Assistant Secretary of the Transportation Security Administration
Before the U.S. Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
January 18, 2007
Good morning Chairman Lautenberg, Vice Chairman Stevens and Members of the Committee.
I am pleased to appear before you today to talk about TSA's efforts in reducing terrorist risk to surface transportation.
It's also a pleasure to join my colleagues as well. To save time for discussion, I will summarize my testimony to make four (4) major points.
A plot broken up at its early stages, especially before it comes to this country, is the best rail security as well as aviation, etc.
So, efforts directed at supporting and connecting to others in our government and with foreign partners help all parts of the transportation network.
TSA isn't reinventing the wheel. DoT has been working transportation safety issues for a long time. Many of those measures form a very solid security foundation. Our job is to link with the safety activities and add value on top of that where there are particular security-specific needs. Intelligence sharing, vulnerability analysis, technology sharing, and our VIPER teams are examples of that value-add.
They are:
Our mitigation measures include federal grant priority for the passenger systems and an innovative -- and immediate -- risk reduction approach to freight rail with quantifiable and verifiable performance standards.
I will be happy to discuss this in further depth. Thank you.
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