To require the Transportation Security Administration conduct a study relating to the digitization of the law enforcement officer flying armed checkpoint data collection process, and for other purposes.
This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration, through its Federal Air Marshal Service, to study how to modernize the process by which law enforcement officers who fly while armed report and verify their status at airport checkpoints, a system currently reliant on outdated telecommunications infrastructure. Within 180 days of the bill becoming law, the TSA must examine projected timelines for digitizing this data collection process and estimate the resources needed to carry it out. Once the study is finished, TSA officials must brief relevant congressional committees, including the House Committee on Homeland Security and Senate committees on transportation and homeland security, on the findings. The agency must also ensure the study is available in a digital format that TSA itself can use. The bill primarily affects law enforcement officers who carry firearms while traveling by air and the TSA agencies responsible for verifying their credentials, aiming to improve efficiency and security at airport checkpoints without creating new spending programs beyond the cost of conducting the study.
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