IRIS: Agent Security for the Federal Air Marshals (Currently in Pilot evaluation phase)

People

• Milind Tambe
• Fernando Ordonez
• Chris Kiekintveld
• Jason Tsai
• Shyamsunder Rathi
• Harish Kumar Bellamane

Motivation

With approximately 29,000 commercial flights per day in United States airspace, the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) prioritizes allocation of resources based on risk. The current process follows the FAMS Concept of Operations and the DHS risk methodology by assigning FAM deployments based on consequence, vulnerability and threat. FAMS continually looks for process improvements to most efficiently mitigate the risks from the highest risk flights. One process improvement FAMS is currently examining is the ARMOR application. This application could aid FAMS in applying randomness in selection of a set of high risk flights to increase terrorist uncertainty of FAMS deployments.

Recent News

• Viterbi News Article, May 2009: Work on emerging IRIS system takes Best Paper - Industry Track award in Budapest


• USC Security Randomization Application, The ARMOR System, Studied for Use by Air Marshals
  Viterbi News Article: Success of Viterbi School's "keep the bad guys guessing" program at LAX leads to new partnership
  Daily Trojan Article: Viterbi presents plan for air marshals

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Publications

Title	Author	Published At	Year	Download
Computing Optimal Randomized Resource Allocations for Massive Security Games	Christopher Kiekintveld, Manish Jain, Jason Tsai, James Pita, Fernando Ordóñez, Milind Tambe	The Eight International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems	2009
IRIS - A Tool for Strategic Security Allocation in Transportation Networks	Jason Tsai, Shyamsunder Rathi, Christopher Kiekintveld, Fernando Ordóñez, Milind Tambe	The Eight International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Industry Track	2009

If you have any questions about the contents of this page please contact Harish Bellamane ( bellaman@usc.edu )