Homeland Security

We offer our customers decades of experience in such key areas as systems engineering, communications and signal processing, information technology, and organizational and systems modernization expertise.

Overview

The Homeland Security Center ensures integrated leadership of MITRE's full range of systems engineering expertise and mission understanding in support of homeland security. One of the unique strengths that MITRE offers is our ability to collaborate openly across three FFRDCs, applying solutions developed for one mission partner to the challenges faced by others—a clear advantage for every agency we serve. MITRE also brings together thought leaders from academia, professional societies, and large and small private-sector businesses, to ensure that the government benefits from proven, nationally recognized best practices and breakthrough systems thinking.

Our Homeland Security Center (view leadership) coordinates the application of MITRE's capabilities in systems engineering and integration to support the full range of homeland security initiatives. We bring an interdisciplinary engineering approach to the unique challenges of homeland security, combining technical expertise, domain knowledge, and business capabilities to improve interoperability, develop flexible and expandable architectures, and integrate proven technology into practical solutions.

Throughout our 50-year history, we have served as a trusted partner and advisor to the federal government, providing objective, informed advice and timely services that are responsive to the nation's evolving challenges. As a recognized and respected thought leader on issues of critical national importance, we work with DHS and its mission partners to understand the needs of homeland security stakeholders, the citizens of the United States, and the state, local, tribal, and territorial governments that serve and protect them. MITRE helps the government meet these needs in a timely and practical way.

Through MITRE's long-standing research and development (R&D) program, we work to find better ways to help the government address its most complex challenges through existing and new technologies. Each year, MITRE's scientists and engineers carry out more than 100 projects that are focused on solving critical national security problems. Our R&D portfolio evolves as we continually align our efforts with emerging public interest needs.

As the scope of America's homeland security mission has expanded, so has the need for greater connectivity and an integrated approach across multiple mission partners and domains. In response to this need, our Homeland Security Center applies MITRE's cross-cutting support for the overall success of the DHS mission in these key areas:

• Border security and immigration
• Intelligence and cyber analysis
• Preparedness, response, and recovery
• Protection of critical infrastructure
• Screening and credentialing
• Transportation security

Current Work Programs

Behind MITRE's Homeland Security Center stands our 50-year history of objective support in the public interest on issues of critical national importance. Among our work programs:

• Developing system-of-systems engineering capabilities for use by the Secure Border Initiative to help DHS explore the effects of potential policy and investment actions and enable coordinated decisions.
• Acting as a principal player in the FAA's air domain security mission by developing new systems and procedures to increase security while minimizing the impact on air travel and commerce.
• Working to ensure the financial stability of our economy by partnering with the IRS, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.
• Enhancing airport security without increasing wait times for travelers by supporting the Transportation Safety Administration's near- and long-term strategies for improving airport security, including the initial introduction of the Registered Traveler (RT) program.
• Providing critical systems engineering, information technology, and acquisition support to the National Communications System (NCS), whose 23 federal departments and agencies are charged with national security and emergency preparedness responsibilities, including the preservation of consistent, reliable telecommunications services during natural and man-made disasters.
• Establishing the Enterprise Technology Laboratory, or ETLab, where DHS officials can use the equipment to facilitate simulations and working sessions to see how new border security measures might work.

Related Information

Articles and News

• New Lab Serves as a Growing Resource for Tough Challenges
• Uncommon Sensors May Help Secure Our Ports and Borders
• Unmanned Aircraft in Civil Airspace: Challenges and Opportunities
• Ready for Primetime: Putting the Byte on Crime and Terrorism
• Need-to-Know vs. Need-to-Share
• Biometrics at the Border
• Through the Eyes of the Enemy: Modeling Adaptive Behavior

Technical Papers and Presentations

• Cross-Boundary Information Sharing
• Encrypted Dynamic Privacy for RFID
• Sensor Technologies for Border and Cargo Security
• Netted Sensor Fence for Homeland Security
• Multi-Modal Netted Sensor Fence for Homeland Security
• Test Procedures for Verifying Image Quality Requirements for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Single Finger Capture Devices

Websites

• MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) FFRDC
• MITRE's DoD Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) FFRDC
• MITRE's Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) FFRDC
• MITRE's Homeland Security Center

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