2012 ACC/TSA Security Capabilities Day
July 17, 2012
Checkpoint Technologies Division UpdateDomenic Bianchini
Division Director, Checkpoint Technologies Division
Passenger Screening Program Overview
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The People Screening Program (PSP) focuses on identifying, field testing, procuring, deploying, and sustaining equipment that detects explosives and/or prohibited items that may be concealed on people and/or their carry-on items. PSP’s four primary objectives are:
Enhance and Automate Threat
Detection
Enhance Collaboration with Stakeholders
Promote a positive passenger experience
Integrate Technology and Processes
People ScreeningProvides technical capability to allow Transportation Security Officers (TSO) to detect threats carried by passengers including explosives, weapons, and other prohibited items.
AIT, EMD, CPI, SSD, HRT
Layered SecurityProvides additional layers of capabilities outside of the checkpoint to create an enterprise security solution. Integrates passenger and baggage screening and provides technology capabilities beyond the checkpoint.
AWT, CAT/BPSS
Provides technical capability to allow TSOs to detect threats on or concealed in the passenger’s carry-on baggage including explosives, weapons, and other prohibited items.
AT, BLS, ETD, CAD
Carry-On Baggage
PSP Portfolios
TSA Pre ™
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•The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is undertaking efforts to focus its resources and improve the passenger experience at security checkpoints by applying new intelligence-driven, risk-based screening procedures and enhancing its use of technology.
•As part of TSA’s risk-based security efforts, TSA is in the process of testing and implementing several new screening concepts, which include an expedited screening program for airline pilots, expanded behavior detection techniques and evaluating modified screening procedures for travelers 75 and older.
•TSA Pre ™ is a pre-screening initiative that allows passengers to volunteer information about themselves prior to traveling domestically to expedite their checkpoint screening at participating airports.
•The TSA continues to evolve our security approach based on intelligence by examining the procedures and technologies we use, how specific security procedures are carried out, and how screening is conducted.
•Risk-based screening procedures in conjunction with enhancements to technology could allow officers to better focus their efforts on passengers who are more likely to pose a risk to the transportation system.
PSP Guiding Objectives
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Key program initiatives are aligned to PSP’s four guiding objectives.
Key Initiatives
• Passive Screening• Throughput enhancements• ATR
• Common Tech. Interface• Integrated Technologies• Standard Protocols
• AIT Automated Target Recognition (ATR)
• Liquids Aerosols & Gels (LAGs) Algorithms
• Research & Development• Qualification Readiness
Testing (QRT)• Industry Days
•Automation of the technology operations and scanning procedures is key to improving the operational efficiency, threat detection capabilities, and overall passenger experience at the passenger checkpoint.
1. Enhance and Automate Threat Detection
•Seeks to reduce the number of screening procedures required for each passenger and the footprint of technologies at the passenger checkpoint.
2. Integrate Technology and Processes
•Seeks to achieve a positive passenger experience by making technology procurement and deployment decisions that are respectful and accommodating of passenger health, privacy, and convenience through greater reliance on detection algorithms and less intrusive screening methods.
3. Promote a Positive Passenger Experience
•Seeks to maintain and build relationships with international and domestic partners, vendors, and the travelling public to develop collaborative security solutions and to share best practices.
4. Enhance Collaboration with Stakeholders
Objectives
PSP Priorities
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The Passenger Screening Program’s priorities focus on supporting the following:
Continued funding of key technologies which could include AIT, AT, CAT/BPSS,
and AWT.
Funding of Engineering Initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of the systems
being fielded.
Funding for testing of new technology and versions to enhance the scope and
efficiency of security technology.
AIT Overview
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Advanced Imaging Technology
Technology Overview• AIT provides enhanced capabilities to detect both metallic and non-metallic threats (to include explosives) located on the
passengers body• Automated Target Recognition (ATR) eliminates the need for communication between the Image Operator and Screening
Operator, which increases passenger throughput and reduces staffing costs• AIT-2 units will have increased detection performance, faster processing times and a smaller footprint
Current Status• Deploy AIT ATR units
Procure AIT-2 LRIP units and commence operational assessments
Benefits• Privacy: Provides enhanced detection capabilities and an alternative to the physical pat
down at the security checkpoint• Security: Offers a significant increase in detection capabilities for non-metallic threats
in addition to metallic threats• Passenger choice: Passengers can opt-out of AIT screening.
