# Presentation: 356568

## ASAC Freight Assessment System Working Group Briefing

**ASAC Freight Assessment System ****Working Group Briefing**

**September 22, 2005**

## Agenda

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

## ASAC FAS Working Group Milestones

- Below are some of the milestones related to the Working Group’s 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 Group’s Phase 1 Charter
-  Apr. 28, 2005:	Working Group presented initial FAS recommendations to 	ASAC
-  May 10, 2005:	Establishment of Working Group’s Phase 2 Charter
- To date, FAS Working Group has convened on nine occasions at TSA HQ

## 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.

## 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.

## Freight Assessment System 

**Freight Assessment System **
**(FAS) Overview**

## FAS Introduction

- Freight Assessment System is a cornerstone of TSA’s 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 TSA’s 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 layers..._cargo profiling_, inspection, detection."

## 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 department’s 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

## 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

## FAS Concept of Operations

**Government Analysts / Users**

-  Screening and Targeting

- Broker / IAC

- Direct Shipper

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- Management

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- Other TSA

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- TSA Air Cargo Systems

- Passenger
- Air Carrier

- All Cargo
- Carrier

- Industry Users

- Business

- Applications

- and Data

- Capture

- Risk

- Assessment

- Processing

- Analysis and

- Rules Creation

**FAS**

- Manufacturer

## 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