Political Quotes

“Argonne National Laboratory, The DecisionWorks, Inc., Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, and Miami-Dade County would like to build upon the results of the pilot project to fully develop and to implement a comprehensive, risk-based prioritization process that decision-makers could use to allocate scarce national, State, and local resources to the War on Terrorism. The development of this risk-based prioritization process would be based on the methodology and results of the successful pilot project, and the capability developed in the original pilot would be further enhanced by the physical security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, homeland security, decision analysis, and systems engineering expertise resident in the project team. Specifically, the purpose of the proposed risk-based prioritization program for Homeland Security would be to develop and deliver a process for helping decision-makers in both the public and private sectors to assess the likelihood of a successful terrorist attack on critical infrastructure and other assets; to understand the safety, economic, and other consequences of a successful attack; to formulate and evaluate alternatives for reducing or mitigating the risk of a successful attack; and to select a portfolio of alternatives that prioritizes the allocation of scarce resources to meet the threat of terrorism.”