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Homeland Security

After Congressional Prompting, TSA Developing Technology Investment Plan

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this month issued a Request for Information (RFI) as part of stakeholder outreach to help the agency develop a five-year technology investment plan mandated by Congress last year.TSA said its Office of Security Capabilities, which is led by Jill Vaughn, will lead development of the investment plan, “which will require broad stakeholder engagement to identify and analyze transportation security risks and capability gaps for which future acquisition activities will be planned to address.”Release of the…

Congress

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Army

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