The Homeland Defence Programme currently conducts research on issues related to the transportation security of the land, maritime, aviation and supply chain industries. In a highly interconnected and globalized world, no other systems could connect states and provide access to key socio-political and economic institutions as well as the transport and supply chain networks. Recent studies have shown that disruptions in the transport and supply chain networks could have a negative impact or domino effect on the political, social and economic cores of a state. As such, the Homeland Defence Programme believes that a whole-of-state approach, that includes the involvement of both the public and private sectors, is necessary for a robust critical infrastructure protection scheme.

The Homeland Defence Programme aims to facilitate the exchange of security information, promote active networking amongst transport security technocrats and provide timely policy-relevant national defence reviews by:
1. Organising National Defence related workshops;
2. Conducting active and in-depth studies on critical infrastructure protection and national defence best practices; and
3. Initiating joint research projects with the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Programme (CENS), relevant governmental agencies and the ‘transport and supply chain industry players’

In addition, the Homeland Defence Programme intends to gradually broaden its research scope to examine topics such as food defence and economic emergency recovery measures. All in all, the Homeland Defence Programme hopes to promote greater awareness of emerging threats as well as global homeland defence best practices.