The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and You

So what is the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) and why should you care? To be brief, the QHSR is a congressionally mandated review of the nation’s homeland security policies and priorities that will guide homeland security for the next four years. Some of the discussion will be web-based and we invite you to participate.

This is a major collaborative effort involving a huge host of stakeholders.

Internal agencies and external partners including federal agencies, state, local and tribal governments, first responders, business leaders, academics, policy experts and the concerned public will be engaged. That’s where you come in! This is another way your voice can be heard and you can help shape the department’s policies and priorities over the next four years.

There will be three web based dialogues involving the following topics between August and October of 2009:

Counterterrorism and Domestic Security Management

Securing Our Borders

Smart and Tough Enforcement of Immigration Laws

Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from Disasters

Homeland Security National Risk Assessment

Homeland Security Planning and Capabilities

For all you need to know about the QHSR including a video message from Secretary Napolitano, you can go to the QHSR Homeland Security Dialogue page.

You can also follow QHSR on Twitter: @qhsrdialogue
Mark your calendars for

August 3rd–9th

August 31st–September 6th

September 28th–October 4th

Blogger Bob

TSA Blog Team

Can I Take my Hand Grenade on the Plane?

Just as with my fireworks post, I'm about to state the obvious again. Hand grenades are not allowed on a plane.

Obvious: Grenades (smoke, stun, sting, concussion, percussion, incendiary, etc) are not permitted on planes.

Not So Obvious: Realistic replicas of grenades (belt buckles, lighters, paperweights, inert training grenades, and other gadgets) are not allowed on planes.

On a regular basis, checkpoint lanes and checkpoints are closed because of novelty or inert grenades and grenade shaped items. When checkpoints are closed… Flights are delayed and missed causing the airline and passengers major frustration and a loss of money.

So why is it such a big deal if the grenades are inert or just a novelty item? Well, that’s why passengers usually don’t think twice about bringing these items. They know inert grenades or novelty grenade shaped items can’t cause any harm. However, we don’t know that. All we see on the x-ray is a realistic image of a grenade complete with pin and spoon and we have to go through the motions.

As a TSO back in 2002, I witnessed the checkpoint at Islip MacArthur Airport coming to a screeching halt because the image of a hand grenade popped up on the x-ray screen. It ended up being a metal lighter in the shape of a classic pineapple grenade with the spoon, pin and all. Even though it was a small lighter that would fit in the palm of your hand, it appeared as a larger than life grenade on the screen.

Grenade shaped belt buckles, lighters, paperweights, inert training grenades, and other gadgets can all look like the real deal on the x-ray screen. Please leave them at home or mail them to your destination.

Blogger Bob

TSA Blog Team

TSA Wants You! Send Us Your Top 5 Questions

We want you! That’s right, we want your input. I know, I know, there are thousands of comments within this blog overflowing with input you’ve given us, and I have already sent in my top 5 based on feedback I've read from the blog.

What do we want? TSA wants to better communicate the “Why’s” behind security to the traveling public, and to do so, we need your expertise. We want you to send us the top 5 questions you have about TSA’s security procedures. What “Why” questions would you like to see addressed?

Your responses will be reviewed and the most common questions will help us generate signage and other materials that address the concerns that flying public has.

This is a huge collaborative project that not only includes you, but the TSA workforce as well. The results should be interesting.

Please provide responses by 5 p.m. EDT Monday, July 27, 2009 to OPAfeedback@dhs.gov This is not a blog project, I'm just providing a virtual megaphone, so please make sure to submit your feedback to the provided e-mail address. By all means, you can post your top 5 here, but make sure you send them to OPAfeedback@dhs.gov

Thanks!

Blogger Bob

TSA Blog Team

TSA Blog Podcast Interview With Airplane Geeks

I joined Max Flight, Dan and Rob from Airplane Geeks for a podcast interview about the TSA Blog.

Also, spread around the podcast like mustard on a fine bologna sandwich, you’ll find another interview, good music, and some aviation related news.

By all means, listen to the entire entertaining podcast, but my interview starts at 34:25 and 1:21:10 where I am quite deservedly blown up.

Listen to Episode 57 of the Airplane Geeks Podcast by clicking here.

