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Transportation Security Administration: Surface Transportation Security

The purpose of the program is to protect the surface transportation system while ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce. This is accomplished largely by a consortium of federal, state, local and private entities. TSA also provides surface inspectors, canine teams and screening and detection.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • While long-term and annual measures are in place, baselines and targets are still under development. A long-term measure the program established is increasing the percentage of high risk scenarios that have been addressed in plans developed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its partners.
  • TSA is unable to demonstrate that resources are effectively and efficiently targeted. The program lacks a strategic plan with milestones, costs and benefits, and the designation of roles and resources.
  • TSA has not established a performance management system and incentives to improve program and individual performance, or reduce risk to the government.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing a strategic plan for surface transportation with milestones that quantitatively define the costs/benefits, and outlines the specific roles and responsibilities of partners.
  • Establishing baselines and targets for its long-term, annual and efficiency measures.
  • Improving its contracting practices to ensure that minimum performance thresholds are documented, and incentives and penalties are provided for good/poor performance.

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