Primary Convener:
David Gorelick, MITRE Corporation Mclean

Convener:
Kate Brauman, University of Alabama
Cynthia Rosenzweig, Columbia University of New York
Amelia Servi, MIT Lincoln Labs

Early Career Convener:
Nick Pelaccio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Chair:
David Gorelick, MITRE Corporation Mclean
Kate Brauman, University of Alabama

Scientific research is critical to national security. Ensuring national security can be preserved under all conditions requires scientifically-informed forecasts and impact assessments for floods, droughts, and other natural phenomena. Threat of critical infrastructure attacks also require complex assessments of cascading impacts across human, built, and natural landscapes. For example, disputes over water can lead to energy or food security issues and, potentially, to conflict. Managing critical infrastructure sector interdependencies – water, electricity, communications, transportation, etc. – and cross-cutting domains such as cybersecurity, requires scientific expertise spanning multiple fields. However, integration of scientific data, models, and insight into national security decisions is often intellectually and logistically complex. This session will highlight research that impacts national security, including collaborations between academia, industry, and government to foresee, quantify, and mitigate national security risks to humans, infrastructure systems, and society. We are interested in presenters working on approaches and solutions that bridge cross-domain challenges.

Index Terms
4328 Risk
4332 Disaster resilience
6309 Decision making under uncertainty
6319 Institutions

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
1. Science Nexus