Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security, 4 Volume Set

CARVER + SHOCK: FOOD DEFENSE SOFTWARE DECISION SUPPORT TOOL

PHILLIP POHL, ERIC LINDGREN, CECELIA WILLIAMS, JEFFREY DANNEELS, ROBERT BROWITT, LEE EUBANKS, MADISON LINK, AND REGINA HUNTER

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico

DON KAUTTER, JON WOODY, AND CORY BRYANT

Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland

1 CARVER BACKGROUND

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is tasked with protecting the nation's food supply [1]. The acronym CARVER represents the steps in a threat analysis exercise: Criticality, Accessibility, Recognizability, Vulnerability, Effect, and Recuperability. The CARVER+Shock methodology was employed by the FDA and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to assist in defending food production systems from malevolent acts. Shock is added to incorporate the intangible focus of a terrorist in frightening a targeted group. The method was recently incorporated into stand-alone software by Sandia National Laboratories, which is user-friendly and is designed to remove the biases that can occur by group execution of the CARVER+Shock methodology. The algorithms that give rise to scores for two of these properties are described below, followed by a case study. The group execution of the CARVER+Shock methodology, a part of the Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA), typically takes 2 to 3 days work by 15 to 30 experts [2].

Use of the software does not require expertise in risk assessment, chemical processing, or computer science. Rather, ...