DHS to fit airliners with laser beam defences
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Forget inflight internet, you want raygun missile dazzlers The US Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that it will mount testbed anti-missile defence kit on three airliners this year, in order to assess how it affects performance in the commercial aviation environment.â¦
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Technology to guard airplanes against terrorist missiles is too expensive for commercial airlines and developers should work to come up with something more suitable "as rapidly as possible," a new report says.
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The Department of Homeland Security  on Thursday hired Boeing Co.  to develop sensors, cameras  and other equipment to help U.S. agents control the vast,  7,500-mile U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.
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Heathrow Airport introduced a new security system for some of its passengers Friday, requiring them to undergo iris scans and be fingerprinted before boarding their flights.
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The U.S. anti-missile system, a part of which is to be a radar to be stationed in the Czech Republic, will protect Europe, British Minister of State for Europe Geoff Hoon, said at a discussion organised staged ...Comment
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Teams led by BAE Systems and the Northrop Grumman Corporation were chosen Wednesday to build and test prototypes for antimissile systems to defend commercial planes against shoulder-fired rockets.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine -- U.S. airports and mass transit systems will tighten security in response to apparent terrorist incidents in Britain, the Bush administration said Saturday.
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Homeland Security Secretary pushes for fingerprint and iris scans at airport checkpoints.
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Australia is to test unmanned surveillance aircraft as a means of protecting vital offshore oil and gas installations against terrorist attacks, the government said.
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WASHINGTON -- At least a dozen cases of lasers being beamed into aircraft cockpits since Christmas are being investigated by the FBI. The lasers can temporarily blind pilots.
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The Department of Homeland Security   on Thursday said it hired Boeing Co. BA.N to build a   projected $2 billion "virtual fence" equipped with sensors and   cameras along the U.S. border with Mexico and Canada to help   control illegal immigration.
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A Boeing Co.-led team has  successfully fired for the first time a powerful laser meant to  fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a U.S. ballistic missile  defense shield, officials said on Friday.
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BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman were last night awarded contracts by the United States government to develop technology for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
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Officials from the Department of Homeland Security formalized plans on Thursday to begin screening airline passengers against a list of potential terror suspects
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Workers moving through secure areas at Britain's Manchester Airport will be giving security the eye now that an iris-scanning biometric access control system has been installed at that facility.
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EIGHT north-west airports will be issued with passenger screening equipment to boost security at regional airports, as part of a $48 million package announced by the Federal Government yesterday.
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Jumbo wants pork The Airborne Laser, the US Missile Defence programme's raygun-equipped jumbo jet, is to visit Washington tonight in an attempt to drum up support on Capitol Hill.â¦