**[NASA Science Mission Directorate]{.smallcaps}**

*Earth-Sun System Applied Sciences Program*

*Homeland Security Program Element*

*FY 2005-2009 Plan*

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**NASA Science Mission Directorate**

**Earth-Sun System Division**

**Applied Sciences Program**

*Applied Sciences for the Homeland Security Program Element*

This document contains the Homeland Security Program Element Plan for
Fiscal Years 2005-2009. This plan derives from direction established in
the NASA Strategic Plan, the Earth Science Enterprise Strategy, the
Space Science Enterprise Strategy, the Earth Science Applications Plan,
and OMB/OSTP guidance on research and development. The plan aligns with
and serves the commitments established in the NASA Integrated Budget and
Performance Document.

The Program Manager and the Applied Sciences Program leadership have
reviewed the plan and agree that the plan appropriately reflects the
goals, objectives, and activities for the program element to serve the
Applied Sciences Program, the Earth-Sun System Division, NASA, the
administration, and society.

(Signature on file) February 11, 2005

Stephen Ambrose Date

Program Manager, Homeland Security

Applied Sciences Program

NASA Earth-Sun System Division

(Signature on file) February 11, 2005

Lawrence Friedl Date

Lead, National Applications

Applied Sciences Program

NASA Earth-Sun System Division

(Signature on file) February 11, 2005

Ronald J. Birk Date

Director, Applied Sciences Program

NASA Earth-Sun System Division

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**NASA Earth-Sun System Division: Applied Sciences Program**

Homeland Security

**[Table of Contents]{.smallcaps}**

.

I. Purpose and Scope [1](#i.-purpose-and-scope)

II\. Goals and Objectives [3](#ii.-goals-and-objectives)

III\. Program Management and Partners
[5](#iii.-program-management-and-partners)

IV\. Decision Support Tools and Homeland Security Issues
[8](#iv.-decision-support-tools-and-homeland-security-issues)

V. Applications Activities [9](#v.-applications-activities)

A. Projects [9](#a.-projects)

B. Solicitations [12](#b.-solicitations)

C. Congressionally Directed Activities
[12](#c.-congressionally-directed-activities)

D. Project Management [12](#d.-project-management)

E. Additional Activities and Linkages
[13](#e.-additional-activities-and-linkages)

VI\. Budget Fiscal Years 2005-2009
[14](#vi.-budget-fiscal-years-2005-2009)

VII\. Schedule and Milestones [15](#vii.-schedule-and-milestones)

VIII\. Performance Measures [15](#viii.-performance-measures)

IX\. Appendices [18](#ix.-appendices)

Appendix A. Integrated System Solutions Diagram
[18](#appendix-a.-integrated-system-solutions-diagram)

Appendix B. Roadmap [19](#appendix-b.-roadmap)

Appendix C. Applied Sciences Program Budgets FY2005-09
[20](#appendix-c.-applied-sciences-program-budgets-fy2005-09)

Appendix D. Related NASA and Partner Solicitations and Grants
[21](#appendix-d.-related-nasa-and-partner-solicitations-and-grants)

Appendix E. Acronyms and Websites
[21](#appendix-e.-acronyms-and-websites)

**NASA Science Mission Directorate -- Applied Sciences Program**

*Homeland Security Program Element Plan: FY 2005 - 2009*

# I. Purpose and Scope

This plan articulates the goals and direction of the Homeland Security
Program Element for the period from Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to 2009 by
detailing the purpose of the program and our strategy to fulfill the
Homeland Security mission with the resources available. The plan
describes the Program's scope, including NASA's role in partnerships,
the focus on decision support tools, and the types of Earth-Sun system
science results we seek to extend. Within the Earth-Sun System Division,
this plan functions as a program management tool, describing the program
structure, functional mechanisms, performance measures, and general
principles that the Homeland Security activity will follow. The plan
includes projects in which Earth-Sun system science results can be
applied to decision making with related socioeconomic benefits.

The Homeland Security Program Element is one of twelve elements in the
NASA Applied Sciences Program. NASA and the Applied Sciences Program
collaborate with partner organizations to enable and enhance the
application of NASA's Earth-Sun system science results to serve national
priority policy and management decision support tools. The desired
outcome is for partner organizations to use project results, such as
prototypes and benchmark reports, to enable expanded use of NASA
Earth-Sun system science products and to enhance their decision support
capabilities.

The Science Mission Directorate Homeland Security Program Element is
designed to advance the use of NASA's thirty Earth-Sun spacecraft
missions and 100 sensors. NASA Earth-Sun system science results are
expected to meet a number of homeland security needs.

