WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Updating the Risk Assessment of Airport Security would better ensure that TSA bases its risk management decisions on current information and focuses its limited resources on the highest-priority risks to airport security, the GAO advised.
"Since 2009, TSA has taken various actions to oversee and facilitate airport security; however, it has not updated its national strategy for airport security to reflect changes in its Risk Assessment of Airport Security and other security-related actions," the report stated on Tuesday.
Incidents of aviation workers using access privileges to smuggle weapons and drugs into security-restricted areas and onto planes has heightened awareness about security at commercial airports, the GAO noted.
