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John McCorry will join the Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC) team as their new Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President of Business Technology.

A new resilience and risk report from First Street Foundation, “The 3rd National Risk Assessment: Infrastructure on the Brink,” calculates the risk of five key dimensions of community risk: residential properties, roads, commercial properties, critical infrastructure and social infrastructure.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded more than $479 million in airport infrastructure grants to 123 projects at airports across all 50 states, American Samoa and Puerto Rico.

Yeager Airport will use the security grant funds to install multiple new safety technologies, including West Virginia's first gunshot detection system in an airport.

As drones become smaller, less expensive and more popular, we need new Counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) solutions for airports to prevent and mitigate drone-related threats.

All employees and contractors of the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) will be required to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. SFO is the first U.S. airport to implement a vaccine requirement.

Port Canaveral will use federal and state funding to enhance security detection at the Port with upgraded equipment.

The credential authentication technology unit scans passenger ID in place of a boarding pass at the security checkpoint.

Security issues exist every day at airports and seaports, but security solutions and a multi-layered surveillance approach go a long way in a world of ever-increasing risk. Here, we explore a sampling of the latest surveillance solutions for airports and seaports.