Aviation Security: Slow Progress in Addressing Long-Standing Screener Performance Problems
T-RCED-00-125
Published: Mar 16, 2000. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed airport screeners' role in enforcing aviation security, focusing on: (1) the causes of screener performance problems in detecting threat objects; (2) the status of efforts being made by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to address these causes; and (3) the screening practices in five other countries as compared with the United States.
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