Research Summaries

Back Initiative: Developing Multi-Modal Transportation Security Networks

Fiscal Year 2009
Division School of International Graduate Studies
Department National Security Affairs
Investigator(s) Lewis, Theodore G.
Sponsor Transportation Security Administration (DHS)
Summary The proposed initiative involves a "learn by doing" project within the Northwest Region that will help the Federal Security Directors become more effective in their new roles in the multi-model transportation environment. The project will build a network or "megacommunity," as it is called in the research literature, to bring multi-modal transportation groups together in a working relationship to enhance specific security problems or challenges across various sectors. Building this network is a first step in solving specific problems and not simply a venue for discussing lofty security concepts. This effort will take TSA from just knowing the right local contacts in a crisis response, to developing a network that looks strategically, collectively, and proactively at improving security. As a problem-solving network, participating groups, including TSA, will learn how to organize and use their assets in a joint strategy that incorporates identified "overlapping" interests.
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