploying additional tools to screen powdered substances at checkpoints. “Every day, TSA officers work at over 450 airports nationwide screening...

EU Commission Regulation on Aviation Security

EU Commission Regulation on Aviation Security

EU lays down detailed measures for the implementation of the common basic standards on aviation security for safeguarding against acts of unlawful interferences and general measures supplementing the common basic standards in the following...

EADS Falls Into The Red – A380 Will Make Losses For At Least 2-3 Years

EADS Falls Into The Red – A380 Will Make Losses For At Least 2-3 Years

European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV said Tuesday it swung into the red in 2009 as problem contracts weighed on earnings, as expected, and it predicted that 2010 will be another difficult year...

MEADS : Army would like to kill the program, but Pentagon resists

MEADS : Army would like to kill the program, but Pentagon resists

Another battle is brewing at the Pentagon over a costly weapons program that many military leaders do not want but that so far has proven difficult to kill. After several failed attempts, the Army...

Training, Investment Create Sustainable Afghan Army

Training, Investment Create Sustainable Afghan Army

Training and financial investment are critical to helping Afghanistan’s security forces become self-sufficient, a senior participant in the effort said. Army Brig. Gen. Gary Patton, the deputy commanding general for programs with Combined Security...

Cyberwar Declared As China Hunts For The West’s Intelligence Secrets

Cyberwar Declared As China Hunts For The West’s Intelligence Secrets

Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China. The attacks have also hit government...

USDoD New Cyber-Security Rules For Unclassified Data

USDoD New Cyber-Security Rules For Unclassified Data

The U.S. Defense Department, the target of 300 million attempts daily to probe its computer networks, wants to require its contractors to report hacking that compromises sensitive information. Under a proposed regulation, companies would...

Vice Adm. R. J. Papp memo on USCG restructuring

Vice Adm. R. J. Papp memo on USCG restructuring

The incoming Coast Guard commandant has penned a remarkably honest and sometimes disturbing memo saying the service was “forced to make asset reduction decisions” in the 2011 budget without “full appreciation” of the operational...

Defending Against Drones: How our new favorite weapon in the war on terror could be turned against us.

Defending Against Drones: How our new favorite weapon in the war on terror could be turned against us.

The unmanned spy plane that Lebanon’s Hizbullah sent buzzing over Israeli towns in 2005 was loud and weaponless, and carried only a rudimentary camera. But the surprise flight by a regional terror group still...

UK Defence Committee: Millions On Unproductive Procurement,

UK Defence Committee: Millions On Unproductive Procurement,

The MoD is spending hundreds of millions of pounds a year on unproductive activities because it has commissioned more work than it can afford to pay for, says the Defence Select Committee in its...