by Jeff Price | Nov 6, 2015 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson just released at statement on aviation security enhancements in light of the recent crash of a Russian airliner. The statement is posted here, followed up by my commentary. STATEMENT BY SECRETARY JEH C. JOHNSON CONCERNING AVIATION SECURITY...
by Jeff Price | Nov 5, 2015 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats
The crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 has brought forth wide speculation about what happened to the plane. It seems that in any plane crash today we always go through a phase where we try to determine if it was terrorist related. This is not unusual, in fact it is...
by Jeff Price | Sep 17, 2015 | Aviation Security
The challenge with aviation security in the past several years is it’s tendency to become a huge game of whack-a-mole. Every time one threat is identified, we turn all our resources to hitting that one, then another one pops up. What we need are comprehensive...
by Jeff Price | Aug 25, 2015 | Aviation Security
Have you ever seen that show, Airplane Repo? If you have, you may have been surprised at how easily these people can access an airport and take off with an airplane. Looks easy right? Apparently a woman in St. Louis thought so to, and in early August, she was caught...
by Jeff Price | Aug 6, 2015 | Aviation Security
Part 5 of 5 in a series on fixing aviation security. Dear Admiral Neffenger, TSA needs to embrace SeMS – Security Management Systems. SeMS is already up and running through IATA and ICAO. Here in that States, the FAA has been dragging its feet on SMS (Safety...
by Jeff Price | Aug 5, 2015 | Aviation Security
Part 4 in a series of 5, on fixing aviation security. Dear Admiral Neffenger, We need to get the word out to the police and airport security community on the real threats, so we can focus our limited time, resources and money on the actual threats. I heard a Sheriff...
by Jeff Price | Aug 4, 2015 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism
Part 3 of 5 in a series on fixing aviation security. Dear Admiral Neffenger, continuing the series on fixing aviation security… Aviation is as essential to the United States just as our power, water, food and other transportation systems. It’s not a...
by Jeff Price | Aug 3, 2015 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
Part 2 of 5 in a series: Dear Admiral Neffenger, Please Continue using risk based security – our biggest enemy is not bombs and guns, but political overreaction. Trying to protect everything results in protecting nothing. While there are nice phrases that play...
by Jeff Price | Aug 3, 2015 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
This is the first in a five-part series on a prescription for moving aviation security to a sensible, effective approach: Dear Admiral Neffenger, From one former Coastie to another, Semper Paratus, and congratulations on your appointment. While my Coast Guard career...
by Jeff Price | Jun 30, 2015 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security
I was reading an article from Wired Magazine earlier this month about all airlines having a security hole that hackers could easily get into and change flight plans. (read the full article here) Let’s just hold the phone a minute on this. . . and then you can...