Blogger Bob

TSA Blog Team

Blog Post Archives

UPDATE 6-13-2012: We upgraded to the new Blogger template and since it has an archive feature, (on the side bar) we will no longer need to update this page.  
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The archive index on our page isn't the most user friendly, so I've added all of the posts here (sorted newest to oldest) and will continue to update the list as new posts go live. I'll also add an "Blog Post Archives" hyperlink to the side bar. ~ Blogger Bob

5/25/2102 Summer Travel Tips & News!

5/25/2012 TSA Week in Review: Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

5/25/2012 2012 National Hurricane Preparedness Week, We Pledge to Prepare

5/18/2012 TSA Week in Review: 30 Loaded Guns Found This Week in Carry-on Bags

5/18/2012 It’s Time to go Scuba Diving - Travel Tips for Divers

5/11/2012 TSA Week in Review: Disassembled Gun and Ammo Found in Three Stuffed Animals

5/11/2012 Individuals on The No Fly List Are Not Issued Boarding Passes

5/4/2012 TSA Week in Review: Plastic Dagger Found With Body Scanner

5/3/2012 More Than 1 Million Passengers Screened by TSA Pre✓™

5/2/2012 TSA’s Civil Rights and Liberties Program

4/27/2012 TSA Week in Review: Black Powder, Grenades, and Claymore Mines

4/24/2012 Four Year Old Child Not Accused of Concealing Firearm

4/20/2012 TSA Week in Review: Man Brings Pistol Through Checkpoint. Again! 
4/17/2012 New Technology Will Check Travel Documents 
4/13/2012 TSA Week in Review: Knife Zip-Tied to Handle of Bag 
4/13/2012 The Scoop on TSA Pre✓™ 
4/10/2012 Why do Laptops Have to be Removed When Tablets can Stay in the Bag? 
4/6/2012 TSA Week in Review: Hidden Compartments Found in Everyday Items

3/30/2012 TSA Week in Review: Gun Concealed in Hollowed Out Book 
3/30/2012 Spring Forward! - Spring Break Travel Tips
3/26/2012 4 Loaded Guns, 192 Rounds of Ammo, and 3 Knives (Not in a Pear Tree) 
3/23/2012 TSA Week in Review: Debrainer Discovered at BWI 
3/23/2012 TSA Taking Nail Clippers from Soldiers? - Nail Clipper Myth Buster 
3/20/2012 TSA Pre✓™ Continues Expansion and Gives Access to Active Duty Military Member 
3/19/2012 Video of Child Being Screened in Wheelchair 
3/16/2012 TSA Week in Review: Thousands of Ecstasy Pills Concealed in Passenger’s Undergarment 
3/14/2012 TSA Says Yes to the Dress 
3/9/2012 TSA Week in Review: Eels on a Plane? 
3/8/2012 Clarification on Ice Packs and Empty Bottles   
3/7/2012 Viral Video About Body Scanners 
3/6/2012 Federal Air Marshal Service Celebrates 50 Years! 
3/2/2012 TSA Week in Review: 60mm Mortar Round and Other Interesting Finds

2/24/2012 TSA Week in Review: Artillery Projectile Fuse?
2/23/2012  It’s Always one Thing or an Otter: Baby Otters Screened at Newark
2/17/2012 TSA Week in Review: Spear Gun!
2/15/2012 TSA Officers Focus on Security, not Good Looks
2/10/2012 The Importance of Getting to the Gate Early  
2/10/2012 TSA Week in Review: Fantasy Knives and More Cannonballs  
2/8/2012 TSA Pre✓™ Pilot to Expand to 28 of the Busiest US Airports 
2/3/2102 TSA Week in Review: Coral Covered Explosively Viable Cannonball 
2/2/2012  Travel Tips for Fans Traveling to Super Bowl XLVI 

1/27/2012 TSA Week in Review: Leave Your Throwing Stars at Home, Grasshopper

1/23/2012 Passengers who Refuse Screening are Denied Access to the Secure Area

1/20/2012 TSA Week In Review: “Brush” With Death?

1/20/2012 TSA Pre✓™ Checkup

1/17/2012 The Truth About TSA Testing Technology for Radiation 

1/13/2012 TSA Week In Review: Gassed Up Chainsaw & Deadly Lipstick 

1/9/2012 Cupcakegate 

1/7/2012 TSA Week In Review: Teargas Grenade and a Speargun – Plus more! 

