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TSA AIT-2 Program Nine Months Behind Revised Schedule; Additional AIT Upgrades Challenging, GAO Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is nine months behind on plans to test and procure the next generation of body scanners, called Advanced Imaging Technology-2 (AIT-2), and has underestimated challenges for upgrading existing AIT systems and the AIT-2 systems to meet future requirements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. The auditors say that TSA was nine months behind schedule when it began qualification testing of the AIT-2 systems in July 2013 because the three contractors developing…

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