Category -- Policy
March 25, 2013
Though still an active military theatre, the interior of Afghanistan has much of the groundwork laid for future security and stability, from military and police training to modernized equipment and processes to combat internal threats. But while stability might be…
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February 02, 2012
Most of Rapiscan Systems’ products are SAFETY Act certified, what does that mean?
After 9/11 the United States Congress wanted to encourage the development and use of new and innovative anti-terrorism products and services. Concerned that fear of lawsuits would…
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November 22, 2011
Yesterday, Justine Greening, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Transport released the following statement regarding airport security scanners:
“The Secretary of State for Transport (Justine Greening): On Christmas Day 2009 an attempted attack on Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam…
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November 16, 2011
A spokesperson for the Manchester Airport Group released the following statement today on the new rules adopted by the European Union’s Transport Commission regarding airport body scanners.
“Extensive tests by the UK Health Protection Agency and the US health authorities…
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November 15, 2011
Frequently, we are asked to explain our relationship with the Chertoff Group, a strategic consulting group headed by the former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. To head off all of the frequent questions we receive about the…
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November 02, 2011
While some groups remain skeptical about the safety of screening technologies, the cold, hard fact is that these machines have passed all necessary testing and are completely safe. Based on the TSA’s and FDA’s testing, backscatter x-rays expose passengers to…
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October 31, 2011
As has been widely reported, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is interested in implementing a risk-based security program for US aviation travelers. In fact, TSA has already started rolling out part of this plan, the TSA PreCheck initiative, at select…
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September 29, 2011
Recently, there has been a great deal of media coverage regarding a test of a millimeter wave body scanning system in Hamburg Airport in Germany. According to the media, the body scanners in question use millimeter wave technology and are…
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