Project Hostile Intent is an ongoing project of the United States

Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terr ...

, Human Factors Division. It has been renamed to

Future Attribute Screening Technology Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) is a program created by the Department of Homeland Security. It was originally titled Project Hostile Intent. The purpose is to detect "Mal Intent" by screening people for "psychological and physiologi ...

. This project comes under the Social and Behavioral Research (SBR) Program, one of the three broad program areas within the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that "sponsors research to inform, develop, and test tools and methodologies to assess terrorist threats, understand terrorism, and improve national security". Project Hostile Intent aims to detect and model the behavioral cues that indicate an individual's intent to do harm and/or deceive. The cues examined in Project Hostile Intent are those that can be assessed remotely and in real time, like pulse rate, sweating, restless behavior, and possibly brain scans. The procedures and technologies required to collect these cues are non-invasive (like surveillance cameras and body heat sensors) and amenable to integration into busy operational contexts, like airports. In addition to detecting these cues, this project examines whether this process can be automated through the use of sensors and detection algorithms and, subsequently, integrated with other technologies aimed at identifying individuals who pose threats to the US, e.g., biometric tools and databases. The expected users of this project are U.S. Customs and Border Protection and

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personnel.Testimony of the American Psychological Association
Submitted for the record House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Regarding Funding for Fiscal Year 2007 March 16, 2006

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Testimony of the American Psychological Association, Submitted for the record House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Regarding Funding for Fiscal Year 2007

* ttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/aug/09/terrorism?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront The Guardian news report- Security firms working on devices to spot would-be terrorists in crowd United States Department of Homeland Security Forensic psychology {{US-gov-stub

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