Starting in June, San Francisco and Cincinnati will become the first two airports in the country to regularly screen commercial air cargo.
If successful, Department of Homeland Security pilot program could be replicated at airports across the country.
According to the Fremont Argus, San Francisco International airport has enlisted Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to help figure out ways to use the airport's existing luggage screening equipment on commercial cargo, which arrives in larger packages and is often on pallets.
While this is a step in the right direction, it is unbelievable that it has taken more than four years after the 9/11 terror attacks to implement a pilot program to screen air cargo.
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