-
Recent Posts
- The Reward and Risk of Expediting COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Development
- A Snapshot of Government-wide Contracting for FY 2019 (infographic)
- The Watchdog is Afoot!
- Protecting Nursing Home Residents from Infections like COVID-19.
- Our plan to save the government tens of billions of dollars through reducing fragmentation, overlap and duplication.
- F-35: DOD’s Next Top Gun Aircraft Needs More Time and Attention
- COVID-19 Potential Impact on Prisons’ Populations and Health Care Costs
- A Critical Shortage of Nurses
- As COVID-19 aid arrives, be on the lookout for scams
- Is FEMA Ready to Respond to Emergencies?
Categories
- About GAO
- Agriculture and Food
- Auditing and Financial Management
- Budget and Spending
- Business Regulation and Consumer Protection
- Collections
- Communications
- Coronavirus
- disaster assistance
- Disaster Assistance
- Duplication and Cost Savings
- Economic Development
- Education
- Employment
- Energy
- Equal Opportunity
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Fiscal Outlook and The Debt
- Fraud
- Government Operations
- Graphic
- Health Care
- High Risk List
- Homeland Security
- Housing
- Human Capital
- Infographic
- Information Management
- Information Security
- Information Technology
- Interactive graphic
- International Affairs
- Justice and Law Enforcement
- Key Issues
- Mission Team
- National Defense
- Natural Resources and Environment
- OGC
- Podcast
- Quick Look
- Recovery Act
- Retirement Security
- Science and Technology
- Space
- Tax Policy and Administration
- Technology Assessment
- Trade
- Transportation
- Veterans
- Video
- Worker and Family Assistance
Tag Archives: airport
How prepared are airports and airlines to handle a pandemic?
Physical distancing and avoiding shared surfaces can be quite difficult when it comes to air travel. Airports and airplanes have many of the features that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommend you avoid to prevent the spread of diseases, … Continue reading
Air Travel and Communicable Diseases (podcast)
Stopping communicable disease from spreading via air travel involves local, national, and international efforts, as illustrated by the 2015 Ebola epidemic. How do governments plan and coordinate with airports and airlines that potentially carry sick passengers? Listen to Gerald Dillingham, … Continue reading
Image
December 18, 2015
Tagged airlines, airport, airports, disease control, ebola, FAA, PI, safe travels, SARS, travel
Air France 447, Malaysia Airlines 370 and Developments in Aircraft Tracking and Flight Data Recovery
Six years ago, Air France Flight 447 (AF447) crashed into the Atlantic between Brazil and Senegal, and it took almost 2 years to retrieve the plane’s black box with the flight data. More recently, investigators found no trace of Malaysia … Continue reading
Image
June 1, 2015
Tagged AF447, Air France 447, airline, airplanes, airport, aviation, black box, cockpit, emergency beacon, flight data recorder, flight recorders, Gerald Dillingham, international travel, Malaysia Airlines 370, MH370, PI, transoceanic flights, travel, U.N., United Nations
1 Comment
Podcast on TSA’s Prohibited Items List
The Transportation Security Administration keeps a list of items that airline passengers aren’t allowed to carry onto planes. Two years ago, TSA raised concerns among stakeholders when it suggested removing small knives from its Prohibited Items List. Listen to our … Continue reading
Podcast on Aviation Security and Expedited Passenger Screening
In 2011, the Transportation Security Administration introduced its Precheck program, which offers expedited screening to selected air travelers. TSA’s use of expedited screening has rapidly increased in recent years, highlighting the need to ensure the effectiveness of the agency’s security … Continue reading
