Friday, October 20, 2006

Long Range Threat Assessment and Strategy for the National Reconnaissance Office

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is part of the U.S. intelligence community and responsible for the creation and development of space-based reconnaissance assets. In a three-year project from 1999 we helped the NRO create a set of scenarios that explored the national security threat space of the future and developed strategies and technology investment priorities to help the intelligence community prepare for threats not yet obvious. The threat areas studied included nation-state war, terrorism (including bioterrorism), criminal–terror linkages, and the potential for rogue corporations. Over the course of the project we held multiple strategy sessions, both classified and unclassified. Participants included not just Government officials, but representatives from the CDC, automotive manufactures, social workers, hospital executives, ministers, and many others. The unclassified interim findings of the work were published in a book, “Proteus: Insights From 2020” (Copernicus Institute Press, 2000).

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