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Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS)

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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence Led by Texas A&M

What we do

Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) funds research and education projects across many organizations. Our goal is to support the development of new technologies and capacities to detect and eliminate biological threats moving through global supply chains.

CBTS focuses specifically on data integration and analytics to support threat detection, as well as novel methods to minimize risks to the operations of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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CBTS is a DHS Center of Excellence located within Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

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Globalization and North America 2.0

“The low-cost model of globalization that shaped the first wave of North American integration is over. How can North America build a prosperous and accountable future in its next phase now that the era of Globalization 1.0 has ended?”

— Remarks by Alan Bersin, Esq., former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CO-PI of the CBTS-funded Borders of the Future project.

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Selected Research Projects

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Borders of the Future

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Systematic Mapping of Cross-border Threats to Enhance U.S. Agricultural Security

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Measuring the Economic Impacts of African Swine Fever Virus on United States Supply Chains

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A Validated Method for Environmental Surface Sampling for Detection of African Swine Fever Virus

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Virtual Conference:
The Economics of Supply Chains

January 26, 2024

Join CBTS and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for a virtual conference on the economic determinants of supply chain structures and the ways that economic and other shocks affect them. Please register and submit papers by Sept. 12, 2023

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The CBTS Newsletter

Quarterly updates from Cross-Border Threat Protection and Supply Chain Defense

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CBTS News

Read about the latest CBTS news and initaitives including project updates, opportunities for collaboration and upcoming requests for proposals by clicking through the news gallery below.

Disease Diagnostics: Exploration with Raman Spectroscopy

November 28, 2023

The global spread of African swine fever virus (ASFv) in recent years poses a great…

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Systematic Mapping of Cross-Border Threats to Enhance U.S. Agricultural Security

November 28, 2023

Protecting food security, preventing biosecurity threats, and ensuring a stable food supply is crucial for…

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Water Woes for Grain Markets and Consumers

November 16, 2023

Low water levels increasingly affect cost of goods The lack of water at critical stages…

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CBTS and UTMB Work with DHS to Define ‘Normal’ in the U.S. BioWatch Aerosol Detection System

November 16, 2023

CBTS recently responded to a DHS Task Order Request for Proposal (TORP) for metagenomic analysis…

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CBTS researches and develops solutions to counter known and unknown threats to the nation’s people, agriculture, and supply chains.

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Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense

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518D Agriculture and Life Sciences Bldg.
College Station, TX 77843-2142

(979) 314- 2032

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