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Homeland Security

TSA Roadmap For On-Person Screening Aims At Seamless, Uninterrupted Checkpoint Experience

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 5th, 2020

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TSA Roadmap For On-Person Screening Aims At Seamless, Uninterrupted Checkpoint Experience

Leidos ProVision 2 Advanced Imaging Technology scanner. Photo: Leidos

Holding to the vision of “screening at speed” for the future airport security checkpoint experience, the Transportation Security Administration last Thursday issued a new roadmap aimed at getting to the next-generation of solutions for technologies that improve scanning of people for concealed threats without them having to pause. TSA says that over the next few years it plans to take a phased approach to developing on-person screening (OPS) to simultaneously tackle four goals, which include screening passengers and aviation workers…

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]

HASC Looks To Restrict USV Deliveries Without Navy CONOPS And Strategy

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense policy draft bill aims to restrict the Navy’s use of unmanned surface vessels (USV) until it decides on key factors […]

Congress

Gaps In Army’s Tactical Counter-Drone Capabilities Remain Concern Of HASC

A draft defense policy bill released this week says the Army is fielding counter-drone capabilities for defense of fixed sites and maneuver forces but suggests that troops at the lowest […]

Army

HASC Wants Closer Look At Army’s SBMC Program, Cites Avoiding Past IVAS Missteps

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