Hank Suderman Collection

1. Highway and Motor Carrier Truck and Hazmat Shipment Tracking Presented by Highway and Motor Carrier Division Transportation Security Administration Hank Suderman Collection

2. Highway and Motor Carrier • Hazmat Truck Security Pilot (Jan. 05 – Dec. 07) Objectives • Identify, test, and evaluate technologically different tracking solutions (50 states) commercially available • Prototype centralized truck tracking center • Non-proprietary universal interface between tracking systems and a tracking center • Feasibility of utilizing a universal interface between a truck tracking center and a government intelligence operations center • Independent evaluation of tracking center, interface, and feasibility study.

3. Highway and Motor Carrier • The HAZMAT Truck Security Pilot was a congressionally mandated pilotproject to design and build a centralized truck tracking center capability. • TSA developed a set of protocols capable of interfacing with existing truck tracking systems. • The desired outcome was to test the feasibility of a centralized truck tracking center and capability that allowed TSA to continually track truck locations and HAZMAT load types in all 50 states and to receive exception based events.

4. Highway and Motor Carrier StakeholderParticipation October 2005 – Program Started June 2006 – HAZMAT Tracking Security System (HTSS) Operational September 2007 – HTSS Fully Functional December 2007 – Pilot Concluded Industry Carriers – 10 Tracking Vendors – 7 Trucks - 128 • Government • Regional Public Safety • Western NY • North Carolina • Metropolitan DC Area • TSA • Transportation Sector Network Management • Highway and Motor Carrier • TSA Freedom Center (aka TSOC)

5. Highway and Motor Carrier Stakeholder Benefits • Real time exchange of critical information provides benefit • to all stakeholders. • Industry • Supports flow of commerce by: • -Using security threat information to adjust routes • -More timely identification and resolution of national • security events • Federal and Regional Government • Supports safeguarding security by: • -More timely awareness of carrier security events • -Comprehensive data set for emergency response • coordination

6. Highway and Motor Carrier The Way Forward • The 9/11 Act, Sec. 1554- Motor Carrier Security-Sensitive • Material Tracking: …shall develop a program to facilitate the tracking of motor carrier shipments of security-sensitive materials and to equip vehicles used in such shipments with technology that provides: • Frequent or continuous communications • Vehicle position location and tracking capabilities • A feature that allows a driver of such vehicles • to broadcast an emergency distress signal

7. Highway & Motor Carrier POCs • Bill Arrington, General Manager Highway and Motor Carrier Security Division Office: (571) 227-2436 Email: william.arrington@dhs.gov • Ray Cotton, Assistant General Manager Highway and Motor Carrier Security Division Office: (571) 227-4237 Email: ray.cotton@dhs.gov • Steve Sprague, Branch Chief Licensing & Infrastructure Branch Office: (571) 227-1468 Email: steve.sprague@dhs.gov • Phil Forjan, Branch Chief Truck and Motor Carrier Branch Office: (571) 227-1467 Email: phil.forjan@dhs.gov • Bud Hunt, Branch Chief Threat, Vulnerability, and Consequence Branch Office: 571-227-2152 Email: bud.hunt@dhs.gov • Paul Pitzer, Branch Chief Policy, Planning and Stakeholder Coordination Branch Office: 571-227-1233 Email: paul.pitzer@dhs.gov Website: http://www.tsa.gov/highway E-Mail: www.highwaysecurity@dhs.gov