Back them in that score 100 . All right, fine. Let me ask you this, administrator, when will performance assessments using the new metrics begin to be used, and will any aspect of the performance evaluation process change to track performance over time rather than performance on a single test . In other words, how are you going to ensure tsos are at the top of their game every day not just when job performances are happening . Those are already changed. They have been explained and announced to the workforce. All right. Finally, let me ask you, how will you balance wait times with a focus on security and ensure security considerations dont give way when balanced against increased weight times during busy travel periods like the upcoming Holiday Season . Well, we are seeing increase in wait times. Not significant. One, i wanted to grow this trusted traveler population in a short way, which is a true vetted population. We are working very hard both with the current vendor, who you may ha
Thirdparty contractor. We recruit from all walks of life. I have people with ph. D. S who are front line screeners, who have retired and come back into the workforce. People with music degrees. All walks of life. As you might expect in a workforce of 44,000 screeners you have a broad range of people at all ages. One last question because my time is almost up. If we were to interview 100 folks who had left, not for calls but just left, what would be the dominant reason they cited . Either their expectations werent met or they lost interest. Why do folks leave . Well, ill give you some thoughts i have. Because i havent done those interviews myself. I think it is probably a combination effect. You always have some people who justify it is not their job for them and they move on. Lets address some of the concerns you have with morale. Not feeling like youre doing the mission you thought you would be hired to do. If im a screener and i think it is about effectiveness and screening properly
I think you can never market that enough. But i do believe it really comes down to understanding that were all in the same system together. We have different roles to play. But we can play those roles in a complementary fashion. The airlines have been working very hard to enforce the one plus one rule, meaning the one carryon bag and one handbag or briefcase. Their challenge is, well, its not my business 0 address their Business Models, but i can tell you its just a fact that a lot more stuff is arriving, its packed more full of things, people have electronics in there. Screeners have to be very aten ive. But you knew it had the potential to put more pressure on the screeners. I think that would have been the expectation. Do we have a mechanism Going Forward . Absolutely. En and the airlines have worked closely together. Both sides have to be aware of the impact of the decisions they make. And im as interested in the decisions, in the Business Models of the Airline Industry and how it
Legislation did not go anywhere either. And to us, that was a bare minimum. Criticism from the Civil Rights Community and the Voting Rights community. We narrowed the bill until we excluded the states that were engaged, my state of being one of them. We were not covered. Alabama, where all of this started, is not going to be covered. What we did was we decided to use what the Supreme Court asked us to use it in a way that would and to state if you dont have any intentions to be mischievous, you shouldnt be worried about it. Do have any sense of where the new speaker stands on this . Have there been any discussions as an ally . Be seen the chairman as opposed to this idea across the board. Me speak or will shift the powers to the chairmanship. Howd do you get over that hurdle . Maybe they have spoken with him. I have not. I have not spoken to speaker ryan about this. I can tell you restoration tuesday is about educating the American People, informing the American People about this issue
Badges in airports. There has been some concerned that security of the bad population. It should be a trusted population. How do you determine whether they are to be trusted . What safeguards do you put in place, inc. Think there is work to be done there. Im encouraged by secretary johnsons reach, earlier this year prior to my confirmation, he asked the Aviation Security thatory Committee Members advised the department and the administrator, they took a hard look and came up with 28 recommendations, with which tsa is fully concurrent, and they are looking for an implementation plan. That said, it was a challenge. Having realtime access to the appropriate databases to screen people. That against the terrorist database. It taking off a lot of time to give me a little answer. Administrator neffenger the 73 members, 69 discrete individuals were not actually on the terrorist watch list. In what had incomplete is called a terrorist information data environment. That information was not suffi