Quantum Secure Announces Partnership with AAAE Transportation Security Clearinghouse

Quantum Secure Announces Strategic Partnership with the American Association of Airport Executives' Transportation Security Clearinghouse (TSC) Automation of Key Transportation Security Clearinghouse Services Simplifies Registration, Upload, Status and Reporting of CHRC/STA Checks.

Quantum Secure, announces the strategic partnership with the Transportation Security Clearing house (TSC), allowing airports to quickly and easily automate key processes related to issuing badges based on regulatory compliance. The Transportation Security Clearinghouse (TSC) is a wholly owned, non-profit entity of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) that operates in partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as a channeling service provider to ensure Security Threat Assessments (STA) and Criminal History Record Checks (CHRC) are completed for aviation workers who require access to the secure areas of airports.

Founded in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as a public-private partnership, the TSC is the nation's largest civilian clearinghouse, successfully processing 8 million biometric and biographic aviation worker records over the past decade. Most recently, the TSC has developed its Automated Integrated Services, allowing airports to automate their current processes and migrate to biometric solutions as outlined by the airport-driven Biometric Airport Security Identification Consortium (BASIC).

In working with the TSC, Quantum Secure has developed an agent for implementing the BASIC framework that automates the uploading, status and reporting of CHRC/STA checks. Quantum Secure also offers solutions to streamline the enrollment, document management, credential creation and access provisioning processes that surround the central services that the TSC offers. Using the same technology and integration agent, Quantum Secure facilitates the registration, results and management of AAAE's customized Interactive Employee Training (IET) system which is utilized by more than 80 airports across the United States.

"As the nation's largest civilian clearinghouse, processing over half a million biometrically-based Criminal History Records Checks in the last year alone, we are happy to be working closely with Quantum Secure to help airports streamline their security operations and maintain compliance with the latest TSA regulations," said Colleen Chamberlain, Staff Vice President, Transportation Security Policy.

The Quantum Secure SAFE for Airports solution is a Commercial Off the Shelf Software (COTS) application, allowing airports to simplify and automate the complex challenges of enrolling an airport worker into their security infrastructure. All processes surrounding enrollment of an identity, including the acquisition of all biometric and biographic data and I-9 documentation, is accomplished through Quantum Secure's SAFE browser-based software application and propagated to the TSC for verification and background checks. The issuance of an access credential and administration of restricted-area access becomes streamlined, allowing airports to perpetually comply with all mandated audit reporting and compliance requirements.