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Aviation Security

Last Updated: | Press Releases

News Release: DHS S&T Awards Funding to Design Passenger Self-Screening Solution

Micro-X, Inc,. to develop a passenger self-screening solution and associated hardware for airport checkpoints.

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News Release: DHS Award to Develop Handheld Screening Device

The DHS SBIR Program awarded nearly $2 million in funding to two small businesses to develop an advanced, affordable, and compact handheld passenger screening device to help secure aviation against evolving threats.

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Iron-Clad Partnership Allows Global R&D Efforts to Flourish

DHS S&T joins forces with the Republic of South Korea Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to pilot aviation security technology.

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News Release: DHS Partners with South Korea for Aviation Security

DHS S&T has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea (MOLIT), which authorizes the two countries to conduct a field demonstration of S&T-funded technology in civil aviation security.

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News Release: DHS S&T Offers New Funding Opportunities Through LRBAA

To support DHS research and development (R&D) technology needs, DHS S&T released its annual announcement of the LRBAA. 

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AVSAC

Provides advice to the TSA administrator on aviation security matters, including the development, refinement, and implementation of policies, programs, rulemaking, and security directives pertaining to aviation security.

Last Updated: | Fact Sheets

Snapshot: S&T Tests Face, Iris Systems at Biometric Tech Rally

Balancing speed and security at checkpoints, like airports, is essential to ensuring safe, reliable travel. Many of these checkpoints are increasingly using biometric technology to improve speed and reliability. While recent improvements in biometrics have lowered failure to match rates, many systems fail to quickly acquire biometric information in the first place.DHS S&T's first Biometric Technology Rally  aimed to eliminate these obstacles by testing face and face/iris recognition systems.

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Snapshot: DHS S&T is at the Cutting Edge of sUAS Capability

Today, DHS S&T is looking to equip drones with different sensors useful in search-and-rescue, reconnaissance, active shooter response, hostage rescue situations, and a myriad of border security scenarios.

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Snapshot: C-UAS in Urban Environments

Given their rapid technology advancement and proliferation, the public safety and homeland security communities must address the fact that drones can be used nefariously or maliciously to hurt people, disrupt activities and damage infrastructure.

Last Updated: | Testimony

Written testimony of TSA for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security hearing titled “The Public Face of TSA: Examining the Agency’s Outreach and Traveler Engagement Efforts”

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Civil Rights and Liberties, Ombudsman and Traveler Engagement Acting Assistant Administrator Christine Griggs and TSA Office of Security Operations Deputy Assistant Administrator Stacey Fitzmaurice address TSA’s approach to public engagement.