Aviation Security Impact Assessment Working Group

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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Working Group
Transportation Security Administration

• Strategic Management Analysis
• Rich Hansen
• HQ Industrial Engineering
• September 30, 2004

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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Agenda

• Background
• Fact and Data Driven Discussion
• Work Group Proposal Rationale
• Summary and Needed Actions

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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Background

• Key US commercial aviation industry stakeholder
  discussion and focus since 9-11
• Secure and safe system
• Balanced affordability to achieve results
• Future risk and threat based decision making
  would benefit from modeled analysis
• Fact and data driven discussion and debate
• Economic effects and consequences resulting from
  considered change
• Economic cost and operational consequence model
  has been developed by an aviation
  industry/government team
• Completing development phase
• Nearing operational readiness

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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Fact Data
Driven Discussion and Debate

• Promotes knowledge learning cooperation between
  all effected parties and stakeholders
• Guides the evaluation analysis of alternatives
  where security benefits are equal
• Utilizes proven and established methodologies
• Public confidence requires demonstrated safe,
  secure and efficient operations
• Industry health and stability requires affordable
  balance between safety, security and efficiency

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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Working
Group Proposal

• Utilize models to assess the operational and
  economic impacts to the entire US Commercial
  Aviation System, resulting from proposed security
  improvements
• Aviation Industry/Government Team
• Modeling of economic systems expertise
• Expertise in airline, airport, and aviation
  security cost structure
• Derived benefits
• Formalize wider vetting of analysis results
• Public confidence resulting from demonstrated
  safe, secure and efficient operations

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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Structure
TSA Assistant Secretary
Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Aviation Security Impact Assessment Working Group
Aviation Security Impact Assessment Technical
Task Group
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Aviation Security Impact Assessment Summary and
Needed Actions

• Proactive recognition that a work group structure
  already exists
• Has technical task group developing fact data
  driven analysis
• Model has progressed beyond development phase
• Operational use necessitates FACA rule compliance
  to serve the agency
• Move the Aviation Security Impact Assessment
  Working Group under ASAC
• ASAC reviews final Working Group reports
• Vet summaries and conclusions
• Pass on recommendations to TSA Assistant
  Secretary
• Questions?