[jec41]

I acknowledge that I know nothing about port security, but I am still concerned about contracting out important security operations that are supposed to protect the US to foreign countries, especially foreign countries that we do not have long-term, friendly relationships with. Also, do we really want China or the Philippines to have access to this "sophisticated U.S. radiation detector"?

That radiation detector is not a US invention. It is new of the US. It allows 140 container scans a hr. US port scanners allow only 20. DPW would have been the first to put these scanners in US ports. DPW has them in all their port operations. The union opposes the new scanners. Most all European ports already have the scanners.

[unfortunately a bluestater]

Thanks for the info. Figures the union would oppose them.