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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Briefs DHS awards Northrop Grumman HR management system contract... Smiths Detection provides explosives trace-detection equipment for TSA... Virtual Alert to provide Oregon with bioterrorism preparedness services... etc.
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson	Face, Iris and Fingerprint Biometrics Good Enough for Now, Says White House Staffer Federal agencies that collect biometric data to screen individuals should concentrate their efforts on fingerprints, faces and irises, and perfect the collection of those technologies first.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004	Briefs T.F. Green Airport testing explosive trace- detection technology for pilot program... DHS UAVs operating in Arizona support border security... DHS launches Office of Inter-operability and Compatibility... etc.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	Airports Test Alternative Technologies for Checkpoints An influx of screening systems marks a coming of age in the security industry.
National Defense August 2010 Stew Magnuson	No Revival for Airport Puffer Machines Used to Detect Explosives The Transportation Security Administration has no plans to continue research into puffer machines that were designed to detect trace amounts of explosives on passengers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Briefs U.S. Customs and Border Protection improves business operations with SAP... ImageWare Systems receives order for New Jersey State Police booking system expansion... etc.
National Defense May 2004 Kennedy & Tiron	Securitybeat U.S. Beefs Up Security On Railway Systems... Budget Amendment Good News for DHS... Air Force Adopts Biometrics Security Systems... etc.
National Defense January 2009 Myra S. Gray	Defense Dept. 'Institutionalizing' Use of Biometrics Biometrics use crosses all services. The Army is using biometrics to assist in identifying detainees in war zones
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	Blueprint For Homeland Security The Defense Department is working on a comprehensive homeland defense strategy that will detail the Pentagon's emerging role in protecting the United States from terrorist attack
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005	Homeland Security In Brief Seattle takes part in `Regional Technology integration'... Massachusetts firm provides metal detectors for Iraq... Geometrix releases ActiveID biometric identity system... etc.
National Defense September 2010 Stew Magnuson	Terrorist Loophole: Explosives Under Clothing at Airport Checkpoints "One of the hard lessons we've learned is that there is no single technology that is going to detect everything," Clark Kent Ervin, former DHS inspector general and now director of the Aspen Institute's homeland security program, said in an interview.
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Ritchie S. King	How 5 Security Technologies Fared After 9/11 Developed, deployed, and sometimes deep sixed
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Homeland Security Briefs Ahura Corp. develops first militarized chemical identification system for first responders... TSA certifies Lockheed Martin's explosives detection-system upgrade kit... TSA orders 32 Explosives Detection System machines from L-3 Communications...
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Homeland Security The U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposed a 2006 budget that includes increased spending on technology.
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
National Defense July 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Security Beat Airport Security Programs A Summer Priority... Data Mining Not Yet Ready To Take on Terror Cells... Maritime Test Center Off to Rolling Start... U.S. and Europe Reach Data-Sharing Accord... etc.
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Renewed Push to Collect Exit Data at Airports, Land Crossings The United States has never required foreigners to present their travel documents before leaving so authorities can't be certain who is or isn't overstaying a visa, a flaw that Congress has mandated that the executive branch remedy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale	Homeland Security Budget and Market Show Steady Growth Nearly half a decade old, the U.S. DHS is showing moderate growth in its budget request, while funding for research and development focuses on more solutions for today than for programs 20 years in the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	DHS to Begin Biometric Exit Pilot as Part of US-VISIT Program Digital finger scans and digital photographs are the biometric technology currently in use under the US-VISIT program. Any foreign visitor with a visa who leaves the U.S. through one of the pilot locations is required to comply with the exit procedure.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Briefs TSA Begins Second Phase of Rail-Security Experiment... Hand-Held Guide to "Most Wanted Terrorists" Revised... DHS Awards of US-VISIT Prime Contract to Accenture LLP... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale	TSA to Introduce New Technology for Access-Control Enhancements The second phase of the Transportation Security Administration's Airport Access Control Pilot Program will include advanced video surveillance, RFID cards, iris-scan readers and hand-geometry readers.
National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Beleaguered TSA May Wind Up Loser In Budget Battles As the Department of Homeland Security agency that comes into contact with the general public most often, the Transportation Security Administration has become one of the government's primary punching bags.
National Defense September 2011 Stew Magnuson	Radiation Detection Portal Program Comes to an End One of the Department of Homeland Security's most troubled technology development programs came to an end in July, when the Advanced Spectrographic Portals, which were designed to ferret out nuclear material at ports, was terminated.
