Take, for example, The Smithsonian Institution, in the midst of a multi-million dollar security upgrade that involves working within the framework of the federal government and the Institution’s procurement standards to provide enhanced security to 12 museums, ten research centers and a zoological park.
“Depending on the Homeland Security Terrorist Threat code level, we are considering posting a checkpoint at the entrances to the Zoo, and we would probably want the flexibility a mobile booth would provide,” Douglass Hall, associate director for technical security at The Smithsonian Institution, says.