Transportation Security

The busy summer travel season has barely begun, and already the long lines at airport security checkpoints due to inadequate Transportation Security Administration...

Travelers -- it’s not just you. Management of the New York City area’s three major airports is fed up with long lines at...

Pilots have reported a surge in the number of close calls between drones and aircraft, with the number of recorded incidents nearly tripling since 2014....

How many millions – probably billions – must be expended to shore up known gaps in homeland security? No one seems to know for...

Biometric experts continue to enhance identity verification in both obvious and unorthodox ways as they explore solutions to an ever-evolving and vexing problem. Whether...

The recent attacks in Brussels--the deadliest acts of terrorism in Belgium's history--revealed the increasing complexity of securing against global terrorist threats. In the United States, there...

Hours after Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson pleaded for Congress to redirect funding to help tackle the looming prospect of calamitously long airport security...

US and European air-safety regulators announced on Tuesday their latest initiatives to ramp up assessment of hazards posed by the proliferation of unmanned aircraft,...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded TASC, a subsidiary of Engility Holdings, Inc., a $90 million contract to perform operational testing and evaluation...

Two groups that say fear of airport security body scanners forces some would-be fliers to risk driving instead, have challenged their use by the...

Smiths Group PLC, a UK-based global technology company, has entered into a $710 million deal with Safran, the French multinational, to acquire Morpho Detection,...

Transportation Security Administration whistleblowers told members of Congress Wednesday that poor leadership, a lack of oversight, low morale and widespread retaliation has led to...

Cybercrime is moving upmarket. It is no secret that financial institutions have been wrestling for years with hackers leveraging stolen credit card information to...

Airport screeners established a new record last week when they stopped passengers from boarding planes with 73 firearms in carry-on luggage. Read the complete report...

Terrorists and drone manufacturers are locked in a high-stakes technology war, with jihadis trying to transform unmanned aerial vehicles into flying weapons and drone...

The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization legislation in a 95-3 vote with strong bipartisan support. The bill, which reauthorizes...