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Research and Development for Combating Terrorism: Technical Support Working Group
This report describes the organization and activities of the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG), which conducts an interagency research and development program for combating terrorism. The working group balances technology and capability development efforts among the four pillars of combating terrorism: intelligence support, counter-terrorism, anti-terrorism, and consequence management. Today, TSWG still performs that counterterrorism technology development function as a stand-alone interagency working group. TSWG operates under the policy oversight of the Department of State's Coordinator for Counterterrorism and the management and technical oversight of the Department of Defense (DoD) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD (SO/LIC)). Participation is open to federal departments and agencies. While the TSWG's core funds are derived principally from the DoD's Combating Terrorism Technology Support (CTTS) Program, and the DOS, other departments and agencies contribute additional funds. Other departments and agencies also provide personnel to act as project managers and technical advisors. The TSWG has successfully transitioned capabilities to the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Justice, State, and Treasury (Secret Service, Customs, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms); the Intelligence Community; the Transportation Security Administration; the Public Health Service; and other departments and agencies. TSWG membership includes representatives from over eighty organizations across the Federal Government. These departments and agencies work together by participating in one or more subgroups. A comprehensive listing of member organizations by subgroup is provided in the appendix. The nine subgroups are: Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures; Explosives Detection; Improvised Device Defeat; Infrastructure Protection; Investigative Support and Forensics; Personnel Protection; Physical Security; Surveillance, Collection and Operations Support; and Tactical Operations Support.
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
2002
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Combating Terrorism: 2005 TSWG Review
"In the war on terror, the United States employs a variety of instruments of statecraft to meet its objectives. These techniques include diplomacy, intelligence collection and analysis, enhanced security measures, financial controls, law enforcement activities, and military action. The Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) is an additional instrument that cuts across a number of these areas: TSWG develops and uses science and technology to thwart or to respond to terrorist attacks and to support and enhance the capabilities of the other instruments of statecraft. [...] In this report, you will read about a selection of new technical capabilities developed by TSWG over the past twelve months, in addition to selected examples of combating terrorism technologies and capabilities that are currently under development. This report is representative and not exhaustive in its presentation of TSWG projects, capabilities, and technologies."
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
2005
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Technical Support Working Group (TSWG): Improvised Device Defeat [website]
This website by the Technical Support Working Group focuses on the defeat of improvised devices. The Improvised Device Defeat (IDD) Subgroup delivers advanced technologies, tools, and information to increase the operational capabilities of the United States military Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community and federal, state, and local bomb squads to defeat and mitigate terrorist devices. In collaboration with military, federal, state, and local agencies, the IDD subgroup identifies, validates, and prioritizes multi-agency user requirements through an ongoing generation and prioritization process. Focus areas include: Access and Diagnostics; Defeat; EOD Tools; Information Resources; and Remote Controlled Vehicles and Tools.
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
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Securing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
This presentation by Perry Pederson of the Technical Support Working Group presents information regarding Securing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
Pederson, Perry
2005-11-02
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Securing Your SCADA and Industrial Control Systems, Version 1.0
"This guidebook, developed by the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG), provides information for enhancing the security of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The information is a comprehensive overview of industrial control system security, including administrative controls, architecture design, and security technology. This guide is intended for all sectors that use ICS technology. This is a guide for enhancing security, not a how-to manual for building an ICS, and its purpose is to teach ICS managers, administrators, operators, engineers, and other ICS staff what security concerns they should be taking into account."
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
2005
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FERET
The goal of the FERET program was to develop automatic face recognition capabilities that could be employed to assist security, intelligence, and law enforcement personnel in the performance of their duties. The goal of the sponsored research was to develop face recognition algorithms. The FERET database was collected to support the sponsored research and the FERET evaluations. The FERET evaluations were performed to measure progress in algorithm development and identify future research directions. The FERET program started in September of 1993, with Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland, serving as technical agent. Initially, the FERET program consisted of three phases, each one year in length. The goals of the first phase were to establish the viability of automatic face recognition algorithms and to establish a performance baseline against which to measure future progress. The goals of phases 2 and 3 were to further develop face recognition technology. After the successful conclusion of phase 2, the DoD Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office initiated the FERET demonstration effort. The goals of this effort were to port FERET evaluated algorithms to real time experimental/demonstration systems.
