Aviation Security: Current Issues and DevelopmentsJennifer Zellan Nova Publishers, 2003 - Всего страниц: 142 Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, there has been a plethora of legislation and acts resulting in security screening of airline passengers and their baggage to the deployment of newer and more updated security technologies, aimed at closing this alarming gap in security. This new book examines additional proposals and actions not only from Congress, but the FAA as well. Contents: Preface; Aviation Security Technologies and Procedures: Screening Passengers and Baggage; Selected Aviation Security Legislation in the Aftermath of the September 11 Attack; Vulnerabilities in, and Alternatives for, Pre-board Screening Security Operations; Terrorist Acts Demonstrate Urgent need to Improve Security at the Nations' Airports Operations; Weaknesses in Airport Security and Options for Assigning Screening Responsibilities; Vulnerabilities and Potential Improvements for the Air Cargo System; Transportation Security Administration Faces Immediate and Long-Term Challenges; Registered Traveller Program Policy and Implementation Issues; Index. |
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Aviation Security Technologies and Procedures Screening Passengers and Baggage | 23 |
Aviation Security Vulnerabilities in and Alternatives for Preboard Screening Security Operations | 33 |
Selected Aviation Security Legislation in the Aftermath of the September 11 Attack | 45 |
Aviation Security Terrorist Acts Demonstrate Urgent Need to Improve Security at the Nations Airports | 65 |
Airport Passenger Screening Preliminary Observations on Progress Made and Challenges Remaining | 73 |
Aviation Security Vulnerabilities and Potential Improvements for the Air Cargo System | 87 |
Airport Improvement Program | 107 |
Aviation Security Transportation Security Administration Faces Immediate and LongTerm Challenges | 123 |
Information Concerning the Arming of Commercial Pilots | 135 |
Index | 139 |
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Стр. 41 - The responsibility for screening in most of these countries is placed with the airport authority or with the government, not with the air carriers as it is in the United States. In Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom, the responsibility for screening has been placed with the airports, which either hire screening companies to conduct the screening operations or, as at some airports in the United Kingdom, hire screeners and manage the checkpoints themselves. In the Netherlands, the government is...
Стр. 124 - Early attention to strong systems and controls for acquisition and related business processes will be critical both to ensuring success and maintaining integrity and accountability. • Risk Management: The new department must be able to maintain and enhance current states of homeland security readiness while transitioning and transforming itself into a more effective and efficient structural unit.
Стр. 35 - ... to aircraft. FAA has developed several mechanisms to prevent criminal acts against aircraft, such as adopting technology to detect explosives and establishing procedures to ensure that passengers are positively identified before boarding a flight. Still, in recent years, we and others have often demonstrated that significant weaknesses continue to plague the nation's aviation security. The current aviation security structure...
Стр. 42 - Second, screeners' qualifications are usually more extensive. In contrast to the United States, Belgium requires screeners to be citizens; France requires screeners to be citizens of a European Union country. In the Netherlands, screeners do not have to be citizens, but they must have been residents of the country for 5 years. Training requirements for screeners were also greater in four of the countries we visited than in the United States. While FAA requires that screeners in this country have...
Стр. 36 - After the release of its report describing its successes in breaching security,3 the Inspector General conducted additional testing between December 1999 and March 2000 and found that, although improvements had been made, access to secure areas was still gained more than 30 percent of the time. INADEQUATE DETECTION OF DANGEROUS OBJECTS BY SCREENERS Screening checkpoints and the screeners who operate them are a key line of defense against the introduction of dangerous objects into the aviation system....
Стр. 67 - Aviation security has truly become a national security issue, and responsibility for screening may no longer appropriately rest with air carriers. Consideration of the role of air carriers in conducting passenger screening could be examined as part of the ongoing effort to identify and structure mechanisms to provide financial and other assistance to help the aviation industry emerge from the current crisis. It has been observed that previous tragedies have resulted in congressional hearings, studies,...
Стр. 42 - Bermuda — place screening responsibility with air carriers. Because each country follows its own unique set of screening practices, and because data on screeners' performance in each country were not available to us, it is difficult to measure the impact of these different practices on improving screeners' performance. Nevertheless, there are indications that for least one country, practices may help to improve screeners
Стр. 38 - ... screeners' vigilance. As a result, screeners are being placed on the job who do not have the necessary aptitudes, nor the adequate knowledge to effectively perform the work, and who then find the duties tedious and dull. We reported in June 2000 that FAA was implementing a number of actions to improve screeners
Стр. 68 - FAA'S air traffic control network is an enormous, complex collection of interrelated systems, including navigation, surveillance, weather, and automated information processing and display systems that reside at, or are associated with, hundreds of facilities. All the critical areas included in our...
Стр. 70 - ... vigilance. As a result, screeners are being placed on the job who do not have the necessary aptitudes, nor the adequate knowledge to effectively perform the work, and who then find the duties tedious and dull. We reported in June 2000 that FAA was implementing a number of actions to improve screeners' performance. However, FAA did not have an integrated management plan for these efforts that would identify and prioritize checkpoint and human factors problems that needed to be resolved, and identify...