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U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert Bonner is trying to fight terror with a stick and a carrot. He’s telling business leaders to batten down their supply chains, meeting standards set by Customs to secure every aspect of the way they process cargo—from manufacturing facilities to warehouses to people. The stick is
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Gobble up everything in sight, and you may get indigestion. Parent company Tyco International was already collecting security firms when it bought ADT in 1998—and then went right on munching. Tyco’s accounting during the growth spurt has been the subject of close scrutiny, and ADT was the source of substantial
Where are the weak spots in your organization’s security perimeter? Is there a black market in your company’s access key-cards? Is your backup data center a power failure away from going dark? If your company needs answers to such pressing questions, you could do worse than to call on Science
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A “standard” shipping container is 8 feet wide, 8.5 feet high and 20 feet long. It can hold as much as 19 tons of soft and hard goods. Only about 2% of the containers that move through a port get screened. In Oakland, gamma ray scanners are used to boost
Major U.S. ports, such as the Port of Oakland, are complex transportation systems that serve everything from recreational boats, to passenger ferries, to cruise ships, to giant cargo ships. Ultimately, they are designed to move materials quickly, off the water and into the interior of the nation. Their speed can
Dean BarrettKansas City Convention & Entertainment Centers Building Operations ManagerKansas City, Mo.www.Kcconvention.comManager’s Profile: Supervises operations and maintenance of 1.6 million-square-foot convention center. The Project: After getting complaints about wildly fluctuating room temperatures and lighting levels in the mid-1990s, Barrett helped sell the city council on a 10-year contract with Johnson
In effect, Pat Gambaro began planning for this day in 1993.This month he is coming home, to new offices with a state-of-the-art trading floor for the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), where Gambaro serves as chief operating officer. The exchange was scheduled to move back to downtown New York