1/4/2012 TSA Pre✓™ Pilot Expanding To Two More Airports    

1/3/2010 TSA Top 10 Good Catches of 2011

12/30/2011 TSA Week In Review: Non Metallic Martial Arts Weapon Found with Body Scanner
12/25/2011 Happy Holidays From TSA
12/23/2011 TSA Week In Review: Holy Flare Guns, Batman!
12/22/2011 TSA Cares Helpline Starting Today
12/21/2011 Not Even Ninjas Can Evade Airport Security
12/20/2011 TSA Holiday Travel Tips Rehash 
12/17/2011 TSA Week In Review: Flash! Bang!
12/15/2011 Response Posted to White House We the People Petition
12/14/2011 TSA Pre✓™ Rolling Out In Vegas Today
12/13/2011 Loaded .380 Found Strapped To Passenger’s Ankle at DFW With Body Scanner
12/11/2011 Clarification on Screening of Three Senior Citizens at JFK 
12/9/2011 TSA Week In Review: 5 Grenades “Grenading” 
12/4/2011 Screening of Elderly Passenger at JFK
12/2/2011 TSA Week in Review: Smooth Travel This Holiday Season – Plus Machetes Too!
12/1/2011 There’s An App For That? Stun Gun Designed As Smart Phone At LAX

11/19/2011 Happy 10th Birthday TSA 
11/15/2011 Just Business as Usual… Reality TV Star Tweets About Security 
11/15/2011 Good Gravy, Let’s Talk Turkey!: TSA Holiday Travel Tips
11/14/2011 Wrapped Presents Are OK, But We Might Have To Open Them For Anomalies Or Alarms 
11/11/2011 Veteran's Day: Thank You To All Who Have Served Or Are Serving 
11/11/2011 TSA Week In Review: Sword canes, razor blade chewing gum, and a splash of EVOO 
11/9/2011 TSA Pre✓™ Pilot Expanding To Three More Airports
11/8/2011  In Case You Were Wondering, Our Backscatter Imaging Technology Is Still Safe
11/4/2011 TSA Week In Review: Do Not Let Your Grandson Pack Your Bags
11/01/2011 TSA Checkpoints This Halloween: Trick Or Treat?

10/28/2011  TSA Week In Review: Loaded Guns & A Knife In A Nut Can
10/26/2011 Inappropriate Note Author Identified and Removed From Screening
10/25/2011 Myth Buster: TSA Not Setting Up Checkpoints On Tennessee Highways
10/21/2011 TSA Week In Review: Loaded Guns & Landmines
10/18/2011 How To Sign Up To Participate in TSA Pre✓™
10/14/2011 Week in Review: Lipstick Knife & Lost and Found - And a few other tidbits...
10/12/2011 TSA In The Tabloids
10/7/2011 Week In Review: Loaded Guns and a Good Samaritan
10/6/2011 CAT/BPSS - Automatic ID/Boarding Pass Checker
10/4/2011 TSA Pre✓™ – The Next Step In Our Risk-Based Approach To Further Enhance Airport Security
10/3/2011 Cancer Patient Screening At JFK: Treating Passengers with Dignity and Respect

9/28/2011 Sometimes The Airport Is Similar To A Gun And Knife Show 
9/15/2011 LAX TSA Officers Go Fishing?  
9/14/2011 Risk Based Security For Passengers 12 and Under 
9/13/2011 No Scams Here, Just a Technical Foul 
9/11/2011 Moment of Silence for Those Lost on United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa 
9/11/2011 Moment of Silence for Those Lost on American Airlines Flight 77 and at the Pentagon 
9/11/2011 Moment of Silence for Those Lost on United Airlines Flight 175 and at the World Trade Center 
9/11/2001 Moment of Silence for Those Lost on American Airlines Flight 11 and at the World Trade Center 
9/6/2011  Good Catch! Sword Canes to Reptiles... 
9/1/2011 Tenth Anniversary Report Card on 9/11 Commission Recommendations 
9/1/2011 TSA To Provide Several Artifacts to the Smithsonian National September 11 Collection

