Operational Test and Evaluation Support Services (OTSS) - Test and Evaluation Division (TED)

Requirement

Provides the TSA with Operational Test and Evaluation activities, agency wide field demonstration, data collection and analysis services. It includes developmental activities that enable test preparation, test execution, development of test articles, verification of test articles, data capture, test analysis, and related engineering change reviews. It provides test personnel to support test execution in airports, subject matter experts for cyber resilience testing and human factor experts for human system integration assessment. Provides essential technical resources to conduct operational testing at airport locations for system evaluation of new and improved security screening technologies, including credential authentication systems, explosives detection, prohibited items detection and alarm resolution in checkpoint and checked baggage screening.