New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority Improves the Accuracy and Efficiency of Surveillance Audits With the 2007 Microsoft Office System
White Papers The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of New Zealand, a governmental agency in the Transport sector, faced a number of challenges when monitoring compliance with civil aviation rules. The process for conducting audits and inspections was predominantly...
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Laptops threatened with plane ban
News Britain's Civil Aviation Authority is considering implementing the ban following research carried out earlier this year by NASA scientists into UWB. A Civil Aviation Authority spokeswoman told ZDNet UK News that it could ban passengers from using...
[September 2, 2002, 12:21]
Mobile phones pose real flight threat
News The Civil Aviation Authority has released research into mobile phone use on planes, warning of the serious effects that it can have on a plane's navigational equipment. The research revealed that standard mobile phone use can cause a compass to...
[May 2, 2003, 16:46]
Airlines ban mobile phones -- but why?
Talkback In 2003 the CAA (That’s the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK) released a report specifically documenting the effects of GSM Cellular telephones to aircraft navigation equipment in a closed environment, particularly the VHF and VOR/ILS (the...
[August 3, 2005, 0:51]
Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack
News Writing on behalf of vonJeek on the UK Crypto mailing list, 'Steve' said the hack works because International Civil Aviation Organization passport standards support self-signing of digital certificates.
[October 1, 2008, 17:58]
Military spectrum eyes civvy street
News The Bandsharing Forum claims that organisations such as the MoD and the Civil Aviation Authority control more than 40 percent of the most useful radio spectrum and wants a proportion of this opened up to new technologies.
[September 18, 2006, 17:20]
Ofcom clears in-flight mobile services for take off
News In a statement, Ofcom said the safety of passengers is paramount, as a result of which no system will be fitted before the Civil Aviation Authority and European Aviation Safety Agency have also approved the technology.
[March 27, 2008, 7:09]
Singapore mulls biometric data in passports
News Singaporean government bodies including the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and IDA (Infocomm Development Authority in Singapore) are reportedly working with US agencies and world bodies such as the International Civil Aviation Organization...
[July 29, 2003, 9:38]
2003 World Almanac - World Nations
Downloads The Database contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable RecordsNations of the World Listings, including Population, Age Distribution, Population Density, Urban Density, Ethnic Groups, Principal Languages, Chief Religion...
[February 4, 2003, 7:00]
Biometric tech gets small town trial
News In line with Civil Aviation Authority rules, the Passport Service must have biometric chips -- containing fingerprint or iris data -- embedded into British passports by 2005, with the service's overall strategy of introducing a biometric "passport...
[August 28, 2003, 9:50]
Ofcom publishes proposals for 2012 spectrum
Blog It appears that some of the spectrum that will be used for wireless video equipment will have to come from the the Ministry of Defence (MOD), the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
[May 27, 2009, 17:08]
ISPs help government to sink pirates
News Because pirate radio stations are not allocated radio frequencies by the RA, but instead transmit without regard for authorised users, they can interfere with the radio transmissions of the emergency services and the Civil Aviation Authority.
[February 19, 2003, 12:46]
Wi-Fi system 'safe', says Boeing
News Connexion by Boeing, who have for two years operated a 737-400 testbed aircraft, said its data on security testing has from this summer been accepted by the airlines, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority, Germany's LBA and the US Federal...
[August 1, 2003, 15:00]
Met Office forecasts SOA pay-off
News We have many customer relationships across government, with people like Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs], the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] — all sorts of different agencies of government — in the same way that we...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
Aviation authority sets strict biometric passport guidelines
News According to a specification from the International Civil Aviation Organisation, citizens of the 188 member countries will have to respect strict rules before getting into the photo booth -- including instructions to stop smiling too much, because...
[August 12, 2004, 13:35]
