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Airports Council International, IATA Team to Collaborate on Smart Security

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

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Airports Council International (ACI) and the International Airport Transport Association (IATA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pool resources for the development of the Checkpoint of the Future, which has been renamed Smart Security (SmartS). The name change to SmartS reflects the start of a new phase of pilot testing of first generation checkpoints, namely the testing of several components together to see how they work with one another in an operational environment, the two aviation associations said in…

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