The Homeland Security Program Element extends products derived from
Earth-Sun system science information, models, technology, and other
capabilities into partners' decision support tools for homeland security
issues of national priority. The Homeland Security Program addresses
such areas of concern and decision-making as chemical, biological,
nuclear, and radiological terrorism; geospatial enabling of homeland
security operation; and national security issues. The Homeland Security
Program focuses on decision tools related to the following classes of
issues:

> Homeland security planning and decision support system strategies
>
> Integrated Operation Facility development, such as air transport and
> diffusion
>
> Coordination with the National Response Plan with the U.S. Department
> of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office for the Federal Coordinator
> for Meteorology (OFCM)
>
> Information technology, interoperability, and Web services
>
> Research and development of model and data assimilation and prediction
>
> Coordination with international security issues
>
> Economic management and "the built" environment (buildings and
> physical structures)
>
> Public response, recovery, mitigation, and welfare

Within the guidance and charter of the NASA Homeland Security Tiger Team
(HSTT), the NASA Homeland Security Program Element works with NASA
partners, federal agencies, and regional and national organizations that
have homeland security responsibilities and mandates to support homeland
security managers. Primary partners are the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), the Humanitarian Information Unit of the State
Department, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Department
of Defense (DOD), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the
Department of Energy (DOE), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Program includes
international organizations with U.S. partners as appropriate. NASA
Homeland Security Program Element activities relate to other national
priority Program Elements including Public Health, Agricultural
Efficiency, Disaster Management, Aviation, Air Quality, Energy
Management, and Ecological Forecasting. Through its activities, the
Program provides results that support the White House Committee on
Environment and Natural Resources (CENR), the Homeland Security
Committee, OFCM, the Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and
Supporting Research (FCMSSR) and the interagency programs on Climate
Change Science and Technology (CCSP, CCTP).

Priority NASA Earth observing missions for the Homeland Security Program
include Terra, Aqua, Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT), CloudSAT, Tropical
Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), National Polar-orbiting Operational
Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), NPOESS Preparatory Project
(NPP), Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite
Observations (CALIPSO), and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
(GRACE). Priority models include the EPA's Aerial Locations of Hazardous
Atmospheres (ALOHA®), NOAA's Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian
Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT), the Pennsylvania State
University/National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model
(MM5), and the National Center for Environmental Prediction Event Tree
Analysis (ETA) model. Other models of importance to the Homeland
Security Application consist of air plume transport models. NASA's role
in air transport and diffusion models will be to bridge the gap from
mesoscale to microscale/urban scale. This was identified as an important
need in the Office of Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM) report:
"Federal Research and Development Needs and Priorities for Atmospheric
Transport and Diffusion Modeling".

The project plans associated with the Homeland Security Program
designate specific sensors and models, and they state specific
partnership activities to extend science measurements, environmental
data records, and geophysical parameters.

This plan covers objectives, projects, milestones, and activities for FY
05-09. In FY04, the Program's priority activities focused on activities
with the Joint Action Group (JAG) of the Office of the Federal
Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM) and extending the development of a
Research and Development (R&D) Plan for air plume transport and
modeling. In FY05-09, the Program's priorities focus on extending NASA
research results to support the Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric
Assessment Center (IMAAC) at the Department of Homeland Security
([http://www.dhs.gov](http://www.dhs.gov/)).

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# II. Goals and Objectives

The goal of the Homeland Security Program is as follows:

*Enable partners' beneficial use of NASA Earth-Sun System science
research, observations, models, and technologies to enhance decision
support capabilities serving their homeland security responsibilities.*

Major tenets of the Homeland Security Program's goals include the
following:

Develop and evolve a network of partnerships with appropriate homeland
security organizations, both internal and external to DHS

Identify and assess partners' homeland security responsibilities, plans,
and decision support tools and evaluate the capacity of NASA science
results to support these partners

Validate and verify applications of results with partners, including
development of products and prototypes to address partners' requirements

With partners, document the value of Earth-Sun System science results in
decision support tools and support the tools' transition from research
to operations.

Communicate results and partners' achievements to appropriate homeland
security communities, committees, and stakeholders

#### Objectives

The Homeland Security Program serves the NASA Strategic Plan Objectives
and the NASA Integrated Budget and Performance Document (IBPD)
Performance Measures Outcome 3.1.1, Goal 5ESA9. This goal crosscuts a
number of other programs related to weather, public health, climate, air
quality, and agriculture but specifically states expected results in the
area of national security.

Specifically, the Homeland Security Program pursues the following
short-term ( two year) and long-term (five year) objectives that meet
the requirements of the FY05 IBPD:

### 

### Short-term (Major Milestones) Objectives (FY05) 

+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| February | Complete signing of IMAAC MOA with DHS and other agencies |
| 2005     |                                                           |
|          | Deliver plan to FCMSSR/OFCM                               |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| May 2005 | Publish article/paper on potential Earth-Sun System       |
|          | Science input to homeland security decision tools         |
|          |                                                           |
|          | (QuikSCAT, Terra, Aqua, GRACE)                            |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| August   | Complete an evaluation report and schedule a results      |
| 2005     | workshop on potential homeland security related Earth-Sun |
|          | System science missions                                   |
|          |                                                           |
|          | Complete Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction report on     |
|          | homeland security needs addressed through hazards         |
|          | research and Grand Challenges                             |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| S        | Validate science inputs from at least three sensors and   |
| eptember | models into at least two separate homeland security       |
|          | decision tools and policy/management activities -- air    |
| 2005     | plume modeling, and assessment capability (Terra, Aqua,   |
|          | GRACE, QuikSCAT, TRMM)                                    |
| *Goal    |                                                           |
| 5ESA9*   |                                                           |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+

