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Election and ballot box security has become a high profile topic recently in the United States. The main reason is that one of the candidates in the US presidential election was constantly warning of fraud months BEFORE the election even took place! Ironically, that candidate won a very close election and there was very little […]

C-TPAT (Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) is a voluntary, joint government-business partnership to strengthen supply chain and increase border security. C-TPAT is described by the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) as being just one layer of CBP’s multi-layer strategy on cargo enforcement. Supply Chain security is a complex topic that can have a very important effect […]

We continue our series of reviews on articles relevant to key OpticalLock markets, where supply chain security issues play a prominent role. This particular review post takes us to an extensive piece which appeared in Inbound Logistics titled: Locking Down Supply Chain Security. This is a wide-ranging article which covers quite of bit of ground […]

In Part I of this series we discussed the regulations contained in the “Joint Publication 4-01 The Defense Transportation System. In this post we’ll be reviewing another enormous document, the US Defense Transportation Regulation. The focus of this discussion will be be on Part II of this document which covers Cargo Movement. Even this section […]

In this Blog we’ll be taking a look from time to time at regulations which affect the markets that OpticalLock participates in. In this post we’ll be reviewing a specific area of the Document “Joint Publication 4-01 The Defense Department Transportation System“. This is a massive, daunting document on defense transportation and there are many […]