# Counter-Threat Network **Entity class:** Operational analytic mission **Counter-threat-network (CTN)** work seeks to identify, characterize, illuminate, disrupt, or otherwise reduce the effectiveness of adversarial networks. DTRA's 2019 RDT&E strategy publicly joins CTN work to high-speed information processing, modeling and simulation, and data-driven advanced analytics. The analytic object can include people, organizations, logistics, finance, communications, technical enablers, events, and physical infrastructure. A graph representation supports discovery and hypothesis testing, but an inferred connection remains an inference with provenance and uncertainty rather than automatic proof of culpability. ## Relationships - **mission area of:** [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|Defense Threat Reduction Agency]]. - **acts on:** [[wiki/Threat Network|Threat Network]]. - **uses:** [[wiki/Network Illumination|Network Illumination]], [[wiki/Data-Driven Advanced Analytics|Data-Driven Advanced Analytics]], and [[wiki/Counterterrorism Predictive Graph|Counterterrorism Predictive Graph]]. ## Sources - [2019 DTRA Strategic Plan for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation](https://www.dtra.mil/Portals/61/Documents/Missions/190424_2019_DTRA_Strategic_Plan_for_RDTE.pdf) **As of:** 2026-09-23