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Patterson: Within this agency, we're responsible for protecting 9,000,

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over 9,000 federal GSA leased or owned facilities in 50 states and U.S. territories.

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Eilets: Our protective security officers are actually contract officers,

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they are not federal employees.

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We have approximately 13,800.

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They protect the visitors and occupants of our buildings daily.

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Patterson: How do we know where they are?

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How do we know when they're on post?

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That has been a significant challenge,

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because it's, right now it's all a paperwork function, OK.

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It's, it's analog versus digital.

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Eilets: So with the Post Tracking System,

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this is going to enable us to track an officer on post in real-time,

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to make sure that all of his certifications and training are up-to-date

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and to ensure that we have a post staffed at all times.

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What's unique about this system is that has three factor authentication.

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They have to validate when they sign into the device that it's actually them

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and it validates by your fingerprint,

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which is your biometric, your pin number and your card.

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So when a PSO comes in for duty,

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he must sign in using that using that three factor authentication,

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so that we actually know that that PSO is on post

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and they are who they say they are.

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We have something called TAMS, which is Training Academy Management System.

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And that's where we're going to have all the PSO training data.

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So what's going to happen is the Post Tracking System,

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when a PSO comes on the post and they log in,

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it's going to validate through that database

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that all of their training certifications are up-to-date and they can stand post.

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Patterson: We were very fortunate to be able to have

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a conversation with the Science and Technology Directorate

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who offered, just offered to help us with this,

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not only in the development, but also in the financing,

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which was, which was a huge, huge leap forward for us.