Articles Tagged with ''TSA''

In the first six months of this year, Transportation Security Administration screeners found 894 guns on passengers or in their carry-on bags, a 30 percent increase over the same period last year. 

TSA screeners taking their time may actually be most effective at the security gate, according to a new study.

The behavioral detection screening program has 2,800 employees and no comprehensive training program, leaving many in Washington to wonder whether the program should be expanded.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it would delay the closing of 149 air-traffic control towers until June 15.

Despite growing opposition from airlines and industry unions to the TSA's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes, the agency's head said he is not backing down.

Lawmakers and airline CEOs are strongly voicing their opposition against allowing small knives on commercial airplanes beginning in April, yet Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole is sticking to the decision.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Canines trained to detect explosives on people in high-risk airports are instead being used to screen cargo, in some cases, the GAO reports. 

Software to redesign the scanned images was not completed on deadline, so the TSA is removing nearly 175 body scanners from U.S. airports. 

People have always tried to get some interesting items past the TSA inspectors at U.S. airports, but 2012 brought some truly extreme items.