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Looking for Trouble: A Policymaker's Guide to Biosensing

by Robert Armstrong, Patricia Coomber and Stephen Prior
With Ashley Dincher

Table of Contents

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Executive Summary    
What Are We Looking For? 1  
Finding The Bugs 6  
Other Ways To Find The Bugs 21  
Wargame 38  
A Hot Idea 44  
Appendix A - The Wargame 52  
Appendix B - Methodology & Statistical Analysis 57  

 


June 2004
The Center for Technology and National Security Policy
The National Defense University

Robert E. Armstrong is a senior research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University.

Patricia K. Coomber is a senior research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University. Dr. Coomber serves in the U.S. Air Force as a Colonel (select).

Stephen D. Prior, Ph.D., is Director, National Security Health Policy Center at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Dr. Prior also holds a position as a distinguished research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense Univesity.

Ashley Dincher is an undergraduate student at Bucknell University. In 2003 she served as an intern at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University.

Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense or any other agency of the Federal Government. Cleared for public release; distribution unlimited.

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