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Screening cargo in airplanes, on the aviation security back burner since Sept. 11, is about to explode off the stove. According to aviation sources, Attorney General John Ashcroft next week will hold his first ever press conference on an aviation security issue. The topic: The high vulnerability of materials placed on the nation's passenger and cargo planes...
...other hand, DHL Worldwide Express, which handles 160 million packages a year, plans to go global soon with RFID tracking. Earlier this year DHL's RFID program manager Trevor Peirce stood next to a conveyor belt at its Helsinki gateway, watching computerized RFID scanners identify packages inside passing cargo containers at the rate of 300 items per second. "This is amazing technology when you see it working, and it's all fine-tuned," says Peirce. For customers, the payoff is later posting times and earlier deliveries, says the company's CIO, Steve Bandrowczak. "RFID clearly can help customers by reducing...
...into RFID asset tracking--a system that has been battle tested in Iraq. The Army Materiel Command required all air pallets and commercial shipments for Gulf War II to be digitally tagged so commanders like General Tommy Franks--a big supporter of the technology--knew when and where critical cargo like tanks would arrive. One unit told software developer Savi Technology of California that taking inventory, normally a two-or three-day job, was completed in just 22 minutes--highly convenient when you're under fire. (The system also proved handy one night for hungry soldiers, who used the RFID...
PORT SECURITY Few scenarios fray the nerves of counterterrorism planners more than the prospect of someone sneaking a nuclear warhead such as a dirty bomb aboard a cargo container headed for a U.S. port. For a nation that took in more than 7 million pieces of container freight last year, the security challenges are awesome. To ensure that those containers aren't used to smuggle in nuclear terrorism, U.S. customs agents often track ships before they leave foreign ports, using computers to keep tabs on their cargo. Some containers have electronic lids that will indicate if they have been tampered...
...same, "the ports and sea cargo are our most vulnerable areas right now," says Lester Boeh, a vice president of Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, Calif. Varian produces high-energy X-ray systems that the company says can penetrate 17 inches of steel, giving customs inspectors a view of what's hidden behind the thick walls of a cargo container. Another company, NucSafe, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is producing radiation sensors that determine whether suspicious items within a cargo container might be dangerous. The scanners irradiate the cargo, and NucSafe's sensors read the "signature" that is sent back...