About CTSP

The Center for Technology, Security, and Policy is a research center dedicated to research, teaching, and outreach in national and homeland security affairs at the intersection between technology and public policy.

The Center's mission is to prepare the next generation of public and private leaders to address today's security challenges in the context of complex political, economic, social, technology and information systems through a multi-disciplinary approach that combines public policy research with complex decision support technologies, outreach, and professional exchanges to provide new management and operational capabilities and opportunities.

The Center appreciates that technology is central to the emergence of new threats and to the organization of the countervailing forces to oppose them. It recognizes that vulnerabilities often emerge at the organizational seams in complex systems and that integration of multiple disciplines is critical to security policy formulation and understanding. It combines the knowledge of academics, technologists, and practitioners with public and private sector experience in security policy affairs to address critical issues.

CTSPP has four objectives:

• Research and Development
  Support strategic and operational policy makers at national, state, and local levels of government and within the private sector to better understand the systemic effects of decision making in complex security environments.
• Education
  Provide knowledge and insight for civilian, military, academic, and private sector leaders through education in national and homeland security theory, strategy, operations, and programs.
• Service
  Create practical knowledge that will help our communities, our states, and our nation to meet the challenges of security while preserving freedom and individual liberty in the 21st century.
• Excellence
  Be a national repository of recognized expertise in security theory, strategy, operational planning, integration, resource allocation, and decision support technology that supports our Constitution and our way of life.