Transportation Security

Transportation Security
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2018-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719279796

Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain

Transportation Security

Transportation Security
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719435093

Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain

Transportation Worker I. D. Credential

Transportation Worker I. D. Credential
Author: Stephen M. Lord
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1437926843

The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program, managed by the Transportation Security Admin. (TSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard, requires maritime workers who access secure areas of transportation facilities to obtain a biometric identification card to access these facilities. A federal regulation set a national compliance deadline of April 15, 2009. TSA is conducting a pilot program to test the use of TWICs with biometric card readers in part to inform the development of a second TWIC regulation. This report evaluated TSA's and the Coast Guard's progress and related challenges in implementing TWIC, and evaluated the management challenges, if any, that TSA and Coast Guard face in executing the TWIC pilot test. Illus.

Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security Continue to Progress, But More Work Remains

Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security Continue to Progress, But More Work Remains
Author: Cathleen A. Berrick
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1437903916

The Transport. Security Admin¿s. (TSA) mission is to protect the nation¿s transport. network. Since its inception in 2001, TSA has developed and implemented a variety of programs and procedures to secure commercial aviation and surface modes of transport. Other DHS components, fed. agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector also play a role in transport. security. Previous reports have examined: (1) the progress TSA and other DHS components have made in securing the nation¿s aviation and surface transport. systems, and the challenges that remain; and (2) crosscutting issues that have impeded TSA¿s efforts in strengthening security. This testimony concerns the security of the nation¿s aviation and surface transport. systems.

Homeland Security Failures

Homeland Security Failures
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2009
Genre: Biometric identification
ISBN: