Airport Innovation is committed to providing a forum for the security and airport industries to come together in order to discuss trends and security forecasts for the 2007 year and beyond. Our mission is to put the correct and latest information in the decision maker's hands, which enables our audience and readers to make educated decisions about the internal and external infrastructure and security environment of today's airports and airline industry. Our team of analysts delve into the latest trends and emerging technologies as well as discuss the security issues that affect today's companies who implement the solutions, and the passengers that are expecting the latest solutions to security threats both hidden and in plain view. The mission is simple: Deliver correct and up to date information to the right professionals so that they may make educated and informed decisions that in turn will give air travel the most secure environment possible.
Increased terrorist activities-both foreign and domestic-have enhanced the threat to airport security in the United States and abroad. The safety of millions of passengers and tons of cargo depends on the security of our nation's airports. Air transportation facilities are pressingly shopping for ultra-modern and integrated Security Management Solutions that will immediately enhance their efforts to disassemble any potential occurrence of a terrorist incident. These facilities have four critical missions:
- Keep the airport and its passengers safe through continued surveillance.
- Implement the latest and most innovative technology available.
- Continuously evaluate high tech security management solutions from financial and strategic planning initiatives.
- Insure that critical facility security is never compromised.
Airport security R&D enhances safety and security with state-of-the-art solutions. Biometrics helps identify and authenticate employees, contractors and frequent travelers, and centralize command and control of security operations. In the future, high tech airport security solutions will maximize air transportation facilities' abilities to improve:
- Explosive and Radiation Detection and X-ray Scanning.
- Surveillance: Access Control, Video, and Wide Area.
- Accurate Movement and Inspection of Increased Passenger Traffic.
- Biometrics and Emerging Technologies.
- Baggage/Cargo Screening.
Safety and Security focus is devoted to providing air transportation facilities and commercial airline organizations with brand-new technologies, trends, developments and solutions, and informing the key airport personnel and decision makers on how high-tech safety and security solutions can be capitalized towards the prevention of adverse incidents within the commercial aviation industry. Some of the topics to be discussed in the February 2007 issue will include:
- The Latest in Immerging Security Technology
- Explosive\Radiation Detection
- Access Control\Biometrics
- RFID Technology
- First Responders
- Detection Systems
- Video Surveillance
- Background Screening
- Cargo Security
- Firearms
- Passenger Security
- Security Training
- Perimeter and Port Security and Border Protection
- Aviation Security
The TSA has declared CT-based Explosives Detection Systems (EDSs) superior to ETD. In testimony submitted to Congress, Dr. Randy Null, Assistant Administrator for Operational Process and Technology for the TSA, stated, EDS & is the preferred method of baggage screening. While we continue to rely on the judgment of trained operators to resolve alarms, EDS can clear the vast majority of the baggage without operator intervention.
Airport Innovation will invite up to 4 Explosive Detection Technology vendors to discuss the latest industry trends in the Q1 2007 Edition.
Topics of Discussion: (but not limited to)- Breakthrough in explosive detection within the airline and airport industry.
- Keeping technology ahead of terrorist threats.
- How are the growing numbers of passengers passing through airports going to affect security measures?
- Incorporating TSA and privatization of security companies to work as a strong unified team.
- C-Level Executive Management
Chief Security Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Chiefs of Airport Staff, Chiefs of Airport Police, Chief Airport Safety Officers, Chief Management Analysts, Chief Administration Officers and Government Officials. - Managers and Directors
General Managers, Director General of Airport Security, Airport Directors, Federal Security Directors, Directors of Anti-Terrorism, Security Directors, Operations Director & Security, Vice Presidents of Safety and Security, Safety Directors and Agents & Distributors.
Dr. Kasarda received his B.S. and M.B.A. (with Distinction) from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He has been the recipient of many grants and awards from such organizations as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, World Bank, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations Development Program, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. Kasarda has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his research on airport-driven economic development and a Senior Fellow and Trustee of the Urban Land Institute. He is considered the leading developer of the Aerotropolis concept defining the roles of aviation and airports in shaping 21st century business competitiveness and urban growth.
His focus is on the journey, providing insider's tips and recommendations to an increasingly savvy and demanding traveler. And Peter's keen investigative journalist skills enable him to go beyond the mundane and everyday to reveal unique perspectives, timely travel information and valuable insights.
