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Business Opportunities

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

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TSA Issues Innovation Task Force BAA for 2018The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for its Innovation Task Force (ITF) seeking concept papers and proposals to understand existing market capabilities and identify vendors capable of enhancing the transportation security system. The ITF wants to obtain potential solutions to a number of problem areas associated with aviation security, including alarm resolution, identity verification, emerging threat detection, automated security design, passenger communications, real time support tools for…

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