TSA Plans to Fly Thousands of Employees to a Four-Hour Training

The training is raising questions internally around the agency’s efficiency goals.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent

The TSA officers, who serve as front-line managers to airport screeners, are expected to travel to either Nevada or Georgia. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

Between July and September, thousands of Transportation Security Administration supervisors, in cohorts no bigger than 24, are set to fly from all over the country to Nevada or Georgia and stay overnight in a hotel for a special training on advanced threat detection.

The training is only four hours.

An internally shared schedule for the training has confused TSA officials as to why the agency is requiring in-person attendance for such a short seminar, and left current and former employees questioning whether the decision runs afoul of the Trump administration’s efficiency goals.