Category: TSA

$20.3 Million for New Checked Baggage Screening System at General Mitchell International Airport

$20.3 Million for New Checked Baggage Screening System at General Mitchell International Airport

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced an award of approximately $20.3 million to General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) for the construction of a new in-line baggage handling system designed to enhance TSA’s efforts...

TSA’s job is to scan only for explosives, not weapons

TSA’s job is to scan only for explosives, not weapons

Guns found in US professor’s luggage by Egypt customs  Police in Egypt have arrested an Egyptian-American academic discovered to have several weapons in his luggage as he arrived on a flight from the New...

Anti-piracy efforts treat symptom, not disease

Navies can intercept Somali pirate skiffs and foil hijackings but fighting waves of attacks at sea will not solve the problem, which is rooted in instability on land in Somalia, naval leaders say. Anti-piracy...

New UK National Security Council Established

The inaugural meeting of a National Security Council, which will discuss the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be chaired by Prime Minister David Cameron today, Wednesday 12 May 2010.The National Security Council (NSC)...

AgustaWestland Will Bid on New Marine One

AgustaWestland (AW) told that the company is still in the hunt for the U.S. VXX Presidential helicopter replacement program, commonly known as Marine One. Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, the chairman and CEO of AW parent...

Terrorism cell used to fund Islamic network dismantled

Five people were arrested in Italy, Britain and France as part of an investigation into the funding of a network of Islamic terrorism. This was announced in The Hague, Eurojust, the European body for...

SELEX Galileo shows latest UAS and soldier technology to Jordan’s Armed Forces at SOFEX 2010

  SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, is building on established partnerships with Jordanian industry at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition (SOFEX) 2010, and is demonstrating how the Company can support the growth of capabilities...

Little Progress Made On Afghan Surveillance Effort

Nine months after the Army’s U.S. Central Command formally declared that there was an “urgent need” for sophisticated electronic surveillance systems to be installed throughout Afghanistan to protect U.S. forward operating bases, little has...

DRS Defense Technical Services: 100 M$ for U.S. Customs and Border Protection License Plate Readers.

DRS Technical Services Inc., a DRS Defense Solutions company, announced today that its Maritime & Security Solutions business unit was awarded a fixed price, indefinite- delivery indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $100 million to...

Russian marines free tanker, capture pirates

Russian marines free tanker, capture pirates

Russian marines stormed a hijacked Russian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden in a daring early morning raid, killing one of the Somali pirates aboard and capturing another 10. The oil tanker’s crew...

Cobham to upgrade and support Air Defence and Air Traffic Services for UK MoD

Cobham to upgrade and support Air Defence and Air Traffic Services for UK MoD

Cobham will upgrade and support key air traffic control systems and operations for the UK Ministry of Defence through to at least 2015, after being awarded three contracts totalling GBP12 million. The contracts include...

US DHS Critical Infrastructure: Chemical Security Update

US DHS Critical Infrastructure: Chemical Security Update

The chemical security laws and regulations (click to download) information has been updated to reflect compliance activities related to the paperwork reduction act for the Chemical-Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS). In particular, the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division...