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TSA Outlines Potential $2.2 Billion in Investments in Five Strategic Areas

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may invest up to $2.2 billion over the next five years in five strategic areas and says its sees broad application across the transportation domain for its Risk-Based Security approach to passenger screening that it continues to implement at aviation checkpoints at U.S. airports. The agency also says that visions for the checkpoint of the future and for checked baggage “remain a work in progress” but that the investments in the strategic plan will provide…

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