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With little fanfare, the Transportation Security Administration late last month announced plans to roll out in August its highly contentious Secure Flight program. Considered by some travel industry experts a foray into operational testing, rather than a viable implementation, the program will begin, in limited release, with two airlines not yet named by TSA.
"We are in the process of wrapping up the initial testing phase and we're looking ahead to begin a test using commercial data. That has not yet begun. We're in coordination with the General Accountability Office before we commence testing on that," said TSA spokesperson Amy Von Walter.
TSA, which in late February completed its controversial comparison testing of static, historical passenger name record data from June 2004 and existing watch lists, now is analyzing the results of that trial and working toward getting the congressional green light to proceed in testing more comprehensive commercial data. TSA, however, is still working to meet Government Accountability Office recommendations on "concept testing" to determine...
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