by Jeff Price | Dec 30, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
A recent report of airline employees smuggling guns through commercial airliners has raised security concerns about the “insider threat.” Read, listen or watch the story here: NPR WSJ Arise America NBC The key question is: is this a threat? While...
by Jeff Price | Nov 27, 2014 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
Recently, an economics professor wrote a short piece for USA Today talking about how TSAs rituals do not make us any safer. While that was the headline, the article posited that we’re probably spending more money than we need to on security. In that respect, Art...
by Jeff Price | Nov 26, 2014 | Life & Career Success, Uncategorized
Okay, I’ve never been to prison, nor jail so I can’t say for certain, but you watch enough of those locked up scared straight shows on A&E and I guess you can get a pretty good idea that things in prison operate a bit differently than the world...
by Jeff Price | Nov 26, 2014 | Life & Career Success, Uncategorized
The late great Dr. Stephen Covey once said that courage is raising the level of initiative. Dr. Covey of course is a far more eloquent speaker than I am. Being the godly man that he was I doubt he would ever put it the way I heard it: “raising the level of...
by Jeff Price | Nov 17, 2014 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
Many airport access control systems are coming up for an upgrade. Many are over 10 years old so it’s about time. Will you integrate biometrics into your next or upgraded access control system? While not presently required by TSA, biometrics provide a significant...
by Jeff Price | Sep 29, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
On 9/11 the FAA was caught completely off-guard as terrorists took over four aircraft and pulled of the most tragic and devastating attack using aviation in the history of the world. As an agency, the FAA was never in the intelligence loop, did not foresee the...
by Jeff Price | Sep 25, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
As part of the airstrikes into Syria against ISIL the United States also decided to hit some old Al Qaeda friends – apparently these folks were planning to put bombs in electronic devices and smuggle them onto airplanes. Here’s the story along with a short...
by Jeff Price | Sep 10, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
A recent report in USA Today heightened awareness of the possible theft and use of commercial airliners to attack the United States or other targets. This was followed up with another incident of a general aviation aircraft owned by Larry Glazer, who is prominent in...
by Jeff Price | Jul 30, 2014 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
If you want an audience to stop and listen with rapt attention, tell them a story. But not just any story. Remember the character Michelle, played by Alyson Hannigan, in the American Pie movies and her signature line, “this one time, at band camp..?” Out...
by Jeff Price | Jul 25, 2014 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
Of all the tragedies in a war, the most unfortunate is the loss of innocent lives. We see the human drama played out nightly in the conflicts between Russian separatists in the Ukraine, and elements of Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip, not to...
