Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) Fact Sheet

Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) is a DHS Center of Excellence led by Texas A&M University.

CBTS researches and develops solutions, protocols, and capabilities to support DHS operations that detect, assess, and respond to known and unknown biological threats and hazards that could adversely impact the nation’s people, agriculture, and economy. Learning from and developing partnerships with stakeholders are the keys to successful projects.

Typical projects focus on 1) improving data collection, applications and management; 2) assessing risk to extend our frontiers; 3) identifying novel tools and methods; 4) and advancing workforce development opportunities.