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Country: USA
Summary: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY Aviation Security Screening Optimizer for Risk and Throughput ASSORT
Deadline: 15 Mar 2026
Posting Date: 16 Dec 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 132117696
Document Ref. No.: IPID33056
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division, Technology Transfer Program, solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture, and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. PNNL provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: ASSORT builds on risk models developed for the Department of Homeland Security and other government sponsors, extending them to airport checkpoint risk scenarios that, by modeling screening technologies such as video surveillance, biometrics, millimeter wave scanning, and X-ray along with procedures including random screening using configurable checkpoint lanes, can test operational scenarios and assess the effectiveness of new technologies.
Overview: ASSORT evaluates how different configurations affect both security effectiveness and operational efficiency by simulating real-world scenarios and generating performance metrics like wait times, throughput, and detection rates. Incorporating risk-based screening logic allows planners to test and compare various strategies, helping them make data-driven decisions to balance threat detection with passenger convenience and cost-effectiveness.
By exploring various notional traveler categories (General, Trusted, and Trusted+), along with different checkpoint screening Concept of Operations (CONOPS) tailored to each traveler type, ASSORT can help travelers who arrive at the airport with a higher starting trust level experience fewer screenings, resulting in quicker processing times through the checkpoints.
The output of ASSORT provides risk scores for predefined threat scenarios, as well as the overall risk to checkpoints, aircraft, and the airport by traveler type. ASSORT also produces estimated wait times and throughput by ...
Notice ID: ipid33056
Department/Ind. Agency: energy, department of
Sub-tier: energy, department of
Office: pnnl contracts - doe contractor
NAICS Code: 488190 - Other Support Activities for Air Transportation
Inactive Dates: mar 30, 2026
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
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