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TSA Sees Near And Mid-Term Opportunities To Introduce Open Systems Architecture To Screening Equipment

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, February 8th, 2016

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TSA Sees Near And Mid-Term Opportunities To Introduce Open Systems Architecture To Screening Equipment

Peter Neffenger, former TSA Administrator during the Obama administration. Photo: TSA

McLEAN, VA—The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sees potential for including open architecture standards in some of its existing security equipment within the next year while beginning to infuse a more open systems architecture in the design of newer systems that might be acquired in the next few years as part of recapitalization projects, agency officials said at technical exchange meeting with industry and other government officials.The agency isn’t looking to move to all of its systems, nor entire systems, to…

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