ICIS

In 2004, ICIS became part of the first U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center for Excellence, the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), based at USC. Along with the University of Southern California (USC), the University of Wisconsin Madison and Structured Decisions Corporation, ICIS is a core partner of CREATE. ICIS' initial research analyzed global examples of terrorist attacks on electric power systems to examine potential cascading effects that could be exacerbated by interdependencies between infrastructure systems if there was an attack on the nation's electric power infrastructure. The research also included tools to estimate the economic costs of a potential terrorist attack on this critical infrastructure system broadly applicable to other infrastructures and geographic areas... Additionally, ICIS is working on two homeland security initiatives in partnership with NYU's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR), also funded by..

Primary location: New York United States