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TSA Begins to Mull Next-Generation TWIC Card

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

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The Transportation Security Administration is beginning to discuss the types of improvements it may want to make in future smart credentials that are currently being used to provide more security at the nation’s seaports. Discussions around the “next-generation” Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) are still in the early stages but the changes are “on the horizon,” John Schwartz, the TWIC program manager within the TSA, says this month at an IDGA biometrics conference. Those changes will include things like increased…

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