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Homeland Security

TSA Selects Three Vendors To Provide PreCheck Enrollment Services

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 9th, 2020

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TSA Selects Three Vendors To Provide PreCheck Enrollment Services

TSA PreCheck enrollment center. Photo: TSA

The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday said it has awarded contract to three companies to provide enrollment services for its PreCheck trusted traveler program in an effort to expand outreach to potential users of the program. The awards were made to Alclear LLC, Telos Identity Management Solutions, and France-based IDEMIA’s U.S. business, which is the sole incumbent for the work. Alclear provides the CLEAR service at a number of U.S. airports and other venues, providing biometric and biographic-based vetting to…

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