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National Defense
March 2009
Matthew Rusling |
Study Blasts Container Scanning Process A new study adds fuel to an ongoing dispute between Congress and the Department of Homeland Security. The issue: screening U.S.-bound shipping containers.   |
National Defense
October 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Johnson Latest DHS Secretary to Waive 100 Percent Cargo Screening Mandate Despite a long string of secretaries and Customs and Border Protection commissioners speaking out against the practicality of the law, some members of Congress are still pushing DHS to fulfill the mandate. |
National Defense
November 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Homeland Security Policies Overlook Essential Issues, Says Shipping Executive Security industry soothsayers have been sounding alarms about the prospect of a nuclear or biological weapon reaching U.S. shores in a shipping container. |
National Defense
January 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods. |
Smithsonian
January 2004
Fen Montaigne |
Policing America's Ports The 19,000 cargo containers flowing into the United States each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons. |
National Defense
November 2005
Harold Kenneddy |
U.S. Customs Goes High-Tech for Cargo Security The gritty docks along the Dundalk Marine Terminal, in Maryland's Port of Baltimore, are among the last lines of defense in the multi-layered, global effort by the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arm to intercept illegal cargo. |
National Defense
November 2009
Wright & Magnuson |
Government Ignores Cargo Scanning Law, Port Operator Says The Department of Homeland Security is ignoring a law that calls on it to monitor, by 2012, every container that enters a U.S. port, an executive at one of the world's leading port-operating companies charged. |
National Defense
December 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
If Ports Are Attacked, U.S. Lacks Plans to Deal With Aftermath The lack of a plan indicates the complexities of handling threats against maritime targets, and the government's emphasis on taking care of airline security and monitoring containers over planning a response in the event of a sea-based attack. |
National Defense
November 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Former Customs and Border Protection Chief Slams Congress As deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in the Bush administration, Jayson Ahern was the primary target of Congress' ire when it came to a mandate to screen 100 percent of all shipping containers bound for the United States for nuclear materials. |
National Defense
June 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Weighing the Costs of Security A smorgasbord of legislation and policy directives aimed at patching up security at U.S. ports in recent years has resulted in expenditures of billions of dollars worth of protective systems and technologies. |
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. |
CIO
March 1, 2006
Ben Worthen |
Customs Rattles the Supply Chain The government wants you to secure your supply chain. Right now, its program is voluntary. It won't stay that way for long. And the responsibility for collecting the data Uncle Sam wants is going to fall on the CIO. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Moon Ihlwan |
Monsters on the High Seas As China's exports swell, Korea and Japan are launching gargantuan container ships. |
National Defense
April 2004
Geoff S. Fein |
Security Beat The biggest challenge facing the maritime transportation industry is ensuring that legitimate cargo is not needlessly delayed as new security measures are implemented. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Lack of Standards Is Slowing Adoption of RFID for Cargo Security The U.S. government has been slow to issue any kind of mandate regarding the implementation of RFID on cargo containers. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Geri Smith |
A Border Transformed Since 9/11, officials at the Laredo crossing have had two conflicting goals: Stop terrorists and keep trade flowing. |
National Defense
March 2009
Matthew Rusling |
After Six Years, Still No Tamper-Proof Shipping Containers After a six-year search for a tamper-proof shipping container, no product has been fielded and one major vendor has dropped out of the race, citing a lack of progress by the Department of Homeland Security. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2010 |
DHS Seeks Enhanced Imaging Technology for Non-Intrusive Inspection of Shipping Containers The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested proposals for non-intrusive inspection technologies to enable Customs and Border Protection agents to inspect cargo containers without opening them. |
National Defense
February 2011
James R. Giermanski |
Military Supply Chain Tracking System Both Inefficient and Dangerous The U.S. system of technology and regulations falls apart because the Defense Department uses RFID systems to control and monitor its global container movement. The application of this technology to track cargo overseas is inefficient, dangerous and fundamentally flawed. |
National Defense
November 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Seek the `Perfect Shipping Container' An advanced materials container program is looking at sophisticated composites to create a sensor-studded container that would be 30% to 50% lighter than current equivalents. That would translate into savings for the shippers, as well as added security. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Ritchie S. King |
How 5 Security Technologies Fared After 9/11 Developed, deployed, and sometimes deep sixed |
CIO
July 1, 2001
Ben Worthen |
(Not Sitting on a) Dock of the Bay How IT helps the shipping industry bring its goods to market... |
