Point FWD and SecureInsights are honored and delighted to have been awarded First Place in Transportation Security Administration and TechConnectVentures “Power of Passengers Challenge”.
Our winning submission for Operational Efficiency adapts our Checkpoint Insight Tool to optimize and enhance checkpoint security screening at US airports.
Please find the official press-release at the official Power of Passengers Challenge webpage.
The challenge
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for general coordination and operation of aviation security at US airports. TSA screened nearly 2.3 million passengers in the United States of America at 440 federalized airports on a regular day before Covid-19.
The combined domestic and international efforts of the TSA both utilize and generate large amounts of logistical, operational, and security data. In keeping with the mission and vision of the agency, the TSA seeks to harness new approaches, as well as innovations, from other industries to improve overall security effectiveness, operational efficiency, and passenger security screening experience.
Of particular interest to the agency are approaches that provide insight into the following topics: Situational and/or operational awareness, Security screenings, Passenger arrivals, International arrival transfers, Covid-19 recovery
More info on the background and details of the challenge can be found at the challenge website.
Our Submission
Secure Insights and Point FWD have joined forces to propose TSA how existing and new data points from the security checkpoint can lead to a full understanding of checkpoint-specific security operations.
Our solution supports improved operational efficiencies to transform the overall passenger checkpoint security screening experience. We leverage existing data that is generated in security screening process today and combine objective and reliable additional passenger process data, such as divesting times and other data points gathered by following the process from the passengers' point of view.
The key element in our approach is to put the Passenger First, capturing the full passenger journey throughout the security screening process. This way, bottlenecks can be identified and can be related to system performance if necessary, resulting in adequate actions to optimize security checkpoint process situations.
More info, as well as demo requests on CIT can be found at our Checkpoint Insight Tool solution page.
The prize
By submitting our solution we are very delighted to have been marked as the First Prize winner in the Operational Efficiency category. Besides winning $25.000, TSA may offer non-monetary awards including (vendor) partnerships and entries to other interesting industry organizations.
As a Team, we look very much forward exploring how to operationalise our proposed solution.
More info on the background and details of the challenge can be found at the challenge website.
Team
No one can go at it alone, but lean, focused advocacy will accelerate your business. SecureInsights offers hands-on, comprehensive work to drive business and technology objectives. As trusted partners, we have stood by our clients for years, providing consistent, indispensable service.
The partners at SecureInsights proudly support security missions world-wide and engage in the development of innovative solutions to address complex operational and security challenges.
Point FWD guides airports, security companies and equipment manufacturers in reaching the next optimal state of the security checkpoint environment. They do this by strongly tying security technology implementation to local process insights and holistic process (data) modelling.
The main challenge is to reach balance between the various components of configuration, CONOPs and man-machine interaction, within the available checkpoint spacing. The core of Point FWD’s advice is to provide practical handles meant to be used in strategic and operationally tactic decision-making processes.