The following is a gallery of research initiatives of the Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, led by Texas A&M University.
U.S.-Mexico Risk Task Force to Support the Health Supply Chain Systems for Infrastructure and Workforce Threatened by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Issue: COVID-19 knows no borders, and its effects on people and the economy have taken…
Pre-harvest Supply Chain, COVID-19 Biothreat Disruption Detection and Decision Support
Issue: COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions have highlighted the need to develop a global supply chain…
COVID-19 Impacts on U.S. Ag Commodity Market and Trade
Issue: The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated impacts on global economic activity have unprecedented implications…
COVID-19 Looking Forward: Rise of Global Supply Chains, Networks and the Risk of Interruptions
Issue: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated shutdown of economic activity, first in China, then in…
Platform to Support Development of Risk Scenarios Posed by COVID-19 and Converging Threats on the U.S. Trade Supply Chain Infrastructure
Issue: Given the complex and disruptive nature of COVID-19 to supply chains and infrastructure systems,…
Development of a Truck Border Crossing Delays and Disruptions Economic Impact Assessment Model
Issue: During 2019, more than six million trucks crossed from Mexico into the United States…
A Low-Cost, High-Throughput Method Using Dogs to Detect Contraband in Shipping Containers
Issue: Transnational criminal organizations are capitalizing on the difficulty and expense of detecting containerized contraband…
Pre-Symptomatic Detection of Illness
Issue: Currently, disease diagnosis depends upon items such as clinical presentation (e.g., fever, cough), which…