IRIS Federal Air Marshals

IRIS: Agent Security for the Federal Air Marshals
(In use by FAMS since October 2009)

FAMS with the USC Team

People

	Current Team Milind Tambe Manish Jain Bo An Parth Shah
	Alumni Chris Kiekintveld

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.

IRIS is in use in limited international sectors by the Federal Air Marshals.

Awards

Certificate of Appreciation, IRIS Project

The IRIS research team led by Prof. Milind Tambe was presented the Certificate of Appreciation for IRIS Project, by the
Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service, 2011

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

Funded by

USC CREATE

Publications

Title	Author	Published At	Year
Mixed-Initiative Optimization in Security Games: A Preliminary Report	Bo An, Manish Jain, Milind Tambe and Christopher Kiekintveld	AAAI Spring Symposium on Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration	2011
Security Games with Arbitrary Schedules: A Branch and Price Approach	Manish Jain, Erim Kardes, Christopher Kiekintveld, Fernando Ordóñez, Milind Tambe	National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)	2010
Software Assistants for patrol planning at LAX and Federal Air Marshals Service	Manish Jain, James Pita, Jason Tsai, Christopher Kiekintveld, Shyamsunder Rathi, Fernando Ordóñez, Milind Tambe	Interfaces	2010
Stackelberg vs. Nash in Security Games: Interchangeability, Equivalence, and Uniqueness	Zhengyu Yin, Dmytro Korzhyk, Christopher Kiekintveld, Vincent Conitzer, and Milind Tambe	International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)	2010
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