Testimony before the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation Committee on Science and Technology United States House of Representatives

“BIODEFENSE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FY08 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUDGET”

4. Technologies don’t protect us—systems do. Throwing technology at a problem does
not necessarily make us safer. Careful studies are needed to identify systems and
concepts of operations that will mitigate, dissuade, expose, or respond to threats;
model how effectively these systems will work in different situations; ask how the
deployment of such systems might change the nature of the threat; and evaluate how
much better off such a system, on balance, will make us. Moreover, the political
leaders who will oversee the use of these systems need to become familiar with their
capabilities and their limitations.

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