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Homeland Security

S&T, National Labs, TSA Doing Systems Analysis to Model Checkpoints

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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

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The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate along with the Transportation Security Administration and Energy Department's national laboratories is in the midst of conducting a strategic analysis of airport checkpoints so that it can create a model that they hope will lead to better checkpoint designs in the future, the head of the S&T tells TR2. The analysis and modeling effort will help DHS develop concepts for checkpoints of the future, says Dr. Tara O'Toole, under secretary…

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