Secure Point Technologies Inc (fka IMSCQ)

[Doctor Detroit]

Buzz, Looking for some help: from what I've been able to determine, there were no funds allocated for ETD purchases in FY 2014, and in FY 2015 the TSA has requested the funds to purchase 250 ETD units.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp113&sid=cp113MUDEN&refer=&r_n=sr198.113&item=&&&sel=TOC_234747&;

I realize a lot of internal TSA publications discussed a late FY 2014 purchase of ETDs, but I've yet to see any appropriation for that funding in the FY 2014 budget. Can the TSA buy ETD's without congressional approval? Or are they limited to the number of ETD's that congress approves? In other words, how much discretion does the TSA actually have, and wwho defines the market, Congress or the TSA?

If it is Congress, then who cares what some TSA bureaucrat whispers into Implant's ear about a possible FY 2014 ETD purchase: if it ain't in the budget, it ain't gonna happen. Given management's expectation of an ETD order in late FY 2014, it makes me think either the TSA actually has more purchasing discretion, or someone at Implant is seriously deluded. When Glenn Bolduc stated that "funds carried over" into FY 2015, what funds was he talking about?