Skipping the Line at Customs
Skipping the Line at Customs – WSJ
These days, you don’t have to be rich and famous to get the VIP treatment and zip through some of the nation’s busiest airport customs checkpoints.
Cyber attack could paralyze air traffic
Cyber attack could paralyze air traffic – Homeland Security Newswire
Around the world, around the clock, circles of flickering screens keep aircraft apart in the air, ease them gently down to the ground, and guide their precious human cargoes off the runway. This finely choreographed global dance of large, speeding planes moved almost five billion passengers in 2009, according to data from Airports Council International.
The Yemen Air Cargo Attack Means Increased Security Measures Are Imminent
As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its allies in the intelligence community assess the serious attack on international aviation that originated in Yemen, these key considerations should be foremost in their minds: defeating the terrorist threat relies on multi-national information sharing; increasing economic globalization requires a dynamic and secure air cargo supply chain; and attacking international commercial aviation remains a terrorist priority.
Air Cargo: Caution – Reactionaries at Work
Reports are that the air cargo industry is nervous about regulatory or legislative responses to the recent terrorist attempt to send package bombs to the United States on cargo aircraft. It should be. Reactionaries in Washington don’t rest. Recent quotes from legislators suggest that the provisions of the Air Cargo Security Act of 2010, as with current mandates, should be enforced globally for cargo-only aircraft. Federalizing the security of the supply chain serves as blunt instrument, a reactionary’s tool of choice, to the problem.
Group Demands Immediate Halt of Full-Body Airport Scanners
Group Demands Immediate Halt of Full-Body Airport Scanners – Wired Threat Level
A leading privacy group is urging a federal appeals court to suspend the government’s program of introducing full-body imagining machines at airports across the country.
Air cargo group urges global cooperation
Air cargo group urges global cooperation – GovExec
Security regulators around the world must work together to ensure that the movement of air freight is safe and secure, especially after last week’s discovery of package bombs on cargo flights headed to Chicago from Yemen, an air cargo group says.
Experts: cargo bombs raise questions about adequacy of technology
Experts: cargo bombs raise questions about adequacy of technology – Homeland Security Newswire
The bombs found on board two U.S.-bound cargo aircraft this weekend demonstrate that current freight-screening technology still cannot guarantee air security, according to experts.
Ridge: Attempted Attacks Part of Post-9/11 Reality
Ridge: Attempted Attacks Part of Post-9/11 Reality – CQ Homeland Security
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday that intelligence was the key factor in Friday’s discovery of two improvised explosive devices in U.S.-bound cargo packages. But while he called the sharing and analysis of information critical to preventing future attacks, he said he worries that congressional regulation of the intelligence community has made its work overly procedural.
Ridge: Intelligence Still More Important Than Technology in Cargo Security
Ridge: Intelligence Still More Important Than Technology in Cargo Security – CQ Homeland Security Ridge noted that intelligence appeared to be the key factor in the recent case of the explosives found disguised as printer ink cartridges in a UPS plane in Britain and a FedEx plane in Dubai. “I think the facts are undeniable,” […]
Markey Looking for Bipartisan Support on Cargo Security Proposal
Markey Looking for Bipartisan Support on Cargo Security Proposal – CQ Homeland Security
Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., didn’t seek support from other lawmakers before announcing that he intends to file a bill to mandate explosives screening for all U.S.-bound packages – on cargo planes as well as passenger planes — but he’s hoping his colleagues will stand behind the proposal.
