Homeland Security and Defense

Homeland security and defense are critical challenges now being addressed on a nationwide scale. Events involving weapons of mass destruction present unique and complex requirements for consequence management, recovery, and restoration similar in scope to a catastrophic natural disaster. Local, state, and federal facilities and agencies must ensure their ability to deal with these events should they occur.

AlphaTRAC's expertise in hazardous materials emergency management extends to a number of areas:

Vulnerability Analyses • • •
AlphaTRAC conducts vulnerability analyses for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats to private facilities and operations, societal infrastructure, and governmental facilities and operations. Our assessments combine threat analyses with emergency management-style hazards assessments. We provide comprehensive solutions, conducting not only assessments but developing the tools and decision processes needed for response to threats.

Risk and Consequence Analysis • • •
AlphaTRAC designs and conducts integrated risk and hazards assessments for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats. Analyses address a full spectrum of events that consider the nature of the threat, initiating events, and dispersal mechanisms. Events involving a single substance, multiple substances, and mixtures of substances from different categories (such as biological, chemical, and radiological hazards in the same event) are addressed.

Real-time Consequence Projection Systems for WMD Events • • •
Consequence management for events involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD) depends on rapid assessment of impacts so that significant decisions at hand will matter. AlphaTRAC develops, implements, and operates real-time systems for predicting the impacts from malevolent events involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats.

Anti-terrorism Consequence Decision-making • • •
As with other large-scale emergencies, terrorism events demand rapid decisions to protect lives, property, and assets. AlphaTRAC develops, implements, and trains to the specialized decision-making processes required to support the multi-jurisdiction and multi-agency response expected for terrorist events.