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April 13, 2015

Firms push tech to protect airports

  • Airport security analysts predict that spending on physical perimeter barriers will decline in coming years and demand for high-tech solutions will rise.
    • By MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
    Associated Press

    Technology firms increasingly pitch new sensors and software to U.S. airports as a way to bolster exterior security and keep intruders out, but such digital barriers come with a hefty price tag and don’t always work.

    An Associated Press investigation documented 268 instances in which people hopped over, crawled under, drove cars through or otherwise breached the fences and gates protecting the perimeters of 31 of the nation’s busiest airports from January 2004 through January 2015.


     
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