Aviation Security: Long-Standing Problems Impair Airport Screeners' Performance.

摘要

This report studies the performance of screeners at our nation's airports. The report includes recommendations to better implement the management and evaluation of FAA's efforts to improve screeners'performance. Historically, however, screeners who operate checkpoints in the United States have had difficulty in detecting dangerous objects, missing as many as 20 percent during tests, and numerous reports, including two by presidential commissions, have detailed significant problems with screeners' performance. Concerned about the effectiveness of screening checkpoints and of the efforts to improve them, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and its Subcommittee on Aviation requested that GAO examine (1) the causes of screeners' problems in detecting dangerous objects and the efforts of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to address these problems and (2) the screening practices of selected foreign countries and the potential for using these practices to help improve screeners' performance in the United States.