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GAO Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Certification of the Secure Flight Program

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GAO Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Certification of the Secure Flight Program–Cost and Schedule Estimates, GAO-10-535R, April 05, 2010

  • “The matching of airline passenger information against terrorist watchlist records (watchlist matching) is a frontline defense against acts of terrorism that target the nation’s civil aviation system. In general, passengers identified as matches to the No-Fly list are prohibited from boarding commercial flights, while those matched to the Selectee list are required to undergo additional screening.1 Historically, airline passenger prescreening against watchlist records has been performed by commercial air carriers.
    As required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has developed an advanced passenger prescreening program—known as Secure Flight—to assume from air carriers the function of matching passenger information against terrorist watchlist records.2 Since fiscal year 2004, TSA has received $358 million in appropriated funds for the development and implementation of Secure Flight, according to program officials.”

  • See also New York Times, Ensnared by Error on Growing U.S. Watch List
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