The Transportation Security Administration is hoping to quell potential airport perimeter incursions with $10 million investment in security tech.
It is being tested at Miami International and Mineta San Jose International Airport, which has had an unfortunate history of fence jumpers and security lapses in the past.
New measures being tested include more cameras, ground and fence sensors, and detection lasers.
"The TSA will be studying what else can be done here in San Jose to enhance the perimeter fence line and detect and deter any intruder from accessing our airfield," said airport spokesperson Rosemary Barnes.
The airport will get about $4 million of the federal funds to install and test the new measures which could be rolled out nationwide if successful.
Mineta San Jose beefed up security and extended its fences beyond the mandated federal minimum height after the infamous incident of a teen stowaway in 2014.
The teen scaled a fence and sneaked into the wheel well of a parked Hawaiian Airlines jet.
He miraculously survived the five hour journey to Hawaii.
Mineta San Jose has also been a favorite departure point for notorious ‘serial stowaway’ Marilyn Hartman.
She successfully boarded a flight ticketless and flew to Los Angeles.
