Homeland Security Programs at Brookhaven

Brookhaven Lab’s homeland security programs are focused on developing advanced, science-based solutions for the challenges faced by those protecting U.S. national security interests both at home and abroad. Over the past two years, Brookhaven has consolidated and re-focused its programs, and reached out to local, state, and federal agencies to offer assistance on a variety of issues.

Scientists at Brookhaven have developed an extensive portfolio of counterterrorism and nonproliferation technologies in areas that include safeguarding fissile materials; developing sensors for detection of nuclear weapons, dirty bombs, toxic chemicals, biological pathogens, and explosives; and designing tools and approaches for identifying, characterizing, and managing risk in various environments.

The Laboratory is primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Brookhaven’s budget for national security efforts is about $29 million of the Laboratory’s $436 million budget for fiscal year 2003. Brookhaven was recently designated as an official U.S. Department of Homeland Security contributing laboratory, and expects to expand its homeland security efforts significantly over the next several years."

Brookhaven is also an important regional counterterrorism resource, and has developed critical partnerships with key New York metropolitan area agencies, elected officials, and emergency responders. The Laboratory also works with local and regional technology vendors to develop, test, and rapidly deploy methods and instrumentation as needed.

• Advanced sensors and detectors
• Risk assessment activities
• Nonproliferation projects
• Regional counterterrorism activities
• Homeland Security Fact Sheets
• Nonproliferation & National Security Department

Last Modified: May 30, 2008
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One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE’s Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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