The agency calls the program an update to the Screening Partnership Program, in which 20 U.S. airports currently use private security screeners rather than federal workers.
Transportation Security Administration officers staff a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Ill., in this 2010 file photo. The agency was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — but not every U.S. airport uses federal screeners.
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The new initiative will enable private companies to take on a larger role in airport security screening.
The Transportation Security Administration is expanding private partnerships through TSA Gold+ to improve checkpoint operations.
The proposal would require hundreds of small airports to join the Screening Partnership Program and shift thousands of TSA jobs.
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