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel	Homeland Security Market 'Vibrant' Despite Budget Concerns The abundance of small, medium and large firms vying for DHS contracts is creating healthy competition.
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	L-3 supplies TSA with millimeter wave imaging portals for airport security Officials of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration sought airport security systems that use active millimeter wave technology to identify concealed threats, including metallic items.
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson	Defense Department Under Pressure to Share Biometric Data Within minutes of knocking down the door of a suspected bomb maker in Iraq, U.S. troops can fingerprint everyone they find inside, send the scans across a satellite link, and find out if the subjects are suspected terrorists.
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson	More Changes in Store For DHS' Science and Technology Directorate Lawmakers and government watchdogs have expressed disappointment with the organization. It has gone through several directors, each with his or her own idea of how the organization should function and its place in the larger DHS enterprise.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006	Market for nuclear-screening portals will tally $3 billion from 2006-2010 Concerns about homeland security should generate $3 billion in business for designers of nuclear-screening portals from 2006 to 2010.
National Defense January 2009 Kimberly Johnson	Navy Seeks to Miniaturize Biometric Gear The Navy plans to issue biometric-capable handheld computers that can help sailors quickly identify a terrorist suspect when they are searching enemy ships.
National Defense March 2007	Security Beat Coast Guard Ponders Future, Delivers New Mission Statement... Border Patrol Reaching Out to Fill 6,000 Slots... etc.
National Defense August 2006 Stew Magnuson	Former staffer becomes leading DHS critic Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin has emerged in recent months as one of the department's leading critics, and one with some credibility.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John McHale	Aircraft countermeasure, Coast Guard DeepWater see big budget increases The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2006 budget request has significant increases for commercial aircraft countermeasures technology and the U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater System program.
National Defense March 2007 Grace Jean	U.S. Airports Still Lack Technologies to Detect Liquid Explosives Despite known terrorist threats, it could be years before airports in the United States are equipped with scanners to detect liquid explosives hidden on passengers and inside carry-on luggage.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Roy Mark	Biometric Passports: Not Ready for Prime Time Department of Homeland Security and State Department seek two-year extension of deadline for machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009	GE Delivers Explosive Detection Systems to U.S. Army GE's MobileTrace handheld contraband detection systems will be used for explosive detection, illegal drug detection, and other homeland security applications.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	Firms That Help DHS Save Money Will Make Money, Analysts Say The days of big price tag, cutting-edge technology acquisitions at the Department of Homeland Security are over.
CFO October 15, 2002 Russ Banham	The Eyes Have It Concerned about security, companies may soon rely on a wide range of biometrics. Turns out you're even more special than you thought.
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	Port Worker ID Card Criticized as Wasteful and Ineffective The Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard in October began enrolling port workers in a long delayed identity card program even though the technology to read the cards may be years away.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Private Sector Adapts to Business with DHS Officials at major private-sector security firms and prime contractors say the key to doing business with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to use current technology instead of developing new technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005	Homeland Security News Briefs ImageWare ID-management gets FBI Livescan Certification... Deepwater program scores with Coast Guard's Matagorda... DHS wants information on National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center... Pa. state police expands Lockheed Martin's information-sharing system... etc.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Joshua J. Romero	Fast Start for World's Biggest Biometrics ID Project In India, a few million people have been registered for a biometric database so far - only a billion left to go.
National Defense October 2006 Stew Magnuson	DHS Outlines Efforts to Protect Infrastructure The director of the infrastructure partnership division in DHS, said that the long-awaited National Infrastructure Protection Plan will detail ways the government and the private sector can work as "peers" to share and protect sensitive information.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Bad News All Around for DHS Cargo Technology Programs The Department of Homeland Security's advanced radiation detection portal monitor program continues to struggle.
National Defense November 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Nuclear Detectors Tested in Nevada Desert The newly formed Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) inherited the project, dedicated to stopping a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, from the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	DHS Technology Budget To Exceed $1B in 2005 An array of emerging technologies is the key to defending the United States from its enemies, according to Charles E. McQueary, undersecretary of homeland security for science and technology.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Aviation Security Remains Under Scrutiny Aviation security measures adopted since 9/11 have not significantly made passengers safer or have been cost effective, experts contend. They also noted that many weaknesses in the previous system remain, despite billions of dollars being spent to enhance air safety.