homeland security Articles
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Conference Report. Forum on Homeland Security, the USA, Europe, and the rest of the world: new challenges for institutions and the private sector
The Geneva Center for Security Policy organised a Forum entitled Homeland Security, the USA, Europe, and the rest of the world on 7th and 8th October 2004. This forum brought together over 200 delegates of 37 different nationalities. Its goal was to compare American and European approaches to Homeland Security on several levels: conceptual, institutional, technological and commercial, and also to ...
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Homeland security: a case study in risk aversion for public decision-making
Governments and their regulatory agencies normally exhibit risk-neutral attitudes in their decision-making. However, for low probability-high consequence events many decision-makers tend to be risk-averse because of the catastrophic or dire nature of the hazard or event. The degree of risk averseness can be described by utility theory. This paper will infer utility functions that reflect the ...
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Infrastructure resilience assessment through control design
Infrastructure resilience is a priority for homeland security in many nations around the globe. This paper describes a new approach for quantitatively assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. The mathematics of optimal control design provides the theoretical foundation for this methodology. This foundation enables the inclusion of recovery costs within the resilience ...
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Why Department of Homeland Security is Interested in Clean-up Projects
Responsibility for chemical security is shared among federal, state, and local governments, as well as the private sector. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards for any facility that manufactures, uses, stores, or distributes certain chemicals at or above a specified quantity. Even if this is not its primary use, it includes remediation ...
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Rapporteur's report
This report summarises discussion of the Energy Security Symposium hosted by the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre in October of 2006. Six broad themes are addressed: energy security, Australian self-sufficiency, the opportunity for Australia to benefit from energy exports, climate change, free market mechanisms, and the importance ...
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Rapid restoration of critical infrastructures: an all-hazards paradigm for fusion centres
This paper takes a holistic approach to rapid restoration of critical infrastructures and key resources (CIKR) in the USA. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the all-hazards paradigm remains vital to the homeland security mission. A proposal is presented to overhaul state and local fusion centre guidelines to build on existing counterterrorism functions through the incorporation of compulsory ...
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ILTA Hosts Successful Fly-in with DHS, Senate Staff on CFATS Issues
Todd Klessman, Deputy Associate Administrator, Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Mike Mashburn, Director, Liquid Terminals, Colonial Terminals; David Wulf, Director, Office of Chemical Security, DHS Cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency; Kelly Murray, Branch Chief, Office of Chemical Security, DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
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Homeland Security: Managing the Risks
Untitled Document Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies conducted extensive assessments of the air quality and associated environmental and health effects near the so-called “Ground Zero” site. EPA’s activities ...
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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards: The Final Rule Is Out, But the Debate Continues
On April 2, 2007, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its muchawaited interim final rule on anti-terrorism standards for chemical facilities. The rule was published a week later in the Federal Register.1 The interim final rule is quite similar to the proposed rule that DHS published under an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in December 2006.2The interim final rule does ...
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Optimal recovery sequencing for enhanced resilience and service restoration in transportation networks
Critical infrastructure resilience has become a national priority for the US Department of Homeland Security. Rapid and efficient restoration of service in damaged transportation networks is a key area of focus. The intent of this paper is to formulate a bi–level optimisation model for network recovery and to demonstrate a solution approach for that optimisation model. The lower–level problem ...
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Belgian Order for STS Electras
Safe Training Systems Belgian distributor Raydiant BV have placed an order for multiple sets of STS Thermo Electras with HP260 simulated probes for simulated radiation contamination monitoring. The order follows a series of very successful demonstrations of the STS simulation system to Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Research Establishments throughout Belgium. This recent activity comes soon ...
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Massive building footprints data for TotalTopo
In our work with the Department of Homeland Security and dbS SAR, Azimuth1 is designing and building search and rescue software for first responders. Part of that system is a custom topo map for SAR personnel to use to plan and carry out search tasks. Recently Microsoft open sourced a large data set of building footprints that they are providing as Open Data. Read more here We quickly integrated ...
By Azimuth1
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FIND software tested at NPS SAR Exercise
Two weeks ago, Azimuth1 supported search and rescue teams from across Virginia and North Carolina at the Blue Ridge Parkway Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX), a simulated lost person search mission sponsored and run by the National Park Service. Read all about the experience in this account of the exercise by our team. Search simulations are good opportunities to practice searching and ...
By Azimuth1
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STS Pocket Source
STS have introduced a new source to their range of simulated radiation field training devices. The Safe-Series Pocket Source is designed to be easily hidden either in a persons clothing or in a training area scenario. The compact size and shape make it ideal, and the quick battery access aids in rapid change. The source device still maintains a near isotropic field pattern and range out to 10M ...
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Homeland Security for Drinking Water Supplies
As it has done with other jurisdictions, Congress has recently passed legislation aimed at protecting our nation's drinking water resources. Historically, water supply protection has been a high priority, including reservoir protection, continuous monitoring, and secure and redundant facilities to ensure an uninterrupted supply of drinking water. The Clean Water Act (1972), requires pollution ...
By AECOM
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Integrating port and regional risk management strategies
In March, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released Port Risk Management (GAO-07-412), which provided a series of findings on the challenges our nation’s port and maritime communities are experiencing with respect to all-hazards planning. The investigators of this report outlined “interagency coordination” as one of several challenges requiring remedy. Historically, the Department ...
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The socio-political dimensions of critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP)
At present, the topic of critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) is mainly discussed in the domain of engineers, consultants, and IT security experts. All these communities address important aspects of the problem complex, but hardly ever deal with socio-political ones. This paper addresses the need for a greater role of the social sciences in the field, due to a range of important ...
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ROV Role in Homeland Security - Case Study
ABSTRACT The challenges of homeland security require a suite of underwater tools and sensors. This paper will focus on the underwater role of the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), and its pros and cons for this mission. Interviews and demonstrations with military personnel indicate that a balance of power, payload, portability, versatility and ease of operation is needed for ship hull and port ...
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Robust and affordable mobile communications for emergency management
During any emergency, reliable communications can be a matter of life-and-death. First-responder communications are widely seen as a critical emergency management issue identified by Hurricane Katrina in the USA, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004. In cooperation with national, regional, and local emergency management organisations, a US research consortium has developed and demonstrated robust ...
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Protective measures and vulnerability indices for the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Protection Programme
Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a methodology to systematically evaluate the protection posture and vulnerability of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR). This vulnerability methodology is part of a larger effort by DHS called the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Protection Programme, which seeks to mitigate ...
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