Self Screening White Paper General Comments.pdf
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- Passenger Self Screening Systems for Aviation Checkpoints Solicitation Federal contract opportunity
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- 70RSAT20RB00000002
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This document contains a federal contract opportunity and related comments on a white paper solicitation. The solicitation seeks white paper submissions to develop system design concepts and rapidly mature potential hardware subsystems from TRL 6 or above to design passenger self-screening solutions for aviation checkpoints within twelve months. Submissions are due no later than August 5, 2020 through the S&T BAA portal. A signed company agreement is required for compliance. The comments provide clarification that the focus is the TSA PreCheck environment and detecting attempts to circumvent screening rather than behavior detection. Risk mitigation strategies using high TRL solutions are recommended if identified subsystems are unavailable or requirements change. Opportunities to reduce costs by minimizing new hardware acquisition and sharing existing equipment with TSA or S&T are also suggested.
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Comments for Call Solicitation 70RSAT20RB00000002
Overall
• This solicitation seeks to develop system design concepts and to rapidly mature potential hardware subsystems from TRL 6 or above in twelve months or less (Paragraph 1.3). DHS S&T recognizes that TRL 5+ hardware and software technologies currently exist that may be excellent fits for future self-screening system or subsystem requirements. Offerors who were not encouraged for full proposal submission should not assume that DHS S&T is not interested in their technology in future solicitations for development of Passenger Self-Screening solutions.
• This call is not focused on detecting suspicious behavior or identifying signs of stress but is initially targeted towards the TSA PreCheck environment (Paragraph 1.2). References to anomalous activity (Paragraph 1.3) were referring to attempts to probe systems for vulnerability or to thwart the screening process.
Offerors are reminded of the following Question and Answer included as part of Amendment 1:
o Q: Section 3, Page 6 In TTA # 3 – please expand on what is anomalous passenger behavior? Are these signs of malicious intent similar to Behavior Detection Analysis techniques used by TSA BDOs? Is DHS interested in multiple technologies for automated detection of bad intentions (e.g. voice stress analysis, gait analysis, facial thermography, skin conductivity (sweat), other biomarkers indicative of malicious intent)?
o A: No, the intention is not similar to Behavior Detection Analysis. The intention is to detect activities such as trying to circumvent the self-screening process, probe the self-screening process for vulnerabilities, or similar activities. A hypothetical example would be to identify a passenger throwing a handgun over the side of a self-screening "pod" so an adversary could complete the process and retrieve the handgun on the sterile side of the process.
TTA 1
• DHS S&T appreciates that many white papers identified potential subsystems that may contribute to the offerors’ vision of a Passenger Self-Screening Concept. Because of the technical risk associated with technology maturation, DHS S&T strongly recommends that, in responding to future solicitations, offerors identify risk mitigation strategies using high TRL solutions if identified subsystems are not available or requirements evolve. Other subsystems presented interesting concepts but did not focus on screening of passengers and/or their property (Paragraph 1.2).
• DHS S&T reminds offerors intending to submit full proposals of the following Question and Answer included as part of Amendment 1:
o Q: Section 3, Page 4 What is the minimum requirement for TRL level for TTA #1 prototype?
o A: There is no formal requirement for TRL level for TTA #1 as the task seeks to design a system concept. However, design concepts submitted under TTA #1 should be designed to be able to incorporate mature technology components as well as new capabilities as they become available (e.g. TTA #2, TTA#3 proposed technologies). Technical risk is a component of the evaluation to assess the likelihood that a proposed concept will meet DHS requirements.
TTA 2
• At this stage, DHS S&T would like to focus its resources on rapid technology maturation and concept designs. S&T recommends that, in responding to future solicitations, offerors identify opportunities to reduce costs by minimizing acquisition of TRL 7+ hardware wherever possible.
This could be accomplished through bailments or sharing of equipment currently available to TSA or S&T.
TTA 3
• Some submissions addressed software solutions for a self-screening solution that has yet to be defined. Some subsystem concepts may be included in a future RFP as specific system concept requirements and associated data required for algorithm development become available.
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