DHS/S&T/PIA-030- Air Entry/Exit Re-engineering (AEER) Counting and Measuring (C&M) Project

One of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) primary missions is to facilitate legitimate travel and trade. To help achieve this goal, the DHS Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are implementing a short-term Counting and Measuring (C&M) Project at Washington Dulles International Airport for 12-14 months. The C&M project is a research, development, test, and evaluation project that assesses the accuracy and effectiveness of commercially available automated tools to determine the wait times and dwell times of international travelers arriving in the United States who enter through the airport’s Federal Inspection Service (FIS) area. DHS S&T is conducting the C&M Project as a part of the existing Air Entry/Exit Reengineering Program. S&T is conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to address the steps taken to minimize the privacy risks of the C&M Project.

August 2017