Supply Chain Threats

Infrastructures

Commodities

Volume

http://www.bts.gov/programs/international/transborder/TBDR_BC/TBDR_BC_QuickSearch.html

90% of goods are now shipped via container

26% of all containerized cargo originates in China

19,000,000 containers are in use around the world

Long Beach, CA port handles an average of 430,000 each month The United States received 15.1 million containers in 2009

Pirates

Drugs

Package Bomb

Counterfeit Goods

Exotic & Endangered Animal Smuggling

Pests & Invasive Species

APHIS

Most Likely Threat = Theft & Infiltration

Worst Case Threat = Dirty Bomb

Commodity Control List / Automated Export System 10+2 Rule Computerized Passenger Profile Screening System No-fly List ISO 28000 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Secure Freight/Container Initiatives

Vehicle Inspection

Be aware of suspicious packages

Analyze perimeters & egress points

Biometrics

Inventory Shrink & Pilferage

Government Resources

Theft of cargo Unauthorized personnel

Infiltration

Regulatory compliance

Suspicious packages

Facilities hardening

JTF North is the DOD organization tasked to support our nation's federal law enforcement agencies in the identification and interdiction of suspected transnational threats within and along the approaches to the continental United States. Transnational threats are those activities that involve international terrorism, narcotrafficking, alien smuggling, weapons of mass destruction, and includes the delivery systems for such weapons that threaten the national security of the United States.