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Industry Concerned About TSA’s Current Plans for Third Party Testing, Open Architecture

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

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The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) plan to roll out a third party testing regime this year to help ensure that security equipment being offered by various vendors is mature enough to enter the agency’s formal test process may not solve any issues and instead may lead to higher costs and delays, says an industry official.TSA’s current test and evaluation processes already take “too long and unnecessarily wastes millions of dollars of government and industry,” T.J. Shulz, director of the Security…

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