Homeland Security Center (HLSC)

One of the unique strengths that MITRE brings to this arena is our ability to collaborate openly across the company, applying solutions developed for one homeland security mission partner to the challenges faced by others.

Overview

MITRE's Homeland Security Center ensures integrated leadership of our 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

MITRE's Homeland Security Customers

MITRE's systems engineering and integration expertise serves a broad range of government organizations responsible for homeland security. These include components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as well as its mission partners.

DHS

• Directorate for Science & Technology
• Directorate for National Protection & Programs
• Office of Infrastructure Protection
• Office of Cyber Security and Communications
• United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT)
• Office of Intelligence & Analysis
• Directorate for Management
• Chief Information Officer
• Chief Procurement Officer
• Transportation Security Administration
• U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services
• U.S. Coast Guard
• U.S. Customs & Border Protection
• Secure Border Initiative
• U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Homeland Security Mission Partners

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Defense Information Systems Agency
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Defense
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of the Treasury
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Internal Revenue Service

Capabilities

Behind MITRE's Homeland Security Center stands our 50-year history of objective support in the public interest on issues of critical national importance. We are committed to continually maintaining and advancing our core capabilities and technologies for homeland security:

• Systems Engineering and Integration
• Strategic Planning
• Portfolio Management
• Risk Management
• Acquisition Management
• Organizational Change Management
• Management Transformation
• Enterprise Architecture
• Infrastructure Protection
• Information Assurance
• Cyber Security
• Privacy
• Command and Control
• Communications and Networking
• Information Systems Studies and Analysis
• Air Defense Systems
• Surveillance Systems
• Intelligence Analysis
• Signal Processing
• Biometrics
• Modeling and Simulation

Related Information

Articles and News

• Private Eyes: Keeping Personal Information Safe
• Sense and Avoid: Flying Small UAS in Civil Airspace
• Clearing Checkpoints in Transportation Security
• Aircraft Biosensor Detects Pathogens in Flight
• Containing the Spread of Infectious Disease in Tight Spaces
• Uncommon Sensors May Help Secure Our Ports and Borders
• Detecting Chemical Weapons with Nano-Scale Sensors
• Honeyclients Root Out Attackers' Domains
• Unmanned Aircraft in Civil Airspace: Challenges and Opportunities
• Cell Phone Application Reports Local Criminal Activities, Aids Disaster Response
• Biometrics at the Border

Technical Papers and Presentations

• Malicious Control System Cyber Security Attack Case Study—Maroochy Water Services, Australia
• Finding Identity Group "Fingerprints" in Documents
• Fingerprint Recompression After Segmentation
• Secure Citizen Interaction Framework
• Agile Capability Development, Assessment and Transition in Support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT)
• High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance
• Shared Situational Awareness: A Vital Element to Next Generation Aviation Security
• Enabling Secure Interoperability Among Federated National Entities: It's a Matter of Trust
• Multi-Modal Netted Sensor Fence for Homeland Security

Websites

• Department of Homeland Security
• Our Work: Airspace Development, Safety, Security
• 2008 Innovation Exchange: Homeland Security
• 2008 Innovation Exchange: Biosecurity
• MITRE Research Programs: Homeland Security
• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
• Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL)

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