The RAHS system concept revolves around several key processes: building models; collecting data and organizing information; detecting emerging trends and discovering anomalous patterns by matching data against models that you have built; and collaborating with other analysts across government in an online and secure environment. The system is built for diversity. We have adopted both ordered (systems thinking) and unordered (complexity management) approaches to horizon scanning. We do not want to get blindsided by reliance on one particular approach or by one way of thinking about the future.

The National Security Coordination Centre manages the system and runs the operational nerve centre of the RAHS network, the Horizon Scanning Centre. The Horizon Scanning Centre coordinates a government-wide network comprising 20 agencies covering strategic and operational counter-terrorism intelligence, environmental scanning and scenario planning, bio-medical surveillance, cyber surveillance, maritime security, chemical-biological-radiological-explosives surveillance, energy security and education.

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