Safety and Security Center
Analysis Planning for a Domestic Weapon-of-Mass-Destruction Exercise
This paper presents a general framework for weapons of mass destruction exercise design and exercise analysis. The framework covers exercise goals including, testing plans, and improving performance to help participating decision makers understand the immediate and longer term challenges and issues that can occur in the event of such a threat and helping hone their ability to respond to best protect the health and safety of people and communities.
Domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Requirements and Policy Recommendations for the Reserve Forces
CNAC studied and helped establish training needs, standards, and priorities for the military Reserve forces to help them best respond to a weapons of mass destruction event. We provided the Reserve forces leadership with a framework for developing training requirements as well as a training baseline.
North American Continental Coordination and Management of Livestock Disease Outbreaks
CNAC analysts participated in a multi-national exercise focusing on a hypothetical outbreak of foot and mouth disease among livestock. Hosted by the Texas Animal Health Commission; the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food of the United Mexican States; and the United States Department of Agriculture, the exercise was designed to strengthen coordination between the US, Mexico, and Canada. Our analysts observed and collected data from five exercise sites. In addition, CNAC analysts designed and facilitated a simulation exercise for members of the North American Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine Bank Technical Committee that was held in coordination with the exercise.
Preparing Senior Government Decision-Makers for Public Health Emergencies
CNAC designed and conducted several games that focused on honing the public health response to a smallpox outbreak. The games were designed to emphasize the response decisions that would need to be made at the operational and strategic levels in the event of a smallpox event. Methods were developed to test senior-level decision-making regarding medical, scientific, and public policy issues.
An Assessment of Southwest Border Enforcement
The U.S. Border Patrol asked CNAC analysts to develop a method to model trends in attempted illegal border crossings, develop a method to estimate the probability that an illegal entry will be apprehended by the Border Patrol, and assess the effect that Border Patrol activity has on the number of illegal entry attempts.
To assist in making such an assessment, analysts examined the historical relationship between the number of illegal crossing apprehensions, the level of effort by the Border Patrol, and economic and social conditions that affect the flow of illegal immigrants across the border between the United States and Mexico.
