The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is seeking proposals for the development and deployment of turnkey solutions to use at airport security checkpoints.
Solutions must enhance aviation security effectiveness; reduce total operating costs, workforce requirements, and manual labor; improve passenger experience and throughput; maintain full compliance with TSA’s performance standards and regulatory oversight; incorporate AI-driven threat detection and remote screening; increase adaptability during surge events or staffing constraints; or optimize workforce capabilities through automation or robotics for passenger and baggage screening.
“TSA is constantly looking for innovative private sector solutions to enhance security and improve the passenger experience at TSA checkpoints,” TSA Acting Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said. “This effort will continue to drive a golden age of travel for future innovations by allowing private sector organizations to submit ideas or solutions that will help make airport screening faster, more secure, and easier on the traveling public.”
Submissions, due Aug. 1, much incorporate cutting-edge screening technologies. They also must meet the TSA’s security standards, improve efficiency, reduce wait times and promote operational excellence.
Technology must adhere to TSA open standards-based data patterns for secure, efficient and scalable real-time data transmission to the TSA Cloud.
The Screening Partnership Program allows the TSA to contract with private screening companies to provide screening services.