TSA Exercise Information System

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the Secretary of Homeland Security. Pursuant to DHS Delegation Number 7060.2, the Secretary delegated
to the Assistant Secretary (then referred to as the Administrator of TSA), subject to the Secretary s
guidance and control, the authority vested in the Secretary with respect to TSA, including that in section
403(2) of the HAS.
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Pub. L. 110-53 (August 3, 2007).
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9/11 Act secs. 1407 (codified at 6 U.S.C. 1136(a)), 1516 (codified at 6 U.S.C. 1166), and 1533 (codified
at 6 U.S.C. 1183). See also the Security and Accountability for Every port Act of 2006 (SAFE Port Act),
Pub. L. 109-347 (Oct. 13, 2006) (codified at 6 U.S.C. 911 (a)).
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The program tags exercise objectives, scenarios, and findings, in order to
automatically populate the database with lessons learned from past exercises conducted
in similar environments. Users can not only call up their own past experiences, but
identify lessons learned by other organizations in the industry. Recognizing the extent to
which surface modes include thousands of geographically dispersed owner/operators,
such a web-based capability is invaluable for connecting and sharing information.
By linking exercise communities, users can also tackle cross-jurisdictional
issues, such as interoperability. Users are able to focus on the underlying issues of
transportation security and preparedness, and avoid repeating costly mistakes. Finally,
users can also provide feedback on the usefulness of EXIS itself so that TSA may
improve this system to better suit the stakeholders future security needs.
TSA intends EXIS to be used primarily by individuals with security
responsibilities, such as heads of security, for public and private owner/operators in the
surface transpiration community, including mass transit systems, freight/rail operators,
highway/trucking companies, school bus operators, and pipeline systems. These
individuals, and other stakeholders, can voluntarily contact TSA to request access to
EXIS; TSA does not require participation in EXIS. Those seeking access or desiring
more information about I-STEP products and services can contact a TSA modal
representative or send their request by e-mail to ISTEP@dhs.gov.
Description of Data Collection
TSA will collect five types of information through EXIS. The collection is
voluntary. EXIS users are not required to provide all information requested however, if
users choose to withhold information, they will not receive the benefits of EXIS
associated with that information collection.
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1. User registration information. TSA will collect this information to ensure only
those members of the transportation community with a relevant interest in conducting
security training exercises and with an appropriate level of need to access security
training information can be allowed onto EXIS. Such registration information will
include the user s name, professional contact information, agency/company, job title,
employer, and employment verification contact information.
2. Desired nature and scope of the exercise. TSA will collect this information to
generate an EXIS training exercise appropriate for the particular user. Users are asked to
submit their desired transportation mode, exercise properties, objectives, scenario events,
other participating agencies, and pre-exercise data (to assess the user s state of readiness
for transportation security incidents prior to the exercise).
3. Corrective actions/lessons learned/best practices. TSA collects this
information to document and share the users ideas and methods for improving
transportation security with other transportation stakeholders.
4. Evaluation feedback. TSA collects this information for the purpose of
evaluating the usefulness of EXIS in facilitating security training exercises for the users.
TSA can then modify EXIS to better suit its users needs.
5. After-Action Reports. TSA collects reports that summarize information from
items (2) and (3) mentioned above in order to create formal After-Action Reports. This
includes reports on the exercise overview, goals and objectives, scenario event synopsis,
analysis of critical issues, exercise design characteristics, conclusions, and the executive
summary.
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Use of Results
TSA will use this information to assess and improve the capabilities of all surface
transportation modes to prevent, prepare for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover
from transportation security incidents. A failure to collect this information will limit
TSA s ability to effectively test security countermeasures, security plans, and the ability
of a modal operator to respond to and quickly recover after a transportation security
incident. Insufficient awareness, prevention, response, and recovery to a transportation
security incident will result in increased vulnerability of the U.S. transportation network
and a reduced ability of DHS to assess system readiness.
Based on industry population estimates and growth rates, and interest generated
amongst the surface transportation modes prior to EXIS release to the public, TSA
estimates that there will be approximately 380,000 users within the first three years of the
system s use. TSA estimates users will spend approximately 8 hours per EXIS user
inputting the information described above. TSA estimates that an EXIS user will conduct
one security training exercise per year. Given this information, the total annual hour
burden for this information collection for all respondents within the first three years of
EXIS release is estimated to be approximately 3,000,000. There are no fees to use
EXIS. The total annual cost burden to respondents is $0.00.
Issued in Arlington, Virginia, on January 3, 2011. .
Joanna Johnson,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer,
Office of Information Technology.
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[FR Doc. 2011-21 Filed 01/05/2011 at 8:45 am; Publication Date: 01/06/2011]
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