Transportation Security Administration's known shipper program (REDACTED) / Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General, author.

Contributor:

United States. Transportation Security Administration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Transportation Security Administration--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Transportation Security Administration.

Aeronautics, Commercial--Freight--Security measures--United States.

Aeronautics, Commercial.

Evaluation.

Aeronautics, Commercial--Freight--Security measures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, 2009.

Summary:

The Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001 requires the screening of all passengers and property transported on passenger planes. The Act gives the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) responsibility for overseeing aviation security and ensuring the safety of the air-traveling public. TSA continues to improve air cargo security using a risk-based, layered approach to enhance security without impeding the flow of commerce. The Federal Aviation Administration created the Known Shipper Program (KSP) before the September 2001 terrorist attacks and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. The KSP is one of TSAs key components for strengthening air cargo security. The program establishes procedures for differentiating between shippers that are known and unknown for air carriers and indirect air carriers who tender cargo for air transportation. Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulation provides that, with limited exceptions, domestic and foreign passenger aircraft operators, all-cargo aircraft carriers, or indirect air carriers, also known as freight forwarders, operating under an approved TSA Standard Security Program may tender cargo for transport on passenger aircraft only from shippers that are verified as known.

Notes:

"OIG-09-35."

"March 2009."

Redacted.

Includes Management comments to the draft report.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (DHS website, viewed Apr. 24, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General. Transportation Security Administration's known shipper program

OCLC:

320143109