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BATMAN LIST OF GRATITUDE, WEEK OF APRIL 27, 2020 Another week of monumental effort. Applause goes to: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for updating its guidelines to support the [...]

Another productive week.  Our humble gratitude to: ACI for laying out a road map for the recovery of the industry from COVID-19 and for showing the importance of the airport industry to the [...]

Heroic efforts over the last few weeks (insert background applause): EUROCONTROL Member States’ decision to defer airlines’ payment of air traffic control fees UIC, the Worldwide Railway [...]

Our round of applause for the week of March 30, 2020 goes to: IATA, ACI, A4E, and A4A for continuous work with national authorities to find relief for our industry. DG MOVE clarifications on [...]

As our founder and Managing Partner has highlighted, there are many superheroes in our industry working hard to get us through the COVID-19 pandemic.  In gratitude for their efforts, we’re [...]

According to the recent GAO report, TSA’s policies prohibit screeners from picking passengers for additional screening based on factors such as race, ethnicity, or religion. Instead, while [...]

“If you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb   Having worked with dozens of solution providers, regulators and operators over the years to drive [...]

In our December 2018 blog, we highlighted the European Union’s (EU) intention to beef up aviation security (AVSEC) requirements related to insider threat. The specifics have recently been [...]

ICAO’s 2018 High-Level Conference Recommendations Highlight New Areas of Focus In late November 2018, the United Nations (UN) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) held its second [...]

What is happening? European Union (EU) Member States have given the go-ahead to a draft proposal aimed at ensuring aviation security rules are up to date.   What should we expect? Like the [...]

At the beginning of October, following three years of short-term extensions (the last full FAA reauthorization expired on September 30, 2015), the FAA was finally granted long-term funding. The [...]

The commercial aviation sector is growing, with passenger volume expected to double by as early as 2031. As more and more people take to the air, the importance of aviation security and the [...]

TSA has announced it plans to have 40 CT units in operation by the end of 2018. By the end of 2019, the aim is to have 145 operational CT scanners at TSA checkpoints.   Why is this an important [...]

Many of us grew up hearing about the ancient Silk Road mercantile route from the Mediterranean Sea to China and beyond. Yet the People’s Republic of China has decided the world has not seen the [...]

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently released a study highlighting the feasibility of producing single, secure, and transferable digital identities for Known Travellers, within a ‘Seamless [...]

The revolutionary nature of Electronic Bag Tags (EBT) has been part of discussions for several years. Despite its promise to optimize baggage handling operations in the world’s airports, EBTs [...]

Although some might claim that aviation security technologies and practices have not changed much in the last twenty years, we are seeing multiple new initiatives to drive innovation in the [...]

What is Real ID? The individual states that make up the United States are now required to up the ante on identity documents to meet new “Real ID” standards. In the making for 12 years, the [...]

The aviation sector, along with many others, is experiencing a sea change in terms of emerging technologies and capabilities. We anticipate that this ‘digitalization’ will have a direct impact on [...]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently published a new Outcome-Focused Compliance (OFC) brochure. This is a big deal. It shows that TSA is moving towards a more modern and [...]

Originally posted on the Seeing Clearly blog 30/06/17   As anticipated, on Wednesday the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued [...]

The ultimate airport security checkpoint might be closer in reach than one would expect. Seamless, less intrusive, quick and efficient security operations are part of the vision under the [...]

Originally posted on the Seeing Clearly blog 15/06/17   (Written on a laptop on a flight from Paris to Denver.) The US government has hinted at the expansion of a current laptop ban, which [...]

TSA has recently launched a new US nationwide framework for dealing with Public Area Security to mitigate the risk of landside attacks, like those we have seen in recent years.  We have combed [...]

Originally posted on the Seeing Clearly blog 27/04/17.   In January of 2017, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Industry Community for Aviation, Travel and Tourism published a white paper, [...]

Originally posted on the Seeing Clearly blog 08/03/17   Last September’s UN Security Council’s unanimous adoption of Resolution 2309 sent a strong message to the world. Declaring the [...]

Sensifall, developed by ABCD Innovation, is a flooring that makes it possible to automatically detect and analyze activity, and inform the right people.  According to the company, the solution is [...]

Non-military drones are an emerging technology to watch. The media can’t seem to get enough of them and the advertised use cases keep getting wackier (e.g. creating a live view of a real-estate [...]

US-based aviation security technology provider L-3 has apparently made a $315 million offer for MacDonald Humphrey Automation in a move intended to add more checkpoint automation to its existing [...]

There has been much talk about risk-based security (RBS) in aviation security circles over the last six years, but do we have a common understanding of what it means? The International Civil [...]