TERRORISM
These listings, by crime type, include resources geared to assisting the law enforcement community during criminal investigations:
This section includes anti-terrorism resources.
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Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support focuses on achieving the U.S. Department of Defense goal and strategies for leading, supporting, enabling, and securing the United States from direct attack. The strategy is rooted in the following guidelines: respect for America’s constitutional principles, adherence to Presidential and Secretary of Defense guidance, recognition of terrorist- and state-based threats to the United States, and commitment to continue transformation of U.S. military capabilities. This report discusses the priority objectives, such as achieving maximum awareness of potential threats and deterring, intercepting, and defeating threats at a safe distance. It also discusses the capabilities of, but is not limited to, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance capabilities, and information sharing for homeland security and civil support. This report also explains the projected implications of the Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support.
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National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT)
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The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) located in Oklahoma City is dedicated to preventing terrorism or mitigating its effects. MIPT sponsors research to discover equipment, training, and procedures that might assist in preventing terrorism and responding to it. MIPT is currently funded by a special congressional appropriation that directs the institute to conduct "research into the social and political causes and effects of terrorism and the development of technologies to counter biological, nuclear, and chemical weapons of mass destruction, as well as cyberterrorism"
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Counterterrorismtraining.gov gives access to training and technical assistance opportunities and providers dedicated to protecting the nation's technological infrastructure. Topics include cyber security, incident response, and infrastructure protection.
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The Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (TRC), is an independent institute dedicated to the research of terrorism, information warfare and security, critical infrastructure protection, and other issues of low-intensity political violence and gray-area phenomena. TRC provides experience in terrorism, counter-terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, information warfare and security (including design review, technical assessments, policy development and review, and training), vulnerability and threat assessment, systems engineering, encryption, intelligence analysis, and national security and defense policy. TRC maintains a network of terrorism and information warfare specialists drawn from industry, government, and academia in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Argentina, India, the Middle East, France, and Australia.
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Terrorism: Questions and Answers, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, provides answers to terrorism questions submitted to the Web site. All the answers are researched, reported, written, and updated by the staff of the Council on Foreign Relations, in consultation with outside experts.
