MorphoTrust USA has achieved final operational capability (FOC) for the integration of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Transportation Worker Identification Credential into a new enrollment system, the Universal Enrollment Services (UES) effort.
MorphoTrust USA, an identity solutions business within France’s Safran Group, has transitioned 147 enrollment centers into UES. At its peak, UES is projected to provide enrollment services to about 750,000 applicants each year, including a surge of TWIC holders whose current TWIC credentials are expiring.
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| Port of Virginia. Photo: Virginia Port Authority |
MorphoTrust won the potential $248 million UES contract in 2013 to transition multiple enrollment systems into a consolidated service of enrollment and registration programs managed by TSA.
Under the TWIC program, maritime port workers and contractors submit biometrics and must pass a background and criminal history records check before being issued a secure credential that can enable unescorted access to secure areas of ports. Workers typically go to fixed or mobile enrollment centers to apply for the credential.
In addition to TWIC, MorphoTrust will also transition the Hazardous Materials Endorsement Threat Assessment Program (HTAP) into UES. The company expects to achieve FOC with the HTAP transition into UES later this year. MorphoTrust has enrolled 1.5 million drivers that have hazardous material endorsements into the HTAP program.
For some workers requiring federal credentials such as TWIC cards and HME endorsements, the consolidation of the various enrollment programs into UES centers will make it easier and less costly for them to go about the process of obtaining and receiving their identification credentials.
The UES enrollment centers will also eventually be used by the TSA to provide enrollment services for the agency’s PreCheck trusted traveler program, providing potential applicants with numerous centers nationwide.
In addition to its work with TSA, MorphoTrust also provides enrollment and other identification services to various customers in all 50 states through about 1,200 local service centers. The company also provides solutions for state motor vehicle agencies, including driver license issuance systems for 42 of 50 states.