Bipartisan Bill Would Require Regular Maintenance Of Airport Screening Technology

Homeland Security Today: In response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) audit that disclosed US airline passengers may have been in potential jeopardy to terrorist attacks for nearly a decade “because the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has not properly been managing the maintenance of its airport screening equipment,” Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice, ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Subcommittee, this week introduced bipartisan legislation which would require TSA to conduct regular preventive maintenance of airport screening technology.

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