Introduction & History

• Drivers Behind CA/US Cooperative Programs on Homeland Security S&T;
• PSTP – A Brief Chronology
• PSTP Vision and Mission
• Four PSTP Mission Areas and Foci
• Mission Area Priorities
• PSTP Measures of Success
• PSTP Resource Strategy

Drivers Behind CA/US Cooperative Programs on Homeland Security S&T;

• There is a clear benefit and need for CA/US coordination and increased collaboration in CIP and border security Science & Technology (S&T;),
  • should be based on solid national S&T; coordination/collaboration program.

• There are operational and S&T; gaps and priorities that have been identified in both CA and US;
  • must be addressed recognizing the client/end-user requirements.

PSTP – A Brief Chronology …

• Fall 2001- U.S. DoS and OCIPEP(Canada) enter into negotiations for a CIP R&D;/S&T; Agreement – expanded in June 2002 to include Border Security S&T.;
• Nov 2002 – Ridge/Manley agree to expand Smart Border Action Plan to include Bio-Security and Border Security S&T.;
• May 2003 – US DHS forwards draft proposal for CA/US cooperation, based on scope in expanded Action Plan .
• July 2003 – Senior CA/US officials form Bi-National Steering Committee (BNSC) to advance the proposal.
• Oct 2003 – Ridge/Manley “initial” the S&T; Agreement.
• Oct 2003 – BNSC establishes the Public Security Technical Program and directs its focus. Form Implementation Team.
• May 2004 - Agreement signed into force

PSTP Vision

"Be the premier forum for bi-national collaboration in Science and Technology that advances our national Public Safety and Security strategies."

PSTP Mission

Collaboratively deliver S&T; solutions that advance our national capabilities to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from high-consequence public safety and security events.

Four PSTP Mission Areas and Foci

CBRNE
Capabilities to prevent, prepare for and respond to CBRNE threats to public security, whether derived from terrorist or criminal activity, natural causes or accidents.

Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
The robustness, reliability and protection of physical and IT facilities, networks, services and assets, which if disrupted or destroyed would have a serious impact on the health, safety, security, economic well-being or effective functioning of the nation.

Disruption and Interdiction (DI)
The ability to identify and stop terrorists/criminals and their activities, including surveillance, monitoring, disruption and interdiction of their activities at pertaining to border and transportation security.

Systems Integration, Standards, and Analysis (SISA)
The performance, integration and interoperability of national and international public security and emergency management capabilities and supporting systems, including the enabling standards, and vulnerability and systems analyses.

Mission Area Priorities:
Balance of Investment

• Balance of Investment:
  • The PSTP will engage in cooperative activities that:
    • provide near-term S&T; solutions to the needs of Public Safety and Security decision makers and operators for improved capabilities,
    • help conceive, define and validate future national Public Safety and Security capabilities through science analysis, and
    • address difficult S&T; problems, that when solved, will significantly improve capabilities.
  • The PSTP balance of investment between S&T; solutions addressing near-term needs and that those addressing longer-term capabilities will be approximately 70/30 over the next 3 years of the program.

Mission Area Priorities:
Risk Assessment & Gap Analysis

Coordinated Risk Assessment:

• Each nation has developed an initial set of indicative scenarios that indicate public safety and security threats of high concern based on a preliminary assessment of risk and likelihood
• The Bi-National Steering Committee has developed an initial basis set of scenarios that expresses the coordinated perspective

Gap Analysis

• Mission Area co-chairs have engaged selected representatives from their federal S&T;, critical infrastructure protection and emergency management communities to examine gaps in the ability to prepare for, prevent, respond and recover from the indicative scenarios

Mission Area Priorities:
Summary

Collaboratively deliver proactive S&T; solutions that advance our national capabilities to prevent, respond to and recover from high-consequence Public Safety and Security events.

CBRNE

• S&T; interoperability for operational reach-back
• Technologies for early event and critical point detection
• Immediate Consequence Management techniques for chemical hazards
• Methodologies and protocols for recovery and long-term consequence management

Critical Infrastructure Protection

• CIP decision-support systems
• Standardized vulnerability and risk assessment
• New design architectures and retrofits
• Secure network architecture and management
• Cyber event management
• Network analysis and modeling

Disruption and Interdiction

• Reduction of vulnerability of people, conveyances and cargo
• Officer safety
• Knowledge discovery and dissemination for domain awareness & surveillance
• Detection and alert to suspicious events
• Determination of intent
• Disruption of human threats through course-of-action selection
• Seamless communications interoperability during DI
• Effective targeting and intervention

Systems Integration, Standards & Analysis

• Future Public Safety and Security integrated capabilities
• National risk and vulnerability assessment capabilities
• Methodologies for Public Security decision making
• Interoperability of bi-national capabilities
• Integration and uptake of PSTP technologies delivered by the Mission Areas

PSTP Measures of Success

Scientific Analysis and Advice:
Public Safety and Security decision makers are provided with timely and relevant scientific analysis and advice across the spectrum of strategy, policy, acquisition and operations.

RDT&E;:
In the conception and fielding of new and improved national capabilities; research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E;) have closed knowledge gaps; enabled interoperability and reduced risk.

S&T; Forecasting:
Emerging public security threats have been anticipated and appropriate mitigation strategies and countermeasures have been implemented.

Outreach to Non-Federal Entities:
Through engagement of the private sector, academia, other levels of government and end user communities, efficient and effective science and technology solutions have been identified and provided.

PSTP Linkages

Programmatic Linkages:

• Other national, bi-national and international S&T; programs: other national, bi-national and multi-national S&T; cooperative agreements and programs with Public Safety and Security dimensions
• Bi-national policy or operational initiatives: Bi-national and multi-national Public Safety and Security strategy, policy or operational initiatives (e.g. the Smart Border Action Plan) with S&T; dimensions

Partner Linkages:

• All federal government agencies with responsibilities or capabilities in safety and security RDT&E;
• National Public Safety and Security Authorities: decision makers across the spectrum from strategy and policy, to acquisition and operations, and spanning federal, state/provincial and local levels
• Federal S&T; Performers (e.g. national/federal laboratories)
• Elements of the nations’ innovation systems: S&T; performers in academia, industry, other levels of government

PSTP Resource Strategy

Resource Options (all will be used by PSTP):

• Information/data exchange – each nation releases (classified) results of previous work to the other nation (as authorized) to achieve program objectives
• Program harmonization – each nation either provides the resources to support their national contribution to the collaborative activity, or negotiates other arrangements as appropriate
• Exchange of Funds – a nation can provide financial resources that will contribute to work being conducted by the other nation under the collaboration