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TSA promotes N.J. security director to headquarters job, names deputy as replacement
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on September 04, 2014 at 3:48 PM, updated September 05, 2014 at 5:07 PMThe Transportation Security Administration’s top official in New Jersey is being promoted to a job at TSA headquarters, and will be replaced by his deputy, the agency announced today.
Donald Drummer, who became the TSA’s federal security director for the state in April 2011, will become a TSA deputy assistant administrator for security capabilities at the agency’s headquarters in Arlington, Va., effective Oct. 5.
Thomas Carter, a veteran TSA employee who became Drummer’s deputy upon his arrival in 2011, will be the new FSD, a position that puts him in charge of all passenger and baggage screening and other TSA operations at Newark Liberty and Atlantic City international airports, Teterboro and Trenton-Mercer airports.
Carter, 40, a licenced pilot who lives in Somerset County, is a former security specialist with the Federal Aviation Administrtion, who joined the TSA shortly after its inception following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Drummer, 57, notified the TSA’s New Jersey employees of the changes in an email today.