ABSTRACT
The U.S. strategy for aviation security that has emerged as part of the global war on terrorism is predicated on two principal goals: (1) deterring or mitigating security risks and (2) minimizing disruption to the fl ow of passengers and goods that travel by air. The strategy employs a risk-based and multidimensional, multilayered approach to securing aviation assets from attack and exploitation by terrorists and criminal elements. While the strategy is evolutionary in its thinking, building upon preexisting approaches to aviation security, it seeks to provide a unifi ed framework for implementing aviation security policies that largely did not exist prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
