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Perimeter Intrusion Detection
“ apart from a basic chain-link fence, most
sortium comprised of 54 national labs, uni-
versities, and aviation-related organisations
airports lack any kind of infrastructure at
and corporations. Safe Skies is dedicated
to investigating security technologies and
the perimeter to support intrusion devices or
processes, most of which specifically apply
to aviation facilities. As testing specialists,
monitoring systems” Safe Skies supplies third-party, unbiased
evaluations and reports on different devices
products tended to be overlooked as being and processes pertaining to aviation security.
costly and impractical to test operationally. In addition to its membership resources, the
Apart from a basic chain-link fence, most company has an internal staff of more than
airports lack any kind of infrastructure at the 45 security and engineering professionals,
perimeter to support intrusion devices or statisticians, and support personnel, who
monitoring systems. Any kind of operational provide operational assessments of security
testing would require equipping the area systems and technologies for the United
with power, utilities, and monitoring devices States Department of Homeland Security -
- an expensive undertaking for a temporary Transportation Security Administration and
evaluation period. The solution, as set forth other customers. Since its’ founding in 1997,
by the National Safe Skies Alliance (Safe Safe Skies has conducted well over 100
Skies), was to construct a single facility tests and assessments in airports around
that could support simultaneous testing of the United States. Most projects pertain
multiple perimeter protection devices. As specifically to airports and air security, and
a permanent installation near an actual Air the staff is further particularised into five
Operations Area (AOA), the site would be vectors that deal with different aspects of
subjected to all the operational interferences airport operations: passenger checkpoint,
typical of and anomalous to an airport, checked baggage, cargo, access control
and provide the necessary infrastructure to and biometrics, and perimeter security. The
support the devices being tested as well as specialists in this latter group designed,
the data collection equipment required for oversaw construction of, and now operate
evaluation purposes. the Perimeter Security Test Facility - the
Safe Skies is a non-profit 501(c)3 con- only one of its kind in the United States,
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