Operation Safe Commerce is a public/private relationship being implemented by the Transportation Security Administration. OSC is dedicated to finding methods and technologies to protect commercial Maritime shipments from threats of terrorist attack, illegal immigration and other contraband while minimizing the economic impact upon this vital transportation system.

The 12 containers traveled through the supply chain by truck from a remote location in Central America to a Pacific coast port, arriving at the Port of Seattle and finally by truck to the distribution center. Additional containers will be sent and evaluated over the next few months. Each container will be subjected to a modified loading process, container sealing, tracking and information gathering technologies, monitoring technology and unplanned event alerts.

Enhanced container monitoring and tracking is very important to national retailers since environmental exposure and time to market can impact product quality. The technologies used include Web enabled video, electronic container sealing, container environment monitoring, radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, electronic tracking, GPS satellite tracking, data consolidation and event identification and alert software featuring centralized data with controlled access.

“A major challenge for shipping any container is to reduce the risk of unintended cargo insertion as the container is loaded and transported in the source country,” said Ray Castor, SAIC senior program manager. “These containers, as well as containers from other OSC supply chains, are implementing process and technology changes to reduce risks and are evaluating these changes in real supply chain conditions to produce realistic comparisons.”

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Visit SAIC's Transportation and Homeland Security sections to learn more about our capabilities in these areas.

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