Homeland Security Institute Homeland Security Institute Overview and Issues for DIMACS Workshop Gary G. Nelson Senior Researcher September 29, 2004

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 2 Duties: 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 Background on HSI HSI Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Arlington, VAHSI Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Arlington, VA Competitively Awarded to ANSER HomelandSecurity Act of 2002 Sec. 312 HomelandSecurity Act of 2002 Sec. 312 FY04ResearchPlan FY05ResearchPlan

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 3 Domain Integration Engage Stakeholders Challenge Assumptions

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 4 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. Operations Deployment Acquisition System Development Technology Development Research Portfolio Trades End-to-End Analyses Life-Cycle Analyses

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 5 Multi-Dimensional Outreach Strategy “Force Multipliers” Stakeholders

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 6 Our Vulnerable Assets Connecting to Workshop Issues Networks: Objects+Links  Emergence Networks: Objects+Links  Emergence DecisionNetworks(logical) PhysicalNetworks Actions (physical state change) Their Risk Decisions Our Risk Decisions Our Security Their Attack Prevent Information on physical state (limits) Information (limits)

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 7 Disrupt their physical attack pathway Identify our physical vulnerabilities Make our security (prevent, protect) pathways robust Make effective security decisions –Many scales (programming to incident response) –Collaboratively (resource contention) –Robustly (with risk) –Adaptively (evo-devo) What are we Trying to Do? Communication of relevant physical state Communication of critical physical activations

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 8 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

Homeland Security Institute DIMACS 9/29/04 9 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)