Originally Posted by
essxjay
It would appear that four years after the U.S. government started assessing the vulnerability of key airports to the threat of man portable air defense systems, so-called MANPADS, the work is far from done. Or that seems to be the rational behind a request for automated software that will help the Transportation Security Administration calculate the "footprint" of weapons that could threaten aircraft at key airports.
Don't the manufacturers of our own MANPADS already possess such information? Perhaps they refuse to share the info with TSA because it's SSI?