8/26/2011 TSA Remembers 9/11: Stories From Our Workforce

8/25/2011 Hurricane Irene Information

8/18/2011 TSA 10 Years After 9/11

8/9/2011 Traveling With Medication

8/5/2011 Weird Science: Traveling With Homemade Gadgets

8/4/2011 TSA To Pilot Using QR Codes® on Checkpoint Signage

7/20/2011 TSA Takes Further Steps to Enhance Passenger Privacy on Millimeter Wave Machines Nationwide 
7/16/2011 C4 Explosive Found In Passenger’s Checked Luggage

7/15/2011Known Traveler Passenger Screening Pilot

7/8/2011 Screening Procedures for Hair

7/6/2011 Staying Ahead of Potential Terrorist Threats

7/1/2011 Fireworks Should Fly In The Sky, Not On Planes

7/1/2011 JFK - LAX Stowaway Was Screened By TSA

6/30/2011 TSA Cancer Cluster Myth Buster

6/28/2011 TSA Will Work With Passengers To Resolve Security Concerns In The Most Respectful Way Possible

6/10/2011 ACCOUNTABILITY 

6/3/2011 Response to Phoenix Checkpoint Video

6/2/2011 TSA 2011 Summer Travel Tips

5/26/2011 The Radiation Retest Results are In: Scanners Operating Safely

5/24/2011 TSA Pat-downs At Santa Fe Prom? Nope.

5/14/2011 Texas House of Representatives Seeking to Ban Current TSA Pat-Down

5/13/2011 Secretary Napolitano Visits the Transportation Security Operations Center

5/9/2011 TSA Searching for Poop Bombs?: Headline Not Up to Snuff

5/4/2011 Osama bin Laden Dead, Threat Still Very Much Alive

5/3/2011 TSA Officers React Quickly to Devastating Tornado Touchdown at St. Louis Lambert Airport

4/13/2011 Screening of 6 Year-Old at MSY

4/4/2011 TSA Welcomes Its 500th Puppy!

4/1/2011 TSA Alien Detection Officers (ADO)

3/29/2011 Archives of Internal Medicine on TSA Backscatter: “There is no significant threat of radiation”

3/22/2011 “MyTSA” App Named Best Government App by Technology Industry Groups

3/18/2011 Who Are You? TSA Exploring Identity Based Screening and Known Travelers

3/17/2011 TSA Scanner Levels 10x Higher Than Expected?

3/12/2011 TSA Releases Radiation Testing Reports

2/26/2011 TSA Testing DNA? No way!

2/26/2011 Screening of Passengers at Savannah Amtrak Station

2/24/2011 TSA Transportation Security Officers Denied Service At Mystery Seattle Restaurant? Not likely…

2/22/2011 Traveling With a CPAP Machine

2/7/2011 Update on TSA Contractor Screening Program

2/1/2011 Airport Testing of New Advanced Imaging Technology Software Begins Today!

1/28/2011 New Mexico v. Phillip Mocek: A Quick Reminder on ID and Photography at TSA Checkpoints

1/26/2011 The Bombing of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport

1/14.2011 FOIA Request for 2,000 Images is for Lab Images, Not Checkpoint Images

1/13/2011 Taz Arnold’s Spiked Shoes Are Clear for Takeoff and Options for Prohibited Items That Are Not

1/7/2011 A Friendly Suggestion on Products Designed to Conceal Sensitive Areas

1/5/2011 Chalk Up a Smooth Holiday Travel Season to Hard Working Officers and Prepared Passengers

12/31/2010 70% Detection Failure Rate Being Reported is Based on Testing from 2004-2005

12/23/2010 Check out Our Holiday Travel Tips…Again

12/21/2010 Guest Blog at Disability.Gov: Screeningfor Passengers with Mobility Disabilities

12/9/2010 Updated TSA Response to Claim That Nail Clippers Were Taken From Armed Soldiers in Indianapolis

12/9/2010 Response to Claims that TSA Opted out of Using AIT During Opt-Out Day

12/7/2010 Facts on TSA X-ray Safety  

12/7/2010 TSA Response to "TSA Breast Milk Screening" Video

12/3/2010 Don’t You Believe It

12/01/2010 TSA Response to Claim That Nail Clippers Were Taken From Armed Soldiers in Indianapolis

