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Author: The funds were allocated for fiscal year 2004, which begins Oct. 1, 2003. |
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Date Posted: Monday, September 29, 03:54:11am Congress Approves $50 Million For Transport Worker ID A spending bill approved by the U.S. Congress this week allocates $50 million to the Transportation Security Administration to push forward with a uniform, high-tech ID card for some 15 million U.S. workers in airports, seaports, railyards and the trucking industry. The funds were allocated for fiscal year 2004, which begins Oct. 1, 2003. The TSA is wrapping up an evaluation phase of different card technologies that could be used for on the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC. In the next phase, the agency will look at different biometric identifiers that can be used along with the ID card. While TSA has not said which technology it will recommend for use on the TWIC card, government officials have strongly hinted that it will be a smart card. For instance, in testimony to a congressional subcommittee last month, Joel C. Willemssen of the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress said, "In what could be the largest federally sponsored smart card rollout to date the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to issue smart ID cards to up to 15 million transportation workers who require unescorted access to secure parts of transportation venues." While the TWIC standard is likely to include a smart card chip, it is also likely to permit local facilities to add such technologies as a magnetic stripe or a bar code for use with their existing access control systems. (2003-09-26) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |