TSA Report: Effectiveness, Technology, and Public Interaction

This report provides an overview of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), focusing on its operational effectiveness, technological advancements, and interactions with the public. The report begins by establishing the TSA's role as a U.S. Department of Homeland Security agency responsible for securing the transportation and traveling public. It then examines the TSA's screening processes, including the use of screeners and the implementation of various security measures at airports and other transportation hubs. The report highlights the use of advanced screening equipment and technologies like X-Ray Backscatter and risk-based security protocols. Furthermore, it discusses the TSA's interaction with the public, including services like providing directions and responding to inquiries. The report also references several academic sources to support its analysis of the TSA's operations and impact.

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Transportation Security Administration
Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) is recognized as an agency of the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security that holds the authority and responsibility over the
security of the transportation and traveling public in the United States of America. It was
established in response to the terrorist attack that occurred in the year 2001.Following it, the
government initiated to introduce policies and laws in order to provide security to the
traveling of public, focusing primarily on the airport security and preventive measures of
aircraft hijacking (Weiner, 2016).
Effectiveness of Transportation Security Administration
The administration puts effort in hiring screeners in order to keep a check on the
operating security at every checkpoints of airports. The initiation of this program facilitated
millions of people in the screening jobs. TSA initiated the authority in association with
Aviation and transportation Security Act. It further introduces the policies that includes the
development of railroads, ports, highways, pipelines and mass transit systems (Weiner,
2016). Such steps are successfully incorporated in association with state partners and federal
agencies.
Improvement in the interaction of TSA with public
The initiation of the screening process improved TSA’s interaction with the public.
The process includes physical interaction with the passengers like searching of properties and
pat down. It includes the practices of searching bags, bins or carrying bags in order to check
and prevent the presence of threatening objects. The system includes the responsibility of
controlling terminal entry and exit points. TSA interacts with the public through services like
helping people by giving directions and the responding to the inquiries (Emmanuel, Kittinger

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& Speed, 2015). The practices of TSA focus on maintaining an awareness while working in
the stressful environment like noise alarms, crowd distraction, angry passengers, time
pressure. Therefore, in order to maintain the professional ability in such a stressful
environment, the services are well equipped that enables them to identify and locate potential
life threatening objects (McHendry, 2015). This is how, TSA works upon minimizing the
number of threats at airports
Effectiveness in TSA technology programs
TSA operates advanced screening equipment and technologies to locate potential
threatening objects while screening the baggage and cargoes. Technology such as X-Ray
Backscatter provides full body scanners in order to clarify the controversial issue related to
health and privacy (Speed et al., 2015). The technological program also includes the
application of risk-based security that contains variant screening protocols and is utilized
according to the requirements.

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References:
Speed, A., Silva, A., Trumbo, D., Stracuzzi, D., Warrender, C., Trumbo, M., & Divis, K.
(2015, August). Determining the optimal time on X-ray analysis for transportation
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McHendry Jr, G. F. (2015). The re (d) active force of the Transportation Security
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Weiner, E. (2016). Urban transportation planning in the United States: history, policy, and
practice. Springer.
Emmanuel, G., Kittinger, R., & Speed, A. (2015, August). A quantitative methodology for
identifying attributes which contribute to performance for officers at the
transportation security administration. In International Conference on Augmented
Cognition (pp. 373-380). Springer, Cham.