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Program Assessment

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Transportation Security Administration: Transportation Vetting and Credentialing

The purpose of the program is to ensure that individuals engaged in various aspects of U.S. transportation do not pose a threat to national security or transportation security. The program conducts name-based threat assessments, including background investigations and vetting against terrorist databases.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program has in place adequate long-term and annual performance measures, but baselines and targets are under development. As of Fall 2006, the Transportation Security Administration developed baseline data for its efficiency measure: security threat assessment cost per vetted individual.
  • The program design generally lacks an infrastructure that ensures strong program management techniques to ensure accountability. For example, the program has not used a disciplined life cycle cost approach to develop the Secure Flight, Registered Traveler and Transportation Worker Identification Credential programs.
  • The regulations by which the program operates clearly maximize the security benefit while giving full consideration to economic consequences. For example, the cost of each biometric Transportation Worker Identification Card will be evaluated when determining the incremental security benefit it will provide to the transportation system.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Establishing baselines and targets for its long-term, annual and efficiency measures in the FY 2008.
  • Improving its contracting practices to ensure that minimum performance thresholds are documented and incentives and penalties are provides for good/poor performance.
  • Institutionalizing strong program management principles and techniques to ensure accountability on behalf of contractors and staff.

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