An Emmy award-winning writer and producer, Peter Greenberg is Travel Editor for NBC's Today show, CNBC and MSNBC, a best-selling author and host of the nationally syndicated Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio show. Greenberg is also Contributing Editor for America Online (AOL) and Men's Health magazine, a contributor to The New Yorker magazines and a frequent guest on ABC's Oprah Winfrey Show and The View.
Most recently, Peter was the Creator, Executive Producer and host of CNBC's acclaimed ratings winner "Inside American Airlines: A Week in the Life." He can also be seen regularly as the on-air correspondent for Today and is a frequent guest on Squawk Box, Power Lunch, Closing Bell, High Net Worth and On The Money.
Peter is also author of the New York Times bestselling series, The Travel Detective, which uncovers secrets the airline, hotel, cruise and rental car industries don't want consumers to know. The updated and revised edition, with new chapters on safety, security, and terrorism, as well as a new look at airfares, the internet and passenger rights, was released May 2005. In May 2006, The Traveler's Diet: Eating Right and Staying Fit on the Road, an entertaining and informative guide to staying fit and healthy when traveling was released. Greenberg's other books include: Flight Crew Confidential and Hotel Secrets.
As Contributing Editor for AOL, Greenberg produces and hosts a series of online video segments offering insider tips, destination profiles, and best-kept travel secrets for frequent and occasional travelers.
Trento worked for the Senator from her home state of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, and for Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt of Arkansas. She rose to chief staff aide to Congressman Harold Hollenbeck of New Jersey with responsibility for political campaigns and committee assignments. She later helped manage the congressional and public affairs operations at the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce's Census Bureau.
Trento left government service to join John McLaughlin's company, Oliver Productions, as vice president of operations, producing "The McLaughlin Group," and "One on One." She also taught graduate-level writing as an adjunct professor at the American University in Washington, D.C.
She led an investigation into NASA that resulted in her first book, Prescription for Disaster. It was the subject of news stories in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and was featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Magazine. The Smithsonian included her interviews for the book in its NASA collection.
Trento's second book, Widows, written with Joseph Trento and William Corson, is a history of counterintelligence told through four U.S. intelligence cases. It was featured on ABC's "20/20"and NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries," and received international attention.
The Power House, her third book, deals with lobbying and public relations. Trento's work has appeared in the German GEO, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Washington Monthly, and The Houston Post.
Trento has been a correspondent for CNN's investigative unit as well as a guest on "Meet the Press," "Charlie Rose," CNN, "60 Minutes," "20/20," "Good Morning America," the BBC, and numerous documentary programs and public television in Canada, Australia, Japan, and France. Trento's scoops made news when he:
- Investigated the case of the U.S. envoy to Chile in the 1970s; his efforts forced The New York Times to make its first and only front-page retraction.
- Helped develop the investigation into CIA Director Richard Helms for lying to Congress about the CIA's conspiracy with ITT to overthrow the government of Chile.
- Reported on the Grenada invasion 24 hours before it happened.v
- Wrote the first major story (1984) about the U.S. secretly arming Iraq and Iran and the first to file reports on Saddam Hussein's relationship with the CIA.
- Revealed the CIA's use of journalists for covert operations in his story, "The Spies Who Come in From the Newsroom."
- Exposed a Navy chief of operations who was wearing medals he had not earned.
Trento now serves as the president of the Public Education Center, a nonpartisan and nonprofit foundation that conducts investigative reporting on environmental and national security matters (www.storiesthatmatter.org).
Trento is the author or co-author of numerous books on national security and intelligence issues, including Prescription for Disaster, written with Susan Trento, Widows, The Secret History of the CIA, and Prelude to Terror. Trento has consulted with several film studios on motion pictures. He and his wife founded Film and Ink Productions, LLC in 2000 and have commissioned projects for film and TV. Trento is currently working on books focusing on the Administration of Franklin Roosevelt and the Pakistani atomic bomb.
Prior to Avborne, Barimo spent 13 years at US Airways. He joined the airline in 1989 as a senior engineer and held a variety of positions before being named senior director, maintenance quality assurance in 1999. Previously, he was employed as an engineer scientist at McDonnell Douglas.
A native of Miami, Barimo holds a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
