A maker of threat detection and screening technologies with its US headquarters in Edgewood has received a $96.8 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration.

Tagged with: edgewood Smiths Detection Inc. transportation security administration

Making his case on prime-time TV, President Donald Trump is stressing humanitarian concerns at the U.S.-Mexico border as he tries to convince the American people he must get funding for his long-promised border wall before ending a partial government shutdown that has hundreds of thousands of federal workers facing missed paychecks.

Tagged with: border wall Donald Trump government shutdown Kirstjen Nielsen Mick Mulvaney Mike Pence transportation security administration

Smiths Detection Inc., a provider of threat detection and screening technologies based in Edgewood, received a $70 million contract to supply explosives detection systems from the Transportation Security Administration.

Tagged with: smiths detection transportation security administration

LINTHICUM — Federal officials say 21 guns have been detected so far this year at a Maryland airport. The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement Tuesday that it most recently discovered guns as they were carried through a checkpoint ...

Tagged with: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport transportation security administration

LINTHICUM — Authorities have arrested a man at an airport in Maryland after they said he carried in a loaded gun and extra bullets. The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement Thursday that the man was caught at a ...

Tagged with: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport transportation security administration

A Maryland provider of threat detection and screening technologies has received certification for one of its devices. TheIonscan 600 XCT explosives trace detector by Smiths Detection Inc., which has its American headquarters in Edgewood, is now certified for explosives trace detection, based on Transportation ...

Tagged with: harford county smiths detection transportation security administration

A Maryland airport is now a location where travelers can apply for a program that grants them expedited screening at airports. Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says that Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has opened a TSA PreCheck application ...

Tagged with: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport transportation security administration

LINTHICUM — At the airport, safety is more important than sexy. That’s what a woman found out at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Officials say she was stopped Sunday at a security checkpoint with a pair of gun-shaped stiletto ...

Tagged with: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport transportation security administration

A Maryland man has been charged with trying to bring a handgun through a security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The Transportation Security Administration says the man was caught with the gun and arrested Sunday night. His name ...

Tagged with: transportation security administration

A new service promises to speed some travelers' trips through security at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Tagged with: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport transportation security administration