DHS Seeks Next-Generation Screening
The next generation of security checkpoint imaging would screen more than 250 people per hour and detect explosives through multiple layers of clothing, under...
DHS To Airlines: Waive Baggage Fees To Reduce Wait Times
In the case of unbearably long queues for security checks in America’s airports, there is plenty of blame to go around. Both cuts to...
Airport Security Might Switch To CT Checkpoint Technology
Airport security first came to the public eye on September 11, 2001, when 4 airplanes were hijacked and crashed into U.S targets, killing almost...
This System Finds An Airport And Lands Autonomously During Emergency
Diamond Aircraft, a German manufacturer of small single- and twin-engine planes, has developed a technology that has the potential to save many thousands of...
Would New Screening Tech Make Laptop Ban Unnecessary?
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will evaluate a new personal electronics scanner, the MobiLab ES, which is the only inspection system that effectively...
When Cargo Planes Start Carrying Firepower
Modern air operations are increasingly shaped by the need to strike targets at long range without exposing aircraft to dense air defense systems. Traditional...
Fluid Threats Indeed?
It's been eight years since police foiled a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives onboard airplanes headed from the United Kingdom to the United...
Innovative Airspace Management Platform Deployed
As the usage of drones increases, the development of airspace management infrastructure, including systems for sharing flight rules, approved flight areas and flight conditions,...
New Spacecraft Shield to Revolutionize Aerial Industry
MIT scientists discovered a new design for spacecraft shields after finding that very hot metals get stronger when struck by an object moving at...
Matrix to Operate Israeli Aviation Security Center
The Security Division of Israeli firm Matrix was awarded a 10 million shekel contract by the Transportation Ministry, for the operation of the Israeli...
FAA proposes new UAS regulation
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a framework of regulations allowing routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...
Sharm el-Sheikh Airport Security Lax, Or Simply Ignored?
On Oct. 31, Metrojet Flight 9268 catastrophically broke apart over the Sinai Peninsula after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh about 20 minutes earlier and...
The Bottleneck in Big Data Use for Homeland Security
By Meidata
Big data has been at the forefront of intelligence, police, and even border control for a while. It is changing the way organizations...
Successful test for air defense system against a variety of threats
The modern arena is fraught with numerous and diverse aerial threats, which are also launched from naval and ground systems.
November, 10, 2014 – Today...
Making UAV Operations Safer
A new technology can improve the safety of UAV flights, especially those performing beyond line of sight (BLOS) flights. The new Automated Emergency Safe...
Big Brother in Britain: Police UAVs
The trend is clear- Police forces want UASs for performing their mission. Recently the Sussex police in England began to use a small UAS to...
One Size Fits All – Not the Right Approach for Airport...
“Terrorists have targeted airports on several occasions and are actively seeking suitable weaknesses in the global aviation system,” said the UK Department for Transport’s...
Ransomware Attacks on European Transportation Targets
A ransomware attack on a Swiss airport could be part of a larger campaign. Airport ground services and air cargo operator Swissport has been...
IAI Joins Effort to Supply Protection Against UAV’s
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has joined the wide effort to bring to the market an effective system that can detect and foil attacks by...
Integrating Video Analytics Technologies At Airports
Only three years ago a Hezbollah terrorist passed safely and quietly at an airport, just before committing a terror attack in the city of...
Innovation in Airport Security Screening
New scanners will make traveling through UK’s airports more secure and simple. Currently, passengers taking liquid in their cabin baggage are restricted to containers...
Watch: This Solution Could Protect Planes Against Bombs
The recent downing of Russian Metrojet plane in Egypt has once again brought to the forelight a major issue facing modern airliners: planes are...
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New Hardware Attack Exposes a Blind Spot in Secure Cloud Computing
Confidential computing is supposed to solve one of cloud computing's biggest security problems: how to process sensitive information on infrastructure operated by someone else...
