Who We Are
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Crossbow Analytics LLC is dedicated to providing the highest level of expertise regarding biological risks worldwide. We have an unrivaled depth of expertise on biodefense issues, most notably on the threat from the deliberate use of biological weapons. Yet our expertise extends to biological weapons arms control, nonproliferation, and international biosecurity as well.
We live In an era of novel emerging diseases and a revolution of the life science that threatens to put biological weapons in the hands of radical extremist groups and individuals. Governments, industry, academia, and the general public need to be aware of the threat from pandemics, laboratory accidents, and intentional biological weapons use. We are prepared to offer rational, well-reasoned guidance on the entire range of biological risks.
Work (See Projects page for more details.)
- To date, Crossbow Analytics LLC has partnered with Arizona State University on several key projects regarding the threat of biological weapons.
- One project looks at the use of chemical and/or biological weapons (CBW) by States in assassinations, and the lessons learned regarding the strength or weakness of norms and laws prohibiting the use of CBW. The lessons highlight the growing threat of CBW use in assassinations in an increasingly unstable and uncertain international world order.
- A second project is examining the CBW threat posed by apocalyptic and millenarian religious movements. Historically, several of these groups (ex: Aum Shinrikyo, Rajneeshees, and Colonia Dignidad) have acquired or attempted to acquire CBW to cause catastrophic harm. We now are looking to identify if such groups exist today.
- Another project is focused on next-generation or "over-the-horizon" biological weapons. This project will assess the feasibility of gene sequencing, editing, and synthesis in developing new forms of biological weapons.
- We also have completed a project looking at artificial intelligence as a tool to assist malign actors in the development of biological weapons.
- We provided training on intelligence analysis and intelligence writing to a Fortune 500 company.
Cirriculum Vitae
With more than 30 years of experience in the US Intelligence Community focused on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) issues, Dr. Cross is well placed to offer timely and tailored analysis of biological weapons threats, biodefense, biological arms control, and nonproliferation.
About Crossbow Analytics LLC
Glenn Cross
From September 2008 to October 2010, Dr. Cross was the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD & Proliferation responsible for biological weapons issues on the Director of National Intelligence’s National Intelligence Council. He also was a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University where he conducted an exhaustive study of the Rhodesian CBW program as an example of a CBW program that had slipped under the radar of most other nations. Dr. Cross is a frequent speaker at panels and workshops on biological weapons and has been quoted in books and periodicals on biological weapons. Dr. Cross received his Ph.D. in biodefense from George Mason University.
D. Elizabeth Cross
With more than 30 years of experience in the US intelligence community, Ms. Cross has written and edited intelligence analytical products. In addition, she spent several years teaching business and analytical writing to Intelligence Community employees and managed a program to improve intelligence writing and briefing.