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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has unleashed the 2026 TSA Canine Calendar, an annual tradition honoring the agency’s more than 1,000 explosives detection canines working at airports across the United States. Now available for free download, the new calendar highlights 13 paw-some pups selected from a nationwide contest. Each month features photos and fun facts […]
It’s late November at a major international airport. A woman walks calmly past a line of travelers, glides through what appears to be an airline personnel lane, and approaches a gate. She doesn’t show a boarding pass. She didn’t clear a traveler security checkpoint. Yet she boards a flight bound for Europe, undetected, unverified, and […]
Give a big round of a-paws for Steeler, an explosives detection canine from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)! The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has named the two-and-a-half-year-old Labrador retriever the winner of its 2025 Cutest Canine Contest. The agency uses the annual contest to highlight the important role of security canines. The TSA recently held its nationwide […]
During 2024, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted a total of 6,678 firearms at airport security checkpoints, preventing them from getting into the secure areas of the airport and onboard aircraft. Approximately 94% of the guns were loaded. This total is a slight decrease from the record-setting year in 2023, when the TSA caught 6,737 […]
Those security dogs you see at airports might be adorable, but they have an important job to do. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released the 2025 TSA Canine Calendar, an annual tradition honoring the agency’s more than 1,000 explosives detection canines working across the United States. The new calendar is available for immediate download here. […]
Whether you work at an airport or plan to fly around Turkey Day, be prepared for what the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to be the “busiest Thanksgiving travel period on record.” Passenger volumes at airports have reached historic highs in 2024, with an increase of 17% since 2022. The TSA projects it will screen […]
Facilities Management Advisor’s “Under Construction” series highlights some of the latest, most interesting facility project announcements every month. Mass Timber Government Facility As more companies and organizations embrace sustainability, there’s been a rise in green construction materials for facility projects. General contractor McCarthy + Barnsley, A Joint Venture, recently topped out the Brookhaven City Centre, […]
New Orleans and the Caesars Superdome stadium will be hosting Super Bowl LIX in February. With the big game coming up and the busy holiday season starting soon, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) are preparing for high passenger volumes with several innovations, including new security equipment. TSA is installing […]
As air travel soared, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted 5,028 firearms at airport security checkpoints during the first nine months of 2024. This total represents an average of 18.3 firearms detected per day at TSA checkpoints, more than 93% of which were loaded. Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) screened more than 678 million passengers through […]
Give a big round of a-paws for Barni, an explosives detection canine at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO)! He has been named the winner of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) 2024 Cutest Canine Contest. The agency uses the annual contest to highlight the important role of security canines. Last week, the TSA held its […]