11/27/2010 Moderation of the Blog, the TSA Delete-O-Meter, and Fake Twitter Accounts

11/24/2010 Opt Out Turns Into Opt In

11/24/2010 Airport Wait Time Status Updates for 11/24/2010 

11/24/2010 Administrator Pistole Reaches Out to Passenger for Pat-down Mishap at DTW

11/22/2010 Check out Our Holiday Travel Tips

11/22/2010 Response to "Young Boy Strip Searched by TSA" 

11/19/2010 Airports Who Opt out of TSA Screening are Still Regulated by TSA

11/18/2010 TSA Myth or Fact: Leaked Images, Handcuffed Hosts, Religious Garb, and More!

11/17/2010 TSA has not, will not and our Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) cannot store images of passengers

11/16/2010 Opting-out of Advanced Imaging Technology and the Pat-down Doesn’t Fly

11/16/2010 CBS News Poll: 4 in 5 Support Full-Body Airport Scanners

11/11/2010  Response to "Female radio host cuffed to chair, ticket ripped up..."

11/11/2010 New TSA Pat-down Procedures

11/9/2010 White House Blog: Backscatter Back-Story

11/8/2010 MacBook Airs (Along with many other computers and gadgets) are Still Clear for Take Off

10/26/2010 Talk To TSA: Secure Flight: November 1st Marks End of Grace Period for Airlines

10/18/2010 MagViz: Dual use technology? Time will tell…

10/8/2010 Strengthening International Aviation Security

10/6/2010 Flying Can Be A Hair Curling Experience: Traveling With Curling/Straightening Irons

9/22/2010 Lady Gaga’s Handcuffs: The TSA Permitted/Prohibited Items List

9/17/2010 Advanced Imaging Technology Automated Target Recognition

9/11/2010 Moment of Silence Flight 93

9/11/2010 Moment of Silence Flight 77

9/11/2010 Moment of Silence Flight 175

9/11/2010 Moment of Silence Flight 11 

9/8/2010 General Aviation Poster Encourages Vigilance

9/3/2010 Gel, Aerosol, and Stick Deodorant

8/30/2010 TSA Guest Blogs At Disability.gov: Traveling With Service Animals

8/27/2010 Enhanced Pat Downs

8/20/2010 Talk To TSA Response: Recognizing TWIC Cards and other ID at the Checkpoint

8/17/2010 Safety Razors & Disposable Razors

8/13/2010 Talk to TSA Response: Are Liquids Really a Threat?

8/4/2010 TSA Response to "Feds Admit to Storing Images."

8/4/2010 Guns Are No Fun at the Checkpoint

7/26/2010 TSA Goes Mobile

7/21/2010 TSA Posts on DoD Live: Some Things Just Shouldn't Be Taken on a Plane

7/16/2010 Talk to TSA: I Want to Hear From You

7/13/2010 TSA Blog to Write Several Posts as Part of a DoD Live Blog Series

7/7/2010 Response to "TSA to Block Controversial Opinion on the Web"

7/2/2010 Fireworks and Planes Don't Mix

7/2/2010 Please Post Off Topic Comments Here

7/1/2010 TSA Administrator John Pistole is On the Job: See Something Say Something Launch

6/29/2010 Popsicle Makers and Potato Peelers

6/11/2010 TSA Now Performing 100% Watchlist Matching  for Domestic Flights

6/1/2010 Traveling With Kids

5/27/2010 TSA Response To "Pushy Fliers May Show Up On TSA's Radar"

5/27/2010 TSA 2010 Summer Travel Tips

5/21/2010 TSA SPOT Program: Still Going Strong

5/18/2010 Differences Between Checked Baggage and Carry On Baggage

5/14/2010 E-Cigarettes - Go, or No-Go?

5/11/2010 3-1-1 Policy Still In Place

5/7/2010 TSA Has Zero Tolerance for Workplace Violence and Inappropriate Comments

4/29/2010 TSA Purchases Additional AIT Units (And a Word on ATR)

4/26/2010 The TSA Blog Has Moved To A New Address

4/22/2010 Traveling With Airbags

4/20/2010 Advanced Imaging Technology Off to a Great Start

4/19/2010 Response to: TSA to Download Your iTunes?

