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Homeland Security

AAAE, Airports Form Consortium To Help Ease Biometrics Into Employee Security Solution

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Friday, April 4th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The trade group representing the nation's airports and operators from a dozen airports have established a new working group aimed at building on the expertise of the airport community in worker credentialing and access control to bring biometric-based employee security solutions to airports in the future, the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) said yesterday. The group, called the Biometric Airport Security Identification Consortium (BASIC), plans to build on the experiences airports have with employee badging and…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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