DHS TSA RFI: Law Enforcement Coordination and Assessment Integration Services

Notice ID: 70T01024I6116N111

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS) office requires program support for the law enforcement, assessment, and insider threat programs to create an integrated network of law enforcement activities. Given that the definition of insider threat in the context of transportation establishes a significant and expansive landscape, it is essential to develop structures that integrate law enforcement operations to create clear lines of effort and ensure the security of the nation’s transportation system.

TSA LE/FAMS has continued to adapt its approach to the diverse set of transportation threats since the events of September 11, 2001. Recently, LE/FAMS released a comprehensive roadmap to establish a new strategic vision that enhances security through proactive and agile detection, assessment, and response capacity. This overarching driver has bolstered initiatives and activities across the organization that mitigate insider threats, unauthorized use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and transportation system vulnerabilities.

In order to counter evolving threats and attain mission outcomes across LE/FAMS, this effort will focus on integration, capacity building, and programmatic enhancement. These will be accomplished through a variety of activities including strategic initiative design and support; revision of foundational and supporting documents; interagency coordination support; de-confliction across internal, mutual mission areas; risk mitigation and analysis; program evaluations; and data and performance metric development.

Requirements

Operational Integration LE/FAMS must ensure rapid integration of multiple law enforcement and threat assessment functions in support of organizational objectives that is supported by foundational documents and effective program oversight.

• Assess people, process, culture, authorities, policy, and technology to develop a plan to integrate law enforcement functions, to include that of field-based liaisons and task force officers, in order to ensure a coordinated response to threats within the transportation system.
• Conduct an assessment of field office areas of responsibility and avenues for increasing operational activities at and beyond contiguous transportation locations that conform to budgetary and staffing constraints.
• Identify and support implementation of processes that capture and communicate outputs and outcomes and ensure timely information sharing for critical program areas.
• Identify technical and operational requirements for field-based, multi-disciplinary teams that have the ability to detect, assess, and respond to threats across their geographic area of responsibility.

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