For more than 15 years, IDA has served as a DHS’s trusted partner, supporting the Department and the HSE by providing analyses of the most complex and demanding research questions. We have provided our HSE sponsors timely, authoritative, and objective analyses of important homeland and national issues, many of which have significant scientific and technical content. We bring experienced staff, an established ability to attract and collaborate with outside experts, a dedication to quality, a reputation for trustworthiness, and a commitment to sponsor satisfaction. Further, IDA has served as a long-term operational analysis partner, developing institutional memory while providing independent, rapid, responsive, and high quality analyses. IDA has continuously supported the Department’s missions while adapting to the continuously evolving homeland security environment.
IDA already works diligently with DHS to engender this trust and build relationships with DHS components, directorates, and offices, State and local governments, and the private sector. IDA’s nearly 50-year history of addressing the greatest challenges facing the nation has always included the broader inter-agency community supporting homeland and national security efforts; and State, local, and private sector homeland security partners. IDA’s research leverages its operational and analytical expertise, trusted relationships with Federal and other partners, and proven record of transformational analyses to bring together key leaders in the homeland and national security spaces and provide answers encompassing the full spectrum of challenges from acquisition of homeland security technologies to the study of policy and regulation. This DHS research supports the five homeland security enterprise-wide core missions as identified on the DHS website(Open external link)(Open external link):
Prevent Terrorism and Enhance Security
- Applying the Common Risk Model to the DAMS Sector
- Procedures for Implementing the SAFETY Act
- Technology Trends in Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) and Counter UAS: A Five Year Outlook
- Emerging Critical Infrastructure R&D Task
- Global Nuclear Detection Architecture Capability Based Assessment
Secure and Manage Borders
- DHS Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Support and Program Analysis
- United States Coast Guard Intelligence in the Near Future (FY13-18)
Enforce and Administer Immigration Laws
No research related to this mission area has yet been cleared for public release.
Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace
- An Integrated Approach for Physical and Cyber Security Risk Assessment: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Common Risk Model for Dams
- Improving Governance and Budget Execution Oversight at the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD)
- Operational Test and Evaluation of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Operational Test & Evaluation of the National Cybersecurity Protection Systems (NCPS) In the Department of Homeland Security
Enhance Resilience to Disasters
- Domestic Fixed-Wing Airlift Requirements
- Protection Table Top Exercises
- Environmental Surveillance Analysis of Alternatives
Strategies and Initiatives
- DHS PPBE Development
- Homeland Security Information Sharing
