Transportation Security

The purchase would depend on new equipment investments by U.S. shipyards, which haven't built heavy icebreakers for decades.

Legislative process may well signal the ebbing of the wave of reaction from the 2013 Snowden revelations concerning U.S. intelligence spying on the activities of American citizens.

Since 2012, Women in Homeland Security has focused on human trafficking with awareness programs and interactive art projects to educate parents, professionals and the community.

HSToday has learned that Deputy TSA Administrator Huban Gowadia announced Russell Roberts as TSA’s new assistant administrator for Information Technology. In the announcement she...

Surveillance is proving its utility in everything from solving terrorist attacks to identifying criminal activity. How does privacy fare?

The initiative is the culmination of a five-month trial conducted by International Travel Solutions, Vancouver Airport Authority and cruise ship operator Ferries del Caribe.

DHS industry watchers were concerned when, on a recent agenda for Reverse Industry Day, Nina Ferraro was identified as acting chief procurement officer for...

These are marginalized populations that are being abused and used. And they really don’t have a voice, and so they need somebody that can give them a platform.

A partial government shutdown is entering its third day on Monday after lawmakers were unable to reach a deal on a short-term funding bill. The...

Going through airport security is a universally painful experience. And despite being slow and invasive, the TSA doesn’t have a great record at catching...

A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers has shown that it’s possible to mount a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against hard disk drives via acoustic...

An old idea has been reintroduced that has the potential of meeting the elusive requirements of the SAFE Port Act without killing the economy...

A GAO report has found that surface inspectors from the TSA should align their activities more closely with identified risks. It makes four recommendations...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Tuesday the deployment of facial recognition biometric exit technology to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) for select flights,...

The Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that 5 million travelers have enrolled Precheck, the expedited screening program. Precheck is one of several programs...

Several international airlines and airports affected by a U.S. ban on laptops and other large electronic devices have moved quickly to put new security...