Schiphol airport’s security R&D department is working with vendors and security experts on several pilot projects designed to improve security, reduce cost of screening, improve customer experience and streamline operations.

Weapons detection systems (gates and wands), for decades counter terrorism’s most ubiquitous and most visible mitigation tools, will soon start a gradual phasing out and replacement process, in favor of new technologies that will hopefully be able to detect a larger spectrum of threats, faster, more accurately, and for less money.

All these activities hold promise for much needed change in the explosives detection, a change that will open the market to possible expansion beyond aviation, high security assets and military operations (including force protection).

Military and policy planners worldwide are torn between two seemingly contradictory urges: reducing military expenditure to help curb spending, and increasing military spending to help curb growing global instability and shifting balance of power.

Although somewhat reduced from the initial Senate stimulus package, the 800-page final version of the Senate Stimulus Bill will come as good news to homeland security-oriented industries. The attacks on this final version coming from both sides of the isle, however sonorous, are not expected to result in dramatic changes to the Bill.

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Before the financial crisis of 2008, the aviation industry was poised to post a global growth of 5% CAGR for passenger and cargo traffic. While the recession will definitely affect aviation industry, this impact will be offset to some degree by lower fuel prices…

Containers and other modes of shipment (e.g., bulk goods, oil, LNG) and ships are increasingly targeted by terror and pirate organizations. Exploiting weaknesses in port counter-terror security is central to these terror attacks. The costs associated with the efforts to mitigate against such threats reduce the competitiveness of …