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Nuclear cargo scans coming to
American borders
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded
$1.16 billion in contracts to three companies to develop equipment to
scan cargo at border cities for nuclear weapons material.
New York and New Jersey will get some of the first 80 devices, which
were ordered "immediately" and will arrive this autumn, Jarrod Agen, a
Homeland Security spokesman, told The Associated Press.
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National standards critical for
emergency preparedness
Standards are "absolutely critical" to the success of
emergency preparedness efforts in the U.S., according to George W.
Foresman, U.S. Department of Homeland Security under secretary for
preparedness. Foresman spoke at a workshop of the American National
Standards Institute's Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP) that
analyzed the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.
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Banned lighters may be flying
high again
Momentum is building to lift the Congressional ban on
cigarette lighters aboard airplanes, which took effect in April 2005.
Since then, security screeners have confiscated 16 million lighters,
which typically cost $1 to $2 each unless they are luxury models.
It costs the government $6 million to dispose of the lighters, about $4
million more than it cost to get rid of all confiscated items before the
lighter ban, according to the Transportation Security
Administration.
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Man finds port
security hitch
Want to get into a secure port area? Just hitch a
ride.
That's what The Seattle Times found when a staff reporter bummed rides
with truck drivers he had never met to enter shipping terminals in
Seattle and Los Angeles-Long Beach, according to an article published
this week.
In a first-person account, Alwyn Scott wrote that only once was he asked
for identification, at Terminal 18, the largest container dock in
Seattle, and a uniformed guard waved him through the gate after he
flashed an expired driver's license.
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- The Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey's Exchange Place PATH transit system station in Jersey City,
N.J., has installed passenger screening equipment from Brijot Imaging
Systems, Orlando, Fla., as part of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security Rail Security Pilot Project's two week field demonstration of
technologies that detect explosives and other large weapons perceived as
potential threats to the nation's rail systems.
- The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered more than 2,000 Improved
Chemical Agent Monitor (ICAM) units from Smiths Detection, Pine
Brook, N.J. The units are hand-held, post-attack devices that can locate
the presence of nerve and blister agent contamination on personnel and
equipment in both combat and Homeland defense missions.
- Six state driver service agencies have selected the AutoTest line of
solutions from Viisage Technology Inc., Billerica, Mass., to
improve the accuracy and security of applicant testing, identity
proofing, ID issuance and customer service in the driver's licensing
process. The added safety measures in these processes are expected to
help move the states toward compliance with the REAL ID Act, which aims
to create standards for security among the states' driver's
licenses.
- The New York City Police Department (NYPD) Real Time Crime Center
has deployed visualization technology from ABM America, Herndon,
Va. Using the software, police analysts are able to view hidden and
indirect relationships between incidents and offenders across all New
York boroughs, increasing the overall intelligence picture and enabling
NYPD to share and act upon the information.
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