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Registered traveler launch w/o rollout: nationwide rollout of private voluntary prescreening program could be up to one year away.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 19-JUN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program launch date of June 20 will pass with no new airports up and running, final rules for providers yet to be fully established and the nationwide interoperable program for which TSA last year laid out its vision still months, if not a year, away.

Although off to a slower-than-anticipated start, private industry providers and TSA said the program will come to fruition in the next year, even as opponents continue efforts to derail the voluntary program that promises to speed prescreened travelers through airport security.

TSA, in its latest dispatch on the program released late last month, said it would issue Registered Traveler standards "for the initial phase" this summer, but held to its cap of 20 on the number of airports that will launch this year. TSA stressed...

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