Ready Armor Protection for Instant Deployment

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Physical Security program focuses on security awareness for soft targets and crowded places.

A key focus area is mitigating hostile vehicle threats, including development of counter threat technologies. The use of a vehicle as a weapon, or vehicle ramming, is a known terrorist and violent extremist propaganda demonstrate that vehicle ramming continues to be a tactic of interest for those wishing to cause harm.