ASAC Freight Assessment System Working Group Briefing

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ASAC Freight Assessment System Working Group
Briefing
September 22, 2005
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Agenda

• ASAC FAS Working Group Milestones
• ASAC FAS Working Group Phase 1 Recommendations
• Freight Assessment System (FAS) Concept Overview
• FAS Proof of Concept

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ASAC FAS Working Group Milestones

• Below are some of the milestones related to the
  Working Groups efforts
• Sept. 30, 2004 ASAC approved formation of
  Working Group to focus on the Freight Assessment
  System
• Oct. 12, 2004 Initial meeting of the Working
  Group and Establishment of Working Groups Phase
  1 Charter
• Apr. 28, 2005 Working Group presented initial
  FAS recommendations to ASAC
• May 10, 2005 Establishment of Working Groups
  Phase 2 Charter
• To date, FAS Working Group has convened on nine
  occasions at TSA HQ

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ASAC FAS Working Group Recommendations

• The Working Group submitted a report on April 28,
  2005 containing initial recommendations, many of
  which are being implemented, such as
• Implement FAS in a phased approach
• After completion of the proof-of-concept, a
  review of lessons learned, and any necessary
  modifications, a phased deployment schedule is
  envisioned.
• Capture data as early as possible
• FAS is designed to collect information "upstream"
  from air carriers at earlier points in the supply
  chain.
• Develop a model which assesses the risks based on
  both individual data elements as well as their
  interrelationships
• The FAS risk assessment model will include an
  analysis of multiple data elements and the
  inter-dependencies between data elements.

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ASAC FAS Working Group Recommendations cont.

• The Working Group submitted a report on April 28,
  2005 containing initial recommendations, many of
  which are being implemented, such as
• Design an interface which collects and relays
  data in addition to providing near real-time risk
  assessment notification
• The FAS risk assessment model will include an
  analysis of many data elements and the
  inter-dependencies between many of the elements
  and provide notification of elevated risk cargo.
• Establish a FAS pilot program to validate system
  design and performance
• A proof-of-concept will initially occur to test
  the feasibility and effectiveness of the system
  technology and processes and to assess the impact
  on commerce/industry.
• Extend the life of the FAS Working Group to
  enable industry to have adequate input into FAS
  as it evolves
• TSA agreed with this recommendation and the full
  ASAC approved continuing the FAS WG through Phase
  2 at the April 28th meeting.

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Freight Assessment System (FAS) Overview
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FAS Introduction

• Freight Assessment System is a cornerstone of
  TSAs Air Cargo Strategy
• Goal Reduce risk associated with transporting
  cargo on passenger and all-cargo aircraft
• 100 pre-screening will identify elevated risk
  cargo that must be inspected by carriers
• Will incorporate elements of Known Shipper and
  Indirect Air Carrier programs combined with
  shipment specific data to determine level of risk
  for each shipment
• Will reduce current reliance on random inspection
  of cargo
• Responds to lack of currently practical and
  available means to effectively inspect 100 of
  air cargo without significantly impacting
  time-definite air cargo services
• Supports one of the goals of TSAs 2004 Air Cargo
  Strategic Plan, approved by Former Secretary
  Ridge in January 2004
• Enhance shipper and supply chain security
• Identify elevated risk cargo through prescreening
• Identify technology for performing targeted air
  cargo inspections
• Secure all cargo aircraft through appropriate
  facility security measures
• Aligned with the Aviation Security Advisory
  Committee (ASAC) Air Cargo Working Group
  recommendations
• "Our recommended layered solution consists of
  three layerscargo profiling, inspection,
  detection."

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FAS System Approach

• A collaborative initiative involving TSA and
  industry based on information sharing mindful
  of not placing duplicative data requests upon
  industry
• Seeks to leverage existing DHS expertise and
  infrastructure investments where appropriate
• Planned to be a flexible, scalable risk
  assessment process to assist in identifying
  elevated risk cargo for inspection
• Approach is consistent with the departments
  threat, vulnerability, and consequence
  methodology
• Specific benefits of FAS include
• Provides the government visibility into all
  domestic cargo movements, whereas this visibility
  was previously afforded only to international
  shipments
• Planned to be intelligent and easily modifiable.
  The system will constantly learn and optimize its
  risk model as transactions are processed and
  additional data is stored
• More effectively focuses industry and government
  resources on cargo assessed as elevated risk than
  through random inspections

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FAS Interaction with Industry

• The FAS approach has been driven by an extensive
  amount of interaction with representative air
  cargo companies and analysis of air freight
  business processes. This includes "field" visits
  with
• Major passenger air carriers (American,
  Continental, Southwest, United, etc)
• Regional passenger air carriers (American Eagle,
  Alaska Airlines, etc)
• Major all-cargo carriers (UPS, FedEx)
• Large Indirect Air Carriers (Eagle Global
  Logistics, DHL Danzas, BAX Global, etc)
• Small Indirect Air Carriers (Team Worldwide,
  CapLogistics, etc)
• Variety has allowed the program to consider broad
  mix of cargo types, cargo models (i.e., use of
  consolidator or 3PL versus direct ship to
  carrier), and technology capabilities FAS will
  need to accommodate when deployed.
• The FAS industry operations team has conducted
  process modeling and time/motion analysis of 24x7
  operations with numerous air cargo companies.
  This data will enable the FAS program to
• Establish a performance baseline against which to
  compare FAS results during/after future
  operational deployments (i.e., Did FAS introduce
  more time into the process or create new
  bottlenecks?)
• Assess data quality and availability at different
  points in the air cargo supply chain
• Determine which points of data collection and
  risk assessment "calculation" are optimal

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FAS Concept of Operations
Industry Users
Passenger Air Carrier
All Cargo Carrier
Broker / IAC
Manufacturer
Direct Shipper
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Screening and Targeting
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Government Analysts / Users
Analysis and
Rules Creation
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FAS Proof of Concept

• Final plans are being made for a proof-of-concept
  to be performed in
• conjunction with industry.
• This proof-of-concept will
• Utilize shipment data through collaboration with
  the air cargo industry
• Analyze submitted data to
• Evaluate how effectively TSA can identify
  elevated risk cargo on a per shipment basis
• Assess data quality
• Conclude with a review of lessons learned and
  recommendations for a path forward