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Homeland Security

TSA Requirements Chief Excited for Biometric Checkpoint Applications

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

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TSA Requirements Chief Excited for Biometric Checkpoint Applications

Artist's rendering for 2018 Biometric Technology Rally. DHS image.

Biometric technology holds a lot of promise for the Transportation Security Administration, despite misgivings and concerns of a lot of people about the technology, because it will improve security and efficiencies and make life easier for travelers, says the head of the agency’s requirements and technology evaluation office. “You’re looking at an analog man living in a digital world,” Austin Gould, assistant administrator of the Requirements and Capabilities Analysis office, said at a June 20 TSA Industry Day. A self-described…

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