The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last Friday (4/13) began testing what it describes as "new technologies designed to enhance TSA's ability to identify altered or fraudulent passenger identification documents and boarding passes."
The pilot test of this new technology is taking place at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), and will soon be tested at Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and at Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU).
TSA - "In October, 2011, TSA awarded limited contracts to BAE Systems Information Solutions, Inc., Trans-Digital Technologies, LLC, and NCR Government Systems, LLC to provide pilot testing of fraudulent document detection technology to a limited number of airports. Each selected airport will receive a total of six detection units, two units from each vendor."