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Briefing Date:04/04/2002
Topic:Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security: Second Report: Progress Toward Objectives

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
National Research Council
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
National Materials Advisory Board
Committee on Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security

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Congressional Briefing
Thursday, April 4, 2002 -- 2:00 p.m.
2251 Rayburn House Office Bldg.

on

Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security:

Second Report: Progress Toward Objectives

by

Sandra L. Hyland, regional manager, Tokyo Electron Massachusetts, Manassas, VA and Vice-Chair, Committee on Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security, National Materials Advisory Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council

This second in a series of reports on technologies deployed to improve aviation security evaluates progress made toward implementing recommendations made in a 1999 Research Council report on deployment of technologies to detect explosives.

This briefing was for members of Congress and congressional staff only. The report was publicly released on April 5, 2002. The summary can be found on the Web site of the National Academies Press.

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