Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)

Guidance for TWIC Reader Pilot Program

November 19, 2007

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What to Test

• Identity Verification– Ensure individual presenting TWIC is same person to whom that TWIC was

granted– Method of testing: Match live fingerprint to template stored on card or to local

access database

• Card Authentication– Ensure TWIC itself is a valid, TSA-issued card– Method of testing: Verify presence of CHUID and TSA digital signature

• Card Validity Check– Method of testing: Verify TWIC has not been placed on hotlist

• Recordkeeping– Track names, dates and times – Capability of retaining information for 2 years, either electronic or hard copy

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Where to Test – High Priority Locations

• Test a range of facility and vessel types – Geographic areas– Environmental conditions– Operational use cases

• Vessels– Ferries– Small passenger vessels– Tow boats – Deep draft

• Facilities– Receive vessels that carry hazardous materials with higher throughputs

• Container facilities

• Refineries

• Chemical plants

• Etc.

– Receive vessels that are certified to carry 500 or more passengers

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How to Test Vessel – Cruise Ship/Ferry

• Identity verification, card authentication, validity check

• Read at access control point

– Access control point may be located on servicing facility or upon embarkation to vessel

– Manned by designated security personnel with hand-held or permanently fixed biometric reader

• Ferries may use reader at a central location on vessel; security personnel must escort individual to reader

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How to Test Vessel – Cargo/Freight Vessel

• Identity verification, card authentication, validity check

• Read upon embarkation or prior to crossing gangway/boarding ladder

• Access control point manned by designated security personnel with hand-held or fixed biometric reader

• Fixed biometric readers require continuous monitoring of access control points by any combination of the following:– Watch keepers– Security guards– Deck watchers– Automatic intrusion detection devices– Surveillance equipment

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How to Test Vessel – Towing/Off-Shore Supply/Small Passenger

• Identity verification, card authentication, validity check with hand-held readers

• Read at access control point located on servicing facility or upon embarkation to vessel

• Read at centralized location on the vessel (requires escort to reader)

• Read at centralized location ashore

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How to Test Facility – Foot or Vehicle Traffic

• Identity verification, card authentication, validity check with hand-held or fixed readers

• Access control points manned by security personnel and/or physical access control devices including TWIC biometric readers

• Access granted using the following:– Closed-circuit television (CCTV) or other type of electronic monitoring

device where security personnel grants access from remote location using two-way communications

– Unmanned physical access control equipment located at the access point

– Security personnel reading TWICs and granting access at the access point

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How to Test Facility – Vessel Personnel Disembarking

• Vessel personnel disembarking shall have their TWIC validated in accordance with Declaration of Security (DoS) signed by FSO and VSO

• Validation scenarios may include the following:– Designated security personnel for the vessel or facility using a hand-held

TWIC biometric reader

– Using fixed TWIC biometric reader

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Reader Market

• Initial Technical Testing and Environmental Testing

• Pilot Test participants

• Voluntary acquisitions by facilities (and vessels?) in advance of regulatory requirements

• Acquisitions to comply with final card reader regulatory requirements

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Facilities – Receives Foreign Cargo Vessel >100 GRT

Port of Long Beach

Hanjin Shipping Terminal

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Facilities – Receives US Cargo Vessels >100 GRT Subject to 46 CFR subchapter I

Truck Entrance

Port of Los Angeles

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Facilities – Subject to 33 CFR parts 126, 127 or 154

Refinery

Sector New York AOR

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Facilities – Receives Passenger Vessels >150 Passengers

Bell Street Pier Cruise Ship Terminal, located near Todd Shipyard

Port of Seattle

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Facilities – Receives Vessels Subject to SOLAS

Passenger Boarding Bridge

Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal, NY

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Facilities – Barge Fleeting, Receives MTSA-Regulated Barges

Elmwood MarineCapacity: 455 Barges, between 2 fleets

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Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Facilities

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Vessels – Cargo >100 GRT & Subject to 46 CFR subchapter I

M/V PRESIDENT ADAMS

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Vessels – Tankship Subject to 46 CFR subchapters D or O

M/V ALASKAN NAVIGATOR, 110,693 GRT

Capacity: 1.3 Million Barrels

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Vessels – Passenger, Subject to 46 CFR subchapter H

Washington State Ferry – M/V TACOMA

Passengers: 2,500 Vehicles: 202

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Vessels – Passenger Vessel >150 Passengers

P/V CATHERINE MARIE, 240 passengers

Watermark Cruises, Annapolis, MD

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Vessels – Cruise Ship

P/V PRIDE OF AMERICA, 2,146 passengers

Norwegian Cruise Lines

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Vessels – Subject to 46 CFR subchapter L (Offshore Supply Vessel)

M/V GULF ENDEAVOR

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Vessels – Towing Engaged in Towing MTSA-Regulated Barge(s)

Kirby Inland MarineTowing Vessel engaged in towing MTSA-regulated barge

(Regulated by D/O or carrying CDC)

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Vessels – Mobile Off-Shore Drilling Unit (MODU)