It would appear that four years after the U.S. government started assessing the vulnerability of key airports to the threat of man portable air defense systems, so-called MANPADS, the work is far from done. Or that seems to be the rational behind a request for automated software that will help the Transportation Security Administration calculate the "footprint" of weapons that could threaten aircraft at key airports.
As the solicitation notes: "Since 2003, the Security Assessments Team has been conducting MANPADS Assessments domestically and abroad with limited technical support. The Security Assessments Team has always lacked the use of software that would identify and analyze a specific threat area while interactively considering all the significant parameters of a successful attack on a commercial aircraft."
Well, it's now mid-2007 -- no time like the present to get some help.
