Aviation Security and Transition: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, July 25, 2002 |
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Page 36 - Early attention to strong systems and controls for acquisition and related business processes will be critical both to ensuring success and maintaining integrity and accountability. • Risk Management: The new department must be able to maintain and enhance current states of homeland security readiness while transitioning and transforming itself into a more effective and efficient structural unit.
Page 33 - ... and walk unescorted to aircraft departure gates. The agents, who had been issued tickets and boarding passes, could have carried weapons, explosives, or other dangerous objects onto aircraft. FAA is acting on the weaknesses we identified and is implementing improvements to more closely check the credentials of law enforcement officers.
Page 34 - September 11, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA), which created TSA within DOT and defined its primary responsibility as ensuring security in all modes of transportation.
Page 3 - Senator McCain. STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN McCAIN, US SENATOR FROM ARIZONA Senator McCAIN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Page 38 - September 29, 2000. FAA Computer Security: Actions Needed to Address Critical Weaknesses That Jeopardize Aviation Operations. GAO/T-AIMD-00-330. Washington, DC: September 27, 2000. FAA Computer Security: Concerns Remain Due to Personnel and Other Continuing Weaknesses. GAO/AIMD-00-252. Washington, DC: August 16, 2000. Aviation Security: Long-Standing Problems Impair Airport Screeners
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Page 75 - There are also numerous costs that are difficult or impossible to compute stemming from the inefficiencies related to transient airline employee's lack of access at airports. \ In the mid-1990's the FAA, with ALPA's urging and congressional funding, performed a test of what came to be known as the Universal Access System (UAS). Two million taxpayer dollars were spent on those tests involving two major airlines and four large airports. For all practical purposes, those funds were wasted. Although...
Page 74 - ALPA has been promoting the need for positive, electronic verification of identity and electronic airport access control systems since 1987 - shortly after the downing of PSA flight 1771 by an armed, disgruntled, former airline employee.
Page 36 - US General Accounting Office, A Model of Strategic Human Capital Management, GAO-02-373SP (Washington, DC: March 2002). the private sector. TSA is also basing its compensation system on FAA's pay banding approach, which allows the agency to hire employees anywhere within broad pay bands for their positions. For example, the pay band for screeners ranges from $23,600 to $35,400 (from about $1 1 to $17 per hour).7 Pay banding is one approach that can support a more direct link between pay and an individual's...
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