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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today unveiled the security checkpoints at the new Indianapolis International Airport. The checkpoints blend advanced technology features and passenger-calming checkpoint elements. The new checkpoints include millimeter wave technology that enables TSA officers, in a matter of seconds, to detect weapons, explosives and other metallic and non-metallic threat items without physical contact. The technology passes harmless electromagnetic waves...
By DONNA GOODISON On the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that prompted its creation, the Transportation Security Administration yesterday unveiled new uniforms and badges designed to give its officers a more official and authoritative look as they screen airport travelers and baggage. Transportation security officers at Logan International Airport and other airports nationwide are now wearing dark blue shirts and gold metal badges in place of white shirts with...
By Jeremy Herb, The Indianapolis Star Jul. 21--Passengers going through security at the new Indianapolis International Airport terminal will be greeted by a mural of flowers, blue-lit panels and ambient music. Families will be directed to separate lines, away from travelers in a rush. The experience will be nothing like the often chaotic, cramped, institutional-feeling checkpoints of old. It's all part of an effort to inject calm into the process of getting passengers to their...
Despite progress being made in implementing the Certified Cargo Screener Program (CCSP), significant challenges remain in future success due to lack of funding, according to executive director of the Airforwarders Association (AfA) in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security today. Brandon Fried testified that due to the extremely high cost of purchasing machinery without federal assistance, many forwarders may choose not to participate in what is TSA's primary tool to...
By James Bernstein, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jun. 27--Next time you go to LaGuardia Airport, you will have a choice of deciding whether you are green, blue or black. No, you won't be playing a game. This is for real. Under a new screening system launched earlier this week by the Transportation Security Administration, passengers at LaGuardia can voluntarily sort themselves into one of three lines, each assigned a color and a shape. The line marked by a green circle is for families with...
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced the establishment of a new security initiative aimed at further enhancing airport airside and perimeter security. The Airside Vulnerability Reduction Team program will strengthen the coordination of work by TSA, law enforcement, and airline and airport security partners to reduce vulnerabilities to airport airside operations. Airside is defined as the secure side of the airport, to include the tarmac. The new initiative will...
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Zapolsky was checking in for a flight to Italy when she discovered her 9-month-old son's name was on the United States' "no-fly" list of suspected terrorists. "We pointed down to the stroller, and he sat there and gurgled," Zapolsky said, recalling the incident at Dulles International Airport outside Washington in July. "The desk agent started laughing. ... She couldn't print us out a boarding pass because he's on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years after the September 11 hijackings, gaps still remain in the oversight of flight and cabin crew security training aboard commercial airlines despite recent improvements by homeland security officials, a government report said on Thursday. The Government Accountability Office found that the Transportation Security Administration has yet to establish performance goals and lacks adequate internal controls for properly assessing crew training. Federal law...
