Security and Environment

NICTA's Security and Environment Business Team is providing innovative security solutions for people, resources and critical systems.

NICTA's security solutions address the following National Research Priorities:

1. Safeguarding Australia
   Safeguarding Australia from terrorism, crime, invasive diseases and pests, strengthening our understanding of Australia’s place in the region and the world, and securing our infrastructure, particularly with respect to our digital systems.
   
   
2. An Environmentally Sustainable Australia
   Transforming the way we utilise our land, water, mineral and energy resources through a better understanding of human and environmental systems and the use of new technologies.

This is done with a view to addressing industry problems in Defence security, homeland security, biosecurity and national resource security.

Defence Security

NICTA’s capabilities in this area are:

• Performance assessment software for business-critical systems (ePASA).
• Software to find underlying key themes and disparate views emerging in group decision making workshops (DSTO Grouputer).
• Cognitive load measurement tools for staff recruitment and performance monitoring (BrainGauge).
• Mobile platforms to support operations in complex electromagnetic environments (DICE).
• Technologies to enable the automatic detection of vessels and potential intrusions into maritime security zones (Vessel Detection).
• Software defined radio for TDOA-based signal detection and geolocation of multiple emitters (SDR Geolocation).
• Trustworthy systems that assure isolation of critical and non-critical functions in embedded devices (Trustworthy Systems).
• Imaging spectroscopy to quickly and accurately identify materials and their components (ISSA).
• Fully interactive browser software that enables you to interpret large volumes of text documents, including news, tweets, blogs and large documents (Automated Data Analysis/OpinionWatch).

Homeland Security and Biosecurity

NICTA’s capabilities in these areas are:

• Software to assess vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructures from cyber or physical attacks (Infrastructure Security)
• Software for disaster preparedness, response and recovery for multiple interdependent infrastructures (Disaster Management)
• Face search technology for video surveillance and mobile biometric analysis (Advanced Surveillance)
• Imaging spectroscopy to quickly and accurately identify materials and their components (ISSA).
• Fully interactive browser software that enables you to interpret large volumes of text documents, including news, tweets, blogs and large documents (Automated Data Analysis/OpinionWatch).

National Resource Security

NICTA’s capabilities in this area are:

• Software to improve the process of exploration and characterisation of geothermal targets (Geothermal Data Fusion).
• Software to forecast distributed solar energy production (Forecasting in Cloud for Solar Energy).
• Imaging spectroscopy to quickly and accurately identify materials and their components (ISSA).
• Fully interactive browser software that enables you to interpret large volumes of text documents, including news, tweets, blogs and large documents (Automated Data Analysis/OpinionWatch).