"Our strategy is to be nimble, flexible, mobile, and above all, dynamic," said TSA Administrator Kip Hawley. "Effective security requires partners working together within a network of overlapping measures around which terrorists cannot easily engineer. For that reason, we achieve a better overall security result by using our resources flexibly, not tied down at checkpoints checking and re-checking people that work at the airport every day."
Over the next 90 days, TSA, ACI-NA, AAAE and NATA, through a working group, will develop the standards and solidify the implementation timeline for the plan. The plan will include testing of six key measures, followed by a phased rollout to the 452 commercial U.S. airports.
The six key measures include:
- Behavioral recognition: growing the population beyond TSA to include airport employees trained to recognize hostile intent.
- Employee training: raising awareness of suspicious behavior and implementing incentives for reporting anomalies.
- Targeted physical inspection: building upon TSA's random, unpredictable employee screening measures to include roving security patrols.
- Biometric access control: expanding current use of fingerprint, iris, limited access and recorded access control measures.
- Certified employees: creating a new level of employees that are subject to a more rigorous, initial level of scrutiny on a voluntary basis, allowing them to be removed from the regular, but not random, screening regimen.
- Technology deployment: continuing to support the development of security technology including cameras and body imaging.
