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CREATE R&D Transition and Commercialization Overview

CREATE’s investigators are leaders in decision analysis, risk assessment, economic consequence analysis, benefit-cost analysis, resilience, game theory, operations research, and risk management. We have fostered collaboration of researchers from these diverse disciplines to tackle some of the most vexing and challenging problems of the 21st Century. The goal of CREATE’s R&D Transition and Commercialization thrust is to ensure that the results and solutions generated by the R&D lead to operational impact value to the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE).

Research & Development … Applied

CREATE’s operational impact value awareness has led to R&D transition products that have yielded important results:

  • Economic impacts of the September 11 World Trade Center Attacks,
  • Deterrence effects of various terrorism countermeasures strategies and technologies,
  • Cost-effectiveness of resilience tactics for coping with natural disasters,
  • Design of a deductible/credit system for the FEMA Public Assistance program,
  • Behavioral responses to terrorism, and
  • R&D Customer Satisfaction Feedback assessment to improve the operational impact of transitions.

CREATE’s R&D transition products have been used to solve many real-world problems. Our R&D on security games has led to lowering the cost of protecting critical assets by optimized random patrolling. Our estimates of the economic impacts of reduced wait times at land-border crossings and airports have led to congressional appropriations to recruit and train more US Customs and Border Protection officers.

CREATE researchers have also helped develop counter-terrorism strategies and assessed new technologies. Examples include deterrence, mitigation, warning systems, and resilience tactics.

Education and Service

Acknowledged as one of the top transition outcomes of university R&D, CREATE has trained and nurtured student and faculty researchers and practitioners with high transition impact awareness. We have provided one-on-one mentoring to individual undergrads, graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty, which has helped them thrive in their careers. Our researchers have also mentored others at national laboratories and other universities.

CREATE has supported the establishment of degree programs in homeland security at USC and other universities. We have also developed and operated a successful Executive Education Program. CREATE researchers have served on National Research Council panels, quality assurance panels, and government advisory boards at all levels, as well as advised public and private sector decision-makers and prominent institutions, such as the United Nations and World Bank.

CREATE researchers are frequently sought out by the media. CREATE’s affiliates serve as journal editors, officers of professional associations, and external reviewers of university programs and faculty.