The Emerging Threats and Technology Division leverages the breadth of research across the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to provide insight for the U.S. national security community on emerging and disruptive technologies.

The increasing convergence of seemingly unrelated fields, coupled with the rise of global competition to generate and lock in advantage, is accelerating the emergence of cutting-edge technologies. Creating a capability that joins the science and technology understanding of a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory with our knowledge of the threat landscape increases our nation’s ability to adapt to the increasingly accelerated pace of technological change.

The Emerging Threats and Technology Division delivers threat-informed approaches to R&D and a culture of research to operations to harness the opportunities from emerging and disruptive technologies while at the same time countering the threats that arise from them.

We make national security technology work in the real world by:

• Providing critical analysis, analytics, and insights to enhance situational awareness and widen the aperture of threat awareness to high-consequence systems on a national scale.
• Developing detection and mitigation tools for control systems to provide cyber threat intelligence to U.S. critical infrastructures.
• Stewarding cybersecurity research and development for evaluation, assessment, identification, and system support.
• Providing international technology assessments, cybersecurity, and research and development solutions for the continued peaceful use of new technology while detecting, preventing, and countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
• Examining the dynamic challenges at the nexus of law, policy, economics, trade, and technology to lead high-impact programs and drive meaningful change worldwide.
• Delivering critical asset protection globally through integrated threat analysis, optimized security operations and implementation, and specialized training.
• Bringing together senior technical and strategic advisors to help tune and execute strategy through dedicated leadership.
• Maintaining proficiency in security disciplines to keep PNNL’s environment secure while evolving with new technological advances.