GAO Points to TSA for Some Failures in TWIC Maritime Launch

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he Government Accountability Office chided the Transportation Security Administration for some of the failures in launching the maritime portion of TSA’s transportation-worker credential program, part of the broader Transportation Worker Identification Card program.

“While TSA has initiated some project planning, the agency lacks an approved, comprehensive project plan to govern the life of the project and has not yet developed other, detailed component plans for risk mitigation or the cost-benefit and alternative analyses,” GAO wrote in its report.

Although the report dealt with what GAO called the Maritime Worker Identification Card program, TSA said in a response letter included in the final draft that the program was part of the TWIC initiative.

The TWIC program would issue a single credential to transportation workers who need access to secure areas of ports, airports and other freight facilities.

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