Emerging Threats
Our Expertise
Building Systemic Resilience
Emerging threats such as cyber attacks and novel weapons of mass destruction (WMD) technologies, increasingly pose a threat to national security. As our clients navigate an increasingly complex threat environment, CONSTANT is poised to deliver innovative solutions and expert guidance to confront current and anticipate future security challenges. This includes key areas such as cybersecurity, countering WMD, information/intelligence operations, critical infrastructure protection, and counterterrorism.
Our dynamic team of associates has worked across the nation and throughout the world to develop a variety of proven tools and techniques that help clients prepare now to effectively manage the emergencies of tomorrow. We seek to assist organizations to strategically adapt to the continuously evolving threat landscape, approach security with an innovative mindset, and sustainably manage technological advancement to build the systemic resilience necessary to withstand the unimaginable.
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Our Work
Award-Winning Emerging Threats Projects
Sample projects within our Emerging Threats portfolio include chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) response capacity building, multisectoral critical infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity training and exercises.
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CBRNE Incident Response Enhancements
The Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center (IMAAC), a partnership between the Department of Defense (DOD), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and five other federal agencies, provides sophisticated atmospheric models for disasters involving CBRNE agents. To promote interagency collaboration and raise awareness of IMAAC, CONSTANT leads a multi-year national outreach campaign. We provide training on IMAAC capabilities and facilitate partnerships between IMAAC and fire/emergency medical services, law enforcement, emergency management, public/environmental health, and critical infrastructure stakeholders, ensuring CBRNE incident response is supported by state-of-the-art atmospheric dispersion modeling.
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Transportation Security Exercises
CONSTANT supports Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Intermodal Security Training and Exercise Program (I-STEP). I-STEP offers planning, training, and exercise services to strengthen the security of the nation’s transportation sector. CONSTANT has supported the design, conduct, and evaluation of workshops and exercises for transportation security stakeholders and partner agencies across the U.S. These events build interagency capacity to respond to active threats, improvised explosive devices, hazardous materials incidents, and other transportation-related threats. This includes an exercise for Phoenix’s Valley Metro Regional Public Transit that was conducted in preparation for Super Bowl LVII and an exercise for Kansas City, MO facilitated in advance of the FIFA World Cup.
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Healthcare Cybersecurity Readiness
CONSTANT supports a project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aimed at ensuring that policies and processes for software failure or interruption are effective. This effort includes the testing of current cyber incident response plans and procedures through tabletop exercises that simulate the compromise of a critical Amazon Web Service (AWS) application due to hazards such as foreign state interference. These exercises involve the failure of primary processing systems, the transition to alternative operating environments, and the reconstitution of all operations to their standard form. The findings from these exercises are used to update a Disaster Recovery Plan. Together, these efforts help to strengthen resilience against cyber attacks and system disruptions, ensuring essential functions can be restored within recovery time objectives and with limited user impacts.