Digital Government

GAO hands down decision on Unisys bid protest

Decision by GAO clears the way for CSC to finally begin work on the $500 million TSA infrastructure contract.

Digital Government

Widget provides one-click access to travel tips

The Summer Travel Web widget was developed by the Transportation Security Administration in conjunction with the Customs and Border Protection agency to provide travelers with easy access to helpful travel tips.

Modernization

TSA reverses Web site censorship policy

The Transportation Security Administration has retracted its week-old policy of blocking employees' work computer access to Web sites with "controversial opinion."

Modernization

TSA blocks work access to sites with 'controversial' content

The Transportation Security Administration is censoring employees' access to "controversial" Web sites on work computers, according to CBS News.

Digital Government

FBI veteran cleared to lead Transportation Security Administration

John Pistole brings more than 20 years of counterterrorism experience to TSA, blogger Mclatthew Weigelt writes.

Cybersecurity

TSA now handling watch list checks for all domestic flights

The Transportation Security Administration has finished taking over from airlines the responsibility of screening all passengers that are flying inside the United States against the government's terrorist watch lists, as part of the Secure Flight program.

Cybersecurity

TSA wants cyber forensics info

The Transportation Security Administration wants information on products it could use to deal with insider cyber threats, data leakage and misuse of IT assets.

Cybersecurity

Obama makes third try to find a leader for TSA

President Barack Obama has taken his third shot at finding a leader for the Transportation Security Administration.

Digital Government

The trouble with truffles, and other airport security tales

In our recent stories on how, and how not, to take a laptop PC through airport security, we asked readers to recount their favorite tales of checkpoint complications. And they responded with gusto.

Cybersecurity

Secure Flight cited as fix for lag in 'no-fly list' update

The government’s program to take over screening fliers against watchlists would ensure up-to-date lists, a top intelligence official says.

Digital Government

A tech-laden traveler encounters TSA -- frequently

Gadget-toting GCN Lab director John Breeden has gotten used to extra scrutiny at the airport.

Digital Government

Laptops and TSA inspections: Everybody's got a story

Readers respond to a story about the travails of getting a laptop PC through airport security with a few tales—and opinions—of their own.

Digital Government

How to zip your laptop through TSA airport security

GCN Lab's Trudy Walsh usually checks her 10-pound laptop in her luggage when she flies. How has your laptop fared going through airport security?

Cybersecurity

Blogger Spotlight: TSA's Blogger Bob

Curtis 'Bob' Burns brings subject-matter expertise and a sense of humor to the Transportation Security Administration blog.

Cybersecurity

TSA contractors performed government-only work, IG concludes

TSA allowed contractors to review invoices for other contractors in apparent violation of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, according to a new report from the Homeland Security Department inspector general's office.

Cybersecurity

Senators look to Amsterdam for airport technology

Computer-based auto-detection technology deployed at Amsterdam’s airport to screen passengers for explosives could be useful in the United States, according to some senators.

Digital Government

Majority OK with airport full-body scan, report says

In a recent Unisys survey, 65 percent of air travelers found full electronic body scans to be acceptable.

Cybersecurity

GAO on board with Secure Flight plans

The Transportation Security Administration has generally achieved all 10 statutory conditions for its program to take over the checking of air travelers against watch lists.

Digital Government

Former TSA employee charged with infecting databases

A former Transportation Security Administration data analyst has beenn charged with injecting malicious code into two TSA databases last year, about a week before his employment was about to end.