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Locked in a “war room” for a day, Sandia researchers and a team of 24 officials, mostly from California’s Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD), worked through a simulated bioterrorism event. This exercise helped the officials evaluate the county’s ability to respond quickly and effectively to such an incident.
It also allowed Sandia test its disaster response and planning tool, called the Weapons of Mass Destruction–Decision Analysis Tool (WMD-DAC). WMD-DAC focuses Sandia’s modeling capabilities to develop interactive simulations that support decision analysis and policy development. For example, it can simulate the performance of technologies and the tradeoffs to consider when deciding how to use limited resoures.
Sandia’s modeling capabilities include:
The Risk Assessment Methodology for Communities (RAM-CTM) is a systematic process to help local officials assess threat, prioritize targets, identify consequences, and evaluate the completeness and effectiveness of physical security systems.
Sandia and other labs have developed and tested a chemical detection system that can be rapidly deployed at special events to protect against toxic industrial chemical threats. A test conducted with police in Livermore, CA, during a Fourth of July celebration at a local park, proved that the system could provide law enforcement the information they need to understand and respond to an attack rapidly. This system is still under development.