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will enhance security by properly identifying authorized
airline flight deck and cabin crew members at screening
checkpoints and granting them expedited access through
screening checkpoints. The Administrator shall include in
the report recommendations on the feasibility of imple-
menting the system for the domestic aviation industry be-
ginning 1 year after the date on which the report is sub-
mitted. The Administrator shall begin full implementation
of the system or method not later than 1 year after the date
on which the Administrator transmits the report.
SEC. 1476. NATIONAL EXPLOSIVES DETECTION CANINE
TEAM TRAINING CENTER.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) INCREASED
TRAINING
CAPACITY.—Within
180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall begin to in-
crease the capacity of the Department of Homeland
Security’s National Explosives Detection Canine
Team Program at Lackland Air Force Base to accom-
modate the training of up to 200 canine teams annu-
ally by the end of calendar year 2008.
(2) EXPANSION DETAILED REQUIREMENTS.—The
expansion shall include upgrading existing facilities,
procurement of additional canines, and increasing
staffing and oversight commensurate with the in-
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creased training and deployment capabilities required
by paragraph (1).
(3) ULTIMATE EXPANSION.—The Secretary shall
continue to increase the training capacity and all
other necessary program expansions so that by De-
cember 31, 2009, the number of canine teams suffi-
cient to meet the Secretary’s homeland security mis-
sion, as determined by the Secretary on an annual
basis, may be trained at this facility.
(b) ALTERNATIVE TRAINING CENTERS.—Based on fea-
sibility and to meet the ongoing demand for quality explo-
sives detection canines teams, the Secretary shall explore
the options of creating the following:
(1) A standardized Transportation Security Ad-
ministration approved canine program that private
sector entities could use to provide training for addi-
tional explosives detection canine teams. For any such
program, the Secretary—
(A) may coordinate with key stakeholders,
including international, Federal, State, local,
private sector and academic entities, to develop
best practice guidelines for such a standardized
program;
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(B) shall require specific training criteria
to which private sector entities must adhere as a
condition of participating in the program; and
(C) shall review the status of these private
sector programs on at least an annual basis.
(2) Expansion of explosives detection canine
team training to at least 2 additional national train-
ing centers, to be modeled after the Center of Excel-
lence established at Lackland Air Force Base.
(c) DEPLOYMENT.—The Secretary—
(1) shall use the additional explosives detection
canine teams as part of the Department’s layers of
enhanced mobile security across the Nation’s trans-
portation network and to support other homeland se-
curity programs, as deemed appropriate by the Sec-
retary; and
(2) may make available explosives detection ca-
nine teams to all modes of transportation, for areas
of high risk or to address specific threats, on an as-
needed basis and as otherwise deemed appropriate by
the Secretary.
SEC. 1477. LAW ENFORCEMENT BIOMETRIC CREDENTIAL.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (6) of section 44903(h)
of title 49, United States Code, is amended to read as fol-
lows:
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‘‘(6) USE
OF
BIOMETRIC
TECHNOLOGY
FOR
ARMED LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAVEL.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year
after the date of enactment of the Improving
America’s Security Act of 2007, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall—
‘‘(i) consult with the Attorney General
concerning implementation of this para-
graph;
‘‘(ii) issue any necessary rulemaking to
implement this paragraph; and
‘‘(iii) establishing a national registered
armed law enforcement program for law en-
forcement officers needing to be armed when
traveling by air.
‘‘(B) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—The pro-
gram shall—
‘‘(i) establish a credential or a system
that incorporates biometric technology and
other applicable technologies;
‘‘(ii) provide a flexible solution for law
enforcement officers who need to be armed
when traveling by air on a regular basis
and for those who need to be armed during
temporary travel assignments;
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‘‘(iii) be coordinated with other uni-
form credentialing initiatives including the
Homeland Security Presidential Directive
12;
‘‘(iv) be applicable for all Federal,
State, local, tribal and territorial govern-
ment law enforcement agencies; and
‘‘(v) establish a process by which the
travel credential or system may be used to
verify the identity, using biometric tech-
nology, of a Federal, State, local, tribal, or
territorial law enforcement officer seeking to
carry a weapon on board an aircraft, with-
out unnecessarily disclosing to the public
that the individual is a law enforcement of-
ficer.
‘‘(C) PROCEDURES.—In establishing the
program, 
the 
Secretary 
shall 
develop
procedures—
‘‘(i) to ensure that only Federal, State,
local, tribal, and territorial government law
enforcement officers with a specific need to
be armed when traveling by air are issued
a law enforcement travel credential;
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‘‘(ii) to preserve the anonymity of the
armed law enforcement officer without call-
ing undue attention to the individual’s
identity;
‘‘(iii) to resolve failures to enroll, false
matches, and false non-matches relating to
use of the law enforcement travel credential
or system; and
‘‘(iv) to invalidate any law enforce-
ment travel credential or system that is lost,
stolen, or no longer authorized for use.’’.
(b) REPORT.—Within 180 days after implementing the
national registered armed law enforcement program re-
quired by section 44903(h)(6) of title 49, United States
Code, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall transmit
a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. If the Secretary has not implemented
the program within 180 days after the date of enactment
of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a report to the Com-
mittee within 180 days explaining the reasons for the fail-
ure to implement the program within the time required by
that section, and a further report within each successive
180-day period until the program is implemented explain-
ing the reasons for such further delays in implementation
until the program is implemented. The Secretary shall sub-