CFATS Fact Sheet – August 2013

The folks at ISCD got the August CFATS Fact Sheet update out real quick, posted this morning with data effective yesterday. I’m sure that part of the reason for that was yesterday’s hearing; they had to have the data available for that so they might as well pump out the CFATS Fact Sheet.

The table below shows the data for all of the CFATS Fact Sheets published to date.

	April 2013	May 2013	June 2013	July 2013	August 2013
Facilities currently covered by CFATS	4382	4351	4331	4298	4298
Facility Assistance Visits	1202	1242	1253	1264	1276
SSP Authorized	280	380	469	536	589
SSP Approved	53	85	125	166	182

The data shows continued progress is authorizing and approving CFATS site security plans. Looking at the table above is hard to judge rate of approvals, so I have provided the graph below.

 

Both lines appear to be flattening out some, the approvals more so than the authorizations. This is somewhat misleading though as the time periods covered by the data points are not the same. The April and May fact sheets have no ‘effective date’ while the dates for the three latest months are the 6^th, 15^th, and the 1^st respectively. If we normalize that data for the working days in the time period we get the graph below.

 

This shows a dramatic increase in the authorizations and approvals rates in the latest time period. The rate increase may be at least in part due to the movement into the Tier II and Tier III facility reviews. Of course, if this were true we would have expected to see a higher increase in the rate of authorizations vs approvals (a 2.6 factor increase was seen in both) because of the lag effect means that approvals are still being done for Tier I facilities. Another possible explanation could be that ISCD management knew they were going into the hearing yesterday and wanted to pump up the numbers.

I guess only time will tell.