Security infrastructure for commercial and military ports

摘要

Battelle has been developing robust detection and scanning technologies that integrate with existing and future port security systems as part of overall integrated security networks that can be tailored to meet individual requirements for commercial ports or Navy facilities. Major challenges include the water side issues such as geography, bathymetry, channel dimensions, changing bottom topology, environmental conditions, operation under all conditions and sea states suitable for vessel and small craft operation, harbor arrangement, and port-specific unique threats. However, many port security systems develop and implement new sensor technologies rather than assess the overall security need—that is, they follow a technology push rather than a market pull approach. While stated security approaches may integrate sensor data, stored data, intelligence databases, and human observations in various forms and formats, they generally do not provide the port-specific vulnerability and threat information required to alert security personnel with an integrated, composite threat analysis. Most approaches depend upon real-time person-in-the-loop detection strategies that can falter when faced with real world constraints: limited personnel resources, human fatigue and error, distractions, and misinterpretation of anomalies. Statistical and probabilistic analyses for anomaly identification are necessary to provide viable potential threat solution sets.