A safe and secure homeland requires DHS to maintain effective control of our nation's borders (air, land, and sea) and points of entry while looking for opportunities to identify and disrupt the transnational and criminal organizations before they reach our shores. These missions must be carried out in operational environments that are complex and varied, requiring close coordination with other federal, state, local, tribal, and international partners, and without hindering lawful trade and travel. The HS SEDI FFRDC is helping DHS to address the complexity of the border security challenge from an enterprise perspective. We are working with our sponsors to leverage people, tactics, technology and intelligence to discover and develop solutions that are both effective and affordable.
HS SEDI's approach focuses on meeting sponsor outcomes and combines deep subject matter experience with unbiased engineering, acquisition, and program management expertise. Our unique status as operator of six FFRDCs allows us to leverage work and research from across the federal government.
Our sponsors include:
- U.S. Coast Guard
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Transportation Security Administration
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- DHS Science and Technology Directorate
How MITRE Is Helping
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A federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) assists the United States government with scientific research and analysis, development and acquisition, and/or systems engineering and integration. Governed according to federal acquisition, regulations, FFRDCs operate as long-term strategic partners with their sponsoring government agencies. They are created by the government to address problems of considerable complexity, analyze technical questions with a high degree of objectivity, and provide creative and cost-effective solutions to government problems.
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