Talk:Fort Lee, Virginia adopts RAPIDGate for fast civilian access
Add topicLatest comment: 17 years ago by Edbrown05 in topic A government ad?
checking vehicles and issuing passes looks like it is to do with basic security rather than with attesting to the "trustworthiness of DoD contractors and sub-contractors". do we have anything to back the latter claim? –Doldrums(talk) 09:59, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
- Identity verification and background checks is the new thing. -Edbrown05 10:08, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Reporting notes
[edit]Preliminary stuff:
- Is this national
- Is price point the same for each base
- When will this occur
- What are you looking for in a background check
- A machine to make request
- Fee
- What about persons who are so new to the US that there is no history for 10 years. Foreign nationals
- A scan when leaving?
--- Friday thru Sunday:
- peppered various Fort Lee gate point guards with questions about how the new program works
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- Tucker Carlson wonders on at least 2 occasions during Monday news hour broadcast at MSNBC with rhetorical question, “When will something like this happen here?” Further_arrests_following_terror_attacks_in_London_and_Glasgow
--- Monday 7/2: spoke via telephone with RAPIDGate representative named Matthew:
- first base was fort lewis in 2004, 10 more since then
- felony, terrorist watch list, sexual offender watch list, social security cross reference
- kiosk takes photo and fingerprint
- barcode scan upon entry, rfid possibility of transmit at exit
- sop, “standard operating procedure”
--- Thursday 7/5: spoke via phone with David Smith, director of marketing at Eid Passport
- pass contains “active” rfid transmitter
- program outsourced, Eid has no military affiliation
- approx 250 military installation in US
- stressed ”The pass contains no personal information”
- received from Smith promised email with DoD Instruction 2000.16 for Anti-Terrorism, specifically Sections E3.18.2 and E3.18.3, and other pertinent links: media coverage, testimonials
A government ad?
[edit]I feel like I'm reading one... --TUFKAAP 15:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
- I'm almost speehless reading that this report, acoording to TUFKAPP, read like a gov't ad.
- Maybe true. You got me there.
- There is a lot going on under the surface of this that goes beyond beyond the introduction of the news topic. I made the choice to introduce the topic. -Edbrown05 09:49, 9 July 2007 (UTC)