Global security threats have created a complex risk landscape that is challenging and transforming society. These global security issues intersect and influence the political, economic, social, technological, ecological and legal dimensions of the complex risk landscape and are now transborder thereby becoming national security issues.
Accessing the innovation space to support safety, security and defence capabilities is critical in order to mitigate new and evolving threats.
Through real-world examples of innovation, this book provides a detailed examination of the innovation space as it pertains to the application of S&T to safety and security threats and challenges.
This book is of most interest to public and private sector innovators as well as academician and graduate students working in the safety and security domain.
Author(s): Anthony J. Masys
Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 263
City: Cham
Foreword
Contents
Innovation in Context
Science Technology and Innovation: Transforming the Complex Safety and Security Multi-level Landscape
1 Introduction
2 9/11 Turning Point
3 Government of Canada PSAT Funds CRTI
4 Evolution of CRTI
5 New Governance, Programs, Challenges
6 Acquisition Program, National Exercises, Operational Deployment
7 ‘MECSS’ System: Its Exploitation in Canada and Abroad
8 Continued Evolution into Transnational Challenges
9 In Conclusion
References
Design Thinking for Safety and Security: Support to Vancouver 2010 Olympics
1 Introduction
2 Overview of MESF
2.1 Security Planning
3 Major Events Security Framework
4 Characteristics of the Framework
5 Discussion
6 Action Research
7 Systems Thinking
7.1 Design Thinking
8 DNDAF: Architecture Framework Methodology
9 Strategic View
10 Capability View
11 Operational View
12 OV-2 Operational Node Connectivity Description
13 OV-4a Organizational Relationship Chart
14 OV-5a Functional Model
15 OV-5b Operational Process Model
16 Conclusions
References
Applications of Innovation
A Systems Approach to Critical Infrastructure Resilience
1 Introduction
2 The CSS National Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Model (NCIM)
3 Application of the NCIM
3.1 A Regional Flood
3.2 The Resilience of a Military Base
3.3 Disruption of Natural Gas to a Major Metropolitan Area
3.4 River Bank Erosion in a Prairie City
3.5 An All Hazards Risk Approach for a Regional Hospital
3.6 An Earthquake Affecting a Major Metropolitan Area
4 Communicating CI Risk
5 The Challenge of Collaborating to Improve CI Resiliency
6 International Dimension for CI—A Case Study
6.1 What is 5G?
6.2 Huawei and the West
6.3 Canada’s Decision
6.4 A Role for CSS?
7 Summary
References
Emergency Planning—A Tool for Rural and Remote Community Resilience
1 Introduction
2 Investments in Emergency Response Planning Tools
2.1 Rural Disaster and Resilience Planning Project
2.2 Aboriginal Disaster Resilience Planning Project
2.3 Building Resilience and Capacity with Canada’s Remote Indigenous Communities Project
3 Discussion
4 Looking into the Future
References
Applications of Foresight for Defence and Security: The Future of Crime
1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Methodology
4 Findings
5 Economic Crisis
5.1 The Concentration of Wealth and Rise in Inequality Threatens American’s Social Fabric
5.2 Globalization Threatens Canada’s Economic Sovereignty
5.3 Globalization Gives Opportunities to Organized Crime
5.4 Canada Becomes Increasingly Urban and Aged
6 Emerging Technology
6.1 Advances in Technology Move Faster Than Organizational Readiness and Capacity to Respond
6.2 Emerging Technologies Introduce Novel Security Threats
6.3 Legislation and Policy Hinder the Ability of NSPS Actors to Take Advantage of Existing and Emerging Technologies
7 Climate Change and Public Health
7.1 A More Accessible Arctic Invites Layered Security Challenges
7.2 The Impact of Infectious Disease, Addiction, Mental Health and Other Public Health Epidemics Forces the Government to Take Pre-emptive Measures to Protect Canadians
