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Former DHS Official Offers Congress Ideas for Improving TSA Acquisition

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

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Improving communication with the vendor community, finding more creative financing mechanisms, privatizing certain testing functions and continuing to strengthen the acquisition workforce are among the suggestions of a former senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official for making it easier for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to acquire technology more quickly from industry. Michael Jackson, the former deputy secretary at DHS during the Bush Administration, tells the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security that Congress should authorize alternative financing…

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