### Long-term Objectives (FY06-FY09) 

+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| January  | Complete evaluation report on at least one additional     |
| 2006     | homeland security decision support tool, such as food     |
|          | security, energy, or transportation related. Collaborate  |
|          | with other NASA applications. *(report to specify science |
|          | measurements and models)*                                 |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| June     | Complete benchmark report(s) and schedule a results       |
| 2006     | conference on Earth-Sun System science support for at     |
|          | least one more homeland security decision support tool    |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| S        | Publish at least one article on Earth-Sun System science  |
| eptember | homeland security Programs, including a contribution to   |
| 2007     | at least one peer-reviewed journal.                       |
|          |                                                           |
|          | Encourage support and utility of InSAR spacecraft         |
|          | observations in support of homeland security.             |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| S        | Complete benchmark reports and conduct results            |
| eptember | conferences on at least two separate homeland security    |
| 2008     | issues and corresponding decision support tools using     |
|          | NASA research and pathfinder missions observations and    |
|          | predictions for model capacity                            |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| December | Benchmark new mission observations from at least two      |
| 2008     | sensors (NPOESS, GPM, InSAR as they become "operational"  |
|          | for homeland security applications.                       |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+

# 

# III. Program Management and Partners

#### Program Management

Homeland Security Program Manager: *Stephen Ambrose, NASA-Headquarters*

Responsibilities:

• Program development, strategy, plans, and budgets

• Program representation, advocacy, and issues to Applied Sciences
management and beyond

• Communication of Earth-Sun System science priorities and directives to
Homeland Security Program team/network

• Implementation of interagency agreements and partnerships

• Monitoring of Homeland Security Program metrics and performance
evaluation

Homeland Security DHS IMAAC Director and NASA detailee to DHS:

*Dr. Bruce Davis, NASA-DHS Washington, DC*

Responsibilities:

• Leadership on project plans, development, performance, and partnership
relationships in collaboration with the IMAAC.

• Communication of project metrics, performance, status, and issues to
Program Manager

• Coordination between NASA Centers on Homeland Security Program
activities

• Management for grants and cooperative agreements assigned to Stennis
(SSC)

Homeland Security Deputy Program Manager:

*Dr. Rodney McKellip, NASA-SSC*

Responsibilities:

• Leadership on project plans, development, performance, and partnership
relationships

• Communication of project metrics, performance, status, and issues to
Program Manager

• Leadership and communication to Homeland Security Program team and
network

• Coordination between NASA Centers on Homeland Security Program
activities

• Management for grants and cooperative agreements assigned to SSC

• Management of Homeland Security Program tasks assigned to SSC

#### Networks

Primary contacts within NASA Centers and federal partner agencies that
are enabling NASA capabilities to the Homeland Security Program are
listed below. This list is not exhaustive; only the primary program
managers and focal points for specific and major projects or subject
areas are provided.

### **NASA Center and HQ Contacts**

Mr. Ron Blom (Geology) ‑ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Dr. James Brass/Vince Ambrosia (Wildfire) ‑ Ames Research Center (ARC)

Dr. Steve Goodman (Weather, Severe Storms, AWIPS) --

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Dr. Shahid Habib (Hurricane, AWIPS, Landslide, Precipitation, Fire) --

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Dr. John Murray (Weather, U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) --

Langley Research Center (LaRC)

Dr. John LaBrecque -- Geodetic Imaging, Hazard Research

Ms. Myra Bambacus -- Geospatial Interoperability Office (GIO), GSFC

Dr. Gran Paules -- Technology Division

Ms. Kitty Kavens -- International and Interagency Activities

Ms. Elizabeth Williams -- International Affairs

Dr. Nevin Bryant -- JPL

Dr. Herb Frey -- GSFC

Mr. Michael Pascioto -- Technology Development Manager

Dr. Donald Deering -- NEESPI -- GSFC

Mr. Randal Albertson -- DFRC

Mr. Ranty Liang -- JPL

Dr. David Tralli -- JPL

Mrs. Elizabeth Plentovich - LaRC

### **Federal Partners**

**DHS**

Ms. Nancy L. Suski -- DHS Emergency Preparedness and Response

Mr. Chris Doyle -- DHS, Emergency Preparedness and Response

Ms. Claire Drury - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),

Mitigation Division

Mr. Ed Laatche -- FEMA, Program Policy and Assessment Branch

Mr. Cliff Oliver -- FEMA HAZUS

**NOAA**

Mr. Bruce Hicks -- NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

Dr. Paula Davidson -- National Weather Service Headquarters

Ms. Debbie Payton -- NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Response and
Restoration (NOS OR&R), Hazardous Materials Response Division (HAZMAT)

