Under funding from the USC DHS CREATE Center, Information Sciences Institute is developing a Risk Analyst Workbench (RAW). This is a software modeling system that can be used by risk analysts to assess terrorism threats and to evaluate strategies for countering these terrorist threats. RAW is currently being designed to support risk analysis in aviation and ports and will be extended during year 2 under CREATE funds to support risk analysis in two new areas related to economic and logistical risks.

Under FAZD, a companion project to RAW, the ISI team will work with members of the DHS Center on Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease (FAZD) at Texas A&M, and risk analysts in CREATE to further extend RAW to provide a risk analysis platform for the risk analysis of intentional introduction of foreign animal and zoonotic diseases. In addition to extending the design of RAW to this knowledge domain, ISI will work with CREATE risk analysts to integrate advances in risk methodology, and improved protocols for conducting risk analysis that integrates the new data and analysis technologies.