Homeland Security

Problem
Improved intelligence sharing after 9/11 is helping Homeland Security
authorities identify credible terrorist attack threats more effectively.
This progress highlights urgent needs for tools to help leaders formulate
and validate plans to prevent and respond effectively to terrorist attack.

Spreadsheets and other simulation tools lack the horsepower to address
these decision problems. They excel at manipulating numeric data and
regular trends, but security threats revolve around uncertain and rapidly
changing information, disruptive events and shifting terrorist goals and
strategies. Disaster exercises are valuable learning tools, but they are
difficult and costly to conduct, so they are staged infrequently.

 

 

ForeTell® solution
Our ForeTell HOMESEC pilot solution lets you quickly model potential terrorist threats, such as attacks
via biochemical weapons targeting multiple East Coast cities. You can then define strategies to heighten
security measures around targets and prepare public health and civil defense resources. HOMESEC then
lets you simulate alternate strategies and assess their effectiveness at preventing or blunting attack
threats. Key metrics for evaluating outcomes include deaths, injuries, terrorists caught or killed, security
costs, and national economic impact.

  • Model and assess social, political, and economic impacts of attacks and defensive actions
  • Practice preparedness strategies and learn from simulated mistakes cost effectively
  • Update threats and adapt plans continually as terrorist strategies evolve over time
  • Support both advance planning and on-the-fly decisions, as threats emerge and play out

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