DHS has announced that Secretary Janet Napolitano is working to begin ironing out a broad consensus on new international aviation security standards and procedures.
DHS said that while in Geneva, Napolitano is to meet with the International Air Transport Association—which represents about 230 airlines and more than 90 percent of the world’s air traffic—as part of the department’s efforts to work with the airline industry to ensure all flights to the U.S. meet both international and TSA security standards.
Senior department officials have met with government leaders and major international airport executives in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and South America to review security procedures and technology being used to screen passengers on U.S.-bound flights and work on ways to collectively bolster tactics for defeating terrorists, the department said.
