EPA’s Homeland Security research program advances the Agency’s ability to carry out its homeland security responsibilities, including protecting and restoring drinking water supplies and infrastructure, and helping communities become more resilient to natural disasters and to acts of terrorism that involve chemical, biological, or radiological weapons. 

• Homeland Security Strategic Research Action Plan 2016-2019 (PDF)(34 pp, 3 MB, September 2015)
  This is a four-year research strategy designed to meet the following objectives: improve water utilities’ abilities to prepare for and respond to incidents that threaten public health; and advance EPA’s capabilities to respond to wide-area contamination