The "security firm" providing General Airport Security Services will get an additional $700,000 earmarked from SFIA at the next Airport Commission meeting. These funds are primarily being committed to secure the airport checkpoints during non-operational hours.
This is in line with practices at other airports. TSA has been designating airports cover these costs as being outside the mandate of TSA screening.
If there is more to this story (why did SFO get federally paid security during those hours?), I don't expect a paper trail, but you never know considering some of the actors in this drama. In any case, the graveyard shift looks to be a casualty of something happening later rather than sooner. Certainly, it was profitable while the contracts were "cost plus" on a federal level (obscenely profitable, perhaps). And CAS simply puts out their other hand to collect from SFO when the contract rules change. $700,000 worth of change.
Simple, yet inelegant. Mario Puzo couldn't dream this stuff up.
A blog dedicated to the TSOs, LTSOs, and BDOs at San Francisco International Airport that work for Covenant Aviation Security, LLC (CAS).
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