TWIC cards hit the road in March but readers to check them remain stuck in neutral
Transportation workers will soon be carrying the first TWIC cards and they will not be delayed getting into transport facilities by a contact chip and PIN number. That is because TSA officials have decided that contactless is the only way to go for everyday TWIC use. But the readers have not yet been defined … so while a new working group does its thing, use of the new cards will be limited.
Contactless was the original plan since the project was announced after 9-11 and the initial prototype phase contract was awarded to BearingPoint back in August 2004. But contactless temporarily got bumped in the spring of 2006 when TWIC officials determined that they needed to more closely follow HSPD-12 and its decision to require a PIN to unlock the biometric.
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