Operation Safe Commerce
Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Tim Williamson – Maritime Cargo Branch
Transportation Security
Administration
M&L Security Organizational Chart
Assistant Administrator for
Maritime and Land Security
Chief of Staff
Administrative
Officer
Admin. Support
Director
of
Stakeholder
Relations
Domestic
International
Congressional
AA Coordinator
and Special
Project Staff
Director of
Performance
Standards and
Resource
Management
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Director
of
Response
Preparedness
Director
of
Passenger
Security
Director
of
Transportation
Infrastructure
Security
Risk
Management
& Analysis
Maritime
Maritime
Maritime
Maritime
Rail
Rail
Rail
Rail
Grants
Administration
Highway
Highway
Highway
Highway
Air Cargo
Mass Transit
Mass Transit
Performance
Management
Budget
Pipe Lines
Mass Transit
Operations Center
Investigations
Exercises
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Director
of
Cargo Security
Fusion Center
Pipe Lines
Credentialing
Program Office
Transportation Security
Administration
M&L Security Organizational Chart
Chief of Staff of Cargo
Director
Security
Administrative
AA Coordinator
Officer
Assistant Administrator for
Maritime and Land Security
Deputy Assistant Administrator
and Special
SteveProject
Rybicki
Staff
Admin. Support
Cargo Security
Director of
Performance
and
BranchStandards
Chiefs:
Director
of
Stakeholder
Relations
Resource
Management
Maritime –Risk
Bud Hunt
Domestic
International
Management
& Analysis
Rail – James
Dunn
Grants
Congressional
Administration
Highway – Kevin
Johnson
Performance
Director
of
Response
Preparedness
Director
of
Passenger
Security
Director
of
Transportation
Infrastructure
Security
Maritime
Maritime
Maritime
Maritime
Rail
Rail
Rail
Rail
Highway
Highway
Highway
Air Cargo
Mass Transit
Mass Transit
Highway
Pipe Lines
Management
Mass Transit
Budget
Operations Center
Investigations
Exercises
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Director
of
Cargo Security
Fusion Center
Pipe Lines
Credentialing
Program Office
Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Strategic Goal
Ensure that no terrorist or other individual is successful in causing
harm or significant disruption to the maritime and surface
transportation systems.
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Security in Depth
• Multi-dimensional operating plan:
– Domain Awareness – Gain awareness of full
scope of activities in our domain of responsibility
– Prevent Disruptions – Deter foreign and
domestic terrorists from causing harm or disrupting
the transportation system and its users
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Security in Depth
• Multi-dimensional operating plan:
– Respond – Mitigate security breeches by ensuring
agile incident response capability coordinated to
swiftly and effectively restore freedom of movement
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Strategic Approach
• “National Transportation System Security Manager”
• Capitalize on existing Modal Programs, Infrastructure, and
Stakeholder Relationships
– Identify methods/measures already in place to
implement standards
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Strategic Approach
• Risk based management
• Set national standards and promulgate regulations and
reach goal of 100% compliance
• Articulate national transportation security system goals
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime & Land Security
Strategic Approach
• Establish and maintain stakeholder outreach
• Seek resources, legislation, and policy opportunities that
support these strategies
• Response capability
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime Cargo Security
Mission
To protect the people of the U.S. by securing maritime cargo
transportation, ensuring freedom of commerce, identifying
security risks, addressing threats, and preventing the use of
maritime cargo as an instrument to conduct acts of terrorism.
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Transportation Security
Administration
Maritime Cargo Challenge
• Importation of 6 million
containers a year
• 988,233,000 short tons of
petroleum shipped in 1997
• 271,742,000 short tons of
food/farm products shipped
in 1997
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• Enhanced use of technology
and revised business
practices
Transportation Security
Administration
Secure Systems of Transportation (SST)
• Maritime Transportation Security Act/2002
– Authorized enactment of regulations to establish Secure
Systems of Transportation (SST)
– R&D of standards, practices and programs for the safe
and expeditious movement of cargo
• Implementation
– Operation Safe Commerce (OSC)
– Maritime Shipper Verification
– Other programs
• Target Date
– January 2004
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Transportation Security
Administration
OSC – Phase I (New England)
• Public-private partnership
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–
–
examine supply chain
review security technology
field demonstration
• Results from Phase I
- Coordination of modes
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Systems approach
Feasible solution
Sensitivity
Evaluation
Scope (entire supply chain)
Transportation Security
Administration
OSC - Phase II
• Funded in FY 02 and FY03 Appropriations by US
Senate
• Grants to three largest U.S. container load centers
– Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
– Ports of Seattle and Tacoma
– Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Pilot projects to address container vulnerabilities
• Interagency Cooperation
– OSC Executive Steering Committee
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Transportation Security
Administration
OSC Executive Steering Committee
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Co Chairs
– Under Secretary, Department of Transportation
– Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Customs & Border
Protection, Department of Homeland Security
Members
– Department of Homeland Security
• Transportation Security Administration
• United States Coast Guard
– Department of State
– Department of Commerce
– Department of Justice
• Peter W. Hall, U.S. Attorney, District of Vermont
– Co Chair of OSC New England
Transportation Security
Administration
Phase II Elements
Cooperative Agreement
– Identify supply chain
– Conduct security analysis
– Identify solutions to
improve supply chain
security
– Test solutions in
operating environment
– Do they work?
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Transportation Security
Administration
First Critical Component of OSC
Demonstrate reasonable
care and due diligence
by investigating
container shipments …
Packaging
Security &
Manifesting
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Transportation Security
Administration
Second Critical Component of OSC
• Ensure information and
documentation is:
– Complete
– Accurate
– Secure
• May need to send in a
secure electronic format
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Transportation Security
Administration
Third Critical Component of OSC
Test Supply Chain Security
Practices & Procedures:
– Determine impact of:
• enhanced manifest
data elements
• Sealing procedures
(including intrusion
detection)
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Transportation Security
Administration
Proposal Review, Selection, and
Award Process
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•
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Relevance and importance
Candidate supply chains
Stakeholder involvement
Technical quality of the proposal
Appropriateness of budget
Transportation Security
Administration
OSC Status and Timeline
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Grant Application Closed: March 20, 2003
•
Applications Received
– 33 Projects from 3 Load Centers
– $97.9 million requested
• Award Cooperative Agreements June/July 2003.
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FY 02 - $28 million appropriated
FY 03 - $30 million appropriated
Transportation Security
Administration
OSC Contact Information
• Tim Williamson, Maritime Cargo Security
Address: Maritime & Land Security
TSA Headquarters
West Tower, 10th Floor
400 7th Street, SW
Washington DC 20590
• Phone: 571-227-2188
• Email: OSC@dhs.gov
Sent for approval to TSA public affairs 4/9/10
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