TSA builds Homeland Security command center.

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Security Beat

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is home to a new command center, according to 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.

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...