Reflecting on R

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Reflecting on RD needs for Homeland Security

• Ed Woollen
• V.P. Homeland Security Develoment
• Raytheon Company

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The Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and
Justice seek solutions to prevent . . .

• Small scale attack (1-102 casulties)
• Individual suicide bombers
• Cars a truck bombs
• Roadside Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)
• Denial of service cyber-attack
• Medium Scale attack (102-104 casulties)
• Aircraft used as a weapon against a high-rise
• Bombing in a crowded nightclub or theater
• Bacterial or radiological dirty bomb
• Large Scale attack (104-107 casulties)
• Thermo-nuclear explosion in mid-town America
• Infectious agent attack

. . . but if they fail we must still respond
From HR 108-541
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DHS ST RD Initiatives - 2005

• Biological countermeasures - 407M
• Radiological and Nuclear countermeasures - 130M
• Threat and vulnerability, testing and assessments
  - 101M
• Interoperable communications - 81M
• Rapid prototypes - 76M
• Countering a manportable missile attack - 61M
• Chemical countermeasures - 53M
• Setting and depolying standards - 40M
• Counters to Emerging threats - 21M
• High explosives countermeasures - 10M
• Homeland security university specific programs -
  30M

From HR 108-541
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Currently Funded Opportunities

• Suicide Bomber Detection DHS /TSWG
• Detection Systems for Radiological and Nuclear
  Countermeasures DHS
• Cyber Security Research and Development - DHS
• Architectures for Unified Incident Command and
  Decision Support - DHS
• Instantaneous Bio-Aerosol Detector Systems DHS
• Large Vehicle Bomb Detection - DHS/ SWG
• Maritime Tagging and Tracking TSWG
• Crosshairs (Sniper Neutralization) - DARPA
• Urban Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target
  Acquisition DARPA
• Real-Time Adversarial Intelligence and
  Decision-making DARPA
• Gunfire Detection and Protection - TSWG

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Current Opportunities

• Crosshairs (Sniper Neutralization) - DARPA
• The program has two objectives. The primary
  objective of the CROSSHAIRS program is to design
  and develop an affordable capability for
  detecting, identifying and neutralizing a sniper
  threat. A secondary objective of the program is
  to detect incoming mortars and rocket propelled
  grenades and take appropriate action. Responses
  after sniper detection can range from non-lethal
  options such as high resolution, judicial quality
  photography, paint balls or dyes, blinding laser
  flash, or rubber bullets to lethal options.
• Heterogeneous Urban RSTA (Reconnaissance
  Surveillance AND Target Acquisition) Team (HURT)
  DARPA
• The HURT program will develop technologies
  enabling mission-driven command and control of a
  heterogeneous team of uninhabited platforms for
  the conduct of coordinated urban operations. The
  class of uninhabited platforms of particular
  interest in the HURT program is aerial vehicles.
  The roboticized RSTA team, under HURT control,
  will provide services to warfighters according to
  user demand as modulated by mission priority
  subject to resource availability. HURT technology
  will be used to decouple users from direct
  platform control and tasking
• Real-Time Adversarial Intelligence and
  Decision-making (RAID) DARPA
• The Real-time Adversarial Intelligence and
  Decision-making (RAID) program focuses on the
  challenge of anticipating enemy actions in a
  military operation. In a number of recent
  publications, US military leaders call for the
  development of techniques and tools to address
  this critical challenge
• Gunfire Detection and Protection - TSWG
• Detect a bullet fired at stationary target person
  and provide initiation signal for a shield that
  will activate before the bullet reaches the
  target. The system must provide very high
  reliability with essentially no false alarms. The
  system must be able to be installed and tested
  quickly by field personnel. The system must be
  able to be installed in both indoor and outdoor
  venues and be unobtrusive as a part of the
  overall system. Active systems must consider the
  effects of a large number of personnel in the
  venue. Systems must be able to distinguish
  gunshot from any other event such as photography,
  vehicle backfire, weather, etc. The system must
  be able to be checked upon installation to ensure
  that it is functioning properly.

