Technologies for Distributed Defense

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1117/12.475867· OSTI ID:958528

Seiders, Barbara AB; Rybka, Anthony J

For Americans, the nature of warfare changed on September 11, 2001. Our national security henceforth will require distributed defense. One extreme of distributed defense is represented by fully deployed military troops responding to a threat from a hostile nation state. At the other extreme is a country of "citizen soldiers," with families and communities securing their common defense through heightened awareness, engagement as good neighbors, and local support of and cooperation with local law enforcement, emergency and health care providers. Technologies - for information exploitation, biological agent detection, health care surveillance, and security - will be critical to ensuring success in distributed defense.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 958528
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-39142
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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