The 10 companies were part of a group of 45 organizations that were contacted in an undercover test-shopping operation, the F.T.C. said.
Last year, checkpoint screeners failed to detect mock explosives and weapons in 95percentt of undercover tests carried out by Homeland Security.
"At the end of the undercover tests, GAO was still waiting for [the department] to begin investigating three cases — a delay of nearly 5, 4, and 2 months, respectively".
Since its inception, the agency, which was hastily established at a cost of $1.3 billion by the George W. Bush Administration as an arm of the Department of Homeland Security in wake of the 9/11 attacks, has routinely failed undercover tests.
The University of Phoenix passed these undercover tests.
Companies should be penalized if they fail undercover tests.
Undercover tests have shown that screeners fail to spot more than 20percentt of potentially dangerous objects.
Then have the Federal Aviation Administration conduct random undercover tests to see which system is working best.
Then the Federal Aviation Administration could conduct undercover tests to see which system works best.
In 8 of 15 undercover tests, employees lied on federal forms about the applicants' family income and other information to gain approval for the ineligible children, the report said.
