Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages – Wired
The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
DNA Sensors Getting Ready to Sniff Out Terrorist Attacks – Homeland Security Outlook
Researchers at the MITRE Corporation are developing genetically engineered bio-sensors, and while they’re still a few years from the marketplace, these sensors promise to be even more accurate than today’s detection devices – and they’ll cost far less.
Gobble, Gobble: TSA Helpful Holiday Travel Tips – The TSA Blog
It’s that time of year again where turkeys head for the hills and people head for the airports. It’s the busiest travel time of the year and a time when people who rarely fly, or have never flown, take to the skies, so we wanted to provide some clarification and tips for those who might come to the blog looking for some information.
Official seeks more realistic plan for fighter jet program – GovernmentExecutive.com
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said Monday he is working intensively with industry and defense officials to set more realistic cost and schedule goals for the high-stakes F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
Recently, the House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on the issue of aircraft foreign repair station security. And while the Committee’s oversight on this issue is commendable, the hearing lacked one important item: an updated risk assessment. This omission, along with the testimony of three union representatives, suggests that security at foreign repair stations continues to be a Trojan horse for some.
Judge Throws Out Child Porn Found By TSA – KITV.com
A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday threw out all the evidence against a man caught with child pornography at Hilo Airport. The judge ruled that screeners went too far in searching the man’s luggage.
TSA To Inspect Jet Repair Shops Under New Proposal – USA Today
Thousands of airplane maintenance shops in the U.S. and abroad would get increased scrutiny to make sure they are not easy prey for terrorists looking to sabotage U.S. jets during routine repairs, a government proposal says.
In an interview with CQ Homeland Security, Security Debrief’s Rich Cooper makes the case as to why TSA nominee Erroll Southers would make a good leader for the federal law enforcement agency.
U.S. GAO – Aviation Security: DHS and TSA Have Researched, Developed, and Begun Deploying Passenger Checkpoint Screening Technologies, but Continue to Face Challenges Since fiscal year 2002, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have invested over $795 million in technologies to screen passengers at airport checkpoints. The DHS Science […]
GAO: TSA continues to face challenges in finding and deploying checkpoint screening technology | Homeland Security News Wire Since TSA’s creation, ten passenger screening technologies have been in various phases of research, development, test and evaluation, procurement, and deployment, but TSA has not deployed any of these technologies to airports nationwide
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