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Homeland Security

Pekoske Looking To Build On Successes With Public-Private Partnerships

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

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Pekoske Looking To Build On Successes With Public-Private Partnerships

Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske wants to take greater advantage of public-private partnerships to more quickly field and evaluate new technologies to help save time when programs go through the formal acquisition process.If a technology can be proven to work in an operational environment and the data that is collected answers the demands of the acquisition process, then some of the formal acquisition steps can be skipped, he said a State of TSA address.Pekoske described ongoing evaluations of…

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