Transportation Security

Leidos has been awarded a follow-on prime contract to continue providing maintenance, sustainment and logistics support services for the Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoint screening equipment.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on governments and industry to work together to make the best use of modern technology to provide a 'passenger first' approach to airport security.

The authorities are expected to soon start using the drones they impound from passengers at RGIA, for their operational purposes.

Security operations such as police, fire and emergency communications at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport are in five different locations across the airport’s sprawling 3,400-acre footprint. Airport officials said there’s a better way to coordinate these critical operations.

The new laws allow officers to carry out identity checks if they suspect on "reasonable grounds" it would safeguard public order or prevent an offense occurring.

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority has signed a collaboration agreement with Liberty Defense to beta test the company’s HEXWAVE weapons detection system.

One individual has been arrested for climbing on top of an aircraft on the runway, others refused to get off aircraft they had boarded, and a number of people were arrested outside the airport building.

San Diego International Airport is testing autonomous security robots as part of its 16-week Innovation Lab program. NXT Robotics will beta test and refine the robots to support airport security monitoring by employing artificial intelligence and continual surveillance.

KickView will adapt their existing software platform, kvSonata, to perform real-time analysis of queue lengths and wait times in the international customs processing areas of airports.

All the submissions mentioned greatly increased rates of disruption and the detrimental impacts on safety of flight and overall air traffic management.

Authorities are investigating how a woman managed to board a Delta Air Lines flight from Orlando to Atlanta without identification or a boarding pass.

Los Angeles World Airports broke ground on a state-of-the-art $220 million Airport Police Facility that will consolidate operations from eight separate locations under one roof just north of the Central Terminal Area in Westchester.

Vision-Box and Terminal One Group Association (TOGA) have partnered to launch biometric boarding at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 1.

The United States' Transportation Security Administration and the Kuwait Directorate General of Civil Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to bolster aviation security.

The United States has blacklisted 28 Chinese organizations amid concerns about human rights violations. The action effectively blocks the 28 entities (which include government agencies as well as technology companies) from buying American products.

Threat protection firm, MSA Security, has announced that Chris Shelton has joined its management team as Vice President, Air Cargo.