PROBLEM STATEMENT

• The innovative use of emerging and existing technologies by adversaries will continuously create threats to the homeland.

• Emerging technologies such as unmanned aerial systems, advanced communications technology, the misuse of social media disinformation all pose potential threats to organizations that might not have been anticipated.

• An organization’s ability to perform its primary mission in a contested environment is not adequately considered under current threat assessment methodologies that lack consistency and frequency. 

• Threat assessment methodologies do not include many emerging threats and the assessment process for identifying current threats do not include manipulation of artificial intelligence, smart cities technologies, biometrics and etc.

• Threat assessment approaches do not consider the combined effects of multiple threats; When these threats are part of a coordinated effort involving the organization and the surrounding community, they might overwhelm an organization's capabilities.

• Many organizations are protected using traditional physical security, antiterrorism, and emergency preparedness approaches that fail to imagine the innovative use of existing and future threats on surrounding communities that will impede the flow of goods and services on roads, rail and ports of debarkation.