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America’s quest for homeland security includes the development of federal programs to protect our aviation, maritime and ground transportation sectors, efforts to detect a “dirty bomb” before it can emit deadly radiation, the search by the FBI for Muslim terrorists and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, his Al Qaeda followers and Islamic extremists pursuing jihad.
Roundtable in Seattle slated to establish VoIP interoperability
August 12th, 2008
On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a public working group in Seattle, WA, to discuss ways to develop a common technical protocol that would enable different brands of public safety radios that utilize VoIP technology to communicate with each other.
Information security panel to meet at Geo. Washington Univ.
August 12th, 2008
A panel set up to advise the Secretary of Commerce and the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on information security and privacy issues will hold a public meeting in Washington, DC, on September 4 to discuss cyber initiatives, FISMA, the transition from the Bush presidency to a new administration and other matters.
National Forensic Academy plans an explosion
August 12th, 2008
If you’re in the Knoxville, TN, area next Monday afternoon, that sudden BOOM you might hear won’t mark the start of an invasion by neighboring Georgia.
Instead, it will be a ribbon "explosion" ceremony on August 18 to open the new training facility at the University of Tennessee's National Forensic Academy(NFA) in nearby Oak Ridge.
AMA to organize Third National Congress on Health System Readiness
August 12th, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services will award a contract to the Chicago-based American Medical Association (AMA), so that it can plan and convene the Third National Congress on Health System Readiness, intended to improve the capacity of hospitals and communities across the country to prepare for public health emergencies.
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USCIS boasts of recent success in streamlining its procedures
August 11th, 2008
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) unit of DHS is proud to proclaim that it has almost dug itself out from beneath an avalanche of naturalization applications that arrived on its doorstep last year.
Report urges "integrated" approach to "asymmetric" threats
August 11th, 2008
The unexpected eruption of war between Russia and Georgia over the weekend has illustrated some of the key points made in a provocative new report, Dealing With Today’s Asymmetric Threat to U.S. and Global Security, co-sponsored by CACI International Inc. and the National Defense University (NDU).
How do first responders react when all hell breaks loose?
August 11th, 2008
Product designers in the security industry are accustomed to thinking about how their customers -- or "end users" -- will actually utilize their equipment. How they’ll hold the security device. How they’ll initiate it. How they’ll read its measurements.
"Clear" gets murky: laptop found, company suspended
August 11th, 2008
A missing laptop containing the personal information of 33,000 persons who were enrolling in the Transportation Security Administration’s "Clear" registered traveler program, intended to expedite vetted travelers’ passage through airport security, has been found, according to a wire service report.
