“Bureaucracy and Stagnation” Preventing TSA from Addressing Security Threats

Homeland Security Today: Earlier this month, the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation Security held a hearing to examine the challenges the Transportation Security Administration faces in their research and development of security technologies and how those challenges affect TSA’s acquisitions practices.

In particular, the hearing assessed TSA’s progress implementing the Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act (TSARA), which requires TSA to develop a comprehensive technology acquisition plan. Signed into law on December 18, 2014, TSARA aims to increase transparency and the application of acquisition best practices for security technology acquisitions.

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