4/8/2010 Federal Air Marshals on Flight 663

4/6/2010 Traveling with E-readers, Netbooks, and Other Small Gadgets (Including the iPad)

3/31/2010 Advanced Imaging Technology - Yes, It's Worth It

3/22/2010 Helping Wounded Warriors

3/11/2010 Advanced Imaging Technology: "Radiation Risk Tiny"

3/8/2010 Live Aviation Security Chat with Secretary Napolitano on Facebook 3/9/10 View

3/5/2010 Backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology on Its Way to First Eleven Airports

3/3/2010 Whatever Happened to the Shoe Scanner Idea?

2/23/2010 What Happens If My Hands Alarm During an Explosives Trace Detection Test

2/22/2010 Four Year Old Boy in Philly Told To Remove Leg Braces

2/17/2010 Explosive Trace Detection Usage Expanded: Give Us A Hand

2/10/2010 Bollywood Confidential

2/4/2010 TSA Haiti Evacuation Effort: A Federal Security Director's Perspective

2/2/2010 Orlando Officer Arrested

1/27/2010 What’s Wrong With This Picture?

1/22/2010 Can TSA Copy Your Laptop Hard Drive and Search Your Files?

1/21/2010 What Happened In Philadelphia?

1/15/2010 There Are No Children on the No Fly or Selectee Lists

1/15/2010 Help for Haiti: Learn What You Can Do

1/13/2010 Advanced Imaging Technology: Storing, Exporting and Printing of Images

1/8/10 Incident on Flight 253 and TSA’s Role in International Security

12/26/2009 DHS Statement on Northwest Airlines Flight 253

12/24/2009 Happy Holidays 2009

12/09/09 Update On Standard Operating Procedures

12/08/09 TSA Response to Leaked Standard Operating Procedures

12/01/09 What Was She Thinking? A True Thanksgiving Tale

11/20/2009 Gobble, Gobble: TSA Helpful Holiday Travel Tips

11/16/2009 Holiday Travel Refresher: What if I Lose or Forget My ID?

11/11/2009 Veterans Day: Thank You

11/10/2009 TSA Stops Medical Supplies for Cape Verde?

11/7/2009 Response to: “Oops: Backscatter X-ray machines tear apart DNA"

11/03/2009 Response to "TSA Takes Big Gulp over Britney"

10/23/2009 Response to "Bag Check" Cartoon

10/22/2009 Response to "My Daughter, the Terrorist

10/21/2009 Why We Screen Wheelchairs Part II

10/16/2009 Response to "TSA Agents Took My Son"

10/14/2009 Grenades: A Refresher Course on Checkpoint Etiquette

10/7/2009 Dakota to Chicago Via Virginia

10/6/2009 TSA to Receive $355 Million for Airport Security Projects

10/2/2009 Did Newark’s Mayor Really Add Conan O’Brien to the No Fly List?

9/30/2009 Law Enforcement Officers Flying Armed

9/25/2009 Combining Security & Convenience: A Balancing Act

9/25/2009 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Phase III

9/22/2009 TSA Paperless Boarding Pass at 4 More Airports

9/21/2009 What happens to your prohibited items?

9/18/09 Paperless Boarding Pass Now at 30 Airports

9/11/2009 Remembering 9-11

9/10/2009 TSA Blog: 1,000,000 Hits!

9/8/2009 New Procedures for Traveling with Powders

9/2/2009 Traveling in the Key of Security: Musical Instruments & TSA

8/27/2009 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Phase II

8/18/2009 Imaging Technolgy: The Bigger Picture

8/12/2009 Secure Flight Q&A II

8/10/2009 ExpressJet Incident in Rochester

8/5/2009 New Imaging Technology at Cleveland Hopkins Airport

8/3/2009 Got Feedback: Happy Birthday

7/31/2009 The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and You

7/29/2009 Can I Take my Hand Grenade on the Plane?

7/24/2009 TSA Wants You! Send Us Your Top 5 Questions

7/24/2009 TSA Blog Podcast With Airplane Geeks

7/15/2009 Secure Flight Update

7/14/2009 TSA Bomb Appraisal Officer

7/2/2009 Can I Take My Fireworks on a Plane?

