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Homeland Security

TSA Acting Tech Chief Discusses S&T Needs

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

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Threat facing the nation's aviation system are dynamic and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) needs detection technologies that can adapt to these changing threats, Robin Kane, the acting assistant administrator for the Office of Process Technology, says at last week's Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Stakeholders Conference. To that end, Kane says that, "We need to be able to push out algorithms, regardless of vendors to any of the platforms that are out there doing detection."…

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