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Transportation Security: Three Years After 9/11. Eva Lerner-Lam and Monica Isbell Palisades Security Consulting Team Presented at the ITS Washington Annual Meeting Tuesday, September 21, 2004. Overview of Presentation. What is being done today 3 years after attack on our homeland
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Transportation Security: Three Years After 9/11 Eva Lerner-Lam and Monica Isbell Palisades Security Consulting Team Presented at theITS Washington Annual Meeting Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Overview of Presentation • What is being done today • 3 years after attack on our homeland • 9/11 Commission Report • Legislative Initiatives in the 108th Congress • Emerging Issues • Process vs. technology (both are important, but technology is not the “magic bullet”) • “I can tell you, but then I’d have to shoot you…” • Who’s going to pay for all this?
What is Being Done Today: Better Integrated Planning • DHS is developing a National Response Plan (NRP) that consolidates and reconciles multiple national-level incident response plans into a single, focused, universally understood strategy
What is Being Done Today: Cargo • Every port in America has submitted a security plan • The Coast Guard is overseeing physical and procedural security improvements through federal grants and self-funding by ports
What is Being Done Today: Cargo • U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) screens data and documents of all imports and physically inspects 100% of cargo identified as “high risk.” • CBP continues to introduce new voluntary and mandatory programs covering imported cargo
What is Being Done Today: Cargo • Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (voluntary) • Container Security Initiative (CSI) (voluntary) • Random Non-Intrusive Inspections (NII) and Vehicle and Cargo Inspection Systems (VACIS)
What is Being Done Today: Cargo • 48-hour Port Entry application and notice to the Coast Guard for all vessels • Advance Manifest requirement for key data elements to enable CBP to perform risk assessment • Ocean cargo - before cargo loading at foreign port • Airfreight, rail and truck shipments - prior to entering U.S. borders
What is Being Done Today: Cargo • “Smart” technologies for cargo containers are being developed • High security seals • Container sensor devices to detect tampering, radiation, explosives, etc. • Costs must go down to encourage wide-spread use
What is Being Done Today: Passengers • Air Travel • Vulnerability assessments • Hardened cockpit doors on 100% of large passenger aircraft • 100% of all checked baggage is screened
What is Being Done Today: Passengers • Transit • Bus, Rail and Ferry Operators have performed vulnerability assessments of operations and facilities
What is Being Done Today: Passengers • Immigration • US-VISIT system links databases • TSA Secure Flight Program
What is Being Done Today: HazMat • Trucking and Rail • American Chemical Council and others have required security vulnerability assessment of all aspects including the accountability of security of chemicals in transit.
What is Being Done Today: Information Sharing • The Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) • New 24-hour Homeland Security Operations Center co-locates 35 different Federal agencies
What is Being Done Today: Response • Interoperability: • DHS’s Safecom and RapidCom programs • Developing a patch-panel device
What is Being Done Today: Training • 450,000+ first responders trained since FY2002
What is Being Done Today: Citizens • Citizen Preparedness: • National Preparedness Month • Citizen Corps Councils • Transit Watch
What is Being Done Today: People • BioShield Act of 2004: • BioShield ensures vaccines, drugs and medical supplies are ready for rapid distribution • BioWatch monitors air samples frequently in major urban cities nationwide
What is Being Done Today: Emerging Technologies • Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) • University-based partnerships
What is Being Done Today: Emerging Technologies • ITS methods and technologies and enhancements for: • Tracking of hazmats and other weapons/targets • System Security against terrorist interference
What is Being Done Today: Funding • Congressional Funding: • $19.8 billion in FY03 • $31.2 billion in FY04 • $40.2 billion in FY05 • Is this enough? If not, from where will the money come?
9/11 Commission Report: Key Finding • “Lack of Imagination” by people and organizations with responsibility for public safety and security
9/11 Commission Report Findings • “Fighting terrorism was not a high priority” • Capabilities of Intelligence, Defense and other agencies were constrained by antiquated and ineffective policies and processes • Inefficient management of government: “The enemy made mistakes; our government wasn’t able to capitalize on them.”
9/11 Commission Report Recommendations • DHS should develop an integrated plan to focus resources in a manner to best protect all the transportation modes • Seek improvements in technologies with applications across transportation modes • Standardize equipment, data, processes
Pending Congressional Legislation • 9/11 Commission Report Implementation Act of 2004
Pending Congressional Legislation • Fifty other bills related to “Transportation Security” including: • Intermodal Shipping Container Security Act (S.2297.IS) • Rail Security Act of 2004 (S.2273.RS) • Safe TRAINS Act (H.R.4361.IH) • Rail Transit Security and Safety Act of 2004 (H.R.4476.IH) • Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (S.2453.RS/H.5082)
Emerging Issue #1:Over-Reliance on Technology • Technology can only go so far; must address Process • Process improvements include: • “Layered” security throughout the system • Employee duties adapted for security • Companies securing their supply chains • Interoperability of systems • Standards, protocols, interfaces are very critical!
Emerging Issue #2:Increasing Reluctance to Share Information and Best Practices • Notion that security-related projects must be kept secret, even among peers and colleagues, for fear of information falling into the “wrong hands” (or those of a competitor) • Need to find a way to exchange knowledge or we risk unnecessary duplication of effort--or worse • To “win the war” we need to find ways to communicate with each other on the “battlefield”!
Emerging Issue #3:Who’s paying for all this security? • Partnership between government, private sector and users
Contributors and Reviewers • Donald Estes, Sonalysts, Inc. • Ric Finn, Sonalysts, Inc. • George Kovatch, Kovatch Consulting • Ronald S. Libengood, CPP, Securacomm, Inc. • Tom McPherson, Sonalysts, Inc. • William C. Nicholson, Widener University School of Law • Pete Sklannik, Jr., Chief Operating Officer, Trinity Railway Express