TSA builds Homeland Security command center. (Security Beat).The Transportation Security Administration (TSA TSA See tax-sheltered annuity (TSA). ) is home to a new command center, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Terry Maynard, assistant undersecretary for intelligence at TSA. Maynard was part of a panel discussion at a conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of four earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the . Maynard, who came to TSA from the Central Intelligence Agency, said the command center "provides a single voice to the [transportation] secretary, who can speak authoritatively to the president, and then to the nation," he said. The center, which collects and synthesizes information from transportation entities around the country, can hold as many as 400 people. It is currently functioning on an interim basis at the TSA's offices on Nebraska Avenue, in Washington, D.C., Maynard said. Though the command center was conceived by, and initially, for, the TSA, it was to serve the entire Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States (DHS DHS Department of Homeland Security (USA) DHS Department of Human Services DHS Department of Health Services DHS Demographic and Health Surveys DHS Dirhams (Morocco national currency) ) as its central command center, after DHS stood up on March 1, Maynard said. |
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