The Transportation Security Administration’s TWIC card program has been bashed for being expensive, for requiring multiple trips for enrollment and for not meeting congressional deadlines.
For all its calamities, the program has achieved a first.
A new report from the chief of the Department of Homeland Security says TWIC is the largest program of its kind to test whether thousands of people can have their identification electronically verified by a fingerprint and ID card comparison.
Read more about this security program trial and pending proposal at Land Line.