The TSA has set out a strategy built around three goals: modernising checkpoints, improving the passenger experience and strengthening security across multiple transport modes.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has set out a new strategic plan, Horizon 25, as the agency approaches its 25th anniversary and looks to define its priorities for the next quarter century.
Administrator David P. Cummins has structured the strategy around three central goals: modernising checkpoints, improving the passenger experience and strengthening security across multiple transport modes. The plan is intended to guide the agency’s operations as it contends with rising passenger volumes and a continually evolving threat landscape.
Three goals for the next 25 years
To progress the initiatives, Cummins will convene staff from across TSA’s field offices and headquarters in September. The priorities set to be addressed include expanding TSA PreCheck, improving the wider passenger experience, streamlining how the agency procures new technology, and building out its capability to counter the threat posed by unmanned aircraft systems.
The strategy also aims to deepen public-private collaboration across the aviation sector. TSA plans to replace its existing TSA Gold+ programme with an evolved Screening Partnership Program, designed to give private sector partners a greater role in checkpoint operations, which the agency says will support a safer, more secure and more efficient aviation system overall.
Cummins said the plan reflects his approach to balancing what are often seen as competing checkpoint priorities.
“TSA does not have to choose between a secure checkpoint, an efficient checkpoint, and an elevated passenger experience,” said Cummins. “Through Horizon 25, TSA can, and will, deliver all three at once.”
TSA highlighted that, over the past year, it has maintained security across the US transportation network despite a partial government shutdown, a series of unprecedented travel events and record-breaking passenger volumes.
Cummins joined TSA from the private sector, where he held transportation strategy roles working closely with federal agencies and industry partners on a global basis. The agency said his background in forward-looking transport strategy has directly informed the priorities now set out under the Horizon 25 plan.
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