Homeland Security and National Defense

As part of our mission, SRI helps the U.S. government meet imperative homeland security needs. In the past decade alone, SRI has performed more than $4B in contract R&D, primarily for the U.S. government.

Technologies and programs developed at SRI play important roles in U.S. military and civilian efforts to combat terrorism, at home and abroad—from mapping systems for air combat training used during the Cold War to speech-enabled translation software deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

SRI's solutions for safeguarding our nation range from instrumented combat training for the National Guard to cyber security, threat detection, and persistent surveillance technologies.

Through its unmatched engineering and systems integration expertise, SRI has developed solutions to challenging technology and security issues for more than 60 years. An experienced and reliable government contractor, SRI excels at collaborative partnerships with multiple stakeholders. We are skilled at early-phase, collaborative definition of new systems, and create platform technologies that enable future applications. Projects span the system life cycle, from concept definition through production and support, for end-to-end customer solutions.

Clients include the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Institutes of Health, all branches of the Armed Services, and the National Guard.

Programs and Activities

SRI's work in homeland security stems from a concerted effort across key technology centers, including

• Center for Maritime and Port Security: Maritime domain awareness and intelligence
• DHS S&T Cyber Security Research and Development Center: Supported by SRI
• Center for Systems and Signals Technology: Advanced technology development, signals and image data analysis, and technology transfer services
• Poulter Laboratory: Experiments and computational simulations of explosive and impact effects, techniques to counter terrorism, neutralize mines, and simulate earthquakes
• Applied Optics Laboratory: Materials development and computation of materials properties, development of microelectronics, microsensors, and microdevices, applied controls, noise suppression, optical sensing, and optical technology

Strategic Alliances for Joint Research and Development, Testing, and Practical Application

SRI partners with these organizations to develop, field-test, and deploy homeland security applications:

• Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security
• National Disaster Resiliency Center

Cyber Security

• DHS S&T Cyber Security Research and Development Center
• Malware Threat Center
• Threat assessment tools and strategies

Data Collection and Analysis

• Signals intelligence
• Center for Systems and Signals Technology
• Signal processing
• Intelligence & Information Systems (I2S) program
• Aerial intelligence
• Processing and reporting
• Simulation suites for intelligence collection systems
• Remote sensing
• Research and analysis
• Network intrusion detection
• Multilevel software security systems

Threat Detection, Prevention, and Protection

• Ground- and foliage-penetrating radar
• Chemical/biological agent detection
• Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear countermeasures
• Unexploded ordnance and mine detection and neutralization
• Nuclear materials detection
• Permeable blast barriers to mitigate effects from explosions
• Infrastructure collapse assessment tool for impact and blast loading
• Portable blast containment

Emergency Preparedness and Situational Awareness

• SIMON: Open architecture data integration and fusion system
• TerraSight®: A C4ISR system that uses air and ground video surveillance exploitation based on real-time video integrated into 3D mapping
• Aware™: Mobile situational awareness common operating picture system
• Wild Cloud: Comprehensive, Cloud-Based Situational Awareness

Training Support

• Instrumented Military Training Exercise Support
• Aware™ Mobile Networks
• First responder training services, table-top exercises, and after-action review (AAR)

Vision and Sensing Products from SRI Sarnoff

• Iris on the Move®: Iris scanning biometric solutions
• VerifiIR™: A non-invasive stand-off detection system that displays real-time Visible/IR fused images
• TerraSight®: A C4ISR system that uses air and ground video surveillance exploitation based on real-time video integrated into 3D mapping
• Acadia®: High-performance video processing

Robotics

• Electroadhesion: Advanced materials for breaching and explosive targets
• Taurus: Intuitive Bomb-Squad Dexterous Telemanipulator
• Wall-climbing robots

For information on our work in related areas, visit our Engineering and Systems Group, Physical Sciences Division, Biosciences Division, and Information and Computing Sciences Division.