**USDA**

Mr. Paul Greenfield -- USDA Forest Service Headquarters

Mr. Glenn Bethel -- USDA Forest Service Headquarters

Ms. Diane DiPietri -- USDA Homeland Security Office

**Industry**

Dr. Robert Ryan -- Lockheed Martin

Dr. Lisa Warneke -- Consultant

Ms. Mary Ellen Brown -- GeoData Systems

Mr. Ronnie Yaron -- Skyline Software

Ms. Sue Gray -- Sky Research, Inc

Mr. Tom Strange -- General Dynamics, SSC

Mr. Brian Tucker -- Geohazards International

**University**

Dr. Douglas Stow -- Sand Diego State University

Dr. John Jensen -- U of S. Carolina

Dr. Ray Williamson -- George Washington University

Dr. David W. S. Wong -- George Mason University

Dr. Richard Gomez -- George Mason University

Dr. Linda Musial -- Charles County Public Schools

Mr. William Craig -- U. of Minnesota

Mr. Michael A. Rosenblum -- MIT

Dr. Arlin Kruger -- U MD

Dr. Michael Hodgson -- U. S. Carolina

Dr. Menas Kafatos -- George Mason U.

### **Domestic** 

Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) -- The OFCM Joint Action Group
(JAG) Applied Sciences Program leads the CCTP group on measurements and
monitoring. The Homeland Security program supports this effort.

Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) -- Joint federal program of the
President's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology
Integration has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most
complex questions and problems dealing with long-term global climate
variability and change.

CENR Homeland Security Committee (and associated Working Groups) --
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) subcommittee and joint
effort from all Federal Agencies.

Geospatial One Stop (GOS) -- GIO collaboration to bring interoperability
to the federal community.

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Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Homeland Security Committee --
the Homeland Security Program participates in the standards committee
for Homeland Security and Geographic Information, map symbology, and
other Homeland Security standards being developed under the FGDC.

The NASA Homeland Security Program continues to recognize crosscutting
solutions as an important activity for the Homeland Security Program,
including the Solutions Network, GIO, and Education.

# IV. Decision Support Tools and Homeland Security Issues

#### Priority Decision Support Systems for FY 05-09:

### Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center (IMAAC)

Homeland Security Presidential Directive #5 (HSPD‑5) assigns the
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security the role of principal
Federal Official for Domestic Incident Management. To execute the
responsibilities associated with this role, the Department of Homeland
Security needs near-real-time information to build a common operating
picture. DHS has clearly stated its need for a single point of contact
for all-hazards dispersion modeling, which is the prediction of the
dispersion (including transport and diffusion) of any contaminant in the
environment. The Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC, a.k.a. Watch
Center) and other elements of DHS require timely and accurate weather
and the capacity to model air plume forecasts of contaminant dispersion
for all types of incidents and accidents.

A key component of implementing this directive is IMAAC. The IMAAC
directly supports the HSOC (Watch Center) and other elements of DHS and
is the single source of dispersion prediction information for chemical,
biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) incidents or threats.

This center provides tailored all-hazards dispersion support to DHS and
its HSOC. The primary and most urgent objective is to provide the best
available information for atmospheric hazard predictions so that DHS can
make appropriate emergency response and consequence management
decisions. The predictions benefit from NASA missions generally used for
research of weather observations, such as TRMM, Terra/Aqua/Aura,
CloudSAT, QuikSCAT, EO-1, and Landsat. The focus of the Homeland
Security Program Element at NASA is to ensure that NASA's science
results and missions are integrated into solutions for the benchmark
capacity of the IMAAC and HSOC activities early in their formulation
stages.

#### Potential Homeland Security Issues

The NASA Homeland Security Program Team continually consults with its
partners to identify important issues facing the Homeland Security
community, to examine associated decision support tools, and to
determine priorities within the Homeland Security portfolio to evaluate
the potential capacity of NASA research results to contribute to
integrated solutions. Topics include the following:

• Aviation security and severe weather and precipitation to understand
deposition and chemical change

• Water quality issues related to terrorism

• Air quality issues related to terrorism and air plume dispersion

• Homeland security programs for DHS

• National disaster response planning

• Interoperability and information technologies

• International disaster coordination and development

• USDA food security needs for global monitoring information

#### Cross-Application Activities

Air plume modeling capability developed within the HAZUS-MH model could
benefit other applications, such as Disaster Management, Agricultural
Efficiency, Aviation, Energy Management, Carbon Management, and Air
Quality. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) funded an
experimental pilot to incorporate an air plume model into HAZUS-MH. The
Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC) model was
demonstrated in September at FEMA. The results of this development may
help guide the collaboration of the IMAAC and HAZUS-MH as a decision
tool to be used by FEMA and/or state, local, and tribal governments in
understanding the financial, structural, and social aspects of air plume
dispersion of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN)
Agents.

#### 

#### Integrated Benchmarked Systems Program (IBS)

The Integrated Benchmarked Systems Program is that part of the
Crosscutting Solutions Program providing systems engineering services
and support to perform evaluation, verification, validation, and
benchmarking required by the twelve applications of national priority.
System engineering services and support includes such activities as
system design, synthesis, integration, requirements analysis, testing,
verification, validation, and uncertainty analysis.