National Defense
February 2007
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Technology Chief to Focus on Explosives Threat The Pentagon will have some help in its ongoing effort to defeat improvised explosive devices if Jay Cohen, director of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gets his way. |
National Defense
February 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Britain and U.S. Agree To Share Security Tech. The United States and United Kingdom are attempting to bridge their homeland security efforts. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Doug Bartholomew |
Cargo Crunch! Responding to last autumn's gridlock of cargo ships in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, manufacturers are bringing sourcing back to North America, using more air freight and building inventories. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Michael Arndt |
Globalization In A Can "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" makes a strong argument that without the box, the global economy might not exist today. |
BusinessWeek
January 22, 2007
Aaron Pressman |
Homeland Security 2.0 Five years after September 11, a new wave of smarter high-tech tools is coming to market. |
Fast Company
October 2008
Chuck Salter |
Rebuilding the Port of Los Angeles Shipping is a filthy, dangerous business, but Los Angeles, America's largest port, is making it greener, cleaner, and more secure. |
Industrial Physicist
Edward J. Staples |
Technology Safeguarding ports with a new chemical-profiling system that samples the vapours inside cargo containers. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
A RAE Of Sunstroke A small-cap sensor maker gets hammered on disappointing earnings. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
American Science and Engineering Omniview Gantry, ZBV Help Secure Major Italian Port The company will aid in security of a major, high-volume Italian port by providing an x-ray detection systems that can assist in inspecting cargo and vehicles entering the country. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2005
John McHale |
DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders. |
Wired
November 2002
Steven Johnson |
Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb? |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2014
Emma Stoye |
'Smart boxes' for greener, cheaper shipping Steel shipping containers may one day be scrapped in favor of lightweight, tamper-proof alternatives made of composite materials with embedded sensors. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2005 |
Increasing the safety of the global food supply The US Bioterrorism Act may be the most familiar legislation to address the safety and security of the global food supply, but it is certainly not alone. There's also the CBP, C-TPAT, FAST, AMR, OSC, SST, WCO, and other European Union and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation activities. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2003
John S. McClenahen |
Shape Up To Ship Out New anti-terrorism rules will affect air, rail, ship and truck cargo beginning Oct. 1. |
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 Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2006
Matt Hudgins |
Rising Tide of Imports Importers need new and larger spaces to handle a tidal wave of merchandise. That high demand, along with limited and often constrained supply, attracts developers and investors to the ports. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Kyunghee Park |
A Trade Rebound Launches Bigger Boats As Asian trade swells, demand for large container ships booms. |
National Defense
April 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Napolitano Defends DHS Acquisitions on Department's 10-Year Anniversary As the Department of Homeland Security marked its first decade of existence in March, Secretary Janet Napolitano said its much-derided acquisition system had turned a corner. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2006
Traci Purdum |
Port of New Orleans: Returning To Shipshape The Port of New Orleans expects full recovery from hurricane damage. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2008 |
American Science and Engineering Wins $55.1 Million Order From Abu Dhabi Customs The Customs Administration at Abu Dhabi has employed American Science and Engineering to develop x-ray detection systems that can scan cargo trucks, passenger vehicles, and containers at strategic border checkpoints. |
Inc.
August 2007
Nitasha Tiku |
Smart Questions: How to Save on Shipping Costs Here are six questions to ask when you're shopping for shipping. |
IndustryWeek
January 25, 2005
Tonya Vinas |
Transportation Services Respond To China Trade With the influx of goods from China soaring, transportation companies and public ports are making substantial capital investments and refocusing services. |
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. |
PC Magazine
June 22, 2005
Larry Seltzer |
Make Your Network Safer by Attacking It A number of excellent tools can help you find out where you're network is vulnerable. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2006
David Blanchard |
Protecting The Global Supply Chain The world hasn't gotten much safer since Sept. 11. Fortunately, the benefits of securing your supply chain are real and quantifiable. |
National Defense
January 2004
Geoff S. Fein |
Fast Cargo Ships Could Halve Trans-Atlantic Trips FastShip Inc., a Philadelphia-based ship design firm, plans to build a high-speed cargo vessel that can cut trans-Atlantic travel time in half. FastShip is a partner with Lockheed Martin in the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Paul Magnusson |
The Hard Lesson Of Madrid There are too many holes in the safety net. Here's what the U.S. still needs to do |
