Creating a vision of counterterrorism technologies that arepractical and affordable and overmatch the threat of 21st centuryterrorism, implementing initiatives that broaden the market andmake it more predictable and dependable, and developing policiesthat will help to overcome the barriers to innovation are essentialsteps to harnessing technology to the future needs of lawenforcement.
America's critical infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to thethreat of precise, airborne missile attack. Directed-energy weapons(DEWs) can help protect against these threats. Congress and theBush Administration should fully fund DEW technology and shouldencourage departments developing such technology to share theirefforts with each other and with U.S. allies.