Biosecurity

Overview

Challenges facing the biosecurity enterprise include countless numbers of natural and intentional biosecurity threats, and the need for an efficient enterprise response to an unknown number of threats from unknown sources. Assuring a coordinated system of federal biosecurity partners to secure the homeland from these security threats is critical. MITRE is conducting research in a number of related areas, including sensor development, sensor networks, bioinformatics, situational awareness, modeling and simulation, and decision support.

Examples of projects related to this challenge area include:

• A Universal Bio-Sensing Program
• Camelid (Llama glama) Immunomolecules for Advanced Biosensing
• Detection of Viruses by Fluorescence Generated from Artificial RNA Constructs
• End-to-End Model for Evaluating Planned Responses for Pandemic Influenza
• Genomics for Bioforensics
• Human Monoclonal Antibodies for Neutralization and Diagnosis of H5N1
• Mathematical Modeling of Early Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Toward Real-Time Surveillance
• Mathematics for Pathogenomics
• MEG: Mapping Epidemic Growth
• Synthetic Biology: Engineering at the Sub-Cellular Level
• The Application of Intelligence Analytic Tools
(ChronoSkope) to the Progression of H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses Across Asia
• Virulence Factor Ontology for Biosecurity

Related Information

Articles and News

• Aircraft Biosensor Detects Pathogens in Flight
• Detecting Chemical Weapons with Nano-Scale Sensors
• Employee Spotlight: Inside MITRE's Biotech Lab
• Research Spurs Rapid Diagnosis of Biological Threats
• Employee Spotlight: Thin Film Specialist
• Biometrics at the Border
• Using Floating Films to Capture Pathogens in Water

Technical Papers and Presentations

• A Universal Bio-Sensing Platform
• Detection of Viruses by Fluorescence Generated From Artificial RNA Constructs
• End-to-End Model for Evaluating Planned Responses for Pandemic Influenza
• High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance
• Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks Among the San Francisco Homeless: Trade-offs Between Spatial Resolution and Temporal Scale
• Patterns of Pathogenesis: MITRE Technical Report
• Detection of Outbreaks in Syndromic Surveillance Data Using Monotonic Regression
• A Space-Time Scan Statistic for Detection of TB Outbreaks in the San Francisco Homeless Population
• Biologically Inspired Methods for Agile Command and Control (BIO C2)
• Phase-Only Filtering for the Masses (of DNA Data): A New Approach to Sequence Alignment
• The State of the Art and the State of the Practice: Transferring Insights from Complex Biological Systems to the Exploitation of Netted Sensors in Command and Control Enterprises
• Overview of BioCreAtIvE task 1B: Normalized Gene Lists
• A Binomial Model of Transients in Daily ED Visits for Detecting Infectious Disease Outbreaks
• Models, Prediction, and Estimation of Outbreaks of Infectious Disease
• MiTAP for Bio-Security: A Case Study

Websites

• Our Work: Emerging Technologies
• Technology Areas: Biotechnology
• 2008 MITRE Innovation Exchange: Biosecurity

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