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Current Opportunities (cont-2)

• Tactical Operations Support (TOS) Mission
  Area/Subgroup - TSWG
• The Tactical Operations Support (TOS) Subgroup
  is responsible to identify, prioritize, and
  execute research and development projects that
  satisfy interagency requirements for unique
  equipment and systems to support specialized
  force offensive operations directed against
  terrorist activities and groups. The subgroup
  will transition non-sensitive prototype hardware
  to commercial production to assist state and
  local law enforcement agencies.
• Large Vehicle Bomb Detection - DHS/TSWGLarge
  vehicle bomb detection projects explore
  technologies necessary to provide a stand-off
  detection capability of explosives in larger
  volumes at greater distances. This includes
  investigating unique physical and chemical
  phenomena that identify the presence of
  explosives, the physical limits for sensor
  technology to respond to these phenomena and
  technology enhancements. Current stand-off
  techniques under development are limited with
  respect to both stand-off distance and type of
  explosives that can be detected. Remote
  techniques afford a nearer-term solution in which
  a system is downfield from the operator but
  proximal to objects of interest. Longer-term
  technologies leading to a true stand-off
  capability are being explored.
• Maritime Tagging and Tracking TSWG
• Program is interested in advanced technology
  concepts for the use of identifying and tracking
  a limited number of maritime vessels.
  Technologies including remote sensing, packaging,
  tagging and tag placement, antenna concepts,
  enhanced global positioning system (GPS) or
  non-GPS-based geolocation techniques are of
  interest. Systems employing the concepts
  presented could be applied to various military
  missions including but not limited to blue force
  tracking, combatant identification, and maritime
  vessel or container tracking. Specific details on
  required performance characteristics are
  classified and will be provided at a classified
  Bidders
• Suicide Bomber Detection DHS /TSWG-This focus
  area will improve upon systems that detect the
  presence of improvised explosive devices
  concealed by persons engaged in suicide attacks
  against domestic and international Government
  installations and public facilities.

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Current Opportunities (cont-3)

• Detection Systems for Radiological and Nuclear
  Countermeasure (DSRNC) - DHS
• The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects
  Agency (HSARPA) invests in
• programs offering the potential for revolutionary
  changes in technologies that promote
• homeland security and accelerate the prototyping
  and deployment of technologies that reduce
  homeland vulnerabilities. HSARPA performs these
  functions in part by awarding rocurement
  contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or
  other transactions for research or prototypes to
  public or private entities, businesses, federally
  funded research and development centers and
  universities.
• Cyber Security Research and Development (CSRD)
• The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects
  Agency (HSARPA) invests in programs offering the
  potential for revolutionary changes in
  technologies that promote homeland security and
  accelerate the prototyping and deployment of
  technologies that reduce homeland
  vulnerabilities. HSARPA performs these functions
  in part by awarding procurement contracts,
  grants, cooperative agreements, or other
  transactions for research or prototypes to public
  or private entities, businesses, federally funded
  research and development centers and
  universities.
• Instantaneous Bio-Aerosol Detector Systems
  (IBADS)
• The Homeland Security Research Advanced Projects
  Agency (HSARPA) seeks to develop, test and
  transition the next generation of rapid
  bio-aerosol sensors for use in Detect-to-Protect
  system architectures. Detect-to-Protect systems
  will require rapid, high-confidence detection and
  confirmation of a bio-aerosol threat in order to
  enable advanced strategies to protect individuals
  from exposure and reduce contamination of
  critical infrastructure.

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DHS Key RD Technologies Thrusts - 2004

• CBRN countermeasure products and systems
• Bio-agent detection technologies
• Public Health Surveillance Systems
• Data mining
• Authentication biometrics
• Geospatial systems
• Modeling and simulation
• Middleware (informatics)
• Collaborative tools
• Interoperable communications   
• Standards development

from DHS Strategy 2004