Indicative Scenario Planning Projects

Project Descriptions

Part Two: Public Sector Projects

National Reconnaissance Office: Project Proteus. The NRO is part of the US intelligence community and responsible for the creation and development of space-based reconnaissance assets. In a three-year project from 1999 we helped the NRO create a set of scenarios that explored the national security threat space of the future and developed strategies and technology investment priorities to help the intelligence community prepare for threats not yet obvious. The threat areas studied included nation-state war, terrorism (including bio-terrorism), criminal-terror linkages, and the potential for rogue corporations. Over the course of the project we held multiple strategy sessions, both classified and unclassified. Participants included not just Government officials, but representatives from the CDC, automotive manufacturers, social workers, hospital executives, ministers, and many others. The unclassified interim findings of the work were published in a book, Proteus: Insights From 2020 (Copernicus Institute Press, 2000).

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