ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Transportation Security Administration spent $1.4 million to randomly select passengers who don't have to wait in long TSA lines.
At the very least, New York Magazine reported the agency spent $336,000 for the app that randomly selects passengers to use the TSA precheck lane.
That initial amount was discovered when web developer Kevin Burke sent a Freedom of Information Act request for information on the TSA randomizer.
Eight months later, he got documents that said one transaction was $336,413.59.
Those documents contained a contract between TSA and IBM, in which IBM ultimately won a bid to create the randomizer iPad app.
Popular Mechanics reported that the total cost of the project was $1.4 million, although it is not clear what exactly makes up that amount. The TSA randomizer app is part of that total.
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