Scoot- maybe now we can get down to a brass tacks offer!
The cookie jar is full:
To meet critical, unfunded needs within TSA, the Committee
provides $5,898,382,000 in gross discretionary appropriations
for the Aviation Security account. This is $178,945,000 more
than fiscal year 2016 enacted and will support the following:
--Mitigate wait times by providing 1,344 personnel to staff
checkpoints while ensuring appropriate security.
--Increase expedited passenger throughput, and support
airport security with 50 additional canine teams. These
teams will include Passenger Screening Canines as well
as teams provided by TSA to State and local law
enforcement.
--$27,800,000 to invest in TSA's Next Carry-on Baggage X-Ray
solution, as well as funds to better integrate new
technology through the Innovation Task Force [ITF].
--$7,200,000 to expand the current fleet of Explosive Trace
Detection [ETD] systems.
------- Neffenger blew it with the dog teams vs over use of swabs. Dog teams are random, but checkpoint swabbing of carryons is absurd. A single hand held using continuous ionization can float thru a suit-case in no time flat. Sure a dog could jump up on the conveyor but they would have to ban cameras as we would look like the Arkie version of the TSA.
Prediction: that $5B cookie jar is going to set loose the sector in an R/D free-for-all...but ISC already has it covered, we have the products right now!
The ASK is going to be made, IMO.
