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The Innovation Task Force (ITF) is a division within Requirements and Capabilities Analysis

(RCA) at TSA that demonstrates emerging people, process, and technology solutions in a live airport environment. These short-term pilots are used to inform future TSA requirements and provide vendors with feedback to mature solutions.

What is the Innovation Task Force?

April 7, 2017

BAA for Innovative Demonstration for Enterprise Advancement

Whitepapers Due by October 12, 2018

D o y o u h a v e t h e n e x t b i g I D E A ?

The IDEA BAA

What is the IDEA BAA?

ITF seeks to identify Innovative Demonstrations for Enterprise Advancement, or IDEAs, that can be demonstrated in a live airport environment. Solution providers are encouraged to submit people, process, and technology solutions that can enhance security effectiveness, address TSA capability gaps, improve screening efficiency, and enhance the passenger experience. Solutions should be sufficiently mature that they can be demonstrated by TSA in a live airport environment within six months.

What types of IDEAs are we looking for?

ITF consulted with stakeholders across TSA to establish a series of problem statements for this BAA. Vendors are asked to identify the one (1) problem statement most applicable for their solution.

Alarm Resolution Identity Verification

Emerging Threat Detection Automated Security Design

Passenger Communications Officer Tools

Passenger Load Distribution Vendor-Identified Problem

What is the submission process?

Solution providers should submit a whitepaper to ITF in order to be considered under this BAA.

Whitepapers

Review & Notification

Proposals (if selected)

Reviews & Pitches

Selection

The Process Whitepaper Format OptionsContent Requirements

• Company Information and Contact

• Solution Description

• Problem Statement Resolution

• Solution Past Performance

• Solution History with TSA/DHS

• Demonstration Feasibility

• Demonstration Goals

• Evaluation Metrics

• Cost Not Covered by the Vendor

Traditional Paper of no more than five (5) pages

Slide Deck presentation of no more than fifteen (15) slides)

Video Submission of no more than five (5) minutes with an accompanying transcript

How will TSA select IDEAs?

Each solution submitted to the IDEA BAA will undergo an exhaustive technical and panel review by stakeholders across TSA. Submissions will be reviewed for mission alignment, solution impact, feasibility, vendor capabilities, and resources/funding. TSA has not specified a specific number of solutions to be selected from this BAA or any target selection numbers for each problem submission.

Learn more about the IDEA BAA at bit.ly/TSAITFIDEA

Questions? Contact ITF at IDEA@tsa.dhs.gov

Not on Our Watch

Solutions Sought For:

mailto:IDEA@tsa.dhs.gov