7/1/2009 You're Fired! But not yet...

7/1/2009 Clear: What Gives?

6/22/2009 St. Louis Incident Update

6/18/2009 TSA Paperless Boarding Pass Pilot Expanding

6/10/2009 Camping, Hunting & Fishing Gear On a Plane

6/5/2009 Is TSA Really Taking Fingerprints of Passengers???

6/2/2009 Secure Flight Q & A

5/22/2009 Millimeter Wave Whole Body Imager Photos

5/21/2009 Explosive Trace Detection

5/19/2009 Will Children be Screened by Whole Body Imagers?

5/18/2009 CNN Article: Airport security bares all, or does it?

5/15/2009 What's in a Name?

5/14/2009 Shoes on the X-ray belt, or in a bin???

5/9/2009 TSA Urban Legends

5/1/2009 What Does A Terrorist Look Like?

4/29/2009 BWI Checkpoint Rollout Anniversary (And More...)

4/27/2009 Dishing the Dirt

4/23/2009 See SPO. See SPO Screen. Screen, SPO, Screen!

4/21/2009 Missing Crematory Remains

4/15/2009 TWIC Casts a Security Net Over Ports

4/14/2009 Traveling With Large Amounts of Cash

4/10/2009 What to Know Before You Go

4/9/2009 Two Scabies Cases Reported at Boston Logan International

4/8/2009 Welcome New Blog Team Members

4/7/2009 TSA Customer Support Manager

4/3/2009 Incident at St. Louis International Airport

3/31/2009 Can I Take Photos at the Checkpoint and Airport?

3/27/2009 Blogger Paul's Visit to the TSIF

3/25/2009 Traveling With Homemade Gadgets

3/20/2009 Gate Screening

3/17/2009 Traveling 101 for Diabetics

3/12/2009 An Interview with Blogger Bob

3/10/2009 Smooth...

3/5/2009 A Day In The Life Of: Transportation Security Inspector

3/2/2009 Frozen Monkey Heads & Other Fun Stuff

2/25/2009 3 oz or 3.4 oz? What gives???

2/20/2009 Pilot Program Tests Millimeter Wave

2/18/2009 Why We Do What We Do: Shift Briefs

2/9/2009 Why We Do What We Do: Screening People in Wheelchairs

1/30/2009 Welcoming the New Secretary

1/22/2009 Vlogging With Blogger Bob

1/19/2009 Administrator Kip Hawley's Final TSA Blog Post

1/14/2009 The Ad Council: A Final Post From Ellen Howe

1/9/2009 Comment Policy Refresher

1/8/2009 TSA’s Work Abroad

1/6/2009 Formalde-hype

12/31/2008 Ring in the New Year, Not the Metal Detector

12/22/2008 TSA on 60 Minutes

12/19/2008 TSA Outside of the Airport

12/16/2008 Artful Concealment?

12/9/2008 In-Line Baggage Screening

12/3/2008 On the Other Side of the Line

11/28/2008 Thanksgiving Holiday Airport Traffic Decreased Nationwide

11/26/2008 Just Back from BWI - A Thanksgiving Checkpoint Report

11/26/2008 Easy as Pie

11/25/2008 Blogger Roundtable at TSA HQ

11/24/2008 Thanksgiving Travel Projected to Decrease this Year

11/19/2008 Why?

11/13/2008 FAMS Director Comments on USA Today Story

11/10/2008 Family/Special Needs Lanes Coming to All Airports

11/5/2008 Paperless Boarding Pass Testimonial

11/4/2008 Blogger Paul's Intro

10/24/2008 The Path Forward on Liquids

10/21/2008 TSA’s Take on the Atlantic Article

10/14/2008 From Obscurity to Oprah

10/8/2008 Zero Tolerance

10/7/2008 Message In a Carry-On

10/3/2008 Technology Aims to Address Existing Liquid Threat

10/1/2008 Pilots for Pilots

9/23/2008 Black Diamond Update

9/16/2008 Bar-Coded Boarding Passes

9/11/2008 Seven Years Later

9/8/2008 An Update on Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags

9/5/2008 More on Passive Millimeter Wave Technology

8/28/2008 New Security Technologies Make Airport Debut

8/20/2008 Information on the Chicago Aircraft Inspections

8/20/2008 Covert Testing Results Critical to Security

8/15/2008 Checkpoint Friendly Bag

8/13/2008 You won’t be put on a TSA “List” if you forget Your ID

8/11/2008 Furthering the Dialogue on IDs

8/6/2008 Encryption Is the Issue In Case of Missing Laptop

8/4/2008 Answers to Your Top 10 Questions

8/1/2008 "Got Feedback?"