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
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Global Threats Challenges: Decades Ahead
This is a prepared statment before the Senate Armed Services Committee by Lieutenant General Patrick M. Hughes. Hughes expresses his views on the global threats and challenges confronting our nation over
the next two decades. As we have witnessed during the past year -- with the continuing
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction highlighted by the nuclear detonations in
India and Pakistan, heightened tensions along the line of control in Kashmir, disorder in
Indonesia, terrorist bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, North Korean
and Iranian progress in developing longer-range missiles, intense ethnic conflict,
particularly in the Balkans and Central Africa, internal uncertainty and economic crisis
in Russia, the devastating impact of Hurricane Mitch in Central America, narcotics trafficking and its corrosive effects on governance in Colombia and surrounding
countries, Iraq's continued belligerence, and growing concern with the direction North
Korea is taking -- the international security environment remains volatile, complex, and
difficult. He then outlines five central themes that will define the nature of the military threats and challenges that we are likely to encounter over the next two decades.
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
Hughes, Patrick M.
1999-02-02
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Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) [website]
TSWG is the U.S. national forum that coordinates interagency and international research and development requirements for combating terrorism. Program development is focused on antiterrorism, counterterrorism, intelligence support, and consequence management. This includes description of nuclear countermeasures, explosive detection, infrastructure protection, and physical security technology. The TSWG rapidly develops technologies and equipment to meet the high-priority needs of the combating terrorism community, and addresses joint international operational requirements through cooperative research and development with major allies.
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
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Counter-Proliferation Initiative: Managing Three Crises
This is a speech given by the assistnat secretary of defense for international security policy to the Conference on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Proliferation. If you think the U.S. government isn't combating terrorism and the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, you don't know what's going on -- but if you think it's enough, you don't know the gravity of the threat. Search We must never fail to remember that these weapons pose the most serious challenges to the security of the United States -- a fact that the ordinary citizen can easily overlook, since the headlines seem to be monopolized by other international security problems of fundamentally lesser importance. I also applaud the inclusion of chemical weapons and above all biological weapons in the scope of the conference. Nuclear proliferation justifiably receives a lot of attention. But to those of us who must plan against the threats that are clearly here and now, the existence of CW and BW programs in most theaters where U.S. forces would go into action and their ease of access to terrorists command equal attention. BW, in particular, is the great sleeping dragon.
Retrieved from: www.defenselink.mil
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
Carter, Ashton B.
1996-05-23
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Pipeline Blast Mitigation Technologies: Project Report
"Pipelines are an extensive and critical part of the nation's infrastructure. Nationwide, there are 320,500 miles of natural gas transmission line and 168,900 miles of hazardous liquid line. Lines for local distribution of natural gas total 2.2 million miles.1 Nearly all natural gas and 65% of hazardous liquids are transported by pipelines. Natural gas provides over 25% of residential and industrial energy needs, while oil products provide 97% of the energy used for transportation. In total, 62% of the energy used in the US is derived from these two sources. Despite the importance of pipeline systems, there are few technologies for mitigating their vulnerabilities to explosive attack. To address this need, the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) contracted Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) to perform the following three tasks […] as part of Phase 1: 1. Survey of existing research and technology proposed specifically for blast protection of pipelines ('Survey of Existing Technology and Research', submitted October 15, 2009); 2. Identification and assessment of the vulnerability of pipeline systems and infrastructure ('Pipeline Vulnerability Assessment' submitted December 3, 2009); 3. Assessment of blast mitigation technologies for pipeline protection using analytical and numerical simulations ('Assessment of Blast Mitigation Technologies' submitted January 28, 2010). Full scale testing was performed in Phase 2, which was initiated upon completion of Tasks 1 through 3 of Phase 1. The results of the Task 3 report were used to develop the Phase 2 'Test Plan', which was executed as Task 5 (Task 4 was project management). The Phase 2 explosive tests included source characterization and pipe, valve, and protective structure tests. The source characterization tests verified the repeatability of explosive yield for charge configuration used in pipeline component tests. The pipe, valve, and protective structure tests determined the resistance of pipeline components to explosive threats, whether protected by blast mitigation technologies or unprotected."
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
2011-05-10
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Best Practices for the Retrieval of Video Evidence from Digital CCTV Systems
"The purpose of this guide is to provide the best methods for the retrieval of video data evidence from Digital Closed Circuit Television (DCCTV) recording systems. These best practices, guidelines and recommendations are intended to provide responding Law Enforcement personnel guidance in securing and collecting video data from DCCTV systems. This will ensure that best methods are utilized to retrieve the recorded data and maintain its integrity. The retrieved video data should be retained as the master evidence. Whenever possible, the native/proprietary recorded video data from the DCCTV recording system should be retrieved to maintain the integrity and image quality of the evidence. These guidelines are meant to inform agencies of the best practices for DCCTV retrieval and to aid in the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). These practices should be used in conjunction with current agency policies."
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
2006-10
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Surveillance and Intrusion Detection Tools
James A. Rice of the Technical Support Working Group gives this presentation on surveillance and intrusion detection tools at the 2004 National Institute of Justice Annual Technology Conference.
United States. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. Technical Support Working Group
Rice, James A.
2004-09-27
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