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.
Cybersecurity
Obama announces new pick to head TSA
Robert Harding, former director for operations at the Defense Intelligence Agency, is President Barack Obama's new pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration.
Cybersecurity
CDC, other agencies find social media an elixir for healthier public relations
Social media experts from the CDC, Transportation Security Administration and NASA share tips and best practices about building successful Web 2.0 tools.
Digital Government
TSA told to restart competition for IT infrastructure work
The Government Accountability Office told TSA to restart the competition for the Information Technology Infrastructure Program, putting TSA back at square one.
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