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White House issues Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2013

On February 12, 2013, after months of speculation and leaked drafts, President Obama signed an Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure

OHL solutions fined $1 million for failing to screen cargo

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2012

In a February 2011 issue of our Mobility Matters Bulletin we noted that our earlier prediction regarding TSA enforcement a prediction that TSA would turn toward a “harder” enforcement approach had come to fruition

CBP indicates commitment to growing the number of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism mutual recognition arrangements

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

The Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is a voluntary public-private supply chain security initiative

Visa Waiver Program provides visa-free security

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) makes US-bound travel from the 36 member countries more secure than US-bound travel from the rest of the world

TSA tightens air cargo guidelines

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

Apart from efforts to improve inbound passenger air cargo screening, TSA has recently tightened all air cargo guidelines that revise existing Security Directives and Emergency Amendments

US-India homeland security collaboration deepens as India invests more than $10 billion in homeland security in 2011

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • India, USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

In May 2011, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano traveled to India and participated in the first US-India Homeland Security Dialogue

CBP seeks Middle East expansion of Immigration Advisory Program

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Middle East, USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

The Immigration Advisory Program (IAP) posts CBP officers at foreign airports

TSA steps back from December 2011 deadline for 100 inbound passenger air cargo screening

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

Earlier this year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) committed to a December 31, 2011 deadline to screen all incoming air cargo on passenger planes

United States and Canada seek landmark northern border action plan

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

Since the December 1999 arrest of al-Qaeda member Ahmed Ressam, who attempted to enter the United States from Canada with bomb-making materials, the United States and Canada have sought to improve perimeter security

US-Qatar Global Entry Program partnership could be first in Middle East

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Qatar, USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

The Global Entry Program is a “trusted traveler” program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the United States and in participating foreign partner countries