Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed National Planning Scenarios identifying a dozen of the most plausible or probable strikes, with their potential for human loss and economic damage. Many experts expect that significant real-time sensing and data collection infrastructure will be needed to protect the public and national infrastructure from such threats. Further, such threats are expected to evolve as our adversaries become more sophisticated.

Because of the vast amounts of real-time information coming from many widely distributed sources, new and more advanced techniques are needed to collect and process threat-related information to insure that it is not overlooked. The Altusys situation management technology, designed by experts in real-time infrastructure monitoring and management, goes beyond existing operations and infrastructure management tools to provide a real-time view of threats and vulnerabilities, coordinated between different domains and organizational sectors. The Altusys approach integrates, fuses, and correlates, in real-time, a large set of sensors, imagery sources, and other data sources. The result is a threat picture characterized by evolving sets of existing and predicted situations. This situation-based model looks at a range of threats to physical and logical infrastructure, and separates situations according to phase:

• Prevention - including detection of planning, training, perpetrator association, materials, medical side effects, transport of materials or devices.
• Deployment - detection of infratructure damage, casualties, and secondary effects that might enable other threats.
• Recovery - including characterization of the scope of the incident, deployment of evacuation resources, communication to the public, perimeter control and containment, recovery, cleanup, and forensics.

Altusys is engaged in a wide spectrum of situation awareness, cognitive information fusion and decision support services related to net-centric operations, C4ISR, asymmetric warfare, infrastructure and cyber security, and telecommunications, data and sensor network management. Altusys services include:

Market analysis
Technology assessment
Requirements analysis
Vendor evaluation
System specification
Architecture and design
Prototype development

Knowledge engineering
Integration
User training
Technology education
Intellectual property
Proposals
White papers