by Jeff Price | Dec 12, 2011 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
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,...
by Jeff Price | Dec 12, 2011 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
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,...
by Jeff Price | Dec 12, 2011 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
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...
by Jeff Price | Dec 9, 2011 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
I will be blogging live, from the AAAE Annual Aviation Security Summit, next week.
by Jeff Price | Nov 23, 2011 | Aviation Security, Christmas Day Bomber, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats
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...
by Jeff Price | Oct 18, 2011 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
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...
by Jeff Price | Sep 15, 2011 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
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,...
by Jeff Price | Sep 11, 2011 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
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...
by Jeff Price | Sep 5, 2011 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security
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...
by Jeff Price | Aug 29, 2011 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Current Affairs, Introduction to Screening
It’s too early to tell if TSA’s new approach to behavior detection will work. Click here for full story. Unfortunately, the United States has a history of taking something that works really well, adapts it, but not without taking out the thing that made it...