Recent Postings for "Counter-Terrorism Division" Area of Expertise.
The TSA is Inept
This is the response of Debra Burlingame, a co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and the sister of Capt. Charles F. Burlingame, III, pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, in this weekend’s WSJ to former TSA administrator Kip Hawley, who stood up the TSA in 2002.
Continue Reading →Mr. Erroll Southers, Managing Director of Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection at TAL Global Corporation, and an Associate Director of the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California, was named a new member of the Bipartisan Policy Center for Homeland Security Project led by 9/11 Commission Co-Chairs, former Governor Tom Kean and former Representative Lee Hamilton.
Continue Reading →The Transportation Security Administration has started a pilot project designed to test and evaluate the usefulness of new technology aimed at helping better ensure the identity of passengers by comparing and verifying their boarding passes and IDs.
Continue Reading →Erroll Southers, TAL Global’s Managing Director for Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection was the keynote speaker at the 8th European-American Sheriff’s Advisory Council (EASAC) and European Consular Corps event.
Continue Reading →New Book: “Security and Game Theory”
TAL Global Managing Director’s chapter, “LAX Terror Target: the History, the Reason, the Countermeasure” describes the pilot project leading to the innovative research transition program known as ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring Over Routes).
Continue Reading →From “See Something, Say Something” to Community Resilience
TAL Global lauds the TSA’s recent decision to encourage hotel guests to be vigilant and to report suspicious activity that may be linked to terror threats.
Continue Reading →Gadhafi’s Gone: What’s Next?
After 42 years of despotic tyranny, the Libyan people, indeed the entire world watches the end of the Gadhafi regime with fascination and some understandable trepidation; the future of the Libyans, as well as the security of Northern Africa, Europe, and the Middle East will be influenced to a great extent by what takes place in Tripoli in the near and mid-range future.
Continue Reading →9/11: Still Vulnerable 10 Years Later
“Sometimes it seems like as a country, we have remembered the date but lost the lesson. Every day is common until the unthinkable occurs, and when it happens, collective efforts are what help us bounce back, in most cases stronger than before.”
Continue Reading →Listening to al Qaeda May Help Us Defend Against It
The most recent disturbing aviation security and counter terrorism news is that al Qaeda is actively trying to defeat bomb detection technologies by surgically implanting explosive devices inside the abdominal cavities of suicide bombers.
Continue Reading →Recent News & Posting:
- Screening machines to detect nonmetallic bombs not tested
- The Conversation: Time to Mobilize for Cyberwar
- TSA Idled $184 Million in Screening Equipment, U.S. Says
- TSA screeners allegedly let drug couriers through LAX for cash
- Concerns Over Cargo Terror Continue
- Montana airport gets rare TSA concession: Private screeners
- Al-Qaida in decline, but threats to US multiply