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TSA Launches New Effort To Better Coordinate Airside Security Partners

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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently launched a new security initiative aimed at enhancing coordination among the various security authorities that operate on the secure, or airside, of airport terminals. The Airside Vulnerability Reduction Team program will be led by Willie Williams, the former chief of police for both Los Angeles and Philadelphia and since 2002 the federal security director at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Williams will also be TSA's liaison to law enforcement organizations around the…

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Congress

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Army

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Congress

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