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New TSA Strategy Aims for Innovative Culture to Outpace Threats

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 30th, 2018

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Creating a “culture of innovation” that stays ahead of threats to the nation’s transportation system and hastens quality decision-making is one of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) strategic priorities outlined in its latest strategy document.The strategy, which provides a general outline of three priorities between now and 2026, lays the ground work for two follow-on documents that will firm up the agency’s plans in the coming years to better respond to fast changing threats. TSA Administrator David Pekoske says in…

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