About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

GAO-06-1051R 1 (2006-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 August 4, 2006 The Honorable Rob Simmons Chairman Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives Subject: Transportation Security Administration's Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to your request for additional information related to the subcommittee's June 14, 2006, hearing on the progress and challenges of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Office of Intelligence. Enclosed are our responses to the supplemental questions you submitted for the record. Our responses are based largely on information contained in our report entitled Aviation Security: Secure Flight Development and Testing Under Way, but Risks Should Be Managed as System Is Further Developed (GAO-05-356, March 28, 2005), and our testimonies entitled Aviation Security: Significant Management Challenges May Adversely Affect Implementation of the Transportation Security Administration's Secure Flight Program (GAO-06-374T, February 9, 2006), and Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remainfor the Transportation Security Administration's Secure Flight Program (GAO-06-864T, June 14, 2006). As discussed in my statement at the hearing, for over 3 years, TSA has faced numerous challenges in developing a federal passenger precreeening program, known currently as Secure Flight, because TSA did not follow a disciplined life cycle development approach. Although TSA made some progress, it suspended the program's development earlier this year to reassess program direction, and it anticipates completing the reassessment by the end of September 2006. Whatever direction Secure Flight takes, TSA needs to follow a disciplined system development approach that fully defines system requirements, schedule, and costs; coordinate with critical stakeholders; ensure system effectiveness through assessing name-matching technologies and policies to match passenger and terrorist watch list data; conduct stress and end-to-end testing that verifies that the entire system functions as intended; and establish privacy protocols and access to a redress process. GAO-06-1051R Response to Posthearing Questions

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most