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US Transportation Security Administration | Department of Homeland security

Solutions | Freight Assessment System (FAS)

| Cargo Reporting Tool

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in the aftermath of 9/11 to improve transportation security without significantly impacting the flow of commerce. “Within a year, TSA assumed responsibility for security at the nation’s airports and deployed a federal workforce to screen all commercial airline passengers and baggage.”

NTELX began supporting TSA’s efforts to employ a risk-based strategy to inspect cargo traveling on board passenger aircraft in 2006 through its Freight Assessment System.

In 2008, Congress mandated that TSA institute a 100% screening program for cargo transported on passenger aircraft. TSA’s response was to develop a program where it required the air cargo industry to perform the screening and to report to TSA monthly screening results. In response, NTELX provided TSA a Cargo Reporting Tool, a module of FAS.

Case Studies

• US Food and Drug Administration

Front-line inspectors at ports and border crossings remain the linchpin for the US Food and Drug Administration’s food and medical device surety efforts. With the increasing volume and complexity of food and medical imports, supplying these inspectors with automated, actionable information to use in their inspection decisions has become imperative.

• US Consumer Product Safety Commission
CPSC is responsible for ensuring that products imported into the US are not in violation of any laws or provisions enforced by the agency; with the ever growing number of imports, CPSC needed a system to improve the allocation of its limited resources to identify potentially violative packages.

• Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority Jordan

Jordan’s Ministry of Transport and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) turned to NTELX to design and develop a Truck Control System (TCS) to coordinate the movements of trucks through Aqaba.

• US Department of Defense

Every day, more than 2 million commercial maritime containers move on ships carrying goods between the world’s ports. NTELX was among the first to identify threats and to define and support the information paradigm that now underlies our national and homeland security efforts in this area.

• US Transportation Security Administration

The US Transportation Security Administration is required to work with the airline industry to identify and inspect "at-risk" cargo shipments in a way that both addresses the threat and minimizes the cost, the operational burden, and the impact on processing times to the carriers, shippers, and consignees.

• The Public Consulting Group (PCG)

A major challenge facing PCG is the efficient and accurate identification of high-potential SSI and SSDI applicants from a large pool of potential applicants. PCG outsources data management and analytical services to meet this challenge.

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