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Speakers Connect:ID Day Two – Tuesday 15 March 2016
is on identity-based applications, mostly related to security, and accepted by
most people as absolutely essential as part of any public conveyance travel
process. We want to make these necessary security operations as unobtrusive,
automated, efficient and effective as possible, respecting people’s privacy
and desire to self-serve as appropriate. However, making travel pleasant and
efficient will also depend on anonymous data related to individual travellers,
as well as data that characterizes the typical flow of traffic in and out of the
airport. Achieving the optimum future state will depend on the cooperative
integration of all the data and sensors associated with the airport, including
identity sensors, person sensors, and external data feeds. Seamless integration
of these data with appropriate applications, modelling, and dashboards
will improve flow, increase satisfaction, and reduce costs. This end-to-end
integration of data and processes across airport operations will yield benefits
to all stakeholders – necessary to gather support for the required changes.
Such concepts are also useable for land border and maritime port processes,
contributing to traveller familiarity and uniformity of experience across
transportation modalities.
Efficient and secure airport travel requires a large amount of data about
travellers and conveyances, both identity-based and anonymous;
Security depends on convenient, cost effective, and unobtrusive
identification technologies at appropriate points in the process flow;
Efficiency depends on the availability of anonymous data about volumes of
travellers, transit times, and arrival timing of conveyances (aeroplanes in
this case).
Biography
John Mears is a Senior Fellow for Information Technology and Security
Solutions within the Lockheed Martin (LM) IS&GS Civil division. He is
responsible for technology advocacy, independent research and development,
strategy development, operational technology insertion and growth, new
business assistance, and STEM/academic relationships.
Previously at LM, Mr Mears was Director of Biometrics and Identity
Management, including the TSA’s Transportation Worker’s Identification
Credential (TWIC) program, and the FBI’s Fingerprint Scanning Service.
Research initiatives include LM’s rapid DNA identification program, advanced
latent print image processing and, most recently, genomic forensics. His
current focus is national biometric systems, biometric entry/exit, border
security and immigration reform.
Mr Mears began his career with the IBM Corporation in Gaithersburg, Maryland,
where he held a number of increasingly responsible technical and management
positions, including lead system engineer for the world-wide Monitor Stations
(satellite tracking stations) of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Mr. Mears holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Florida, and he is an LM Certified Program Manager and Qualified
Capture Manager. Mr Mears is an Associate Member of the American Academy
of Forensic Sciences, Engineering Sciences Section, and a Director of the
International Biometrics and Identification Association (IBIA).
Janice Kephart
Director, Homeland Security Solutions, MorphoTrak, USA
Global trends in modernizing air travel: How
biometrics enhance security and facilitation
Time: 11:35am
Around the world, future borders are arriving. Seamless solutions are providing
border authorities with more accurate identity information to better assure
immigration entry and exit processing, while providing the traveller, airlines
and security personnel with a less stressful, faster experience. Fully integrated
border, security, baggage and boarding solutions with biometrics as the token
throughout the process are being deployed in Asia. These solutions are defining
and setting the benchmark for what is possible, practical and necessary to
increase security and facilitation as world travel – and the threat to world
travel – continues to escalate.
This brief will include relevant use cases and lessons learned from Asia
and elsewhere, highlighting what operations are transferrable to US port
environments.
The accurate identity information border authorities need to better assure
immigration entry and exit processing also enables travelers, airlines and
security personnel to create a less stressful, faster experience.
Projects using biometrics as token throughout the border, security, baggage
and boarding processes are being deployed in Asia.
In the face of the escalating threat to world travel, biometric
technologies integrated into air travel processes balance increased security
and travel facilitation.
Biography
Janice Kephart is the Director of Homeland Security Solutions at MorphoTrak,
LLC. As Director of Homeland, Kephart Security Solutions for MorphoTrak,
Kephart’s focus is to develop strategic partnerships with the US Department of
Homeland Security and integrators within the biometric security community,
and promote the use of MorphoTrak’s biometric solutions.
Kephart is a recognized border and ID security expert, who served as counsel
to the 9/11 Commission, and was a key author of the Staff Monograph, 9/11 and
Terrorist Travel, as well as the immigration and identity security-related facts
and recommendations in the 9/11 Commission Final Report.
Kephart was National Security Director at a Washington DC think tank for five
years, producing numerous reports cited by Congress and the media, as well as
a successful lobbyist for two years.
In 2015, Kephart was selected from 60+ industry and government nominations
as one of the five winners for the Women in Biometrics 2015 Award sponsored
by Avisian Publishing.
Kephart attended Duke University and Villanova Law School, and practiced
law in her original hometown of Philadelphia for two years prior to moving
to Washington DC. Duke University has featured Janice as one of the most
influential alums of the 1980s.
Stakeholder Debate: Automating airports with
next-generation identity technologies
Room 207A Time: 12:00
Panel led by: Ramsey Billups, IBIA Director, Vice President Biometrics Solutions,
3M Cogent, USA
Panelists:
Daniel Tanciar
Director, Travel and Tourism Initiatives, Office of Field Operations,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, USA
Biography
Daniel Tanciar currently serves as the Director of Travel and Tourism Initiatives
and lead business sponsor for the CBP Mobile Program for the Office of Field
Operations (OFO) within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The Office of
Field Operations Travel and Tourism Initiatives office has been created in support
of the objectives set forth in the Presidential Memorandum on travel and tourism
issued on May 22, 2014, aimed at improving all aspects of the international
arrivals process. The CBP Mobile Program bands together all of CBP operational
components (Border Patrol, Field Operations, and Air and Marine) requirements
for mobile enforcement hand held devices and brings law enforcement query
capability to agents and officers in a variety of operational environments.
Mr Tanciar was previously the Acting Chief of Staff for CBP’s Office of Field
Operations (OFO). As the Chief of Staff for OFO, he was responsible for
supporting the Assistant Commissioner in carrying out OFO’s vital mission of
guarding our nation’s borders. Immediately prior to becoming Acting Chief of
Staff, Mr Tanciar was the Director of the Immigration Advisory Program (IAP).
IAP is an essential part of CBP’s pre-departure screening strategy and enhances
security by deploying officers to foreign airports to prevent terrorists and other
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