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Homeland Security

TSA Releases Open Architecture Roadmap With Timelines

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

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TSA Releases Open Architecture Roadmap With Timelines

Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske. Photo: TSA

Marking another milestone in its journey to acquire security equipment built with open standards and interfaces, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Tuesday published its first Open Architecture Roadmap, which includes estimated schedules for its goals and objectives. The agency has been discussing the need for open architecture (OA) solutions for more than a decade and the vision has picked up steam under David Pekoske, the current TSA administrator. However, actual open systems solutions in the security equipment do not…

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