7.3 Shifting Climate and Environmental Patterns Threaten Canada’s Natural Resources and Communities Both Domestic and Global
8 Social and Political Instability
8.1 Online Platforms Present Security Challenges and Threats to Canada's National Security and Public Safety
8.2 Surging Mistrust in Our State by the Canadian Public and International Allies
8.3 Unresolved Indigenous Issues Heightens Animosity, Threatens Indigenous Communities and Deepens Mistrust in the State
8.4 Growing Ideological Extremism Drives Division Within Canada's Citizens and Communities
8.5 Shifts in the Court of Public Opinion Influence Canadian Legislation
9 Discussion
10 Conclusion
References
Early CSS Innovations in Risk Analysis
1 Introduction
2 Security Risk Assessment in DRDC—Formative Years
2.1 The CSS Risk and Capability Portfolio
2.2 Applying Schema (or ‘Lenses’) to Risk Assessment
3 Outline of Innovations
3.1 Exercise PERSEVERENCE—Capability Assessment at a Glance
4 Conclusion
References
Exercises to Support Safety and Security
1 Introduction
2 Disaster Planning Through Exercise Support
3 S&T Support to TableTop Exercise (TTX) Design and Conduct
4 Exercise Design to Support Safety and Security
5 Red Teaming
6 Conclusion
References
The Practice of FATE
1 Introduction
2 Examples of Practicing FATE
2.1 Step 1—Socio-Technical System Centric
2.2 Step 2—Scenario Centric
2.3 Step 3—STS and Scenario Interaction Centric
2.4 Step 4—Impact for Relevance to Defence and Security Centric
3 Examples of Practicing FATE
3.1 Two Client Question as Examples to Illustrate the Practice of the FATE Method
4 Consequences of not Practicing FATE or a FATE like Process
5 Conclusion
References
Cross Border Collaboration Models to Support Innovation in Security
1 Introduction
1.1 Scientific Cooperation Imperative
1.2 Safety and Security Landscape
1.3 Approach
2 The Partnership
3 The DHS S&T/DRDC Cooperative Framework
3.1 Background
3.2 Expansion
3.3 Challenges
3.4 Organizational Collaboration Theory
3.5 Binational Framework: Results Oriented
4 Framework Implementation: Applied Principles and Practices
4.1 Partnership Principles: Trust, Consensus and Agility
4.2 Building Trust
4.3 Building Consensus
4.4 Building Agility
5 Partnership Practices: Building on Success
5.1 Next Phase (North Star)
5.2 Expanded Partnership: Bilateral and Multilateral
6 Conclusion
References
Paramedic Portfolio Innovation
1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
1.2 Significance for Safety and Security
1.3 Background
1.4 Strategic Framework to Inform Decision Making and Priorities
1.5 International Collaboration Efforts
1.6 CSSP Paramedic Projects
1.7 Paramedic Health and Wellness
1.8 Collaboration with Other DRDC CSS Portfolios
2 Conclusion
References
Science and Technology to Enable Mobile Wireless Communications for the Safety and Security Community
1 Setting the Stage for Communications Interoperability in Canada
2 Providing Science and Technology Advice and Investments to Enable Mobile Broadband Communications
3 Advancing Mobile Broadband Communications for Safety and Security in Canada
4 Public Safety Broadband Network Experimentation
5 International Collaboration and Activities
6 Public Safety Wireless Broadband in Canada—The Work Has Just Begun
References
Innovation—Way Ahead
Information Mesh Concepts in Support of Multi-organizational Interoperability
1 Introduction
1.1 Use Case: Multi-jurisdiction Policing
1.2 Use Case: Disclosure of Evidence
2 Achieving Interoperability
3 Information Technology as Enabler and Disabler
4 Harnessing the Dark Web
5 Turning Away from the Dark Side
6 TrustedWeb Architecture
7 Conclusion
References
Information as a Strategic Asset: A Safety and Security Perspective
1 Introduction
2 The Current Information Management Landscape
3 Information Management as Capacity or a Capability?
4 Information Management Capability Maturity
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