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One of the unique strengths that MITRE brings to this arena is our ability to collaborate openly across the company, applying solutions developed for one homeland security mission partner to the challenges faced by others.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for identifying and assessing current and future threats to the U.S., including all terrorism, homeland security, and related law enforcement and intelligence information received by the Department. This encompasses a wide range of scenarios, from aviation security, chemical, biological, radiation, nuclear, and explosives defense to critical infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity.
HS SEDI's Intelligence and Law Enforcement (I&LE) work portfolio establishes enduring relationships with DHS headquarters and component intelligence and law enforcement organizations, understands the substance of their mission, and applies a unique combination of systems engineering, integration, program management, and information technology to address their most critical national intelligence and law enforcement problems. The I&LE portfolio supports the following DHS missions outlined in the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (February 2010):
- Mission 1: Preventing Terrorism and Enhancing Security
- Mission 2: Securing and Managing Our Borders
- Mission 3: Enforcing and Administering Our Immigration Laws
- Mission 4: Safeguarding and Securing Cyberspace
We apply broad-based systems engineering and integration, program management, and IT domain, networking, and communications expertise to support a number of DHS organizations; at the headquarters, component, and support office level. These include:
- DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis
- Homeland Security State and Local Community of Interest
- National Security Systems Joint Program Management Office (NSS JPMO)
- DHS Joint Fusion Center Program Management Office (JFC PMO)
How MITRE Is Helping
- Using Cyber Common Sense to Combat Threats to Privacy and Security. Do you know where your email has been? Fortunately, by using a MITRE-developed technique called EARNEST, email users can ward off phishing attempts that endanger personal and business information security.
- Underground Radar Systems: Fighting Tunnels with Tunnels. To aid the U.S. Border Patrol in the time-consuming and difficult task of locating smuggling tunnels, MITRE has designed a prototype system to boost the ability of ground-penetrating radar.
- Netted Sensors for Persistent Surveillance [PDF, 315KB]. Research effort addresses the challenge of providing a new level of sensor network control to improve scalability, adaptivity, controllability, and flexibility.
- Uncommon
Sensors May Help Secure Our Ports and Borders. This initiative
uses modeling and simulation of automatic sensing technology to detect
illicit materials entering the U.S. at ports and border crossings.
- Sensor Technologies
for Border and Cargo Security [PDF, 205KB]. Research project that explores the use of modeling and simulation
in developing concepts for a multi-sensor system to detect, screen,
and intercept chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive
(CBRNE) materials, weapons, narcotics, and contraband at U.S. ports
of entry.
- Through
the Eyes of the Enemy: Modeling Adaptive Behavior. A MITRE project
to apply simulation technology to help homeland security agencies think
like smugglers and terrorists in order to outwit them. Screening strategies
and simulations provide insight into the techniques used by criminals
at U.S. borders.
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