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U.S. airlines
under attack?
British authorities said Thursday they had disrupted a
well-advanced "major terrorist plot" to blow up passenger flights
between the United Kingdom and the United States using liquid
explosives, prompting a full-scale security clampdown at U.S. and
British airports and a cascade of delays in both domestic and
trans-Atlantic flights, The Washington Post reports.
British authorities say the threat involved terrorists who aimed to
smuggle liquid explosive material aboard airplanes in hand baggage,
including timers and detonators that could be assembled in flight.
British Home Secretary John Reid said the operation was aimed at
bringing down "a number of aircraft" -- reportedly at least ten --
"through mid-flight explosions, causing a considerable loss of
life."
U.S. officials raised the "threat level" for air transport to red, the
highest alert. The terrorists had intended to target flights to
Washington, New York and California operated by American Airlines,
Continental Airlines and United Airlines, a U.S. official says. It is
the first time the red alert level in the Homeland Security warning
system has been invoked, although there have been brief periods in the
past when the orange level was applied. Homeland Security defines the
red alert as designating a "severe risk of terrorist attacks."
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Be sure to read the August issue of GOVERNMENT SECURITY, where
transportation security issues -- including threats to airports and
train stations -- will be the focus.
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Agents fake
their way through border checkpoints
Agents for the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
successfully entered the United States using fictitious driver's
licenses and other bogus documentation through nine land ports of entry
on the northern and southern borders.
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DHS urges computer users to
install Windows patch ASAP
In a rare alert, the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the
Microsoft operating system, CNet reports.
DHS issued a news release this week recommending that people apply
Microsoft's MS06-040 patch as quickly as possible. The software maker
released the "critical" fix as part of its monthly patch cycle.
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DHS seeks help with single
sign-on solution
More than a year after Homeland Security Department
Secretary Michael Chertoff declared improved information sharing as one
of his six priorities for overhauling DHS, the agency has issued a
request for information for industry solutions that can provide single
sign-on access to its online services, Federal Computer Week
reports.
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Procurement Watch
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- Raytheon Co., Waltham. Mass., has been
selected by the Department of Homeland Security to develop and produce
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) nuclear detection capability. The
ASP contract, with an initial funded value of $18.2 million, places
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems leading a team that includes
Bubble Technology Industries, Ontario, Canada, to produce a
medium resolution Advanced Spectroscopic Portal system.
- ObjectVideo, Reston, Va., has successfully developed and
tested its new scanning camera technology for border applications for
the Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA). The
work by ObjectVideo represents two contracts totaling $3.2 million from
HSARPA to enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP's) existing
intelligent video surveillance capabilities on the northern and southern
borders of the United States.
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has contracted Adesta LLC,
Omaha, Neb., to design, build and install electronic and physical
security systems for two additional dams on the Missouri River. The
Corps increased the original contract to include security enhancements
at these two dams, bringing the total number of dams that Adesta will
secure on the Missouri River to six.
- Analex Corp., Fairfax, Va., has been awarded a prime contract
by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under which
Analex will provide professional security services in support of DARPA's
Security and Intelligence Directorate (SID) in and around the national
capital area and at specified contractor sites.
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