The goal of the Integrated Benchmarked Systems Program is to assure the
integrity, quality and reliability of innovative solutions delivered by
the Program to its customers, thereby enhancing the decision-making
capacities of partner agencies and their customers.

The Homeland Security Program Element utilizes the IBS Program to
evaluate, verify, validate, and benchmark the solutions used to improve
decision support tools, such as an integrated operations facility. More
information on schedule and deliverables can be found in the IBS program
plan. This includes the requested amounts from the IBS program to
support the Evaluation, Validation, and Benchmarking of the NASA's
Earth-Sun System science results into the DHS air plume-modeling center.

# V. Applications Activities

## A. Projects

The Homeland Security Program authorizes projects to support the
Program's goal and objectives. The respective Project Managers are
responsible for developing project plans and for managing activities to
support the Program, the Office of Science, and its partners. Project
plans specify science observations, models, and other outputs to the
decision support tools. Homeland Security projects expect to use
observations from sensors onboard Terra, Aqua, EO-1, Landsat, GRACE,
CloudSAT, NPP, NPOESS, Aquarius, and HYDROS.

+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
| > **Project    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| > IMAAC (Air   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| > Plume        |       |               |                  |     |   |
| > modeling and |       |               |                  |     |   |
| > Response)**  |       |               |                  |     |   |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
| To utilize     |       |               |                  | Bud |   |
| Earth-Sun      |       |               |                  | get |   |
| system results |       |               |                  | (K) |   |
| that enhance   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| air plume      |       |               |                  |     |   |
| hazards        |       |               |                  |     |   |
| observation    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| and prediction |       |               |                  |     |   |
| capabilities   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| with remote    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| sensing and    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| model          |       |               |                  |     |   |
| development.   |       |               |                  |     |   |
|                |       |               |                  |     |   |
| To better      |       |               |                  |     |   |
| understand     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| aerosol        |       |               |                  |     |   |
| production     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| (air quality), |       |               |                  |     |   |
| movement, and  |       |               |                  |     |   |
| development    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| using MODIS    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| observations   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| and modeling   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| techniques     |       |               |                  |     |   |
|                |       |               |                  |     |   |
| Goals: Air     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| plume          |       |               |                  |     |   |
| model/module   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| improvements   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| for            |       |               |                  |     |   |
| preparedness   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| and            |       |               |                  |     |   |
| mitigation,    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| with           |       |               |                  |     |   |
| development as |       |               |                  |     |   |
| a response     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| tool for the   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| HSOC/IMAAC     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| situation      |       |               |                  |     |   |
| center.        |       |               |                  |     |   |
|                |       |               |                  |     |   |
| To improve use |       |               |                  |     |   |
| of science     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| inputs from    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| NASA remote    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| sensing        |       |               |                  |     |   |
| technologies,  |       |               |                  |     |   |
| such as TRMM,  |       |               |                  |     |   |
| QuikSCAT, and  |       |               |                  |     |   |
| MODIS, for air |       |               |                  |     |   |
| plume          |       |               |                  |     |   |
| applications.  |       |               |                  |     |   |
|                |       |               |                  |     |   |
| To bring       |       |               |                  |     |   |
| weather        |       |               |                  |     |   |
| analysis,      |       |               |                  |     |   |
| models, and    |       |               |                  |     |   |
| prediction     |       |               |                  |     |   |
| into homeland  |       |               |                  |     |   |
| security       |       |               |                  |     |   |
| applications   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| at the IMAAC.  |       |               |                  |     |   |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
|                |       |               |                  | F   | 2 |
|                |       |               |                  | Y05 | 0 |
|                |       |               |                  |     | 5 |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
| Project        | Ce    | Timeframe     | Partners         | F   | 4 |
| Managers       | nters |               |                  | Y06 | 5 |
|                |       |               |                  |     | 0 |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
| Bruce Davis -- | SSC,  | FY05-FY09     | DHS/FEMA, EPA,   | F   | 2 |
| SSC            | GSFC  |               | NOAA, DOE, NRC,  | Y07 | 5 |
|                |       |               | Navy, REASoN     |     | 5 |
| Shahid Habib   |       |               |                  |     |   |
| -- GSFC        |       |               |                  |     |   |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
|                |       |               |                  | F   | 2 |
|                |       |               |                  | Y08 | 8 |
|                |       |               |                  |     | 0 |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
|                |       |               |                  | F   | 1 |
|                |       |               |                  | Y09 | 5 |
|                |       |               |                  |     | 0 |
+----------------+-------+---------------+------------------+-----+---+
| Earth-Sun      | ALOHA |               |                  | Ot  |   |
| System Science | and   |               |                  | her |   |
| Products       | other |               |                  | Ap  |   |
|                | mo    |               |                  | ps. |   |
|                | dels, |               |                  |     |   |
|                | data  |               |                  |     |   |
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|                | imila |               |                  |     |   |
|                | tion, |               |                  |     |   |
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|                | dsat, |               |                  |     |   |
|                | T     |               |                  |     |   |
|                | erra, |               |                  |     |   |
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+---------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+----+---+
|               |              |             |             | FY | 1 |
|               |              |             |             | 05 | 0 |
|               |              |             |             |    | 0 |
+---------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+----+---+
| *Manager*     | *Centers*    | *Timeframe* | *Partners*  | FY | 1 |
|               |              |             |             | 06 | 0 |
|               |              |             |             |    | 0 |
+---------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+----+---+
| Rodney        | SSC          | FY04-05     | N/A         | FY | 0 |
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+---------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+----+---+
|               |              |             |             | FY | 0 |
|               |              |             |             | 08 |   |
+---------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+----+---+
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| *             | >            |             |             |    |   |
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|               | > formal     |             |             |    |   |
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+---------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+----+---+

