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TSA Releases Initial TWIC Enrollment Schedule

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Thursday, October 4th, 2007

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By Calvin Biesecker After a half-year delay, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said yesterday that beginning on Oct. 16 it will start enrolling workers at the Port of Wilmington, Del., to receive new identity credentials that eventually are supposed to control access to secure areas of the port. Port workers at Wilmington will actually be allowed to pre-enroll in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program beginning Oct. 9 by supplying certain biographic information online and scheduling a time to…

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Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

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Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

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