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In First Hearing As TSA Chief, Neffenger Offers Technology Ideas For Future Checkpoints

In First Hearing As TSA Chief, Neffenger Offers Technology Ideas For Future Checkpoints
Peter Neffenger, former TSA Administrator during the Obama administration. Photo: TSA

Future security checkpoints could include biometric-enabled mechanisms for travelers as well as integrated technology solutions for screening people, Peter Neffenger, the new administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), said on Wednesday.“I think it’s possible that an individual’s biometric identity could effectively become the boarding pass of the future, linked to intelligent systems and requiring passage through an integrated capability designed to detect metallic and non-metallic based threats,” Neffenger told the House Homeland Security Committee in his debut testimony as…

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