## B. Solicitations

In 2005, the NASA Science Mission Directorate (which incorporates both
the Office of Earth Science and the Office of Space Science) will
release a single NRA entitled Research Opportunities in Space and Earth
Sciences - 2005 (ROSES-05). The ROSES-05 announcement includes the foci
of the five to ten individual Earth Science NRA's that have been
routinely released by the Office of Earth Science in previous years. The
ROSES-05 NRA includes all on-going research opportunities in Earth and
Space science that NASA has traditionally sponsored and is the
solicitation for proposals leading to selections of research tasks to be
funded in FY06. Research opportunities are referred to in this NRA as
\"program elements,\" each of which is described by a single section in
the Appendix. The ROSES-05 NRA may be found at:
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/

The Homeland Security program oversees projects in the Research,
Education, and Applications Solutions Network (REASoN). Currently only
one project is specifically assigned to the Homeland Security Program:

[University of San Diego -- A Border Security Decision Support System
Driven by Remotely Sensed Data Inputs]{.underline}. Datasets used with
the program are MODIS, ASTER, Global Positioning System, AVHRR, GOES.
Models used in this project are Terrain, Visibility, Vegetation,
Wildfire, and Weather. User organizations are the Department of Homeland
Security, First Responders, and Border Agents. This is a five-year
project with total cost of \$1,838,000 (FY03-07). The PI is Doug Stow,
San Diego State University.

## C. Congressionally Directed Activities

**Activity:** Congressionally directed project at the Cayuga State
College, RACNE, IAGT.

**Purpose:** To develop geoscience technologies for state, local, and
tribal communities.

**Managers:** Steve Ambrose, Paul Deminco (GSFC)

**Goals:** FY05 - To establish improved partnerships with IAGT,
Affiliated States, and homeland security community;

To partner with SERVIR, GIO, and other NASA projects that utilize
geospatial data and visualizations.

**Budget:** \$1,800K

## D. Project Management 

The Homeland Security Program authorizes studies, working group
participation, program reviews, and other endeavors to ensure the
Program's overall success.

**Activity:** Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) and related
Remote Sensing and Applications Workgroup (RSAWG)

**Purpose:** To encourage Presidential focus on homeland security
through this OSTP group of agencies

**Manager:** Stephen Ambrose (along with Roz Helz, USGS)

**Goals:** The SDR coordinates policy documents that are reviewed by
partner agencies and signed by the OSTP. For example, the first document
completed this year was "Reducing Disaster Vulnerability through Science
and Technology," otherwise known as "America at Risk." This
collaborative document identified current disaster risks and agency
activities. In FY04, SDR activities are structured to work closely with
the Earth Observation Summit activities and implementation plans, both
nationally and internationally.

**Activity:** State Department Partnership, Humanitarian Information
Unit (HIU)

**Purpose:** To implement DSS for the State Department's HIU. The HIU is
interested in the Public Health and Homeland Security Programs and in
the application of science results and spacecraft missions, as well as
in geospatial observations issues and interoperability. This partnership
also enhances homeland security applications related to population
monitoring.

**Managers:** Steve Ambrose, Bruce Davis

## E. Additional Activities and Linkages

**The Crosscutting Solutions Program**---The program consists of
functional elements that contribute to all of the National Applications
activities. The intention is to have the performance of these functions
leverage accomplishment, and therefore the apparent resource investment,
to the greatest extent possible into the National Applications
partnerships. These functions are: Geoscience Standards and
Interoperability, Human Capital Development, Integrated Benchmark
Systems, and Solutions Networks. Examples of leveraged activities are:

-   *The Earth-Sun System Gateway* is a "portal of portals" providing an
    access point through an Internet interface to all web-enabled NASA
    research results.

-   *A Rapid Prototyping Center* is a proposed center at Stennis to
    support NASA and partners in testing and verification of Earth
    science results in decision support tools

-   *Transition from Research to Operations Network (R2O)* is a network
    that focuses on systematically transitioning the results of research
    to operational uses.

-   *DEVELOP* is a student-based program for rapidly prototyping
    solutions for state and local applications and helping students
    develop capabilities related to Earth-Sun System science.

**NASA and Science Mission Directorate Priorities**

-   *Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)* is a business and
    performance-based framework to support cross-agency collaboration,
    transformation, and government-wide improvement.

-   *The Global Information Grid (GIG)* is the first stage of a U.S.
    military global, high-bandwidth, Internet protocol-based
    communications network (a.k.a., 'the Internet in space').

