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2 CIS H 75142
TITLE: Checked Baggage Screening Systems: Planning for the Dec. 31, 2002 Deadline

CIS-NO: 2002-H751-42  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Dec. 7, 2001  
LENGTH: v+110 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-58  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-28753-1.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-58. Hearing before the Subcom on Aviation to examine FAA efforts to meet Dec. 31, 2002 deadline for screening all checked airline baggage for explosives, as required by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act.
 
Supplementary material (p. 39-110) includes witnesses' written statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Airline baggage screening efforts

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON AVIATION. HOUSE;  AIRLINES; AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ACT; AVIATION SECURITY; CIVIL AVIATION; EXPLOSIVES; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; TRANSPORTATION REGULATION

02-H751-42 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Dec. 7, 2001 p. 5-38, 52-64, 68-77, 84-110
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   HUTCHESON, IAN (Head, Group Security, BAA plc)
   RIMINGTON, ROGER W. (Chief Aviation Security Consultant, Glenealy International Ltd)
   MUNTZ, FREDERICK F. (Vice President, InVision Technologies, Inc.)
   LANZA, FRANK (Chairman and CEO, L-3 Communications, Inc.)
   VEHLEN, FRANK (Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Heimann Systems Corp)
   ELLENBOGEN, MICHAEL (Vice President, Product and Business Development, PerkinElmer Instruments)
   ZAIDMAN, STEVEN L. (Associate Administrator, Research and Acquisitions, FAA)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Feasibility of meeting Dec. 31, 2002 baggage screening deadline; examples of baggage screening processes in Great Britain and possible applications in the U.S.; description of technologies to aid in baggage screening; discussion of FAA plans to meet the screening deadline.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Airline baggage screening efforts
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   BAA PLC; GLENEALY INTERNATIONAL LTD.; GREAT BRITAIN; HEIMANN SYSTEMS CORP.; INVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; L-3 COMMUNICATIONS, INC.; PERKINELMER, INC.; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

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