Putting the Lid on the Devil's Toy Box: How the Homeland Security Enterprise Can Decide Which Emerging Threats to Address

Abstract

Evolving developments in nanotechnology, materials science, and artificial intelligence are paving the way for exponential growth in humanity's abilities to create and destroy. Emerging Promethean technologies will deliver capabilities to average persons that, until recently, have been relegated only to governments, militaries, and large research laboratories. The responsibilities of the homeland security enterprise can be divided between two mission sets: the systemic mission (responding to known threats) and the future-shock mission (preparing for highly uncertain threats from emerging technologies).

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1052571

Entities

People

  • Andrew J. Fox

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Biotechnology