WASHINGTON — The explosive allegedly used in the failed bombing plot aboard a transatlantic jetliner over Detroit on Christmas Day could have been detected by existing screening equipment, and the ...

As word of possible future terrorist attacks filtered through the intelligence community last week, Congress has been narrowing its focus on the failed Christmas Day attacks to assess what went wrong ...

WASHINGTON - The explosive powder that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly stuffed into his underwear could have been detected in airports by "sniffer" technology or a bomb-sniffing dog, an explosives ...

President Bush’s fiscal year 2009 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) represents $50.5 billion in funding, which is an increase of 6.8 percent over the 2008 fiscal year level ...

Emirates and Etihad have confirmed that their flights to Australia will face additional screening measures, such as explosive detection screening, at the boarding gates from April 6. Last Friday, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Protecting America’s transportation sector requires all types of resources. But one of the most effective counterterrorism efforts comes with fur and four legs. At Joint Base San Antonio ...

"Significant advances" in explosive screening technology have been made in recent years, but airport security has been hindered by the lack of a strategy to fully take advantage of these developments, ...

HOUSTON – A Texas company operating in Harris County has been ordered to pay a significant penalty after admitting they failed to comply with regulations regarding proper screening of cargo through ...

Several of company's explosives screening systems get okay from CAAC NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2005--L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its Security and Detection Systems ...