Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Tells NBAA New Proposal Will Be "Markedly Different" From
LASP
TSA
officials have told NBAA that they hope to issue a new proposed
business aircraft security program by the end of this year. The new
proposal, which is expected to be markedly different from the Large
Aircraft Security Program (LASP) offered several years ago, will
need to be reviewed and approved by the Department of Homeland
Security and Office of Management and Budget before being
published for public comment.
“TSA heard our concerns about the most egregious elements
of the original LASP proposal,” said Doug Carr, NBAA's vice
president for safety, security & regulation. Those provisions
included the aircraft weight threshold, prohibited items list, and
the requirements for third-party auditors and armed security guards
onboard business airplanes. Even the name of the new security
proposal is expected to be different, no longer including the word
“large,” which was a misnomer anyway.
TSA has
included a “trusted pilot” element in all of its other
security programs, and Carr expects it to be part of the new
proposal as well. Carr also believes that the new proposal will
reflect more of a risk-based approach to security, since TSA
Administrator John Pistole, in an effort to evolve his agency into
a high-performance counterterrorism organization, has announced
plans to reorganize TSA so it can adopt a more intelligence-driven,
risk-based approach to security.
Besides having received input from NBAA Staff, business aircraft
operators (including NBAA's Security Council) have helped TSA
officials re-craft the business aviation security proposal, said
Doug Hofsass, TSA’s deputy assistant administrator for
Transportation Sector Network Management, during a well-attended
security session at the recent NBAA Annual Meeting &
Convention. "This rule is going to make a lot more sense, and it's
really good security," he declared.
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