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
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FY04
Research
Plan
FY05
Research
Plan
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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
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Security
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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
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Security
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Multi-Dimensional Outreach Strategy
Stakeholders
“Force Multipliers”
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Security
Institute
Connecting to Workshop Issues
Networks:
Their Attack
Objects+LinksEmergence
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
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Security
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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
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Security
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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
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Security
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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)
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