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TSA's Explosives Detection Canine Program: Status of Increasing Number of Explosives Detection Canine Teams

GAO-08-933R Published: Jul 31, 2008. Publicly Released: Jul 31, 2008.
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This report formally transmits the attached briefing in response to section 1307 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. The act requires the Comptroller General to report on the utilization of explosives detection canine teams to strengthen security and the capacity of the national explosives detection canine team program, which is administered by the Transportation Security Administration.

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