Aviation Security Summit General Session III Congressional Leadership Perspective Joel Bacon, VP Airport Legislative Alliance, AAAE Mike Rogers (R-AL) (written in real-time during the session – please forgive grammatical and structure errors – comments are paraphrased, unless enclosed in quotes “We are never going to be able to travel the way we used to, in… Continue Reading
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Aviation Security Summit – General Session III
Aviation Security Summit – General Session III Risk Based Security Initiatives Mark Crosby, A.A.E. Chief of Public Safety and Security, Port of Portland Paul Leyh GM Commercial Aviation, TSNM, TSA Ken Sava, Director, Trusted Traveler, US CBP Phil Gilbert, Manager, Security Compliance, American Airlines Wendy Reiter, Director, Aviation Security and Emergency, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (written… Continue Reading
Aviation Security Summit – General Session II Q
Aviation Security Summit – General Session II Carter Morris; Moderator, Senior VP, Transportation Security Policy, AAAE Robin Kane, Asst., Admin & Chief of Technology, TSA John Sammon, Asst., Admin, Transportation Sector Management (TSNM), TSA Mark Dolan, Acting General Manager for Operational Performance and Screening Operations, TSA (written in real-time during the session – please forgive… Continue Reading
11th Annual AAAE/TSA/DHS Security Summit
Dateline: 11th Annual AAAE/TSA/DHS Security Summit, Washington DC Opening Session: Chip Barclay, President, AAAE, and TSA Administrator John Pistole (written in real-time during the session – please forgive grammatical and structure errors) In typical “FBI” format, Administrator Pistole gave a short, to-the-point briefing on where TSA will be in 2012. The presentation, which only lasted… Continue Reading
Blogging Live from the Annual Security Summit
I will be blogging live, from the AAAE Annual Aviation Security Summit, next week. Continue Reading
Ideology Dies Hard, maybe we need Bruce Willis
Ever notice in all the Die Hard movies that once the bad guys are dead, they stay dead? They don’t continue to inspire hundreds if not thousands of others? Too bad movies don’t imitate real life. For the past few years, YouTube has been the place for those really upset with society to get their… Continue Reading
You can’t go your own way
Let’s Make a Deal – behind door number one is a no-hassle trip to your airplane, with no guarantee it will be hijacked or bombed. You’ll be flying old school. Behind door number 2 is a body imager, whereupon your saturated fat bursting self will be viewed in all its unglamorous glory by people you… Continue Reading
Wrong action, wrong time
I was stopped by police for suspicion of armed robbery. Okay, it happened in 1987, but I first, I didn’t do it, and second, I was the “victim” of profiling. Seems I was driving aggressively and at a high rate of speed, through a large parking lot, and subsequently past a gas station that was… Continue Reading
9/11
It was never my life’s mission to become an aviation security “expert.” In fact, I had only recently gotten out of a commercial airport security position and fully into general aviation airport management, when 9/11 happened. My intent at that time was to continue working at the airport and maybe pursue a career change into… Continue Reading
Al-Qaeda “tweets” a panic attack
What does a woman in Mexico tweeting about non-existent school shooting attacks and a government warning about a plot by al-Qaeda to use small, explosives filled aircraft to attack U.S. targets, have in common? They are both efforts to create fear and panic, and to cause us to spend more money to chase our tails.… Continue Reading