Material Threat Determination (MTD) 1
Material Threat Determination (MTD) 1 : "DHS Responsibilities Under Project BioShield: In accordance with section 319F-2(c) (2) of the Project BioShield Act of 2004, it is the DHS' responsibility, in consultation with HHS and other agencies, to assess current and emerging threats of natural or chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents, and to determine which agents present a significant material threat to the U.S. population. To fulfill this responsibility, DHS conducted detailed modeling of threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences for various plausible scenarios of a terrorist attack. As a result of this work, DHS identified 12 biological threats, plus radiological and nuclear devices, meeting the statutory requirement to merit a Material Threat Determination (MTD) ?. Accompanying each MTD is a Population Threat Assessment (PTA). The PTA estimates the size of the population exposed by the agents identified in the MTDs to gauge the impact on the population and national infrastructure if that particular agent was released for a given high consequence plausible scenario. (DHS, Statement for the Record, Jeffrey W. Runge, April 18, 2007)
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