Secure Flight: TSA Should Take Additional Steps to Determine Program Effectiveness

Abstract

Since 2009, Secure Flight has changed from a program that identifies passengers as high risk solely by matching them against the No Fly and Selectee Lists to one that assigns passengers a risk category: high risk, low risk, or unknown risk. In 2010, following the December 2009 attempted attack of a U.S.-bound flight, which exposed gaps in how agencies used watchlists to screen individuals, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began using risk based criteria to identify additional high-risk passengers who may not be in the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), but who should be designated as selectees for enhanced screening. Further, in 2011, TSA began screening against additional identities in the TSDB that are not already included on the No Fly or Selectee Lists.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1180998

Entities

People

  • Jennifer A. Grover

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airport Security
  • Application Software
  • Civil Aviation
  • Civil Rights
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Congress
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • Mobile Phones
  • National Governments
  • Public Administration
  • United States Government
  • Vulnerability

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