-   *The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)* is a
    multi-agency collaboration to accelerate and improve the
    quantitative use of research and operational spacecraft data in
    weather and climate prediction models. NOAA (NESDIS, NWS, OAR),
    NASA, Navy, Air Force, and NSF (through UCAR) collaborate in JCSDA.

-   *Metis* is a visual modeling software tool for planning, developing,
    and analyzing agencies\' enterprise architectures.  The Applied
    Sciences Program is using Metis to identify possible linkages
    between observations, models, and decision support tools to support
    the IWGEO and NASA/NOAA R2O activities.

-   *Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)* use simulated
    observations to assess the impacts of future spacecraft instruments
    on weather and climate prediction and provide opportunities to test
    new designs and methodologies for data gathering and assimilation.

-   *Project Columbia* is a NASA-wide project to develop a new, fast
    supercomputer (using an integrated cluster of interconnected
    processor systems) to support the Agency's mission and science
    goals, including enhanced predictions of weather, climate, and
    natural hazards.

The Homeland Security Program Element draws on activities supported by
the Office of Science Education Program that may have potential or
specific application to Homeland Security.

*At this time, there are no Earth-Sun System Fellowships, Earth Sun
System New Investigators, or GLOBE projects that have sufficient
relevance to homeland security activities.*

# VI. Budget Fiscal Years 2005-2009

The following table lists the Homeland Security Program budget
(procurement) for FY2005:

![](media/image3.pct)

Appendix C lists program-wide budget allocations for FY2005-09.

# VII. Schedule and Milestones

![](media/image4.jpeg){width="6.0in" height="4.635416666666667in"}

# VIII. Performance Measures

The Homeland Security Management Team uses performance measures to track
progress, to identify issues, to evaluate projects, to make adjustments,
and to establish results of the Program Element. These measures serve as
condition indicators to help monitor progress within and across specific
project activities to ensure that the Program meets its goals and
objectives. The Management Team continually analyzes these measures,
tracking conditions and identifying issues to keep the Program aligned
with this Plan to meet its objectives.

The Program uses two performance measures: Program Management measures
assess activities within the Program, and Performance measures assess
whether external program activities are serving their intended purpose.
The Applied Sciences Program also uses this information in preparing
IBPD directions and U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Program
Assessment Rating Tool (PART) responses.

#### Program Management Measures (Internal)

+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Inputs  | Potential issues and DSTs identified for Homeland Security |
|         | -- *number, type, range*                                   |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Eligible partners to collaborate with -- *number, type,    |
|         | range*                                                     |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Potential results/products identified to serve Homeland    |
|         | Security -- *number, type, range*                          |
+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Outputs | Assessments or evaluations of DSTs -- *number, range*      |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Assessments of Earth-Sun System Science results/products   |
|         | to serve DSTs -- *number, range*                           |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Agreements with partners -- *presence*                     |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Reports (evaluation, validation, benchmark) -- *number,    |
|         | type*                                                      |
+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Quality | Science results/products -- *number used per DST, ratio of |
| and     | utilized to potential*                                     |
| Eff     |                                                            |
| iciency | Agreements -- *ratio of agreements to committed partners*  |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Reports -- *partner satisfaction, timeliness, time to      |
|         | develop*                                                   |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Reports -- *ratio of validations to potential products,    |
|         | ratio of benchmarks to validations*                        |
+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+

#### Performance Measures (External)

+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| O       | Science products adopted in DSTs -- *number, type, range;  |
| utcomes | use in DST over time*                                      |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Science products in use -- *ratio of products used by      |
|         | partners to reports produced*                              |
|         |                                                            |
|         | Partner and DST performance -- *change in partner DST      |
|         | performance, number & type of public recognition of use    |
|         | and value of Earth-Sun System* *Science data in DST*       |
+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Impacts | Partner value -- *change in partner metrics (improvements  |
|         | in value of partner decisions)*                            |
+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+

In addition to the stated measures, the Homeland Security Program
periodically requests an assessment of its plans, goals, priorities, and
activities through external review. The Homeland Security Program team
uses these measures, along with comparisons to programmatic benchmarks,
to support assessments of the Science Applied Sciences Program (e.g.,
internal NASA reviews and OMB PART). Specifically, the Homeland Security
Program manager uses comparisons to similar activities in the following
programs (i.e., program benchmarks) to evaluate its progress and
achievements:

• Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

• Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)

### **FY05 Performance Measures - IBPD**

This Program serves the following IBPD Performance Measures for FY04 and
FY05:

**Outcome 3.1.1**: By 2012, in partnership with the Department of
Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of
State, the Applied Sciences Homeland Security Program will deliver
fifteen observations and five model predictions for climate change,
weather prediction, and natural hazards to five national and five global
organizations and decision makers to evaluate five scenarios and to
optimize the use of Earth resources (e.g., food, water, energy) for
homeland, environmental, and economic security.

**Goal 5ESA9:** The Homeland Security Program will benchmark the use of
predictions from two NASA Earth-Sun System science models (including the
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) 1200 and National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) numerical weather prediction models such
as ETA) for use in national priorities, such as National Security, and
for support of the CCSP, and the CCTP, and the NOAA National Weather
Service.

