Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS)
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).
CBTS is a DHS Center of Excellence located within Texas A&M AgriLife Research.
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.
Selected Research Projects
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
The CBTS Newsletter
Quarterly updates from Cross-Border Threat Protection and Supply Chain Defense
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.
Work With Us
CBTS researches and develops solutions to counter known and unknown threats to the nation’s people, agriculture, and supply chains.