AT Overview
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Advanced Technologygy
Benefits � Improved Passenger Experience: Reduce passenger wait times by allowing
passengers to keep liquids and laptops in bags (future upgrades). � Incremental Upgradability: Ability to optimize checkpoint through its platform for the
future, which can be upgraded as new capabilities are developed.� Increased Security Effectiveness: Multi-views present x-ray imaging of carry-on
articles from various angles, reduces the potential for masking, and has an increased detection of threats through use of additional views.
Current Status• Deploy AT-2 systems and
upgrade existing fleet of AT-1 to be AT-2 compliant
• Evaluate advanced detection tiers
Technology OverviewThe AT provides TSA with the ability to detect a wide range of threats within carry-on baggage by providing a clear, high-definition X-ray image. AT-2 technology detects increasingly sophisticated threats while attempting to reduce the burden on the travelling public with the intent to remove restrictions on liquids and electronics in carry-on bags.
CAT/BPSS Overview
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Credential Authentication Technology / Boarding Pass Scanning System
Technology Overview• CAT/BPSS is an automated system that provides TSA the capability to
authenticate passenger identification and boarding passes at the checkpoint.
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Benefits • Security: Combination of these technologies will provide an additional layer of security to the public . Will provide improved
detection of fraudulent or invalid passenger IDs and boarding passes.• Efficiency: Makes the screening process more efficient, speeding up time for passengers to get through the checkpoint.
Provides a streamlined procedure for verifying boarding passes and IDs. Improved customer satisfaction.• Validity: TSA security personnel will easily be able to identify whether the information on the boarding pass and the ID
match. Ensures passengers with valid IDs and Boarding Passes are granted access through the checkpoint .• Real-Time Checkpoint Situational Awareness: Machines will soon be networked to allow for real-time validation of
passenger IDs and boarding passes against watch lists and intelligence reports.
Current Status• Assess technology in the
operational environment
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Additional Project Updates• Portable Explosives Trace Detector (PETD)
– QT&E completed for one vendor– OT&E scheduled for Summer 2012
• Automated Wait Times (AWT) – QT&E underway– OT&E anticipated Summer 2012
• Handheld Resolution Tool (HRT)– An emerging handheld technology that is used to resolve alarms on passengers as a result
of the primary screening process and reduce the number of pat downs required– Integrated product team (IPT) is chartered to develop the ConOps and requirements
• Bottled Liquid Scanner (BLS)– Working to qualify additional technologies for the BLS QPL– Incorporating BLS into HME mitigation strategy (resolution tool)– Improving detection on complex bottle types (opaque, metal)
The DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is responsible for coordinating all DHS Research and Development efforts.
• TSA and DHS S&T developed strategic goals for technology investments that will guide the identification, evaluation, and management of R&D initiatives:
1. Improve understanding of evolving threats and mitigate vulnerabilities2. Manage passenger privacy concerns in aviation security through increased integration and
automation of security screening processes3. Develop enhanced technologies and capabilities to enable risk-based and intelligence-
driven screening processes4. Increase capability to respond to emerging threats through development of flexible security
solutions5. Apply science and technology breakthroughs to advance security solutions
• S&T works with TSA to identify which initiatives should be considered for R&D investment• S&T will release directed BAAs to address R&D requirements• Industry collaboration workshops subsequent to the release of BAAs will be held to ensure
clarity of the requirement
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Research and Development Approach
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Qualification Readiness Testing
The DHS Transportation Security Lab’s Qualification Readiness Testing (QRT) process is a public-private partnership to expedite the maturation and deployment of security technologies.
• QRT is recommended step prior to official Qualification Testing • QRT Goals:
- Reduce time-to-market for emergent technologies- Provide technological partners with guidance via T&E data to promote development- Protect integrity of IT&E
• In contrast to Qualification Testing done by IT&E, Qualification Readiness Testing is:
- Cooperative: Detailed feedback to partner, to effect system improvements - Iterative: Tests can be repeated as systems are refined
• PSP is in the process of establishing and fine-tuning the QRT process
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Engaging with TSATSA’s highly selective procurement process focuses on identifying vendors that provide systems, which align with the mission needs, enable the operational capabilities desired, and pose the least amount of risk to the programs
How can you
engage with TSA?
RFIs
Open Solicitations
TSL Lab AssessmentsTSA BAAs
DHS BAAs
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