As the Coast Guard nears the end of its final rulemaking process for the deployment of biometric-enabled smart card readers to strengthen port security nationwide, a new government watchdog report says that a $23 million pilot testing program of the readers fell short and that data provided to Congress to justify the use of the reader technology was unreliable and incomplete. For example, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in its report that data the Department of Homeland Security supplied…
GAO Says TWIC Reader Testing Fell Short In A Lot Of Ways
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