7/30/2008 Leave your shoes on?

7/23/2008 Pay For Performance; Good For Security

7/18/2008 Calling All Lurkers

7/14/2008 Myth Buster: Watch List One Million People Strong

7/11/2008 $30,000.00 Watch Returned to Passenger

7/10/2008 Shocking, but False

7/7/2008 The evolution of the Bag: Going "Checkpoint Friendly"

7/3/2008 Yet Another ID Post...With Some Answers to Your Questions

7/2/2008 ID Q&A

6/27/2008 ID Update and Word on the Blog

6/23/2008 New ID Requirements: The First 48

6/20/2008 New ID Requirements Begin Tomorrow

6/16/2008 The Evolution Continues

6/13/2008 Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

6/11/2008 Why is ID Important for Security?

6/5/2008 A Day in the Life of Checkpoint Evolution at BWI

6/3/2008 Is this really a better checkpoint?

5/30/2008 Why there are so many different lines?

5/27/2008 Which is it: Millimeter Wave or Backscatter?

5/23/2008 Friday Afternoon Cartoons

5/19/2008 The Science Behind 3-1-1

5/16/2008 UK Liquid Explosives Trial

5/12/2008 Checkpoint Lines - What Do You Think?

5/9/2008 You asked for it...You got it, Millimeter Wave images...

5/7/2008 What’s the Best Way to Screen Airport Employees?

5/5/2008 So What Exactly Happens To All Of That Stuff?

5/2/2008 Duty Free Debunked

5/2/2008 TSO Gun Incident

4/28/2008 Checkpoint Evolution Up and Running at BWI

4/25/2008 The TSA Puppy Program

4/24/2008 Safety & Privacy Concerns Regarding the Millimeter Wave

4/17/2008 Catch a Wave and Avoid a Pat Down

4/15/2008 First Significant Deployment of Aviation Security

4/11/2008 Passenger Feedback Used in Checkpoint Evolution

4/3/2008 Checkpoint Evolution: Passenger Engagement

4/1/2008 Behavior Detection Officers Lead to Arrest in Orlando

3/30/2008 Checkpoint Changes Coming

3/28/2008 TSA and Piercings

3/25/2008 Rumor Alert- Shortage Of Federal Air Marshals?

3/24/2008 Layers of Security

3/20/2008 Update: Bob Screens the Apple MacBook Air

3/18/2008 Diamonds Are a Passenger’s Best Friend (Diamond Lanes)

3/17/2008 How We Do What We Do: Baggage Screening

3/16/2008 Rumor Alert: Conflict of Interest at TSA?

3/14/2008 Some of the Hardest Working Dogs in the Nation

3/11/2008 Apple MacBook Airs are Cleared for Takeoff

3/4/2008 How Intelligence Drives Operations at TSA

3/4/2008 When Security Officers Find Illegal Items at the Checkpoint

2/29/2008 The Truth Behind the Title: Behavior Detection Officer

2/28/2008 Alien Flight School Program: "9/11 Redux?"

2/27/2008 Welcome to the Delete-O-Meter

2/25/2008 Zip Lane

2/23/2008 Saturday Morning Strange But True...

2/21/2008 And Now, a Word from Our Lawyers…

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2/16/2008 What is Your Lane? Go at Your Own Pace in Salt Lake

2/15/2008 The TSA, Our Officers, The Public and Theft

2/13/2008 What It Takes to be a Transportation Security Officer

2/11/2008 Additional Screening for People with Hip Replacements

2/10/2008 A Few Thoughts on Consistency and Where We're Going

2/8/2008 RUMOR ALERT! LAPTOPS

2/8/2008 Why We Screen Veterans and Active Members of the Military

2/6/2008 HOORAY BLOGGERS!

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2/1/2008 Questions We Hear Everyday

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