Department of Homeland Security Advanced Scientific Computing Requirements Workshops

The Advanced Scientific Computing Research Program (ASC Program) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) engages in research for scalable, integrated information and simulation science to support science-based threat characterization and response for homeland security. Among its focus areas are

• Scalable algorithms for information management and knowledge discovery
• Integrated multi-simulation analysis capabilities for threat assessment, training, scenario planning, and incident response
• Uncertainty quantification for simulations and knowledge discovery
• Discrete mathematics foundations research
• National computing (hardware) capability for DHS

In an effort to help define its ASC program, the DHS authorized a series of Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Requirements workshops. The first of these was held October 8-9, 2003, in Washington DC, with nearly a hundred attendees from government, academia, and industry. Its goal was to identify mathematics and computer science research and development topic areas that will be required to support future Department of Homeland Security operational requirements.

Additional workshops provided further detail on the advanced scientific computing requirements needed to advance technology for targeted specific application areas within DHS. The ultimate aim of these workshops was to help define an enduring applied research capability for DHS that will bring together a critical mass of computer scientists and applied mathematicians from around the nation to focus on homeland security.

Furthermore, the ASC program has established the Institute for Discrete Sciences, a national center which will enhance DHS’s existing investments in data sciences, discrete mathematics, and discrete simulation via collaboration with academia and industry.  The first workshop in support of that initiative, on data integration and dissemination, will be held November 1-2, 2005.

Home pages for individual ASC workshops:

• Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Requirements Workshop — October 8-9, 2003
• Incident Management Simulation (IMS) Workshop — May 12-13, 2004
• Data Sciences Workshop — September 22-23, 2004
  
• Text Analysis (TA) Workshop — May 25-26, 2005

Home page for IDS workshop:

• Data Integration and Dissemination Workshop — November 1-2, 2005

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