The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the coming year plans to conduct more evaluations of facial recognition systems at aviation security checkpoints and baggage drops as it proceeds toward potential deployment of the technology in the coming years. TSA officers at the checkpoints ...

Friday, December 6, 2019 • 62nd Year • Volume 284 • No. 46 SASC Member Urges DoD Leaders To Invest More In Logistics The Defense Department should place a greater emphasis on funding and developing transportation and logistics capabilities to support its lethal assets in a future ...

A new federal plan giving the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) responsibility for countering unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that pose potential threats to airport operations is “unlawful” and should instead come under the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) within the next year hopes to have in place a testbed at a major international airport to begin evaluating different technologies that can be used to detect, track and identify small drones flying near airports and eventually would like to test the ...

A bill introduced in the House this week would direct Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to create a plan for electronically scanning 100 percent of all commercial and passenger vehicles entering the U.S. at land ports of entry and evaluate how the scanning technology can be improved. The Securing ...

Global defense spending is expected to increase between 3 and 4 percent in 2020 and about 3 percent annually between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from the audit and consulting firm Deloitte. “Demand for military equipment is on the rise as governments across the globe focus on ...