Pilots concluding but final access control policies still more than a year out
John Schwartz, program manager for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC), was going to begin an update on the program with the words “eight-years ago,” but then thought better of it. It has been that long since Congress mandated that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) create a credential for secure access to ports, and the agency is still working on the roll out.
It will most likely be 2012 before there are widespread readers electronically verifying the credentials, Schwartz said during a presentation at the Interagency Advisory Board meeting in September. But while critics dismiss the credential as an expensive flash pass, progress has been made toward wide-scale electronic verification at ports.
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