Homeland Security Institute Homeland Security Institute Overview and Issues for DIMACS Workshop Gary G. Nelson gary.nelson@hsi.dhs.gov Senior Researcher September 29, 2004 Homeland Security Institute Background on HSI Homeland Security Act of 2002 Sec. 312 Duties: Competitively Awarded to ANSER 1. Systems/risk analysis, modeling… 2. Economic and policy analysis… 3. Evaluation of effectiveness… 4. Identification of common standards… 5. Assistance in establishing testbeds 6. Metrics of effectiveness 7. Design/support exercises & simulations 8. Strategic technology development plans HSI Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Arlington, VA DIMACS 9/29/04 FY04 Research Plan FY05 Research Plan 2 Homeland Security Institute Domain Integration Homeland Security Mission Domain Respond Reduce Prevent Domestic Intell Mission Area Border Objectives Emergency Critical Sponsor Objectives National Strategic Objectives S&T Portfolio Objectives Catastrophic Threats End User Domain Threat Domain Threats Spectrum of Uncertainty Programs Operations Intelligence, Law Enforcement, NGOs, Academia Systems Threat Federal Government, State/Local/Tribal Government, Private Sector Diverse Operating Environments CONOPS Technology Option System Option Science & Technology Solution Domain National and Governmental Laboratories, Industry, Universities Engage Stakeholders . . . . . . Challenge Assumptions DIMACS 9/29/04 3 Homeland Security Institute Integrated/Systems Approach SPONSOR GOALS Stimulate development and acquisition of new systems with homeland security value. Effective Resource Allocation Improve the homeland security value of existing systems—focus on Critical Infrastructures and Key Resources. End-to-End Analyses Operations Acquisition System Development Technology Development Life-Cycle Analyses Deployment Research Portfolio Trades DIMACS 9/29/04 4 Homeland Security Institute Multi-Dimensional Outreach Strategy Stakeholders “Force Multipliers” DIMACS 9/29/04 5 Homeland Security Institute Connecting to Workshop Issues Networks: Their Attack Objects+LinksEmergence Prevent Physical Networks Our Security Information on physical state (limits) Decision Networks (logical) Our Vulnerable Assets Their Risk Decisions Actions (physical state change) Information (limits) Our Risk Decisions DIMACS 9/29/04 6 Homeland Security Institute What are we Trying to Do? Disrupt their physical attack pathway Identify our physical vulnerabilities Make our security (prevent, protect) pathways robust Communication of relevant physical state Make effective security decisions – Many scales (programming to incident response) – Collaboratively (resource contention) – Robustly (with risk) – Adaptively (evo-devo) Communication of critical physical activations DIMACS 9/29/04 7 Homeland Security Institute You: resource--Problem: utilization Systems approach: organize resources into capabilities! – Apply the theory, but how? A decision network problem – Collaboration of program planners, operators and researchers…all of whom suffer significant and mutual information limits – Risk: establish robust programs given significant external information limits A bias – Great focus on information-communications – Not enough on decision support applications and techniques DIMACS 9/29/04 8 Homeland Security Institute Outlook HSI will be one of the foci of collaborations – FY05 consultancies and subcontracts – Tasks focused on network/decision approaches We can make leaps with “dual benefit” – Exploit the modeling and sensing of the physical network – Exploit modeling of the logical network – Exploit the great leap in open-systems communications (while protecting that physical asset) DIMACS 9/29/04 9