Fiscal Year	2018
Division	Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department	Defense Analysis
Investigator(s)	Hammond, Jesse R. Blanken, Leo J.
Sponsor	Office of the Secretary of Defense, Rapid Reaction Technology Office (DoD)
Summary	This project will generate new models and analyze the empowerment of non-state actors with the goal of providing the warfighter recommended strategies to solve, mitigate, and prevent threats by alternative means. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) will prototype a new software platform and gather Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to model and consider emerging threats from decentralized communities of hackers, makers, and innovators. The effort leverages a multi-year effort resourced by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Threat Reduction and Arms Control), Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office, with the objective of enabling a system of people, organizations, data, and technology that integrates, analyzes, and disseminates timely, tailorable, and actionable WMD information to support situational understanding and decision-making for The Department of Defense (DoD) and its interagency and international partners.
Keywords	National Security Strategy communities
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