**FY06**

The Homeland Security Program cuts across many of the Applied Sciences
Programs. Weather and climate play a major role in Homeland Security
activities, including air quality monitoring. NASA's Homeland Security
Program works directly with the DHS (IMAAC) for air plume modeling.

# IX. Appendices 

## Appendix A. Integrated System Solutions Diagram

The figure below illustrates how science measurements, model products,
and data fusion techniques support the Homeland Security Program's
partners and their decision support tools and shows the value and
benefits of science to society.

![](media/image5.jpeg){width="6.5in" height="4.875in"}

## Appendix B. Roadmap

The Homeland Security Roadmap was developed in collaboration with the
Sun-Earth System Division's Research and Analysis Program Plan to ensure
that the priorities of science results are carried forward to homeland
security applications that utilize the investment of science research
and technology.

For example, a better understanding of air plume chemistry and
deposition would greatly benefit Homeland Security's air plume modeling
needs. Parameter modeling at the global scale can greatly improve
information quality at the local and regional scales.

![](media/image6.jpeg){width="6.25in" height="4.6875in"}

## Appendix C. Applied Sciences Program Budgets FY2005-09

The overall program budget allocations are given below to provide the
context in which this National Application is conducted. The allocations
are based on Agency and program priorities and are subject to change
according to the availability of funds and programmatic strategies. All
values are in \$ thousands.

Table 1: Applied Sciences Procurement Allocation -- FY05

![](media/image7.pct)

Table 2: Applied Sciences Program NASA Institutional Allocations -- FY05

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height="1.0784722222222223in"}

## Appendix D. Related NASA and Partner Solicitations and Grants

## Appendix E. Acronyms and Websites

**ACRONYMS**:

AIWG Applications Implementation Working Group

ALOHA Aerial Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres

ARC Ames Research Center

ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance\
Radiometer

AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite
Observations

CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear

CCRI Climate Change Research Initiative

CCSP Climate Change Science Program

CCTP Climate Change Technology Program

CENR Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center (Data Active Archive Center)

DFRC Dryden Flight Research Center

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DOD US Department of Defense

DOE US Department of Energy

DSS Decision Support Systems

DST Decision Support Tool

DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency

EO-1 Earth Observing-1

EOS Earth Observing Systems

EPA US Environmental Protection Agency

ESG Earth-Sun Gateway

ETA Event Tree Analysis

ETM+ Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus

FCMSSR Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting
Research

FEA Federal Enterprise Architecture

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee

GIFTS Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

GIG Global Information Grid

GIO Geospatial Interoperability Office

GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GLOBE Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GOS Geospatial One Stop

GPM Global Precipitation Measurement

GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center

HAZMAT Hazardous Materials Response Division

HAZUS Hazard- United States

HAZUS-MH Hazard- United States - Multi-Hazard

HIU Humanitarian Information Unit

HPAC Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability

HSOC Homeland Security Operations Center

HSPD-5 Homeland Security Presidential Directive #5

HSTT Homeland Security Tiger Team

Hydros Hydrosphere State Mission

HYSPLIT Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory

IBPD Integrated Budget and Performance Document

IBS Integrated Benchmarked Systems

IMAAC Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center

INSAR Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

IWGEO Interagency Working Group on Earth Observations

JADPAT Joint All-Hazards Dispersion Planning and Analysis Team

JAG Joint Action Group

JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory

LaRC Langley Research Center

MM5 Mesoscale Model

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MOPITT Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere

MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA HQ NASA Headquarters

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NEESPI Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative

NESDIS National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOS National Ocean Service

NPOESS National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
System

NPP NPOESS Preparatory Project/Net Primary Productivity

NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NWS National Weather Service

OAR Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OR&R Office of Response and Restoration

OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment

OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy

PART Program Assessment Rating Tool

QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer

R2O Research to Operations Network

R&D Research and Development

REASoN Research, Education, and Applications Solutions Network

RSAWG Remote Sensing and Applications Working Group

SDR Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction

SEA State Enterprise Architecture

SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide-Field-of-View Sensor

SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

SSC Stennis Space Center

TM Thematic Mapper

TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission

UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

USDA US Department of Agriculture

USWRP United States Weather Research Program

V&V Verification and Validation

**WEBSITES**:

Applied Sciences Program:
<http://science.hq.nasa.gov/earth-sun/applications>

AIWG: <http://aiwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/>

DEVELOP: [http://develop.larc.nasa.gov](http://develop.larc.nasa.gov/)

DHS: [http://www.dhs.gov](http://www.dhs.gov/)

Earth-Sun Gateway (ESG): <http://esg.gsfc.nasa.gov/>

Earth-Sun Science System Components: <http://www.asd.ssc.nasa.gov/m2m>

Research and Analysis Program:
<http://science.hq.nasa.gov/earth-sun/science/>

Research Opportunities in Space Science (ROSS):
<http://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_s/nra/current/NNH04ZSS001N/index.html>