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Security References

Airport/Transportation

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority


(MWAA)
MWAA is responsible for Reagan National Airport (DCA) and Dulles International Airport (IAD), the two
main airports covering the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The Airports Authority operates a two-
airport system that provides domestic and international air service for the mid-Atlantic region. The
organization consists of more than 1,400 employees in a structure that includes central administration,
airports management and operations, and police and fire departments.

Daily operation, maintenance, and control of the Dulles Toll Road, the highway leading from Washington,
D.C. to Dulles Airport, is also the responsibility of the Airports Authority. Tolls collected are used for
operations, and to fund a portion of the construction of Metrorail in the Dulles corridor.

MWAA’s Security Operations Center (SOC) is located on the DCA premises and uses an Intergraph C2
system integrated with access control and fire alarms. MWAA plans to upgrade to a fully integrated
solution to include fence sensors, unattended ground sensors and video management systems with
Video Analytics in 2014. Other current interfaces include a paging/notification interface, a state and
national crime information interface, telephony integration, and fire/police records management
system (RMS) integration.

The C2 system, with client seats covering IAD and DCA, encompasses both airports and has been in
operation since 2009. The system has a total of 12 operator and two administrator seats.

Some airport statistics can be found below for both IAD and DCA:

Official Airport Designator IAD


Airport Dedicated November 17, 1962
Airport Property Area 11,830 acres
Number of Airline Gates 135
Annual Passengers (2011) 23.2 million
Nonstop U.S. Destinations 83
Nonstop International
47
Destinations

Official Airport Designator DCA


Airport Opened June 16, 1941
Airport Property Area 860 acres
Number of Airline Gates 44
Annual Passengers (2011) 18.8 Million
Nonstop Destinations 78

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Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood


Marshall Airport (BWI)
The BWI airport is located near Baltimore, Maryland, and is the third airport in the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area. BWI is operated by the Maryland Aviation Administration, Maryland Department of
Transportation. About 22.68 million passengers flew through BWI Marshall in 2012, a 1.3 percent
increase over 2011 and a new all-time annual record.

BWI operates the Consolidated Dispatch Center (CDC) whose primary mission is to provide emergency
call for service processing and dispatching for all “on-airport” police and airport security/law enforcement
and fire and emergency medical services. In this regard, the CDC can also function as a secondary public
safety answering point (PSAP) to the Anne Arundel County PSAP via one of the airport’s numerous
mutual aid agreements with other jurisdictions.

BWI‘s CDC consists of a command and control (C2) system with security interfaces to:

 Software House C*Cure 9000 access control system


 Verint Nextiva video management
 Honeywell EBI fire alarm systems

Other interfaces include a notification interface through Cassidian. Intergraph provided a computer
telephony integration system from MicroAutomation, Inc., that provided an ANI/ALI interface between
Intergraph computer-aided dispatch (CAD) software and MAA’s telephone switches.

The site consists of five concourses, four of which are domestic with 69 jet gates. The annual passenger
count is over 21 million with over 70,000 annual calls for service.

The airport has five primary operator seats with three seats at a separate backup center. The customer
cut over to live operations in May, 2013.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)


The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America's largest transportation network, serving a
population of 14.9 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from New York City through
Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut. MTA is a multi-site, multi-agency
organization with responsibilities ranging from bridges and tunnels, buses, subways and railroads to the
MTA Police Department. MTA subways, buses, and railroads provide 2.63 billion trips each year to New
Yorkers – the equivalent of about one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-
thirds of the nation's rail riders. MTA bridges and tunnels carry nearly 300 million vehicles a year – more
than any bridge and tunnel authority in the nation.

Intergraph provides a multi-site, multi-agency public safety and security solution to MTA as part of the
Integrated Electronic Security System (IESS). We currently cover five separate agencies with more to
come. The product suite includes video and sensor integration to multiple systems, including video
management, video analytics, access control and intercoms, as well as CAD. MTA is in the midst of an
upgrade to CAD/SFW version 9.2 and will add a separate CAD/RMS/mobile computing system for MTA

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police department to the solution. The two MTA systems will be on separate platforms and will be
interfaced through our Edgefrontier® CAD Connect product.

MTA has a command, control, and communications (C3) room at each agency where they have
integrated the following sensors using Intergraph Security Framework:

 Chemical, biological, radiation, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) sensor on all stations and
remote facilities.
 Public announcement system
 Intrusion detection system
 Access control system on all stations and remote facilities with thousands of card
readers/sensors
 Fire alarms on all stations and remote facilities
 Video management systems along with video analytics. The solution covers thousands of
cameras integrated through multiple camera vendors and software versions.

MTA has been an Intergraph customer since 2007 and has a total of 40 clients spread out over nine
separate sites.

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