Configuration Management and Performance Verification of Explosives-Detection Systems (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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Most recently, the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security published a report specifically addressing aviation security (White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 1997~. These events, along with other terrorist incidents in the United States and throughout the world and the perceived vulnerability and visibility of commercial airplanes as the targets of such terrorism, have sparked vigorous debate on how to improve aviation security.
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with performance verification, which provides a direct measure of system FAA AVIATION SECURITY PROG RAM The FAA Aviation Security Program, by regulating the deployment of systems and other equipment to detect explosives, is embarking on a new phase in ensuring aviation security. The FAA' s role in this mix of configuration management and performance verification is complicated.
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The National Research Council appointed a panelthe Panel on Technical Regulation of Explosives-Detection Systems, under the supervision of the Committee on Commercial Aviation Security to assess configuration-management and performance-verification options for the development and regulation of EDSs and other equipment designed for detection of explosives. To accomplish these tasks, the panel · assessed the advantages and disadvantages, relative to the FAA's needs for explosives-detection equipment regulation, of various commercial approaches for configuration management and performance verification developed a framework for a performance-verification strategy that the FAA could implement to ensure that FAA-certified EDSs continue to perform at certification standards in the airport environment outlined an overarching management plan, inclusive of configuration management and performance verification, that will encourage commercial development and improvement of EDSs while ensuring that such systems are manufactured, deployed, operated, and maintained to meet FAA certification requirements .
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To be assured that certified and noncertified deployed equipment continue to meet FAA baseline performance specifications (without transporting the entire FAA primary standard bag set to every airport or every EDS off the production line to the FAA Technical Center for testing) , a protocol must be developed to verify the performance of such systems, both at the manufacturing site and in the airport environment.
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Because explosives are not allowed in airports and a site license is required for manufacturers to handle them, secondary standards and associated test protocols for performance verification of explosives-detection equipment are needed. REPORT ORGANIZATION This report discusses an integrated life-cycle management plan for explosives-detection equipment that will aid the 17 FAA in ensuring the production quality and operational consistency of EDSs, as well as the acceptable performance of recently deployed noncertified explosives-detection equipment.
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