"Good afternoon Chairman Rogers, Ranking Member Jackson-Lee, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)-Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (OLE/FAMS) and how the changes we are implementing will help us achieve our mission to detect, deter, and defeat terrorist threats to the Nation’s transportation systems while streamlining our operations." Read more about Testimony by Robert S. Bray, Assistant Administrator, T.S.A. before the United States House of Representatives, Transportation Security Subcommittee, Homeland Security Committee: Testimony by Robert S. Bray

"The FAMS was officially transferred from the Federal Aviation Administration to TSA by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Over a four-year period, the FAMS transitioned from TSA to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement component, and then back to TSA. It has been about six years since our reintegration with TSA. Today, Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) serve as the primary law enforcement officers within TSA and are deployed on both international and domestic flights. Last year, TSA signed 23 international agreements with foreign partners... Read more about MORS News Article: Rist Prize Mentioned in Congressional Testimony , Testimony by Robert S. Bray

Global threats of terrorism, drug-smuggling and other crimes have led to a significant increase in research on game theory for security. Game theory provides a sound mathematical approach to deploy limited security resources to maximize their effectiveness. A typical approach is to randomize security schedules to avoid predictability, with the randomization using artificial intelligence techniques to take into account the importance of different targets and potential adversary reactions. This book distills the forefront of this research to provide the first and only study of long-term... Read more about CREATE News Article: New Book "Security and Game Theory" by CREATE's Milind Tambe

The Influential Paper Award seeks to recognize publications that have made influential and long-lasting contributions to the field. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential.

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Milind Tambe, Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been chosen to receive a highly prestigious IBM Faculty Award for his proposed research, “Towards Smarter Government and Smarter Cities: Computational Game Theory for Public Safety and Welfare”.

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The 1960s TV comedy Hogan’s Heroes featured a group of Allied World War II prisoners of war (POWs) who were housed in a camp run by a bunch of bumbling jailers. The POWs were able to strike against Germany from the camp due in large part to the predictable routine of the guards’ patrols. Led by “Sgt. Shultz” (played by actor John Banner), the guards followed the same routine every day and night. In simplest terms, the POWs knew that every day at 10 a.m. the guard patrolling the southern part of...

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Can mathematical modelling and game theory be used to make airport security less predictable to aggressors? Teamcore, a US research team working with the TSA and Los Angeles Airport, is working to prove that it can. Chris Lo talks to Teamcore principal investigator Professor Milind Tambe to find out more.

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To learn more about ARMOR-PROTECT and the strong partnership between CREATE and the U.S. Coast Guard, view article on page 28, entitled "The Port Resiliency for Operational/Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism Model."

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Lance Armstrong, once cycling’s poster child, now faces a future in disgrace. Forced into standing down from the chairmanship of his cancer charity Livestrong, Nike has unceremoniously dropped him in the face of “insurmountable evidence” put forward by the US Anti-Doping Agency.

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The Daniel H. Wagner Prize, which is awarded annually at the INFORMS Conference, recognized the joint team of USC/US Coast Guard researchers for their work on the PROTECT system. This program has been deployed by the US Coast Guard in Boston and New York, to provide intelligent (game-theoretic) randomization of Coast Guard patrols to protect important targets at the ports. Part of the CREATE research effort (National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events), the winning paper is entitled “A...

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The prize-winning work, “A Deployed Quantal Response Based Patrol Planning System for the U.S. Coast Guard,” was led by Bo An, Fernando Ordonez, Milind Tambe, Eric Shieh, Rong Yang of the University of Southern California, and Craig Baldwin, Joseph DiRenzo, Ben Maule, Garrett Meyer, and Kathryn Moretti of the U.S. Coast Guard

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At USC, the first U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded Center of Excellence fights terrorism with game theory, computer algorithms and weapons of scocial science.

“When i was a child in Mumbai, my father took me to a construction site. He showed me a bridge he built. I thought it was extraordinary."