1. Silent Inspector Silent Inspector ICHDMG Report Review – Technical and Business Operation Update on Implementation status Current Issues

2. Silent Inspector SI Review - FAQ What does it do? How does it work? Who does what? What do you get?

3. Silent Inspector What Does it Do? Reports dredge measured parameters that describe hopper dredge operations Analyzes the data to guess what the dredge is doing – dredging, turning, sailing, dumping. Stores, finds, reports, & plots data

4. Hopper SI Measurements

5. Silent Inspector Implementation Principles Partnership with Dredging Industry Report the Contractor’s Data Performance based specification Rigorous Data Quality Assurance

6. Dredges ? Hopper ? Scows ? Pipeline ? Mechanical Contractor Specifications District ? Operations ? Environmental ? RE & QARs National Silent Inspector Database Email Receive Email Send Internet Email / Flash disk Email Load/Daily Reports Data Explorer – eGIS GlobalStar SILENT INSPECTOR

7. Silent Inspector How does it work? On the dredge …

8. Silent Inspector Who Does What? Corps provide a standard performance specification Dredge owner designs system, operates, and provides all instrumentation and computers Corps provides SI software for the ARCO computer

9. Silent Inspector Silent Inspector Business Plan National Always-On automated dredge monitoring National Operations Support team Evolve with 2012 Team of Teams Operations Improvements Include smaller contracts & districts Transition support from R&D Decision Support eGIS integration

10. Silent Inspector What Do You Get? Automatic State Determination Dredging, Turning, Sailing, Dumping, etc. Production Position

11. Silent Inspector Reports – Details

12. Reports - Summary

13. Silent Inspector Reports - Spatial

14. GIS Track Plot Review

15. Silent Inspector Using the Map Interface Zoom To All Plotted Points

16. Track Plot Review

17. Silent Inspector Features of the National Plan Expanded Project Monitoring Include Regulatory Expanded Dredge types Simplify Dredge SI Certification Centralized Support under Operations Regional & National Stakeholders

18. Silent Inspector Expanded Plant All Hoppers Include all Government Hoppers All Scows Minimum of Tracking Profile Monitoring or TDS Profile specified by ODMP Pipelines > 30”, + Goetz & Oregon Mechanical dredges TBD

19. Silent Inspector Schedule FY2006200720082009 HopperAlways-on ScowAlways-on PipelineGoetz, Oregon 4 – > 30inAll > 30”All > 18” Mechanical TBD

20. Silent Inspector SI Center - Services Data QC and Operational Monitoring Dredge Certifications Dredge Operator Support Corps User Support Training Database Maintenance Specifications Maintenance

21. Silent Inspector Funding Formula Resource for the National Team and National functions Formula = 0.875% of Hopper and Bucket Dredging Contracts Average Year approx $1.5M

22. Silent Inspector Stakeholder Issues T&E – Turtles & Sturgeon Overdepth Open Water Disposal Monitoring Emergency Response Rentals Regionalization eGIS, eCoastal, RSM integration Decision Support

23. Silent Inspector National Team R&D Demo the Pipeline SI – 4 dredges FY07 Field Review of Mechanical SI spec Turtle Observer Form Entry Bin Measurement issue Provide hooks to GIS and other systems

24. Silent Inspector Implementation Issues Funding Mechanism Scope of Scow requirement; barges for upland disposal Does always-on mean include the yard? – No Certification and Recertification Issues Mass vs. Volume production measure. TDS, Bin Measure

25. Silent Inspector Implementation Issues - 2 Regulatory implementation Enforcement standardization Contractor data upload Data Access

26. Silent Inspector http://si.usace.army.mil/ Gary Howell – 251-441-5732 James (Jay) Rosati – 251-441-5535 Tim Welp – 601-634-2083 Rhonda Lenoir – 251-690-3011