Industry Day Notice: FY26 TSA Innovation Office – Electronic Gates (eGates)

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hosting an Industry Day to highlight its Electronic Gates (eGates) capability. The event aims to accelerate innovation and provide industry partners with opportunities to increase efficiency and deploy scalable, mature screening solutions. The TSA envisions utilizing eGates at the Travel Document Checker (TDC) by collaborating with industry partners and leveraging public-private partnerships. The key benefits of this initiative include increased efficiency, enhanced experience, and improved security. Some of the key points to consider include: • The TSA is expanding its third-party partnership efforts to accelerate innovation and provide industry with opportunities to increase efficiency and deploy scalable, mature screening solutions. • The TSA is defining requirements and guidelines that private entities must meet to become a third-party provider of TSA-accepted eGates. • The TSA is introducing a future state version of the 2nd generation Credential Authentication Technology (CAT-2) into checkpoint operations, called AutoCAT. • The TSA is taking a privacy-forward approach to safeguarding passenger information. • The TSA is enabling the benefits of these partnerships while maintaining control over the inherent government function of identity verification at TSA checkpoints.