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Aviation Security Audits & Assessments;
CBIS Design Consulting, Testing, & Ops Reviews;
Chekpoint Design Consulting, Testing, and Ops Reviews; Design, installatioin, and consulting for all manner of AVSEDC needs. (CONOPS) Concept of Operations, (EMS) Emergency Management System; Operations manuals and technical writing expertise.
(TSE) Transportation Security Equipment recommendations; (SOC) Security Operations Center; (VSS) Video Surveillance System; CCTV Camera systems, security equipment networks,VMI, Cloud Storage solutions; PIDS, (ACS) Access Control System designs and recommendations, Biometrics; (PIDS) Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems;
CURRENT WORK
COMPLETED WORK
CURRENT WORK
Several Central American airports – work to update security infrastructure; TransSecure, Inc. consultant; National Safe Skies Alliance (NSSA) access control PARAS project; Middle East nation’s civil aviation authority’s system-wide project to upgrade security at 27 airports; Major US contactor consulting on program management.
COMPLETED WORK
COMPLETED WORK
COMMENTARY Spring 2025
Places we have helped out... USA: ATL, DAB, DCA, DFW, FLL, IAH, JAX, LAL, LAX, MCO, MIA, MLB, OPF, PBI, PIE, RSW, SEA, SFB, SJU, SPG, SRQ, TPA, TPF, VDF International: Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGCA France), Service technique de l'aviation civile (STAC France), Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile, (ENAC Italy), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority (GACA) upgraded security at their 27 airports, BOG, LHR T5 CBIS, LIM, PAP, POS, PTY, SDQ, STT, STX, UIO
COMMENTARY Spring 2025
COMMENTARY Spring 2025
COMMENTARY Spring 2025
Comments from Michael Salmen
Sr. Aviation Security Analyst
I know that you have noticed the state of security is always in flux, and probably that every leading country has taken its own path to success? But I’m not speaking of the flux created by an everchanging and evolving threat, here I am talking more about the isolation of trust within governments and keeping security plans secured to themselves. To this end I feel not enough intergovernmental cooperation exists between nations. On the surface this is an obvious position to hold… still, you may wonder how that affects the advancement of the state of the art in aviation security? From my observations the effects are clear, as they hinder lesser developed government actions to advance their own security.
In my travels I have become acutely aware that even the largest countries with vast resources are somewhat isolated in their efforts to create world class security. They often rely on staff to keep them up to date on developments and best practices, which makes them less resilient and innovative due to small numbers of people working in near vacuum conditions… I did that for many years and I struggled to bring innovation into the process the entire time.
This is not the case with commercial industry where efforts to strengthen security are evolving as fast as bad guys efforts to overcome the latest and greatest innovations. Of course, Industry has an incentive, being that you only get paid when you succeed! Even so, it is harder to create a secure piece of hardware or software than it is to devise a solution to overcoming it.
And yet, when a government has opportunities to work with faster moving industry counterparts they are not always fully taken advantage of.
As I travel and see the many versions of security around the world I am inspired by the level of innovation coming from all around the world and the leadership roles coming from diverse places. Now if we can do more to come together globally to advance the state of the art in aviation security we have a chance to save lives and further secure our economies.
ACHIEVEMENTS
COMMENTARY Spring 2025
ACHIEVEMENTS
Why we stand out so consistantly
AvSec Consultants have been involved in innovation across all aspects of airport and aviation security for decades. From our first projects in the mid 1990's in airline industry security to the massive changes brought about by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States of America. We designed the program to install interim baggage screening in Tampa (TPA), Sarasota (SRQ), and the St. Petersburg-Clearwater (PIE) international airports. The diagram above is the temporary 100% baggage screening solution for TPA that was the first airport completed in America. At ehte same time we managed the testing of new screening technologies to obtain new type class baggage screening machines at TPA and PIE for large and small Explosive Detection Systems (EDS). Tampa was also the primary test site for Networked EDS with the first centralized control room intiially built with fiber extended operator consols because networking did not yet exist, but was anticipated by our design for future use. That innovative design installation allowed seamless upgrading to fully networked systems across all twnety-four EDS units in overnight operations that had no impact on daily operations of the TSA. This is just a small example of the work we have done to advance airport security operations.
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Where in the world are we?
What's going on now?
AvSec is working to assist national governments with design upgrades to enhance existing airport security instillations. From perimeter fence lines to drone monitoring of fields and building security to ensure places like the sterile area are kept safe and staff has firm control of all access points to reduce the need for dumping and clearance procedures that impact the traveling public and airport and aircraft operators all. Because our work generally involves Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA), we generally cannot discuss the work of ongoing project and typically that extends to at least five years after a project is completed.