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Terrorism

Unique American Problem

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• New Form of Warfare

• International

• Domestic

• Global Trends Indicate

Asymmetrical Threats

Increasing

• A National Challenge

• Federal – State – Local

Jurisdiction

• No National Strategy

• Lacks Prioritization of

Effort

• Current Organizational

Designs Don’t Fit

Bottom Line

Nation Not Prepared

for This Defining

Challenge to Our

Homeland

The Role of

MIPT in

Countering

Terrorism

On U.S. Soil

Uniqueness of MIPT

• One of 3 Components of National

Memorial

• Neutral Ground – Bridges the Gap

• Congressional Support

• Living Laboratory

• Research & Development

• National Point of Contact for

Antiterrorism Information

• Develop RDT&E Pilot Program ICW, ISTS,

TSWG & Others

• Develop Performance Standards for PPE &

Respirators in CB Environment

Congressional Language

National Center Dedicated To:

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Helping achieve a world in which all terrorism, regardless of origin, is

recognized, repudiated and resisted

Activities

• Conferences

• R & D Program

• Establishing Strategic

Alliances

MissionTo Prevent & Deter Terrorism

or

Mitigate its Results

VisionThe Nation’s Center of Excellence

for COUNTERING Terrorism On US Soil,

A Living Memorial to Those Who

Were Killed, Those Who Survived

& Those Changed Forever

Center of

Excellence

Information Clearinghouse

Research & Development

Lessons Learned Library

Coordination Forum

Outreach

Bottom Line

• Rooted in the Past but Focused

on the Future

• Field Operating Agency with

Credibility

• Crisis and Consequence

Management

We Can’t do Everything

But

We Can Do Some Things

and

We Intend to

do Them Very Well

We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived

and those changed forever.

A Living Memorial

Dark Winter

• Developing Crisis in SWA

• Outbreak of Smallpox in

Midwestern city

• Overtime spreads to

additional States

Scenario

Dark WinterIssues

• Bio-weapon “poor Nations” NUC

• Bio Terrorism not a statistically

patterned phenomenon

• Natural tension between state and

federal priorities

• Fragility of medical system

• Allocation of Limited resources

Dark WinterLessons Learned

• Bio-attack different paradigm

• decision making in the info age

• Issue of trust

• communications strategy

• Marathon vs. 100 yard dash

• Training - exchange of business cards