Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act

Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2017-09-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976152665

Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act : examining remaining challenges : hearing before the Subcommittee on Transportation Security of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, January 7, 2016.

Transportation Security

Transportation Security
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-09-23
Genre: Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN: 9781977579324

Within DHS, TSA is the federal agency with primary responsibility for preventing and defending against terrorist and other threats to domestic transportation systems. From fiscal years 2002 through August 2015, TSA obligated $13.4 billion to acquire security-related technologies such as through the Electronic Baggage Screening Program and the Passenger Screening Program. However, GAO and the DHS Office of Inspector General have reported that TSA did not fully follow DHS policies in deploying Advanced Imaging Technology systems to screen passengers and in estimating costs to screen checked baggage, and faced challenges in managing inventory. Enacted in December 2014, TSARA specifies measures that TSA must take to improve transparency and accountability in acquiring security-related technologies. TSARA contains a provision that GAO report to Congress on TSA's progress in implementing TSARA. This report examines TSA's actions taken toward addressing TSARA. GAO is not fully evaluating the extent to which TSA is implementing the act at this time because TSA has not undertaken an acquisition of security-related technology subject to the requirements of the act since its enactment. Pursuant to TSARA, GAO will report again on TSA's implementation of the act in approximately 3 years. TSA