I read an article today in National Defense Magazine that described the Credential Authentication Technology (E-CAT) program. It uses a scanner by MorphoTrust USA that can verify the authentication of identity cards and passports from "a database of more than 2800 domestic and international credentials."

"The goal is to reduce the approximately 24 seconds the agent spends looking at the document, boarding pass and the passenger's face down to 12 seconds."

"Once the E-CAT scanner is connected to TSA's network, this information will simultaneously be verified against boarding information from Secure Flight, TSA's watchlist matching system"