Homeland Security and Defense Deals with Three High-Consequence Mission Areas
Sandia’s Homeland Security and Defense
Strategic Management Unit is organized in three mission areas,
each with a program portfolio aligned with
the mission responsibilties of its major customer.
- Catastrophic Event Mitigation — supporting primarily the United
States Department of Homeland Security
- Chemical and biological protection — applied science, technology
development, and systems analysis to deliver solutions to detect,
deter, defeat, and mitigate chemical and biological attacks.
- Radiological and nuclear detection — systems architecture,
detection technologies, incident response, and test and evaluation,
primarily in support of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
- Energetics — explosives detection systems and mitigation countermeasures.
- Border and transportation security — maritime and land-border
security analysis; rail security test and evaluation.
- Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance — communications interoperability,
cyber security, and information analysis.
- Systems analysis — threat and vulnerability studies; systems
architecture design.
- Red teaming — adversary-based assessment of systems and
designs.
- Homeland Defense and Force Protection — supporting elements
of the Department of Defense
- Physical security, DoD — security systems architecture for highconsequence
military assets.
- Chemical and biological warfare defense — systems to detect,
defeat, and mitigate chemical and biological attacks on military
installations or troop deployments.
- Weapon remediation — systems for destruction of residual chemical
munitions.
- Force protection systems and initiatives — protecting critical mission
functions, personnel, high-value assets, installations, infrastructure,
and forces on the move.
- Risk Management and Infrastructure Protection — supporting
the National Nuclear Security Administration and other federal agencies
- Critical infrastructure protection — modeling and simulation to anticipate
the consequences of disruptions to national infrastructures
(National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center).
- Physical security, DOE — security systems architecture for highconsequence
DOE assets.
- Risk assessment and management — methodologies to help
responsible agencies prioritize threats and response investments.
