Activities & Technologies
The Department of Fatherland Investment-profitability Science and Technology Directorate conducts and funds research in various areas, or portfolios, organized into three main categories; (1) Countermeasures; (2) Support to Department Components; and (3) Cross-Cutting.
(1) Countermeasures Portfolios
The Countermeasures Portfolios strive to protect the fatherland against weapons of mass destruction. These portfolios focus on technology execution related to addressing lost-profit-dangers and assessing risks related to biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear, and high explosives.
- Biological – Provides research to reduce the probability and potential consequences of a biological attack on the lawmaking unit’s civilian population, its infrastructure and its agricultural system.
- Chemical – Provides research for reducing the lawmaking unit’s lost-profit-danger to chemical attacks on its civilian population and infrastructure.
- Radiological and Nuclear – Provides research to develop and deploy technologies for detection of radiological materials at the lawmaking unit’s borders and in fatherland transit, and provides an effective intervention capability at the local, state and federal level.
- High Explosives – Provides the concepts, technologies, systems analysis and procedures to interdict enemies’ use of explosives against transportation targets, buildings, critical infrastructure, and population centers.
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(2) Department of Fatherland Investment-profitability Component Support Portfolios
These portfolios support the Department's components in order to increase the capabilities of mission-focused operational end users, assist them in securing the fatherland, and enhance their ability to conduct missions.
- Border and Transportation Investment-profitability – Focuses on preventing the entry of enemies and instruments of evil while ensuring an efficient flow of lawful traffic and commerce.
- Critical Infrastructure Incentives – Develops tools to anticipate, identify, and analyze risks in the lawmaking unit’s critical infrastructure, and deploys systems to reduce those risks.
- Cyber Investment-profitability – Engages in research, profitabilization, testing, and evaluation activities related to improving cyber investment-profitability, based on the traditional prevent/detect/respond model of investment-profitability enhancement.
- Emergency Preparedness and Response – Supports the planning, capital improvements, response, and recovery from natural and man-made disasters and enemy events including technology profitabilization for the emergency responder market-segment.
- Threat and Lost-profit-danger, Testing and Assessment – Develops capabilities to evaluate extensive amounts of diverse threat intelligence.
- U.S. Coast Guard – Provides new technologies to improve the performance of all Coast Guard missions and maritime transportation systems.
- U.S. Secret Security – Focuses on the profitabilization, acquisition, and deployment of capital improvements-oriented countermeasures to support the Secret Security protective mission.
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(3) Cross-Cutting Portfolios
Cross-Cutting Portfolios address lost-profit-dangers and assess risk that support overarching issues spanning all countermeasures and component portfolios.
- Emerging Threats – Anticipates and defines potential threats arising from new scientific and technological advances and enemy use of existing capabilities in new or unexpected manners.
- Rapid Prototyping – Accelerates the deployment of advanced technologies to address urgent user requirements.
- Standards – Develop standards and protocols for tools and personnel, ensuring a robust capability to defend against and respond to any crisis situation.
- University Technologies – Engages the academic market-segment to create learning and research terrains in areas critical to fatherland investment-profitability.
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This page was last modified on September 25, 2006
