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Congressional Appropriators Agree to Fund TSA’s FY ’18 Request for Screening Equipment

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 28th, 2017

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The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have both recommended fully funding the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) funding requests in FY ’18 for passenger and checked baggage screening and for the agency’s research and development effort aimed at evaluating various technologies for operational use before procurement decisions are made.Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, just before Thanksgiving released his mark for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) FY ’18 spending levels, and included $4 million for checkpoint…

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