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Title 49, TransportationRelease 119-110

§44948 National Deployment Office

Title 49 › SUBTITLE VII — AVIATION PROGRAMS › PART A — AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY › subpart iii — safety › CHAPTER 449 — SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER II — ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL › § 44948

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a National Deployment Office inside the Transportation Security Administration. The office must be led by a person with supervisory experience chosen by the TSA Administrator. The office must keep a National Deployment Force made up of TSA officers, supervisors, and lead officers to give quick help and back up Department of Homeland Security security work to lower risk. The force can be sent to airports that need extra staff for emergencies, seasonal demand, hiring gaps, bad weather, heavy passenger loads, equipment support, and similar needs; to special events (including National Special Security Events set by the Secretary of Homeland Security); after manmade disasters or terrorist attacks; and other situations the Administrator decides. The office must also teach officers how to join the force, recruit members using a staffing plan, approve 1-year appointments (which can be extended if the officer asks and the Federal Security Director agrees), and train those officers.

Full Legal Text

Title 49, §44948

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(a)Establishment.—
There is established within the Transportation Security Administration a National Deployment Office, to be headed by an individual with supervisory experience. Such individual shall be designated by the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
(b)Duties.—
The individual designated as the head of the National Deployment Office shall be responsible for the following:
(1)Maintaining a National Deployment Force within the Transportation Security Administration, including transportation security officers, supervisory transportation security officers and lead transportation security officers, to provide the Administration with rapid and efficient response capabilities and augment the Department of Homeland Security’s homeland security operations to mitigate and reduce risk, including for the following:
(A)Airports temporarily requiring additional security personnel due to an emergency, seasonal demands, hiring shortfalls, severe weather conditions, passenger volume mitigation, equipment support, or other reasons.
(B)Special events requiring enhanced security including National Special Security Events, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
(C)Response in the aftermath of any manmade disaster, including any terrorist attack.
(D)Other such situations, as determined by the Administrator.
(2)Educating transportation security officers regarding how to participate in the Administration’s National Deployment Force.
(3)Recruiting officers to serve on the National Deployment Force, in accordance with a staffing model to be developed by the Administrator.
(4)Approving 1-year appointments for officers to serve on the National Deployment Force, with an option to extend upon officer request and with the approval of the appropriate Federal Security Director.
(5)Training officers to serve on the National Deployment Force.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Career Development Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, title I, § 1988(d), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3623, provided that: “The Administrator [of the Transportation Security Administration] may consider service in the National Deployment Force as a positive factor when evaluating applicants for promotion opportunities within the TSA [Transportation Security Administration].”

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Citation

49 U.S.C. § 44948

Title 49, Transportation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110