Secure flight program: airline passenger screening efforts
Until recently, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had applied relatively uniform methods to screen airline passengers, focusing primarily on advances in screening technology to improve security and efficiency. TSA has recently shifted away from this approach, which assumes a uniform level of risk among all airline travelers, to one that focuses more intently on passengers thought to pose elevated security risks. Risk-based passenger screening includes a number of initiatives that…
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- Full title :Secure flight program : airline passenger screening efforts / Hellen E. Spear, editor.
Summary
Until recently, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had applied relatively uniform methods to screen airline passengers, focusing primarily on advances in screening technology to improve security and efficiency. TSA has recently shifted away from this approach, which assumes a uniform level of risk among all airline travelers, to one that focuses more intently on passengers thought to pose elevated security risks. Risk-based passenger screening includes a number of initiatives that fit within a broader framework addressing security risks, but specifically emphasizes the detection.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Nova Publishers
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
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- Description:1 online resource.
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- ISBN:9781634636643, 1634636643
- oclc:ocn898475417
- LC Classification:TL725.3.S44
- Dewey Decimal:363.124
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SECURE FLIGHT PROGRAM: AIRLINE PASSENGER SCREENING EFFORTS; SECURE FLIGHT PROGRAM: AIRLINE PASSENGER SCREENING EFFORTS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: RISK-BASED APPROACHES TO AIRLINE PASSENGER SCREENING; SUMMARY; AIRLINE PASSENGER SCREENING IN THE POST-9/11 CONTEXT; WHAT IS RISK?; ELEMENTS OF RISK-BASED SECURITY; RISK-BASED APPROACHES APPLIED TO AIRLINE PASSENGERS; SECURE FLIGHT; PRE-SCREENING INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS; SCREENING PASSENGERS BY OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES (SPOT); COLLECTION AND RETENTION OF PASSENGER DATA; REDRESS.
ANALYZING NON-GOVERNMENTAL DATA USING THIRD-PARTY PRESCREENINGISSUES FOR CONGRESS; Chapter 2: SECURE FLIGHT: TSASHOULD TAKE ADDITIONAL STEPS TO DETERMINE PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND; SECURE FLIGHT INITIALLY IDENTIFIED PASSENGERS ON TERRORIST WATCHLISTS AND NOW ALSO DIFFERENTIATES PASSENGERS BASED ON RISK; TSA HAS PROCESSES IN PLACE TO IMPLEMENT SECUREFLIGHT SCREENING DETERMINATIONS AT CHECKPOINTS, BUT COULD TAKE FURTHER ACTION TO ADDRESSSCREENING ERRORS.
TSA LACKS KEY INFORMATION TO DETERMINEWHETHER THE SECURE FLIGHT PROGRAM…
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