Aviation Security: Rapid Growth in Expedited Passenger Screening Highlights Need to Plan Effective Security Assessments

Abstract

Since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implemented its expedited screening programknown as TSA PreTMTo assess whether a passenger is eligible for expedited screening, TSA considers (1) inclusion on an approved TSA Pre check (TM)in 2011, the number of passengers receiving expedited screening grew slowly, and then increased about300 percent in October 2013 when TSA expanded its use of methods to increase passenger participation, such as conducting automated risk assessments of all passengers. In conducting these assessments, TSA assigns passenger scores based upon information available to TSA to identify low risk passengers eligible for expedited screening for a specific flight prior to the passengers arrival at the airport.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1178175

Entities

People

  • Jennifer A. Grover

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airports
  • Application Software
  • Biometric Security
  • Congress
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Explosives Detection
  • Flight Crews
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Systems
  • Metal Detectors
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Pilots
  • Risk Analysis
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Mathematics or Statistics